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Simon is vice president and principal analyst on the CIO research team focused on mobility and workplace experience. His research focuses on the role of the CIO in driving mobile strategy for employees, customers, and partners; mobile technology planning and road map development; and defining the technology requirements in an ever-changing work environment.
Prior to his current role, Simon was responsible for the growth and development of the CIO Group, Forrester's Leadership Board of more than 400 CIOs worldwide. Prior to assuming this role, he was vice president and research director for the infrastructure and operations and security and risk research teams. For three years, Simon developed and hosted Forrester's IT Forum EMEA, was based in Paris, and worked extensively with European clients. Before that, Simon was a principal analyst on the infrastructure and operations team covering personal computing, mobility, and client virtualization. He joined Forrester in 2000 as an analyst covering enterprise application integration and web services.
Prior to joining Forrester, Simon spent 10 years in technical book acquisitions and publishing with Addison Wesley and McGraw-Hill.
Simon holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island in English and political science.
Many enterprise clients are asking Forrester about implementing a best-in-class unified communications (UC) solution without incurring unnecessary costs or overprovisioning. Specifically they're...
Build FMC Into Your Unified Communications Sourcing Strategy
The key benefits of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) are simple to understand: a) avoid duplicating costs for voice infrastructure by taking away desk phones for employees who aren't using them anyway,...
The community of information workers at large multinational firms (MNCs) who regularly work away from company facilities is growing quickly. As a result, sourcing and vendor management (SVM)...


SVM Worries About Impact On Revenue Commitments And Discount Eligibility For Corporate-Liable Users — Don't!
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...

An Empowered Report
A growing number of workers own personal smartphones that they might want to use for work. However, IT support costs and security implications for personal mobile devices connected to the corporate...
SVM Worries About Impact On Revenue Commitments And Discount Eligibility For Corporate-Liable Users — Don't!
This report answers three questions about enterprise mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices: 1) what the major trends are regarding BYOD adoption; 2) how firms are managing their BYOD programs...

Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends
In this age of the empowered, tech-savvy worker, more and more employees are bringing their unsecured devices to work and using them for work activities. To prepare for this tide of devices,...

How A Manufacturer Defined Its UC Strategy With A Business And End User Focus
Companies with widely distributed international operations often struggle to create a road map for a best practice unified communications (UC) strategy. This report summarizes some of the major...
Pay Close Attention To Vendor Offers Regarding Integration And Interoperability
We're seeing the growing interest of large European enterprises in IP video along with unified communications (UC). In conversations with Forrester, several European IT clients said that video...