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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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  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:CIOs: Develop A Technology Watch List

    The Top 15 Technology Trends To Watch

    Sharyn LeaverNovember 13, 2009

    As IT executives set out their strategies and plan for 2010 and beyond, they must determine what the top technology trends are for their business and gauge IT's ability to support the next phase of...

    • Downloads: 1273

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Five Trends That Will Shape The Business Process And Applications Profession In 2008

    Sharyn LeaverDecember 27, 2007

    Many business process and applications professionals rightfully focus their attention on the immediate project at hand, like an application upgrade or specific process improvement project. Yet many...

    • Downloads: 804

  • 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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Case Study: Queensland Police Service Executes GIS By The Book

    Elisse Gaynor, Sharyn LeaverAugust 12, 2008

    Faced with disparate policing systems, corresponding silos of data, and degraded data quality, Australia's Queensland Police Service (QPS) launched a large-scale police records management and...

    • Downloads: 280

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    Report:Business Process And Applications Pros Should Embrace Informal Learning Methods

    Sharyn LeaverFebruary 09, 2009

    Continuously building knowledge is critical to improving the quality of your workforce, which is necessary now more than ever. But uncertain economic times mean human resources (HR) professionals...

    • Downloads: 306
 
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