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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.
Capability Assessment: The Services Sourcing Playbook
Internal IT requirements and the market for external services are in a state of constant evolution. Linking the needs of a unique and complex IT environment with external market offerings has been a...
Outsourcing customers are eager to benefit from advances in flexibility and cost effectiveness made possible by cloud capabilities, and suppliers of outsourcing services are eager to deliver them....
IBM And Accenture Lead A Highly Competitive Field In A Mature Industry
In Forrester's 38-criteria evaluation of 12 leading providers of applications outsourcing (AO) solutions vendors, Forrester found that in this mature market IBM and Accenture lead the pack due to...

IT infrastructure outsourcing (ITO) customers in North America enjoy a growing range of alternatives for services, encompassing a variety of categories including traditional outsourcers,...

Benchmarks: The Services Sourcing Playbook
There are almost as many ways to measure service providers as there are service providers themselves. But more is not necessarily better when measuring service partners — as the more that you...
Preparing To Reorganize Work Is Key To The Effort
Many customers that are seeking the next threshold of value are interested in gaining the benefits of managed outcome relationships but are still struggling to execute the transition. Why?...
IBM Leads A Closely Packed Group Of Suppliers
In Forrester's 36-criteria evaluation of global IT infrastructure management vendors, we found that IBM leads a closely packed group of leaders including HCL, Capgemini, Wipro, Infosys, TCS,...

Performance Management: The Services Sourcing Playbook
Performance management is one of the most essential aspects of services governance, yet also one of the most challenging. It consists essentially of tracking vendor performance against established...

Testing-As-A-Service Doesn't Necessarily Mean The Cloud — At Least Not Yet
Sourcing professionals are moving away from their historic emphasis on staff augmentation in testing engagements toward increasing focus on more predictable outcomes and consumption-based pricing....
A Review Of ITO Trends In Four Important Asia Pacific Markets
Asia Pacific represents the fastest-growing, yet underdeveloped geographic segment of the global infrastructure management services (IMS) market. Over the next five years, market watchers will see...
When selecting suppliers during the request for proposals (RFP) process, evaluating the suppliers' tangibles is normally the easier part of the process. Quantifiable information such as financial...

In Forrester's 50-criteria evaluation of 15 leading providers of applications outsourcing (AO) solution vendors, Forrester found that in this maturing market, Accenture and IBM lead the pack, with a...
Managed Hosting Remains A Viable Alternative Or Complement To The Cloud
If you've been reading the press, you could be forgiven for assuming that enterprise-class managed hosting would have transitioned entirely to the cloud by now. Yet the pace of managed hosting's...

Interest in managed service models and outcome-driven engagements continues to be a significant priority for buyers of IT services. A primary driver for the transition from traditional sourcing...
Although still in its earliest phases, the transition to cloud computing is having a measurable impact on IT services spending as outsourcing customers transition from IT spending on traditional IT...
When asked about their fundamental approach to sourcing, most services customers still say they embrace a "selective outsourcing" philosophy, one that involves multiple providers. To make these...

Clients Find Value In Multisourcing Efforts Despite Challenges
Although multisourcing programs encounter the same frustrations as single-sourcing environments, clients believe that their multisourcing efforts are bearing fruit, particularly in the areas of...
Avoid Frustration By Changing Your Expectations For Cloud Providers
Forrester clients are often anxious to access the rapid provisioning and flexibility promised by providers of cloud technologies, but they too often languish in lengthy legal- and...

The body of contract best practices changes little in terms of specific terms available for governing outsourcing transactions, but their relative importance can shift in response to both ongoing and...
Ongoing Management: The Services Sourcing Playbook
The market for IT services is evolving rapidly, and the tactics that sourcing and vendor management professionals use to select, negotiate, and manage supplier relationships must evolve with it. The...

Emerging Options Spawn Interest — But The Landscape Is Still Forming
SAP consumes millions of dollars in implementation spend and millions more in ongoing support and operations for many organization's IT budgets. Now, newer cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS)...
Clients are moving to cloud for more and more mission-critical areas of their business: CRM, HR, collaboration, even IT applications and ERP. But for many organizations, cloud sourcing and cloud...

The Diversity Of Solutions Poses New Challenges For SVM Professionals
Anxious to take advantage of the rapid growth rates associated with cloud services, technology services vendors have developed a host of new solutions. These include pure infrastructure-as-a-service...

Business Impact: The Services Sourcing Playbook
Linking IT services engagements, including outsourcing relationships, directly to any type of business value other than cost savings remains a challenge. However, it is a challenge sourcing and...

Evaluating Leading Providers Amidst A Category Redefinition
Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...
