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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.
The Data Center Networking Solutions Mimic I&O's Virtualization Maturity
Over the past year, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals have focused their enterprise networking efforts on readying network infrastructure to support virtualization, consolidation,...
I&O Should Focus Its Energies On DDI Operations, Not Development
When was the last time you heard of a company building its own personal computers for its employees? Cobbling together hard drives, CPUs, memory, and operating systems is not cost-effective or a core...
Dual-Sourcing Your Network Just Results In Low-Cost, Low-Value Infrastructure
Over the past few years in the networking industry, various vendors have claimed they offer clients a choice where there was none before. Really?! Over the past eight years, the networking industry...

Collapsed Tiers, Converged Infrastructure, And Virtualization Are Turning Networking On Its Head
Landing on the moon or the Jonas Brothers' debut doesn't hold a candle to the awesome state of today's networking landscape. Customers couldn't be in a better position to have true networking...
I&O Must Invest In Configuration And Management, Monitoring, And Monitoring Aggregation To Accelerate Data Center Transformation And Automation
Businesses are pushing their infrastructures to become a standardized, self-service, pay-per-use model giving users rapid access to powerful and more flexible IT capabilities. This means that I&O...