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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.
Today, I attended the HP webOS event at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. My colleague Sarah Rotman Epps is writing about the TouchPad, but I’m more interested in where HP takes webOS...

We'll Use Tablets As The Conductor For PCs, Devices, And Personal Cloud Services At Work And At Home
For a new technology that is just two years old, tablets are huge hit. For CIOs the question is — will they last and what are the long-term implications? How do tablets interact with other...

Microsoft Windows will power just one-third of personal computing devices sold during 2012. Say what? Over the past five years, the transition to mobile devices has transformed Microsoft’s...
More Than 21% Of Information Workers Use Apple Products For Work
Apple's products are much more visible in business environments than they used to be. To quantify Apple's business presence, Forrester surveyed almost 10,000 information workers — workers that...
I'm on vacation this week, traveling with a small group of my extended family out on the Dingle peninsula of Ireland. I'm mostly focused on vacation, but have done a little checking in on...
As Mobile Device Sales Surpass PCs, CIOs Will Need To Corral A Troika Of OS Leaders
The launch of Windows 8 is a major pivot point for Microsoft — and for IT leaders and the individuals they support. The new Windows 8 user experience (UX) and programming model will transform...

For our Forrsights Workforce survey, Forrester annually surveys information workers.* I’m leading final preparation of our Forrsights Workforce survey focused on end user hardware and aimed at...
CPUs, Disks, Sensors, And Displays Change Dramatically In The Next Five Years
Hardware innovation will continue to roil the tech ecosystem through 2016, forcing vendor strategists at software and services firms to adjust continuously to new hardware capabilities, plus the new...
My blog post Apple Infiltrates The Enterprise: 1/5 Of Global Info Workers Use Apple Products For Work! got lots of visibility because of how hot Apple is right now, but our data is much broader than...
I’m attending Apple’s special event tomorrow and Microsoft’s Windows launch on Thursday in NYC, though I won’t be at the Google and Microsoft events early next week. I’m...
Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a hot market. Amazon Web Services, now five years old, drives a lot of attention and customer volume, but the vendor strategists at enterprise-facing...
With today’s iPad and Apple TV announcements, Apple continues to advance on two topics that I’ve been researching: personal cloud and Apple’s enterprise strategy. Apple...
In Forrester’s Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2011, we learned that 60% of information workers use their devices for work and personal tasks. This dual use of PCs, smartphones, and...
Cloud Services, New Technologies, And The Rise Of Informal Computing Buyers
Important trends are surfacing in computing infrastructure markets that will cause vendor strategists to take a fresh look at new buyer behavior, shifts in business models, and adoption of emerging...
Vendor Strategists Must Overhaul Business Units And Products Aimed At Information Workers
Execs plotting new information and communications technology (ICT) products and services face changing information worker behaviors driven by five innovations that empower users to provision and use...
I’m excited to be returning to the ideas of the Personal Cloud report that I published last July. In that report, I described how computing by individuals will shift from being device-centric,...
Have you noticed an increased presence of Apple products in public spaces and workspaces in the last few years? Turns out that 21% of information workers are using one or more Apple products for...
How Workers' Personal Cloud Services Will Link Into Enterprise Applications
Personal cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote seem like consumer-focused apps that CIOs should block from authorized workplace use. Currently, many CIOs believe that mobile devices and...

Landscape: The Emerging Technology Playbook
Emerging digital technologies are a primary driver of business evolution and disruption. Firms are grappling with an accelerating pace of business change while also trying to make IT simpler and more...
