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Prior to joining Forrester, Diane had 10 years of senior marketing experience in the travel and publishing industries, working in Toronto; Melbourne and Sydney, Australia; and Helsinki. Her background includes senior positions in traditional and online travel retail and media companies, with responsibilities including marketing, branding, customer service, product development, channel strategy, and business development.
Diane holds an honors B.A. in history and labor management relations from the University of Toronto and an M.A. in marketing and public affairs from the University of Sydney, Australia.
A number of Forrester analysts have been collaborating on a series of Tweet Jams on topics related to data management. The last session was on BI, and the next one up is on MDM. These are very...
A logistics company had grown through acquisition, and due to a narrow enterprise architecture (EA) focus, weak governance, and troublesome politics, its former EA practice was largely ineffective....
I am looking for some basic but important definitions in the context of my road map work. For example: application service technology. A definition of application might be: An application is a...

Please recommend the top two or three reference manuals or books on the subject of enterprise architecture (EA) for an information technology group to use as a team study guide. The purpose of the...
Creating An IA Program That Works
It has been more than five years since Forrester first published this report outlining a simple approach to information architecture, but this domain of enterprise architecture (EA) has matured...
It seems to be popular these days amongst industry pundits to recommend that organizations add a new Cxx role: the Chief Data Officer (CDO). The arguments in favor of this move are exactly what...
For an EA team that succeeded in significantly reducing costs by virtualizing infrastructure technology, success is a two-edged sword: It boosts the credibility of the EA team but links architects to...
Tools And Technology: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Enterprise architects carry the heavy responsibility of planning for elaborate implementations of complex technology. They must weigh the implications of the plans for all of the related architecture...

Business Case: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Business cases to fund information management capabilities traditionally characterize information problems in ways that elicit little more than yawns from business executives. Data redundancy and...

I'm looking to see if there are any thoughts or recommendations on how to group applications and what formats would work best for the publication of standards. The longer-term expansion of this...
Smaller IT shops of fewer than 150 staff members have a hard time dedicating separate staff to strategic activity such as EA. But in any environment, goals and processes without owners are likely to...
Developing a cohesive information strategy that can deliver on current and future business needs is challenging. Building an information architecture is a highly collaborative endeavor, and to...
Saskatchewan's Social Services Ministry's Path To Modernization
Saskatchewan is the latest Canadian province to implement comprehensive modernization and automation of its social services case management technology. It took advantage of other organizations'...
It's becoming pretty clear that the ability to analyze data is becoming one of the most important technology-based capabilities an enterprise can have. There's a lot of hype around about big...
In reference to Forrester's June 22, 2010, "Software Is Strategic, SIs Tactica" report, can you share more insights regarding systems integrators? The tactical part is not necessarily what we want to...
Tech-Empowered Staff Members Innovate While Enterprise Technology Manages The Risk
Your employees — like your customers — have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources....
Future Look: The EA Practice Playbook
This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. It will help you understand the future of EA in...

What is the role of the data architect in support of EA?
Enterprise architecture (EA) continues to gain recognition as a key practice for maximizing the impact of business' use of technology. An effective EA practice can eliminate business-IT alignment...
Only a few weeks to go before Forrester’s US EA Forum 2011 in San Francisco in February! I’ll be presenting a number of sessions, including the opening kickoff, where I’ll...
Technology Trends That Insurance CIOs Must Tap To Drive Growth
Today's insurance CIOs are shifting their focus away from cost reduction to speed, flexibility, and innovation. As insurance buyers' habits change from face-to-face interactions with agents to...