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Tim serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. His research covers EA practice maturity, development, and evolution. In addition, his research includes IT planning and EA management software tools. He covers vendor offerings, adoption trends, and best practices. Tim’s research provides practical advice for EA leaders moving their practices toward a business-centered and strategic approach.
Prior to his current role, Tim was a researcher on the Enterprise Architecture team, where he interviewed and surveyed hundreds of EA leaders, technology vendors, and technology users while conducting primary and secondary research for research reports and consulting engagements. During this time, Tim studied and developed maturity models for Forrester's BT client group, most recently the Forrester Enterprise Architecture Maturity Model.
Tim earned his B.S. in business administration from Boston University's School of Management.
Executive Overview: The EA Practice Playbook
The ability to nimbly navigate change in business environments makes the difference between an industry-leading enterprise and one that always seems a beat behind. But how can a large organization...

Stakeholder Needs: The EA Practice Playbook
This report outlines the stakeholder needs portion of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. This report is designed to help you...

Assessment Framework: The EA Practice Playbook
This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on creating a high-performance EA practice. A high-performance EA practice is...
Tools And Technologies: The Business Architecture Playbook
Business architecture (BA) programs rely on a set of models and methods that often benefit from being linked to each other and to other external data sources. For some enterprise architects,...

This report outlines the high-level business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on building a high-performance EA practice. Describing the added...

Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook
This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

Landscape: The EA Practice Playbook
Since 2009, Forrester's global state of enterprise architecture (EA) online survey has tracked the trends, priorities, and challenges of the EA practice. In our latest survey, the scale of EA value...

Change Management: The EA Practice Playbook
This report provides an approach to formulating and implementing an enterprise architecture (EA) communication program that eliminates the guesswork and uncertainty that usually surround such...

Performance Management: The EA Practice Playbook
This report outlines the performance management section of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. We designed this report to help...

Assessment: The Business Architecture Playbook
Business architecture (BA) provides a coordinating framework for organizational analysis and change, helping to integrate different groups of stakeholders who often pursue subtly divergent...

The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
There is a plethora of vendors in the enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) market that, like many EA practices themselves, excel at only a portion of a comprehensive EA practice. It is not...

Strategic Plan: The Emerging Technology Playbook
For many organizations, the use of emerging technology is confusing, slow, and problematic. Which emerging technologies should be part of IT's standard approach? Which should IT push for business to...
Enterprise architecture practices have a number of choices to make when deciding where responsibilities land within their organization. Forrester sees an increasing trend for EA leaders to take more...
Forrester's enterprise architecture (EA) maturity assessment model tool will help EA leaders define and communicate their direction and value in a variety of ways depending on the unique challenges...
This workbook provides a step-by-step overview of the contents of the High-Performance EA Readiness Toolkit. Use this deck as a primer for completing the Excel-based readiness toolkit and to learn...
