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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.
Forrester Applies Its Web Site User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top UK Banks
Forrester evaluated the user experience at the public-facing Web sites of the four leading UK banks by share of primary current accounts: Lloyds TSB, Barclays Bank, NatWest, and HSBC Bank. No site...
Tools And Technology: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Selecting the right interactive design vendor is a complex and stressful task. The splinternet — an explosion of digital touchpoints across an array of proprietary platforms — makes that...

Forrester Applies Its Evaluation Methodology To Personas Provided By Nine UK Interactive Agencies
Forrester applied its persona evaluation criteria to reference personas provided by nine interactive agencies in the UK for the recent Forrester Wave™. Most of the personas showed some room for...
It's Time To Document Best Practices For Social Media And Customer Experience
Social media already plays a role at each step of customers' complex journeys to discover, evaluate, buy, access, use, and get support for products and services. Customer experience professionals...
Design Firms Need Disciplined Approaches To Improve Online Experiences
Forrester's evaluations of Web sites and design personas created by the leading interactive agencies in North America and the UK show that agencies struggle to consistently create digital experiences...
CARS Improves Customer Experience And Supports The Bank's Growth Strategy
Forrester has predicted that the next generation of online experiences will be customized, aggregated, relevant, and social (CARS). We can already see early examples of companies that are...
Ensure Personas Accurately Reflect Customers' New Behaviors And Technologies
Personas are ideal tools to guide the design of products, channels, and messaging, but companies are concerned that they fail to keep track of evolving behaviors. Although customers' psychographics...
Journey Mapping Enables A Diverse Global Airline To Lift Quality Of Service While Growing Rapidly
Emirates is one of the world's fastest-growing airlines and positions itself as a lifestyle brand, setting high expectations for service quality in a competitive market. As Emirates expanded rapidly,...
Social Media Management Gives Control To Members And Builds The Brand
Giffgaff, a low-cost mobile virtual network operator, uses an online community for customer support, sales and marketing, as well as product development functions. To ensure a positive customer...
Five Firms Describe How Customer Journey Mapping Helps Them
Forrester clients tell us that they're eager to use customer journey maps because they see the documents as ideal tools to analyze and communicate their customers' perspectives on the interactions...

Forrester applied its Web Site User Experience Review methodology to 18 sites provided by nine interactive agencies in the UK. While agencies struggled with usability, a number of best practices...
Compelling customer experiences stem from a company's deep understanding of its target customers' goals and behaviors. This requires uncovering customer needs in a disciplined manner. This report...
Forrester Applies Its Web Site User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top UK Grocers
Forrester evaluated the user experience at the Web sites of four leading UK online grocery retailers: Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose. Overall scores were above average, but no site passed our...
Introduce Personas With Clear Purposes And Embed Them In Processes
Despite ample evidence of the value that personas contribute to user experience design and related business results, some firms still struggle to use them to the greatest effect. At the root of many...
As mobile adoption increases, eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are challenged to determine how these devices integrate with their existing sales and service channels. It is imperative...

Look To Specialists For Niche Skills In Mobile Experience Design
Companies increasingly see the need to offer differentiating mobile experiences. However, they struggle to find the skills and support they need to deliver useful and usable mobile services that make...
Demand Collaboration Best Practices From Your Interactive Design Agencies
The pressures to roll out consistent experiences across multiple touchpoints, deliver compelling next-generation experiences in digital channels, and stay ahead of the curve of emerging technology...
Processes: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
To make meaningful customer experience improvements, organizations need to align their customer experience ecosystems. That requires understanding customers' deep needs, viewing interactions from the...

Use this reviewer's guide to assess your customer journey map.
Companies tell us that they're interested in using customer journey maps as tools to analyze and communicate their customers' perspectives on the interactions they deliver. Creating and using...

Personas Have Evolved To Support Differentiated Customer Experience Design In The Age Of The Customer
Personas offer a proven solution for a common design challenge: Keeping the end user in mind during all phases of design, development, and testing. Recently, shortsighted firms have wrongly dismissed...

Specialty retailer, Mothercare Group, worked with self-service vendor, Transversal, to improve knowledge management across its three key touchpoints — the Web, call centers, and retail stores....
Assess your customer journey map by completing this scorecard.

Design personas and customer journey maps are valuable tools that support companies' tactical design decisions and the high-level strategic goal of progressing toward Experience-Based...
Companies Share Best Practices For Using Journey Maps Effectively
This report describes best practices for using journey maps to drive improvements in customer experience. Customer journey maps are foundational tools that support companies' efforts to improve...
