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Connie is a member of Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. Her research focus is on smart computing and analytics.
Connie came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group in 2003. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has been an analyst for 19 years. Most of her research focuses on business process management and business optimization. Prior to joining Giga, Connie managed BIS Strategic Decisions' European IT consulting group, headquartered in the UK. Before then, Connie was vice president of product marketing at TDC (now part of BancTec), a manufacturer of high-end document capture systems. She was also a manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), specializing in document management, document imaging, and end user computing. Earlier, Connie was with Wang Laboratories, where she managed Wang's technical support resources for the US Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. She began her career in IT and management at Mathematica Policy Research.
Connie was the co-champion of Forrester's 2009 Business Technology Forum, with its theme of "Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative." Connie also co-championed Forrester's 2007 Technology Leadership Forum, with the theme of "Design for People, Build for Change," and Forrester's 2008 Technology Leadership Forum, themed as "Embrace Technology Chaos, Deliver Business Results." Connie is a widely sought speaker. She has keynoted at many industry events, chaired 10 business process and workflow conferences in Europe and the US, and co-chaired Giga's "Leveraging Knowledge" conference. Connie also served as a director of AIIM International, the premier association for the content management industry, and is a member of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals.
Connie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a B.A. in political science and history from East Carolina University and an M.B.A. in information systems from George Washington University.
Collaborative Relationships Help Vendors Meet The Needs Of Partners And Customers
Technology product managers and marketers face a simple truth: You have to work closely with your partners and customers or you risk failing to meet their needs. However, a range of technical and...
Spurring Adoption Requires Management Advocacy And Concrete Use Cases
Videoconferencing technology promises contextual communications over distance. One type — desktop video — is gaining traction because it can provide access to visual communication to more...
What are the vendors and tool sets for virtual worlds (Second Life, Teleplace, etc.)?

Social Software Plugs Partners And Customers Into The Product Development Process
Psion, a manufacturer of ruggedized handheld devices, has made intercompany collaboration core to its business. Psion CEO John Conoley and CMO Nick Eades have partnered in recent years to turn around...
Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...
Governments Are Playing Catch-Up In Terms Of Mobility And Collaboration
North American and European governments are striving for efficiency, openness, and responsiveness as their constituencies increasingly organize and mobilize using social technologies. However,...
Businesses Still Mainly Use Collaboration Tools To Reduce Travel Costs
Businesses large and small are continuing to invest in a range of collaboration technologies. While vendors promise that these technologies can solve a range of business problems, most content and...
Business Leaders Must Focus On People, Technologies, And Facilities Management
With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside a corporate office at least occasionally during a month, it's imperative that business leaders initiate...
More Than A Million Shared Slides Get An Audio And Video Facelift; Consumerization Gets Another Injection; IT Gets Another Vendor To Track
Why does the world need yet another webconferencing vendor? Because the existing solutions don't deliver all the value that your employees crave at a price you can afford. SlideShare has answered the...
A Small, Technically Savvy Group Leverages Publicly Available Social Software To Enhance Their Efficiency And Productivity At Work
Enterprise 2.0 is a hot topic as business executives and IT leaders seek ways to bring social technologies into their business. But hype aside, are we close to seeing a social revolution in business?...

Business Impact: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside of their corporate office at least occasionally every month, it's imperative that business leaders...
Dimdim Points To How Small SaaS Firms Can Thrive In Crowded Markets
Interest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) is heating up; 55% of firms tell us they are deploying the technology, will be deploying it in the next year or so, or are interested in it. In response,...
Moving collaboration workloads to the public cloud is an attractive proposition for content and collaboration professionals and information workers alike. Why? They're inexpensive to stand up and...
In Forrester's 38-criteria evaluation of the cloud strategies of online collaboration software vendors, we identified eight significant collaboration services providers — Box, Cisco Systems,...

Forrester's Convenience Quotient Weighs The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Tools To Predict What Technologies Employees Will Use
Content and collaboration (C&C) professionals are helping their businesses deploy a number of tools to keep information workers connected and productive. However, Forrester data consistently shows...

A Buyer's Guide For Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps For Business, And IBM SmartCloud For Social Business
Over the past two years, Forrester clients have shown great interest in the cloud collaboration and productivity suites Microsoft, Google, and IBM offer: We've fielded more than 150 inquiries on this...
An Empowered Report: Microsoft Uses Productivity Games To Test Windows And Office Communicator
For product managers, getting workers to help test new products has always proven to be a challenge, making finding an engaging inducement for participation the Holy Grail. As a panacea, a small but...
Is Web 2.0 (wikis, blogs etc. for both internal use for employees and external stakeholders) common in government agencies, especially compared to private industries? What are the trends? Does being...
An IT Support Report Card On Employee Mobile, Social, And Collaboration Tools
In 2016, Forrester projects that 63 million US information workers will telecommute at least part-time. Our recent survey of 4,985 US information workers indicates we're well on our way to hitting...
Office 365 Has Much But Not All Of What Firms Need From A Collaboration Platform
On June 28, 2011, Microsoft launched Office 365 in 40 countries after a massive public beta involving 200,000 organizations from every region. This product encompasses Office Professional Plus and...
Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

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