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Marc Cecere

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving CIOs

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Blog: CIO Blog

Marc serves CIOs. He is a leading expert in the design of IT organizations, focusing on their structures, processes, governance, and culture, and has helped redesign more than 200 IT shops. In addition, Marc tracks how services firms help transform IT organizations.

The scope of Marc's research includes the design of IT organizations, governance and processes, IT planning, metrics, and M&A.

Previous Work Experience

Marc came to Forrester through the acquisition of Giga Information Group, where he was a manager and analyst with his groups focusing on IT management and IT services.

Marc has more than 20 years of IT management experience. Prior to joining Giga, he was director of IT at Sun Life of Canada, where he was responsible for the project office, executing a Y2K readiness plan and technology strategy. At Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC), Marc was director of MIS, responsible for the introduction of new information technologies, including groupware, object-oriented development, the Web, and videoconferencing. Before joining HPHC, he was at CSC Consulting, where he performed numerous re-engineering projects.

Education

Marc earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an M.B.A. from Babson College, where he is an adjunct professor.

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Application Development, Architecture & Technology Strategy, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Cost Control, IT Budgeting & Forecasting, IT Management, IT Organization, Organizational Design & Change Management, Strategy & Strategic Planning, Strategy, Planning & Governance of IT, Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Sector Economics

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Report:The IT Strategic Plan Step-By-Step
Deliver An Actionable Plan In A Reasonable Timeframe
Alex Cullen, Marc CecereApril 10, 2007
It's April and you are four months into your organization's fiscal year. You know that within six months you'll need to have your operating plan for the upcoming year in fairly solid shape. You also...
- Downloads: 2054
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Report:Redesigning Your Applications Organization
Marc CecereJuly 08, 2009
Redesigning the applications organization is the next major target for IT restructuring and is particularly attractive when cost reduction is needed. Infrastructure organizations have already gone...
- Downloads: 1687
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Report:Why Apps, Infrastructure, And PMO Roles Fail
Part 2 Of A Three-Part Series On Why Key IT Roles Failed
Marc CecereJune 02, 2011
There are a number of roles in IT that can significantly change the organization for good or bad. Through a combination of surveys, interviews, and consulting engagements, we gathered in-depth...
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Report:Structuring The Applications Group
New Development And App Maintenance Organizational Approaches
Marc CecereJanuary 12, 2007
Many CIOs use the same staff to perform applications development and maintenance work. However, dividing these responsibilities into separate groups provides greater oversight, clarity, and...
- Downloads: 669
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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Human-Centric BPMS For Insurance, Q3 2006
Pegasystems, Fiserv (with Lombardi Software), And IBM Lead
Marc Cecere, Craig Le Clair, Colin TeubnerSeptember 22, 2006
Forrester evaluated nine leading business process management suites (BPMS) vendors across 215 insurance-specific and BPMS criteria and found that Pegasystems, Fiserv (with Lombardi Software), and IBM...
- Downloads: 478
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Report:CIOs: Is Workforce Planning On Your Agenda?
Global Workforce Planning Through 2016
Marc CecereJanuary 29, 2010
Over the next decade, the global workforce will change dramatically. An aging workforce and a shrinking economically active population will affect how organizations hire staff and source skills both...
- Downloads: 413
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Report:Organization Size Drives Apps Maintenance Behavior
Big IT Is More Rigorous In Methodology And More Apt To Outsource
Marc CecereMarch 22, 2007
Forrester recently surveyed 277 IT decision-makers about their application maintenance habits and preferences, and we analyzed their responses, looking at the effect of organization size on...
- Downloads: 389
- Comments: 1

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Marc Cecere

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Report:The IT Strategic Plan Step-By-Step

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Report:Redesigning Your Applications Organization

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Report:Why Apps, Infrastructure, And PMO Roles Fail

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Report:Structuring The Applications Group

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Human-Centric BPMS For Insurance, Q3 2006

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Report:CIOs: Is Workforce Planning On Your Agenda?

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Report:Organization Size Drives Apps Maintenance Behavior

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