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Kate serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. She is a leading expert on customer service strategies. Her research focuses on helping organizations establish and validate customer service strategies, prioritize and focus customer service projects, facilitate customer service vendor selection, and plan for project success.
Kate has extensive industry experience, with more than 10 years of leadership at customer service software companies, where she held senior product marketing and product management roles. She is also a published author on customer service trends and best practices.
Kate earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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...

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...

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...


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...

Providers Driving Workplace Services In EMEA
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...

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...
