Sharyn Leaver Sharyn Leaver
Vice President, Research Director

Research Coverage

Supply Chain Management, High-Tech, Enterprise Resource Planning Applications, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Packaged Applications, Retail, Business Process Management

Research Focus

Sharyn serves Business Process & Applications professionals. She leads Forrester's research into best practices for managing processes and applications that support product and service delivery — with a focus on process efficiency and innovation. Sharyn delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises identify best practices, build process management architectures, and identify vendors and technologies that help support continuous process improvement. Her current research agenda includes BPM, ERP, and supply chain management. She also maintains a research interest in RFID, as well as other emerging technologies in consumer-driven industries. In addition, Sharyn was a key contributor to the development of the Forrester Wave™ methodology to help clients accurately assess key vendors in a given technology-focused market.

Previous Work Experience

Before joining Forrester, Sharyn spent several years as a consultant and project manager for Clarkston Consulting, a full-service professional services firm. She was responsible for the delivery of vendor selection and implementation projects involving SAP and other ERP applications, integration technology, and enterprise portals.

Education

Sharyn holds a B.S. in computer information systems technology from Purdue University.

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CIO, "Five Business Process And Application Trends For 2008," January 15, 2008
eWeek, "xTuple Network Aims To Ease Open-Source ERP Concerns," January 2, 2008
CIO, "Six Enterprise Application Trends To Watch In 2008," December 14, 2007

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