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Henry serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. His research focuses on the concepts, techniques, and tools required to bring business agility within enterprises. He publishes research around key agility indicators and agile governance and applies these principles to change EA practices to help build a sustainable business agility. Business agility depends highly on the level of enterprise risks the decision-makers can take. He is also researching metadata management as a means to bring agility at the right cost for IT supporting business agility. Business-Centered EA (BCEA) is the Forrester method to help build business agility.
Henry also researches the customer reaction component of business agility through the concept of Web4 by studying activists' social computing.
He thinks that collaboration would require a lot of change management to bring not only a productivity increase but the business agility required by large organizations.
Henry has done some previous work on master data management, enterprise application integration, middleware, adapters, business activity monitoring
, enterprise architecture tools, and ppen source and risks issues.
Henry came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group and Giga's affiliation with GigaGroup. He brings 21 years of IT experience to his clients. Prior to joining GigaGroup, he was the technical director of Euriware, a French IT services company specializing in industrial IT and related technologies. In addition, Henry was involved as chief architect in strategic projects for large telecommunications, automotive, and marketplace customers.
At earlier stages of his career, Henry held various technical positions in a knowledge management company and at Alcatel CIT.
Henry is the author or co-author of many reference articles and books on IT architecture. He has a master's degree in IT from the ESIEE engineering school in Paris. He is fluent in French and English and is based in Paris.
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Mobile Banking Is A Major Strategic Shift, Not Just Another Channel
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Make Comparison Shopping A Fundamental Element Of Your Online Strategy
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Processes: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
The critical question for many digital banking teams after they build mobile banking is how to encourage customer adoption and use. Forrester spoke to eBusiness executives at banks about the current...
Executives Need To Put Digital Touchpoints At The Heart Of Their Strategies
Online banking has changed the way people use other banking channels over the past decade. Even so, half of UK adults still visit a branch each month. eBusiness and channel strategy executives need...
Put Digital Touchpoints At The Heart Of Your Multichannel Strategy
In this research, we explore what the state of the economy, new regulations, competition, and changing customer behavior mean for the priorities of eBusiness and channel strategy executives at...

How Financial Services eBusiness Executives Can Use Online Video
More people than ever before watch online video. In response, an increasing number of financial services eBusiness teams are using online video to drive sales. Nevertheless, based on our study of...

After six years at Forrester, Alexander Hesse has decided to leave Forrester to take on a new challenge in a different field. It's always a sad day when you lose a respected colleague and I wish...
The use of digital banking channels has grown rapidly in Italy, which has the highest mobile banking adoption in Europe — while the growth of branch use has come to a halt. Channel strategy...

I love video as a communication media. The combination of sound and moving pictures so much more engaging and more memorable than text. We wrote in our research last year about how we're starting...
Make Comparison Shopping A Fundamental Element Of Your Online Strategy
Nearly four in 10 European online financial product researchers used financial comparison sites last year — a number that has grown from 29% in 2007. Comparison sites play an increasingly...
The past five years have been awful for most European retail banks. The financial crisis, and the resulting recessions in most of Europe's economies, nearly destroyed some banks and crushed the...
I am intrigued by last week's announcement from UK payment processor VocaLink and Australian financial software vendor eWise that they are collaborating to build an online banking transfer...
This is a guest post from Myriam Da Costa, a researcher serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy professionals. France has been quick to embrace mobile banking. Banks like BNP Paribas and...
There are a number of firms that we watch closely at Forrester because they stand out for sustained innovation. Behind the technology giants like Google and Apple, there are a number of established...
One of the (many) things I have been working on for the past few months is this year’s European Marketing & Strategy Forum, which is taking place on the 16th and 17th of November at the...
Over the past couple of years I have been intrigued by the concept of a 'digital wallet' that will combine mobile payments with a variety of other benefits for customers. The more people I...
One of the most common questions banking eBusiness executives ask Forrester analysts is: "What do you think of my Web site?". That's always a tough question to answer because what I think...
In our research on eBusiness and channel strategy, we often come across clusters of innovation where innovation by one company in a sector causes its competitors not only to match it, but to try to...
Executive Overview: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Mobile banking is the most important strategic change in retail banking in more than a decade. Yet too many banks have taken a haphazard approach to mobile strategy, rolling out apps and features...
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For the past few years I have watched enviously as the Finovate online financial technology show has gone from strength to strength in San Francisco and New York. So I was thrilled to hear that...
Alternative Payment Systems Provide Opportunities For European Merchants
The European online payment landscape is highly fragmented, with different payment methods achieving varied adoption levels across European countries. One in two European online buyers does not own a...