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TJ serves CIO Professionals. His research focuses on the business of collaboration software, which includes adoption, business models, pricing, and positioning, and how information workers affect the adoption and deployment of collaboration software within their business. His research of the collaboration space also deals with how these technologies are applied to facilitate interactions between companies — vendor to partner, vendor to supplier, vendor to customer — for purposes of marketing, product development, and innovation. In addition, TJ researches serious gaming, which is the use of games and gaming dynamics for business or educational purposes and the use of virtual worlds for collaboration and training. His work helps professionals understand the technology and demographic trends that are affecting the markets they serve and provides guidance on how best to position their products to meet these challenges. TJ has been cited in ComputerWorld and the Financial Times.
Prior to joining Forrester, TJ was an analyst at a new product development firm, conducting voice of the customer and litigation-related market research for technology and other firms.
TJ has a B.S. in public relations and an M.S. in applied communication research from Boston University.
Business process management (BPM) attempts to alleviate problems around productivity bottlenecks, customer channel integration, cycle time reduction, and customer service improvement. But while those...
Forrester Research is launching a limited number of discussions with business process management (BPM) thought leaders; this is the first of the series. Given that BPM suites (BPMSes) verge on a...

As with any major organizational change program, gaining BPM traction in the business relies on engagement. This includes ensuring executive support for the BPM initiative. Selecting the right...
Landscape: The Business Process Management Playbook
Firms continue to invest massive amounts of money and time into improving their business processes. Why? Because of the imperative to optimize their business operations for their markets, even as...

Nastel Uses Complex Event Processing To Manage Application Performance
IT complexity is the major underlying theme of the years to come for infrastructure and operations. I&O teams have attempted to abstract this complexity with virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS,...

Springboard Research foresees several major forces that are coalescing to drive the next generation/evolution of IT infrastructure. While not all organizations will transform themselves within the...
Choosing the initial project carefully consistently ranks as one of the key factors dictating long-term BPM program success. The key issue is not so much a question of finding a compelling business...
Semantic Services Enable Better Dynamic Case Management
Netherlands-based Be Informed has developed something truly new in the business process management suites (BPMS) marketplace. At the heart of its dynamic case management (DCM) offering lies a...
An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track
Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...
Wipro's Case Study Shows The Way
Forrester interviewed the executives responsible for the deployment of the Lean continuous improvement initiative at Wipro Technologies, a global supplier of technology services. The case study shows...
Traditional process improvement initiatives often resemble top-down social engineering, in which management identifies re-engineering opportunities, processes undergo changes and automation by...
Create A Cohesive Business From Your (Seemingly Random) Collection Of Applications And Data
Integration is a perennial challenge for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Vintage, monolithic applications are hard to deal with, and point solutions abound, including point...

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

Don't Panic! Combine BPM And Agile Approaches To Conquer A Brave New World
Business innovation increasingly comes from the application of technology. Forrester labels this phenomenon as the transformation from IT to business technology (BT). At the heart of this...
Road Map: The Emerging Technology Playbook
Firms increasingly depend on technology to be innovative and disruptive. However, our data indicates that most firms are not doing a good job of getting new technology in the door and ensuring that...

Assessment Framework: The Business Process Management Playbook
Establishing a sustainable and high-impact business process management (BPM) excellence program requires that teams build a portfolio of new capabilities that blend business and technical skills,...