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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.
Trends 2010: Listening Platforms
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Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Locking in customer loyalty via deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead. But navigating the...


Twenty-Four Solutions For Delivering Differentiated Customer Experiences
Customers demand superior service and support as the price for their ongoing loyalty and patronage. To help you navigate the complex solution landscape to fill your customer interaction management...
Benchmarks: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
This report outlines the method for defining metrics as part Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer service metrics. This report...

The Forrester Wave™: Community Platforms, Q4 2010
Organizations strive to differentiate themselves by delivering an outstanding customer service experience. Community platforms allow customers to interact with peers to share information, solve...
What are some of the latest developments (or key trends) in utilizing customer information that is already available in company databases (such as product portfolio, household makeup, age,...
IBM Netezza, a provider of data warehouse and analytics appliances, needed to tame its knowledge problem. Knowledge resided in multiple sources: a customer call ticket system, a knowledge base,...
VMware, a provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions, needed a way to broaden the reach of its customer service web self-service site so that it could offer proactive as well as...
Woodmen of the World, a fraternal benefit society that provides insurance and investment products, was consolidating the operations of three divisions into one and needed a solid knowledge management...
Business Case: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Customer service is a cornerstone of a company's customer experience strategy. Delivering good customer service has quantifiable benefits measured in decreased operational costs, increased repurchase...

Assessment: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
This report describes the best practices assessment framework that underpins Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer service...

Vision: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
As organizations strive to succeed in the age of the customer, business and IT professionals responsible for customer service struggle to understand changing customer behavior, re-engineer end-to-end...

Tools And Technology: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Delivering a differentiated customer experience requires that you have the right technologies, business processes, and empowered organizational structures to support your organization's customer...

Business process professionals supporting customer service operations understand the need for data but do little to take responsibility for its quality. Data management professionals, on the other...

To help business process professionals supporting customer service make smart decisions and navigate the complex contact center technology landscape, Forrester surveyed 75 companies to understand the...

Use Knowledge To Power Personalized Customer Experiences
Customer service managers agree that the right knowledge, delivered at the right time in the service resolution process, is critical to a successful interaction. But they struggle to tame the volume...

How Novell Transformed Its Global Technical Support Operations
In the services industry, the ultimate goal is to increase customer satisfaction while lowering support costs with improved productivity. Unfortunately, introducing new tools for productivity gains...
Symantec, a provider of security, management, backup and recovery, data availability, and data loss prevention products, was considering novel ways to make relevant content available to its technical...
2011 Will Challenge The Status Quo Of eBusiness Online Customer Service
Organizations strive to differentiate themselves by delivering an outstanding customer service experience. However, customer expectations are rising dramatically. Customers today are increasingly...