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Matthew is a vice president and practice leader serving CIOs and IT leadership teams for Forrester. With more than 18 years of professional experience in enterprise IT, interactive marketing, and technology markets, Matthew leads a team of analysts, researchers, advisors, and consultants focused on business technology strategy. He also advises clients in a wide variety of industries around the globe on IT's role in innovation, IT organization, strategic planning, and workplace technologies.
One of Matthew's primary research objectives is to help clients overcome the people, process, and technology challenges in IT investments. His most recent research looks at the needs, attitudes, and behaviors of a changing workforce to understand how technology affects employee engagement and overall workplace experience. He also focuses on how companies achieve business outcomes using mobile technologies, knowledge management practices, and tools such as enterprise portals, social technologies, expertise networks, collaboration tools, and related software.
Considered an authority on workplace technologies, Matthew's research has been cited in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous industry and trade publications. Matthew also frequently presents his research at major industry events and conferences.
Prior to joining Forrester, Matthew held a leadership position for more than five years in global management consulting firm McKinsey and Company's knowledge services operating group. In this role, Matthew led change management and global technology programs involving communities of practice, enterprise search, document management, enterprise portal, and expertise location services. Prior to McKinsey, Matthew cofounded and served as vice president of operations for an eCommerce startup based in Austin, Texas. Further professional experience includes six years of consulting and project management at interactive services firms — serving clients Canon USA, Dell, IBM, PCOrder, Trilogy, and Tivoli on commercial and public-sector applications.
Matthew graduated magna cum laude from the Babson College M.B.A. program with a focus on entrepreneurship and high-tech marketing strategy. Matthew has his B.A. in English and studio arts from Colgate University.
Twenty Solutions For Delivering Differentiated Experiences
Customers demand superior service and support as the price for their ongoing loyalty and patronage, and they are increasingly leveraging the chat channel for customer service. The chat vendor...
Due to the disparate nature of unified communications components (voice, video, IM, conferencing), enterprises quite frequently lack the process to develop a comprehensive UC road map. The industry...
How To Manage Public UC Based On Skype And Mitigate Risk
Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals who manage unified communications (UC) must decide how to incorporate public connections based on Skype software. HEROes in today's enterprises...

Despite Budget Pressures, Infrastructure And Operations Professionals Are Driving A Wide Array Of Contact Center Upgrades
Despite Budget Pressures, Infrastructure And Operations Professionals Are Driving A Wide Array Of Contact Center Upgrades
The uncertain world economic outlook makes firms reluctant to hire new workers. Thus, it's no surprise that infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros are keen to invest in contact center upgrades to...
The Growing Maturity Of Cloud Computing Influences More Contact Center Applications Decisions
Contact center applications that manage real-time interactions have been available as a hosted or cloud service for more than 20 years. Initially, the term used was Centrex ACD, and the technology...

I&O Professionals Need To Explore SIP Trunking, But Consider Application, Security, And Interoperability Costs When Calculating ROI
The communications industry continues on its path to packetizing real-time communications managed by session initiation protocol (SIP). As a result, SIP trunking is a key component that connects...
Vision: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
Increasing consumerization of IT and advances in both cloud technologies and deployment models tremendously affect the enterprise not simply on how we communicate but where, when, and on what kind of...
The UC Market Matures And Consolidates
Unified communications (UC) remains a priority for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals. In Forrester's Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2011, we asked 547 North...
Could you please provide some guidance on how to select a vendor to do an IVR implementation?

Navigating the complex contact center solution landscape continues to be challenging, particularly in light of the rapid rise of social computing, mobility, and voice of the customer initiatives...

Strategic Plan: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
As more enterprises develop organizational and operational structures to better manage customer experience, they need to drive this down into contact center architectural design. Today's challenge is...

Assessment: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
This report provides Forrester's maturity assessment for infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals responsible for their firms' communications and collaboration infrastructure. I&O leaders...
What are priorities – low, medium, and high – for setting up a five-year contact center road map, specifically workforce management and call recording?
And Provides Personalized Services To Boost Customer Satisfaction
In 2009, Forrester identified opportunities for contact center infrastructure and operations professionals (I&O) to use proactive customer communications to reduce costs for incoming calls by sending...
Strategic Plan: Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders developing a communications and collaboration infrastructure (CCI) strategic plan. Developing such a plan...
Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Locking in customer loyalty via deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead. But navigating the...
Road Map: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
As communications and collaboration infrastructures (CCIs) start to coalesce into broader suites, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals need to ensure that the right road map will...

We are moving to a new IPT infrastructure with 6,000 seats and want to know how long a migration of this size typically takes. What is a reasonable time frame to expect delivery from our vendor?
Are any other large companies considering making voicemail an opt-in feature for employees? Are we early adopters? Are large companies that use Microsoft BPOS online services for mail, chat, Live...
How are my peers managing the costs of VoIP?