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Alexander Peters, Ph.D.

Alexander Peters, Ph.D.
Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, IT Management, IT Organization, IT Strategic Planning, IT Strategy, Planning, & Governance, Organizational Design & Change Management, Sourcing & Procurement, Sourcing Strategy & Execution

Research Focus

Alex serves CIO professionals. He is a leading expert on IT executives' challenges, such as the development of IT strategies, enterprise architectures, governance and process frameworks, the consolidation and streamlining of IT, change management and communications strategies, sourcing strategies, and business technology trends and directions.

Previous Work Experience

Before joining Forrester in 2005, Alex developed the infrastructure consolidation program and managed the data center of a large European automotive company. Previously, he spent 10 years at IBM and EDS as an executive senior consultant and led several international customer projects in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, IT shared services, sourcing, organizational change, process, and technology management. Alex also worked five years as a research scientist in the area of high-performance computing at the IBM Scientific Center Heidelberg, publishing in refereed journals and co-editing three proceeding books.

Education

Alex received a master's degree in engineering from the Civil Engineering Institute in Bucharest, Romania and a Ph.D. in engineering from the Technical University Aachen, Germany. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from Princeton University.

Latest Research

Planned Research

The Structure Of The Service-Oriented Organization July 2009
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