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Matthew is a vice president and practice leader serving CIOs and IT leadership teams for Forrester. With more than 18 years of professional experience in enterprise IT, interactive marketing, and technology markets, Matthew leads a team of analysts, researchers, advisors, and consultants focused on business technology strategy. He also advises clients in a wide variety of industries around the globe on IT's role in innovation, IT organization, strategic planning, and workplace technologies.
One of Matthew's primary research objectives is to help clients overcome the people, process, and technology challenges in IT investments. His most recent research looks at the needs, attitudes, and behaviors of a changing workforce to understand how technology affects employee engagement and overall workplace experience. He also focuses on how companies achieve business outcomes using mobile technologies, knowledge management practices, and tools such as enterprise portals, social technologies, expertise networks, collaboration tools, and related software.
Considered an authority on workplace technologies, Matthew's research has been cited in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous industry and trade publications. Matthew also frequently presents his research at major industry events and conferences.
Prior to joining Forrester, Matthew held a leadership position for more than five years in global management consulting firm McKinsey and Company's knowledge services operating group. In this role, Matthew led change management and global technology programs involving communities of practice, enterprise search, document management, enterprise portal, and expertise location services. Prior to McKinsey, Matthew cofounded and served as vice president of operations for an eCommerce startup based in Austin, Texas. Further professional experience includes six years of consulting and project management at interactive services firms — serving clients Canon USA, Dell, IBM, PCOrder, Trilogy, and Tivoli on commercial and public-sector applications.
Matthew graduated magna cum laude from the Babson College M.B.A. program with a focus on entrepreneurship and high-tech marketing strategy. Matthew has his B.A. in English and studio arts from Colgate University.
Future Look: The Cloud Computing Playbook
The cloud landscape is shifting to cover a broader range of enterprise needs. Why? Cloud is curing the lack of responsiveness and economic flexibility that ails on-premises IT. Look for the popular...

Executive Overview: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders of front-office, web, mobile, and digital development must step up to...

Developers are driving cloud computing in new directions and toward deeper enterprise adoption. We see a new pragmatism in our research: Developers favoring collections of cloud-based...
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Highly Integrated With A Risk Of Lock-In
Microsoft looks to strike three very familiar chords with the release of Office 2013: mobile, social, and cloud. Each has become table stakes for enterprise software, and in order for Microsoft to...

The Emerging Windows Platform Expands On The .NET Framework
One Microsoft platform era is ending and another is beginning. The .NET era as we've known it is winding down. .NET doesn't go away — it becomes Microsoft's preferred server environment for a...

Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms In 2013
The market for business rules technologies is healthy, but the standalone platform segment is growing more slowly than it should. Most enterprises should use standalone business rules platforms to...

Jeffrey S. Hammond and I wrote this research together. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. One Microsoft platform era is ending, and another is beginning. The .NET era as...
James Staten and I wrote this vision of the future of cloud computing. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook to advise...
Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition
Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

Rob Koplowitz and I collaborated on this research. Forrester clients can access the full report here. The research uses data from Forrester’s August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey...
Forrester clients can access the full report here. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook (warning: pay wall) to advise application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders on...
Grant me a "crabby old guy" rant on big data. I continually hear people in our industry using the term big data as a product-category name -- and confusing everyone about the business value of big...
Vision: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Today's rush to reach customers on their smartphones and tablets is just the beginning of an explosion of software-fueled digital touchpoints. Smartphones, tablets, eReaders, games, smart TV, goggles...

Stephen Powers and I wrote this research together. The full report is available to Forrester clients at this link. The research is part of Forrester’s playbook to advise application...
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...
This PowerPoint deck presents the data gathered from Forrester’s Q3 2012 Global Cloud Developer Online Survey. The survey fielded 106 responses; 56% from North America; 25% from Western...

Strategic Plan: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Digital customer experience is the next big opportunity for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Business leaders responsible for marketing, sales, and support need advice and...

Forrester analysts Stephen Powers, Ron Rogowski, and I collaborated on this research. Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and...