Gene Leganza

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Enterprise Architecture PROFESSIONALS

Gene provides research and advisory services that address the needs of Enterprise Architecture Professionals. Gene has been researching best practices in making enterprise architecture programs effective since 1999 and focuses on helping clients implement a pragmatic approach to EA that has clear value to business and IT leaders.

Previous Work Experience

Gene has more than 25 years of IT experience, including enterprise architecture planning, infrastructure architecture, IT management, performance management, capacity planning, product strategy, and application development. Gene came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, he was director of infrastructure architecture and capacity planning at John Hancock Financial Services in Boston. Previously, he held senior IT positions at First Data Corporation and Fidelity Investments and development and marketing management positions at leading software firms.

He has published dozens of papers on various topics and has spoken at a variety of conferences in the US and abroad.


Education

Gene earned a B.A. in psychology and music from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Gene Leganza's Research

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: Drive Coherence Across Your Diverse Information Architecture Landscape

    The enterprise's ability to manage information strategically is becoming a high priority, but a coherent and comprehensive approach to information in the enterprise is a pipe dream for most orga...

    • Downloads: 100
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: Information Strategies Move Center Stage

    A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the i...

    • Downloads: 200
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: Create KPIs That Show The Effectiveness Of Your Information Strategy

    How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically ta...

    • Downloads: 270
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: Drive Information Strategy Performance Management With Capability Models

    As capability maps become the prevailing form for modeling business architectures, capability-based planning is growing into an effective practice to map organizations' general path forward. Per...

    • Downloads: 239
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: Information Architecture Planning Toolkit

    As business executives develop an appreciation for the potential value in their information assets, they're looking to architects to help them dramatically improve their information management a...

    • Downloads: 32
    • Comments: 2
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013

    Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same ...

    • Downloads: 6696
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: Topic Overview: Information Architecture

    Information architecture (IA) is a cornerstone of enterprise architecture (EA), but 43% of the architects we surveyed either have not yet addressed this domain or have only begun to implement wh...

    • Downloads: 7496
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: Enterprise Architecture? What's In It For Me?

    Enterprise architects know that their EA programs provide significant value to their organizations. But communicating EA's value is challenging: As a strategic activity, it doesn't have the imme...

    • Downloads: 2412
  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report: Topic Overview: Enterprise Architecture

    As business technology (BT) becomes integral to organizations' focus on growth, innovation, and flexibility, IT organizations are turning to enterprise architecture (EA) to best advance objectiv...

    • Downloads: 2811
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Forrester's Data Management Reference Architecture

    The continuing explosion in data volume, increasing numbers of business users, growing data complexity, compliance requirements, need to support global operations, and growing need for real-time...

    • Downloads: 2815
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Gene Leganza's Planned Reports

Jul 2013

Report: Critical Success Factors For Measuring Your Information Architecture Program

This report revisits the success criteria outlined in the planning stage of the playbook (business impact).  This research provides a mechanism to determine how well the IA program meas...

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