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Nigel serves CIOs and business technology leaders, focusing on the role of technology as an enabler of business outcomes. His research focuses on the intersection of technology and marketing and includes coverage of business and technology strategy, digital business, social business strategy, marketing technology, and technology trends and their impact on competitive advantage.
Ever since becoming an executive director and CIO at Reebok UK at the age of 26, Nigel has consistently led many technology industry trends: He was the first CIO to partner with Infosys to pioneer the offshore development model; he was the first CIO to introduce a marketing role to IT; and he was an early advocate of the business relationship management role that is now so critical to many IT organizations. Nigel went on to a successful career in retail technology marketing with Radius Retail and Transatlantic Software before becoming an entrepreneur, starting up an eCommerce research publishing business and a GPS fleet management software business. He joined Forrester as the general manager of the IT Leadership Boards business in 2006, growing the business more than 300% in three years. Having spent equal time over his career in IT, marketing, and general management, Nigel now brings a unique business technology perspective to his research at Forrester.
Since becoming an analyst, Nigel's leading-edge research has focused on business at the intersection of IT and marketing. Recognized as a visionary with insight into emerging trends, Nigel has published research on social business strategy, business technology strategy, innovation, retail, and marketing. His latest research on digital business examines the role of technology in delivering outstanding customer experience.
Nigel holds a B.A. (hons) in computing in business from the University of Huddersfield and an M.B.A. with concentrations in marketing and international business from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick.
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Forrester's survey data shows that both business and information architecture practices are currently far less mature than enterprise architecture (EA) teams' technology and application architecture...
Road Map: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
One of the most difficult aspects of an information architecture (IA) practice is engaging stakeholders to buy into your strategy and contribute to your architecture development. The architect's best...
Road maps have proven to be enterprise architects' most effective communication and planning artifacts. They are summarized planning documents with an implementation timeline, enabling the analysis...
Tech-Empowered Staff Members Innovate While Enterprise Technology Manages The Risk
Your employees — like your customers — have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources....
In a month or so I’ll be launching a survey to research issues around information strategy, information architecture and information management in general. I thought it might be useful to do a...
Today’s organizations must manage the explosive growth of all types of information while addressing greater-than-ever business demand for insights into customer needs and the business...
In reference to Forrester's June 22, 2010, "Software Is Strategic, SIs Tactica" report, can you share more insights regarding systems integrators? The tactical part is not necessarily what we want to...
A logistics company had grown through acquisition, and due to a narrow enterprise architecture (EA) focus, weak governance, and troublesome politics, its former EA practice was largely ineffective....
Please recommend the top two or three reference manuals or books on the subject of enterprise architecture (EA) for an information technology group to use as a team study guide. The purpose of the...
Only a few weeks to go before Forrester’s US EA Forum 2011 in San Francisco in February! I’ll be presenting a number of sessions, including the opening kickoff, where I’ll...
In Forrester's October 14, 2010, "The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013" report, we understood how to look at Figure 1 (Tailor Your Organization's New Tech Road Map), but we'd...
Executive Overview: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...
Strategic Plan: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A new era of information agility is upon us that promises an explosion of opportunities similar to that of the dot-com boom period. But these opportunities are completely dependent upon an...

Business Case: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Business cases to fund information management capabilities traditionally characterize information problems in ways that elicit little more than yawns from business executives. Data redundancy and...

Tools And Technology: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
Enterprise architects carry the heavy responsibility of planning for elaborate implementations of complex technology. They must weigh the implications of the plans for all of the related architecture...

Future Look: The EA Practice Playbook
This report outlines the future look of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) professionals building a high-performance EA practice. It will help you understand the future of EA in...

Five Artifacts Underpin An Effective Program
Architects in any domain have no time to waste creating deliverables that wind up collecting dust on a shelf. Information architects, who have historically had a particularly difficult time engaging...
Please describe approaches to enterprise information management in terms of the following groups: laggards, middle-of-the-pack, early adopters, and government.
Smaller IT shops of fewer than 150 staff members have a hard time dedicating separate staff to strategic activity such as EA. But in any environment, goals and processes without owners are likely to...
It seems to be popular these days amongst industry pundits to recommend that organizations add a new Cxx role: the Chief Data Officer (CDO). The arguments in favor of this move are exactly what...