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Sharyn Leaver

Vice President, Practice Leader - Enterprise Architecture serving Enterprise Architecture PROFESSIONALS

Sharyn serves CIOs. She leads Forrester's research into IT leadership, with a focus on the emerging world of business technology (BT). Sharyn delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises identify best practices and identify vendors and technologies that help drive business success. Her current research agenda includes enterprise application strategies as well as IT planning processes and technologies. She also maintains a research interest in business process management (BPM); RFID; and other emerging technologies in consumer-driven and manufacturing industries such as life sciences, healthcare, and consumer products. In addition, Sharyn was a key contributor to the development of the Forrester Wave™ methodology to help clients accurately assess key vendors in a given technology-focused market.

Previous Work Experience

Before joining Forrester, Sharyn spent several years as a consultant and project manager for Clarkston Consulting, a full-service professional services firm. She was responsible for the delivery of vendor selection and implementation projects involving SAP and other ERP applications, integration technology, and enterprise portals.


Education

Sharyn holds a B.S. in computer information systems technology from Purdue University.

Research Coverage:

Business Process Management, Enterprise Resource Planning Applications (ERP), Packaged Applications, Supply Chain Management, Technology Product Strategies

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    Report:The Future Of Enterprise Applications

    Will Emerging Dynamic Business Apps End The Reign Of Packaged Apps?

    Sharyn LeaverDecember 21, 2007

    The $103 billion enterprise applications market has experienced massive consolidation over the past few years and has delivered moderate innovation and revenue growth. Meanwhile, globalization, rapid...

    • Downloads: 1609

  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?

    Tim DeGennaro, Sharyn LeaverMay 17, 2010

    CIOs are constantly working to run IT like a business — focusing on business orientation through capabilities like IT planning, portfolio management, and IT investment optimization. A myriad of...

    • Downloads: 966

  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Enterprise Software Budgets And Initiatives

    Consolidation, Modernization, And Collaboration Are Top Software Priorities

    Sharyn LeaverJuly 10, 2009

    Budgeting and planning season is right around the corner, and an armful of new and unproven technologies and software initiatives promise to change the way IT conducts its business. IT organizations...

    • Downloads: 625

  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:SOA: Dead Or Alive?

    Sharyn LeaverJuly 10, 2009

    Some recent buzz in the industry would have you believe that SOA is dead, but that just isn't the case — in fact, its use and influence are still growing. Stories of less-than-successful...

    • Downloads: 481

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Business Process And Apps Economic Downturn Insights

    Sharyn Leaver, Elisse GaynorJanuary 22, 2009

    Data highlights from Forrester¿s November 2008 Global Economic Downturn Insights Online Survey.

     
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