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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.
Landscape: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report for interactive marketers describes the mobile marketing landscape. Interactive marketers are finally beginning to take mobile seriously — and discovering how different and more...
Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers
Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...

Start Piloting Now To Be Prepared To Benefit From Growing Consumer Use
The 2D bar code is a promising mobile marketing tactic: It provides marketers a quick way to bridge the offline-online gap and enhance consumer engagement with their target audience anytime, anywhere...
Back in April I published a report called Take Control of Your Social Marketing, which looks at the emerging market of social marketing management tools. In it, I identified three groups of...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Spending by companies on mobile marketing segmented by mobile advertising and search. Includes data on mobile Internet users and spending by company size.
In the last few months, we've talked a lot about how quickly the mobile marketing space is moving — and with nearly 75% of marketers telling us they're implementing or planning to...
Marketers often ask me what their mobile strategy should be: What are the key elements? How can they make sure it’s successful? Where should they put their money? These may sound like simple...
Anyone who follows my research knows that community management is one of my favorite topics. As I speak with marketers about their branded community efforts, the questions that come up most...
Today at the Mobile Marketing Forum in Sao Paolo, the MMA announced a repositioning to increase its "effectiveness at the global, regional and national levels, and to create additional membership...
2D bar codes are one of the latest “shiny objects” in mobile marketing. And it’s no surprise — with mobile marketing spend increasing and smartphone adoption on the rise,...
Marketing Gets Customized For Social, Local, Mobile, Multiscreen Consumers
Social is not a channel, and mobile goes beyond the smartphone. In 2012, marketers will get this concept and realize that their customer is truly "always on." The customer of 2012 expects customized,...
What To Expect For The Health Of Your Community
Interactive marketers in charge of branded communities need to be able to benchmark goals and set expectations for the success of their programs. However, the benchmarks being observed are typically...
Lithium And Jive Lead The Way, With KickApps Close Behind
In Forrester's 60-criteria evaluation of community platform vendors, we found that Lithium Technologies and Jive Software led the pack because of their mature tool sets and depth of services offered....
The Ultra-Connected Customer Will Upturn Marketing
In 2013, the ultra-connected customer base will grow at a staggering pace, destabilizing marketing as you've come to know it. This report identifies the changes you'll see in your customers'...
Organization: The Social Marketing Playbook
To prepare for the future of interactive marketing, as marketers you must follow the CORE directive to: customize marketing experiences, optimize decisions and processes, respond to changing market...
Mobile marketing dollars will near $2.8 billion with mobile search and display each representing 6% of interactive marketing spend in 2015 as marketers get their footing in the rapidly growing mobile...
Marketers Move Toward Multichannel Planning And Execution
Interactive marketers are working hard to keep up with the evolving landscape of channels, tools, and technologies at their disposal for 2011 budget planning. Seventy percent of marketers expect...
How do you effectively use your brand and/or brand presence to create a social persona or tone of voice within social channels? With most brands speaking in a natural tone, how can a brand further...
I don’t know about you, but my head is spinning from all of the articles and editorials about Google’s incorporation of Google+ content and other personalized search results. While...