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Derek serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. He is an internationally recognized expert in business process management (BPM) and organizational transformation. He has worked in this area for more than 20 years, dealing with major brands, governmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Derek's research focuses on the methods, approaches, frameworks, tools, techniques, and technologies of business architecture; BPM; business process improvement; business transformation; and organizational change. He places special emphasis on an outcome-based, customer-focused approach.
Derek is a well-known keynote speaker and chair of major EA conferences. As co-chair of BPMI.org, he helped merge the organization with the Object Management Group (OMG).
Derek completed the Early Growth Program at London Business School.
Strategic Plan: The Social Marketing Playbook
We're several years into the social marketing boom, but still many executives are going about social strategy backward: picking technologies like Facebook or Twitter first instead of focusing on what...

We are in the midst of a mobile mind shift. This is not just about "mobile first" or apps. This is a complete change in the psychology of consumers. In a change in behavior that can only be called...
Empowered Employees Solve Customer Problems: Find Them And Help Them
Groundswell technologies — social, mobile, video, and cloud — put tremendous power in the hands of customers. Only empowered employees can respond at the speed of empowered customers...

An Empowered Report: Social Media Growth Is Centered On Social Networking
While social technology behaviors are at the center of many strategy discussions around the globe, the focus should be on the changes in consumers' adoption of these behaviors. Consumers continue to...
Only Customer-Obsessed Companies Can Survive Disruption
Empowered customers are disrupting every industry; competitive barriers like manufacturing strength, distribution power, and information mastery can't save you. In this age of the customer, the only...
As we published last month, people are in the midst of making a Mobile Mind Shift: The expectation that any desired information or service is available, on any appropriate device, in context, at your...
Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations
Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

Analyzing Your Customers' Engagement Across Touchpoints
The splinternet — the fragmented world of incompatible web, social, video, and mobile touchpoints — is where your customers live now. They want to reach you in more touchpoints, but you...