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Frederic leads a research team that serves Forrester's Sourcing & Vendor Management clients in Asia. His key research areas focus on the IT services markets in Asia including India, China, ASEAN, Australia /New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan. Frederic helps clients understand the service provider landscape as well as best practices for provider selection in Asia.
Frederic also works on the future of IT services industry globally, analyzing in particular how IT service providers are increasingly leveraging software assets to improve the performance of their service delivery and deliver more business value to their clients. Frederic helps clients understand how they can benefit from these new software asset based services and how they need to change their sourcing processes.
Frederic is also responsible for the Forrester data activities in Asia, helping clients to understand the tech spending trends leveraging Forrsights workforce, IT, and business decision-makers surveys. He also builds and updates the tech market sizing and forecasting models in Asia and is part of Forrester's Tech Industry Economics team.
Frederic came to Forrester through its acquisition of Springboard Research, where he managed Springboard's Indian research operations (about 30 people). Prior to Springboard, he was a research director at Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), managing its research activities in Southern Europe and its coverage of the IT software and services markets. Frederic also launched PAC's activities in the US, where he covered the software and IT services markets. Prior to PAC, Frederic worked as an SAP consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Frederic has a master's degree in electronics and project management from ENSEEIHT Toulouse, France.
Demystifying The Tech Markets Of Asia And The Pacific
For most tech vendors, the Asia Pacific market is the new frontier — a region of fast growth, endless opportunity, and dynamic businesses unencumbered by the legacy technologies and practices...

The IT services market in Asia Pacific is highly fragmented with greatly differentiated maturity levels and spending behaviors. Forrester believes that a combination of business drivers (the...
Political Inertia Hampers Asian Economic And Tech Market Growth
The Asia Pacific region is often thought of as the growth engine of the global economy and thus of the tech market. But that engine has been misfiring on some key cylinders, leading to slower growth...
Asset-Based Services Have Become A Prerequisite For Success
New business success imperatives are pushing clients to change the way they leverage IT solutions. IT service providers will have to adapt to these new rules of engagement if they want to remain...

Four Crucial Steps To Succeed With Asset-Based IT Services Offerings
Forrrester has previously described why the move to software asset-based offerings has been slow to date and what steps service vendors are increasingly taking in order to successfully grow their...

Emerging Asia Steps Up
In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...
In July 2012, Forrester Research analyzed the software asset portfolios of 16 large global providers of IT services. During this process, Forrester received a total of 545 artifacts and...

Global automotive markets are being transformed by the combined effects of environmental concerns, the fast growth of emerging markets, and changing consumer behavior. In particular, the automotive...

The ASEAN3 countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) represent 78% of the IT spending of the ASEAN countries excluding Singapore. Indonesia and the Philippines will experience dynamic...