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In his role as research director, Mr. Burris helps set the overall CIO role research agenda at Forrester, craft effective CIO research with our senior Forrester analysts, and ensure overall CIO research quality. His research team focuses on the evolving relationship between CIOs and CMOs, best practices in building and instituting an IT/BT strategy, BT innovation approaches to accelerate business outcomes, and social business and collaboration strategies.
His personal research includes the role of IT/BT in the age of the customer. He also contributes to the Forrester's research on social business, specifically focusing on the functional evolution of social computing tool sets and how they will be applied to conduct complex, marketing-facing work. Finally, he is a leading thinker on IT/BT adoption in business.
Mr. Burris joined Forrester in 2008. Prior to Forrester, he held numerous senior IT, marketing, and analyst jobs at leading organizations, including the DoD, HP, and Meta Group. At Meta Group, he jointly ran research, developing the advanced and broadly adopted "adaptive infrastructure" method for implementing plastic, services-based IT infrastructure.
Peter attended Yale University.

Enterprise Mobility Taxes IT And Highlights The Need To Define A Strategy
During the 18-month period from 2010 through the first half of 2011, Forrester responded to 235 client inquiries from IT sourcing and vendor management (SVM) and infrastructure and operations (I&O)...
How are retailers and other companies getting their telecom service provider to help prevent telephone cramming?
Tools And Technology: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Telecom and mobility services contracting challenges proliferate as distributed user firms implement advanced communications technologies like unified communications (UC) and telepresence that are...
Hosters And Tech Vendors Are Drafting Amazon's Slipstream
The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud business, with its high margins, is a strong attractant to a slew of provider channels. But customers view different provider types differently in terms...
Several forces are slowly transforming the stable but growing market for IT infrastructure services in Europe, including the rising profile of offshore suppliers, maturing global delivery,...
Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

The primary objective of this document is to provide a comprehensive background of Australia and New Zealand data center market dynamics. It provides an end user perspective to enable vendor...
Cloud Represents An Opportunity, But Not A Salvation, For Telcos
Without a robust communications layer, the concept of cloud computing is a nonstarter. All three dominant flavors of cloud computing — infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), software-as-a-service...
Utility IT Professionals Must Deploy Smart Grid IT To Enable A Smarter Grid
The smart grid market is ramping up quickly. This market will reach tens of billions of dollars in the next three years. The top three areas of investment are generation and distribution, customer...

Outreach: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
Large multinational corporations (MNCs) recognize the need to define a global communications technology vision for the next three to five years to ensure competitiveness and sustainable business...
Traditional IT providers are facing significant potential disruptions to their core businesses, including traditional on-premises enterprise applications vendors and potentially even incumbent IT...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2011 of 4,524 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,524), there is 95% confidence that...
This report provides a comprehensive background of India's data center market dynamics from the end user perspective so vendor strategists can address market opportunities more successfully and...
More Innovation Is Needed, But Fundamental Connectivity Remains A Valuable Service
Product strategists in various industries tend to dismiss telcos' role in service innovation, focusing instead on disruptors such as Google and Apple. It is true that new entrants and over-the-top...
Executive buyers respond well to clear, personalized, easily scannable emails as a way to raise their interest in taking a meeting. The things that motivate executives to take a meeting fall into two...
Forrsights North America And Europe
Forrester surveyed 933 technology decision-makers and approximately 2,500 developers at North American and European enterprises and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to understand the state of...