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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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Forrester Research, in conjunction with itSMF-USA, conducted its second annual survey to understand the state of IT service management (ITSM) in 2012 and its direction in 2013 — a critical...

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Benchmarks: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to benchmark your service management and automation (SMA) initiative. To understand the current state and future of SMA, Forrester partnered with the USA...
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Embrace IT Process Automation Technology As Your Foundation To Industrial IT
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Policy And Procedures: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines the policies and procedures IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders and their teams should follow to effectively govern their service management and automation (SMA)...
Assessment Framework: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report introduces Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to assess the maturity of their service management and automation (SMA) program. This is important,...
I will postpone the name of my 2012 winner for a bit. I first want to thank the great AR professionals with whom I have the pleasure of working! For those outside the technology vendor world,...
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Road Map: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their road map of service management and automation processes (SMA) using Forrester's...

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