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Doug serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. He leads a research team of analysts responsible for delivering research and consulting solutions to address clients' most pressing challenges in: data center — consolidating, converging, and optimizing server, storage, and networks, private and public cloud computing, and build versus buy facilities decisions; end user computing — provisioning, managing, and virtualizing desktop and mobile devices, unified communications, and branch office networking; IT operations and resiliency environments — IT service management, IT infrastructure library (ITIL) best practices, end-to-end monitoring, automation, disaster recovery, high availability, and backup; and organizational maturity — organizational design, metrics, strategic rightsourcing, innovation, and customer-centricity.
Previously at Forrester, Doug was a principal analyst on the Infrastructure & Operations research team focused on sustainable (or green) IT trends, planning, strategy, and best practices, as well as key IT infrastructure and operations priorities and infrastructure assessments.
Prior to joining the Infrastructure & Operations research team, Doug was the global council manager for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best-practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised and facilitated peer-to-peer interactions with clients on their strategies, priorities, and best practices. Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council.
Prior to Forrester, Doug lived and worked in Australia and France as the vice president of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup, serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence.
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An Empowered Report: Tools To Assess How Employees Use Technology
To have a fact-based conversation about what your employees need from technology, you have to ask them. Field a survey when you absolutely must have the facts without bias. For a quick and dirty...
You're absolutely right to say that EA should contribute well to these exercises. We've been involved in a similar Application Maintenance bid process at BP. The key areas where we supported were:...

Mobile Banking's Time Has Finally Come
Empowered Employees Solve Customer Problems: Find Them And Help Them
Groundswell technologies — social, mobile, video, and cloud — put tremendous power in the hands of customers. Only empowered employees can respond at the speed of empowered customers...
Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals continue to investigate master data management (MDM) as a strategic means to deliver a trusted view of critical data throughout the...
Google now has two recent examples of how not to launch a product. To be more specific, the launches of Wave and Buzz are unfortunate illustrations of product management and product marketing...
This is super ground breaking work. The reference model is extremely valuable in comparing to vendor implementations. Do you have an assessment or RFI template for IC-BPMS?
Vision: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes Forrester's vision of strategic software sourcing for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives. It is more difficult than ever for software sourcing professionals to meet...
Microsoft has entered the enterprise search market with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), joining BEA Systems, Google, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and a long list of pure-plays in a volatile...
Jawbone, a privately-held company based in San Francisco with a $1.5 billion valuation, today announced the relaunch of its UP wristband, which it discontinued one year ago due to manufacturing...
A Look At How Consumers Describe Their Banks And Investment Firms
We examined how often consumers use the words "honest" and "helpful" to describe their primary bank and investment firm. It turns out that Seniors are the group most likely to use these terms across...
Despite early signs of a global recovery, online shoppers in all regions of the world continue to be cautious in making purchase decisions. Consumers today are visiting a variety of sites before...
Local Franchises Have Strategic Advantages Over National Competitors
Events and entertainment are a strategic business for local media properties online. Local entertainment is under threat from national providers that can spread the necessary software development...
Was the introduction of the Ford Model T an improvement or an innovation over the horse drawn wagon? As an SVM professional, you may ask, “Why is this question important for me?” But as...
Some positions prove to be more difficult to fill than others. One area where managers see many challenges in obtaining and keeping quality employees is in the world of eBusiness. It proves to be...
Building off of Tom Grant's post about Google Buzz earlier today, Google Buzz is an interesting case study about how winning market share is not just about having the first or the best product....
One interesting question is whether or not EA 1.0 to EA 2.0 is evolutionary or revolutionary. Can EA 1.0 org's and people make the change? or does the EA 1.0 organization need to be totally...