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Michele is a member of Forrester's Infrastructure & Operations research team. Her expertise focuses on enterprise mobility strategy development and mobile device and application adoption. Michele's research spans smartphone, tablet, and mobile application deployment; mobile application management; enterprise application stores; 4G and long-term evolution (LTE) technologies; mobile workforce segmentation; bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy; mobile metrics; and machine-to-machine (M2M) adoption.
Michele delivers strategic guidance to Forrester's enterprise, small and medium-size business (SMB), and vendor clients by identifying enterprise mobility service and technology trends, device adoption drivers, mobile application usage, and emerging M2M solution opportunities. She also focuses on strategic issues facing the telecom industry, gauging the effect of new competitor entry, new business models, new service usage patterns, and new technology initiatives such as M2M technologies.
Michele has more than 15 years of professional experience focusing on the telecommunications and enterprise mobility industry. She assisted domestic and international service providers in addressing strategic issues, conducting competitive assessments, evaluating product concepts, and developing marketing positioning messages on new technologies and services. Prior to joining Forrester, Michele was a management consultant serving national and international communications and technology clients in North America and Europe. Michele started her consulting career in Booz Allen & Hamilton's telecommunications group, where she helped telecom companies implement a federally mandated wireline and wireless service prioritization system used during national emergencies.
Michele has an M.B.A. from Boston University. She also holds a B.A. from St. Mary's College of Maryland.
I&O Should Manage Mobile Complexity Through A Corporate App Store
Today, employees are using personally owned smartphones and tablets at work, and firms are leveraging an array of mobile applications to interact with employees, customers, partners, and suppliers....

Performance Management: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective metrics to measure the performance of your workforce computing initiatives. Identifying and implementing a comprehensive, relevant...
Interest in cloud-based email is mounting as pressures for IT infrastructure and operations professionals (I&O) to manage and secure smartphones and tablets for an increasingly mobile workforce are...


Policy And Procedures: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the policy recommendations of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives working on mobile and security...
Road Map: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their five-year technology road map for workforce computing. This is important because into...

Executive Overview: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
BYOD. BYOPC. Consumerization. These are the words that send shivers down the spines of infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals responsible for "end user computing" in their companies....
Take Seven Steps Now Under The Charter Of A Mobility Council
Smartphones, tablets, and the rise of bring-your-own (BYO) devices have put tremendous pressure on IT to revamp and rethink its mobile strategy: everything from procurement and development to...

I&O Execs Need To Prepare For Heterogeneous Environments As They Plan Their Next-Generation Desktop Strategies
Most infrastructure and operations (I&O) managers are in the late planning stage or early deployment phase of their next-generation desktop. This long overdue transformation will introduce...
Protecting The Corporate PCs Is As Important As Protecting Servers
What's your reaction to this scenario? Your CEO leaves his laptop, full of mission-critical (but encrypted) data, in a cab. One frantic phone call later and we learn that a far-sighted employee had...