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Based in Sydney, Australia, Tim serves CIOs. He helps clients better manage their IT departments and ensure IT is delivering the solutions required by the business. His research focuses on the key IT challenges for CIOs and IT departments in Asia Pacific, as well as providing insights into the technologies that will deliver significant business value over the next few years. He also assists clients with the design of IT organizations, IT governance and processes, and IT/business alignment.
Tim also works with members of The CIO Group in the Forrester Leadership Boards in Asia Pacific. In this role, he writes CIO-targeted research, answers or facilitates answers for individual members' business and technology inquiries, and facilitates CIO Group member exchanges and peer-to-peer discussions.
Tim comes to Forrester with more than 10 years of IT analyst experience with ICT vendors and IT research providers. Most recently, he was the research director of IT solutions at IDC in Australia, where he assisted IT vendors in designing solutions to better fit market requirements and assisted user clients with their strategies to improve the effectiveness of their IT functions. In this role, he developed a reputation as a respected and sought-after industry analyst and an entertaining and informative public speaker on many of the key trends in the IT market.
Prior to this role, Tim worked with Hutchison 3G as an analyst, helping to launch and optimize its direct sales channels and developing strategies to increase the use of non-voice products on the high-speed 3G network. He also spent a number of years working as an independent ICT analyst. In addition, he worked for IDC in the UK, managing its European Wireless & Mobile Communications research program.
Tim is a highly regarded industry speaker, presenting regularly to CIOs and senior IT and business audiences at IT conferences in Asia Pacific and across the globe.
Tim holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and research from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Multinational Clients Cite Diminishing Returns From Trying To Single-Source
Forrester regularly receives requests from IT clients about the preferred sourcing approaches of large multinational corporations (MNCs) for outsourced or managed network and telecom services. IT...

We Forecast Slower But Still-Robust 7% To 8% Growth
Credit Card Companies And Wireless Service Providers Benefit From Higher Net Promoter Scores Through Better Customer Experience
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a wildly popular tool for assessing customers' likelihood to recommend a company's product or service. As valuable as NPS can be, by itself, the "one number you need to...

In Q3 2010, Forrester Research and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered to survey 1,461 business analysts (BAs), systems analysts, software requirements engineers, and...
Building Contingencies Ensures Price Competitiveness And Provider Innovation
A US-headquartered global consumer manufacturing firm recently asked Forrester to review its global telecom sourcing strategy with the aim of helping it balance opportunities against risks associated...
Are unified communications (UC) components being sold as standalone offerings? Maybe it goes against the idea of "unified," but does Forrester see a trend of buying only one component or feature set...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July and August 2012 of 6,008 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban areas/provinces of Argentina and top urban areas/states of Brazil and Mexico. In...
Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison
During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...
But They Are Poorly Positioned For The Larger Value-Added Service Opportunity
Telcos face increasing pressure on traditional voice revenues and seek new revenues from services leveraging existing assets. Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, including radio frequency...

Several forces are slowly transforming the stable but growing market for IT infrastructure services in Europe, including the rising profile of offshore suppliers, maturing global delivery,...
An Empowered Report: A Look At The Best And Worst Of Online Customer Service
Forrester evaluated the online customer service offerings of the four largest US wireless communication service providers — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. Our analysis uncovered...
The First Of Many IT Ops-Focused SaaS Offerings
It's been almost two years since we last produced this report, and during that time the vendor landscape has changed considerably; however, one constant remains true: Backup is a struggle for both...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the telecom service providers that offer data center services in Singapore focusing on AT&T, SingTel, Verizon, Tata Communications,...
As Carriers Move To Embrace OTT, Enterprises Will Benefit
Over the top (OTT), the network-agnostic delivery of digital services, marks an important shift in the delivery and consumption of information and communications technology (ICT) services. OTT breaks...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Egypt for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...