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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.
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.
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.
The reporting structure of an IT organization affects how roles operate in that shop. The structure must support the goals of the organization and be consistent with its culture and capabilities...

To redesign an IT organization, you need to know the potential organizational models, their pros and cons, and how they would meet the needs of your organization. Fortunately, there are a relati...

New technologies, service offerings, business changes, and other factors are driving CIOs to change the structure, processes, governance, and culture of IT organizations. However, redesigns are ...

Building and implementing a BT strategy requires specific skills, roles, incentives, and structures to be in place. It also needs a sourcing strategy to bring in third-party capabilities. Furthe...

Today's executives are totally dependent on technology to achieve their organization's goals and objectives — without technology they cannot compete. CIOs increasingly play a vital role in...

Transforming an IT organization typically requires dramatic changes to processes, structure, governance, and culture. To determine how best to do this, Forrester reviewed the results of several ...
CIOs frequently change the structure of the IT organization to reduce costs, improve services, or increase responsiveness. Getting the organization design right is essential; the wrong design ca...
Interest in cloud technology and cloud economics abounds. While the technology delivers immediate reductions in capital costs, Forrester believes that cloud computing's greatest benefits will co...
Near-term demand for hot roles in IT will be driven by the need for local and cross-discipline knowledge, changes in technology, greater emphasis on managing risk and the enterprise, and a limit...
Business expectations of IT continually change, driven by business context and needs and the embedding of technology in their strategy and operations. CIOs realize that with these changing busin...
Nearly all business transformations today are technology dependent and focus on breaking traditional business silos. These are high risk/high complexity projects that require knowledge of techno...