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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.
These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
Forrester believes that the next stage of mobile banking will center on payments and commerce. Developments in 2012 are moving in that direction with bank rollouts of advanced money movement...

Since cyberinsurance first emerged in the late '90s, the number of available policies, the scope of those policies, and the number of insurers offering them have all significantly increased. Due to...

Software And IT Consulting Services Have The Best Prospects
They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market
Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

Using Digital Touchpoints To Enhance Advisor-Client Relationships
In the past, financial advisors and agents typically didn't involve clients in the advice generation process. They worked their magic behind the scenes and then presented clients with the final...
Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases
Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...
The Q3 2012 Global Financial Services Architecture Online Survey Continues To Show A Focus On Transformation
Today's financial services firms often find that their application landscape is no longer able to cope with their most urgent business drivers. Forrester's Q3 2012 Global Financial Services...
Emerging Asia Steps Up
In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...
Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years
This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...
eBusiness Professionals Must Integrate Mobile Into Loan Processes
As customers become more comfortable with research and applying for financial products through mobile devices, eBusiness professionals at banks will need to consider how mobile can support...

Greater Customer Value And Shifting Economics Will Shape The Future Of Payments In The US
As we charge forward into 2013, the consumer payments industry will experience heightened competition and new challenges to the status quo. There are many forces reshaping the world of payments. This...

US Mobile Payments Will Reach $90 Billion By 2017
Innovation and competitive disruption in mobile payments continued at an accelerated pace throughout 2012, but consumer adoption lagged behind the industry hype. Over the next five years, US...
Automate Release Management To Keep Up With Rapid Development
This Forrester case study offers infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders and teams an example of how to improve the effectiveness of their service management and automation (SMA) initiatives...

Vision: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook
Hold on tight — the business of insurance is changing, in large part due to customer demand for better experiences. What's fueling this changing demand? Mobile devices are everywhere, mobile...

Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook
Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...
As mobile banking adoption has moved from downstream to mainstream, banks that are late bloomers are rushing to reach competitive parity, while trailblazers focus on exploiting the channel to deliver...

ForecastView Spreadsheet
Adoption of mobile banking by individual mobile users. The forecast segments the addressable market and reports for mobile bankers by generation (age), phone type, access type (SMS, mobile site,...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes historical...
A Look Inside The Voice Of The Customer Programs At Barclaycard US, Cisco, And Vanguard
This year, Forrester recognized three winners of its fourth annual Voice Of The Customer Awards: Barclaycard US, Cisco Systems, and The Vanguard Group. Each of the winning voice of the customer (VoC)...

The Mobile Banking Imperative
This report, written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, is also relevant to CIOs and other IT leaders. CIOs at every bank face major changes as consumers move their banking activities...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in January 2013 of 1,051 affluent US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 1,051), there is 95%...
Policy And Procedures US Government Spotlight: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook
US federal law, specifically the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), requires US federal government agencies to adhere to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Adoption of online banking by individual adults in the EU-7 countries of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and UK. The forecast reports the addressable market and...
Global Banking Platform Deals 2012 — Regions
Forrester surveyed 29 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2012 deals. Our analysis of these deals by region reveals that growth ranged widely — from slight shrinkage to...