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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.
In a work culture dominated by meetings, organizations continue to look to videoconferencing to cut travel by replicating the in-person experiences that employees prefer — or at least...
Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In
Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

The advent of new service delivery models and the rise of multisourcing have complicated an already difficult task for clients — monitoring vendor performance and ensuring that contractual...

Kaltura Joins Leaders Brightcove And Ooyala In A Maturing Market
Video is integral to many consumer-facing websites, not just from traditional media providers but from brands, companies, and organizations without a history of content creation. In Forrester's...
Polycom, Cisco, And LifeSize Lead, Followed By Resurgents Radvision And Teliris And Aggressive Entrants Huawei And Vidyo
In Forrester's 39-criteria evaluation of videoconferencing solution vendors, we identified the seven most significant providers in the category — Cisco, Huawei, LifeSize, Polycom, Radvision,...

Adoption Is Low But Market Impact Is High As Buyers Consider Alternatives
At home and at work, people overwhelmingly use Microsoft Office. Yet content and collaboration (C&C) pros continue to ask Forrester questions about office alternatives. So we recently surveyed 150 IT...
We've been hearing for years that "this is the year videoconferencing takes off." So how far have we come in resolving the issues that have held back videoconferencing, such as interoperability and...
How US Information Workers Adopt And Use Technology
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's Q2 2011 US Workforce Technology And Engagement Online Survey of 4,985 US information workers. Armed with this baseline data from every US industry,...
These data charts look at Microsoft and the productivity market.
Communications, Training, And Collaboration Dominate Usage Scenarios
A growing number of content and collaboration professionals are interested in using webcasting and YouTube-like video portals internally for corporate communications and training. Why? They recognize...
When we asked 10,000 information workers globally what brands are on the devices, operating systems, and software they use for work, it came as no surprise that Microsoft dominates. More than 90% of...
Tools To Manage And Deliver Video Are Growing; Videoconferencing Makes A Comeback
Enterprises increasingly use video in a wide range of use cases, changing how they collaborate, issue communications, train their employees, and even talk to customers. But the transformational...
Strategic Plan: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business and collaboration programs can redefine work by changing the way employees connect with each other and the information they need to do their jobs. However, programs fall flat when...

What is the state of video use by information workers?
We're excited to announce the first set of winners of the 2012 Forrester Groundswell Awards, honoring the best employee mobile, collaboration, and innovation stories. These awards are being...
Kaltura, Qumu, And Polycom Lead The Video Publishing Platform Pack
Enterprises looking to deliver video communications to employees continue to use solutions for webcasting and YouTube-like video portals. In Forrester's 23-criteria evaluation of enterprise video...

What are other enterprises doing to empower their employees with video creation tools and YouTube-like capabilities?
Office 365 Has Much But Not All Of What Firms Need From A Collaboration Platform
On June 28, 2011, Microsoft launched Office 365 in 40 countries after a massive public beta involving 200,000 organizations from every region. This product encompasses Office Professional Plus and...
IT departments tasked with managing their firm's video estate face rising levels of complexity with the emergence of high-end telepresence solutions. Business stakeholders are demanding support for...
Marketers increasingly recognize the value of using online video to engage and inform consumers, create brand awareness, and even drive direct action. Similarly, corporate communications and business...