Clay RichardsonSenior Analyst
Business Process Management, Business Process Management Suites, Business Process Methodologies, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Optimization, Optimize the business by bringing insights and predictive analytics to business processes, Packaged Applications, Workflow
Clay serves Business Process & Applications professionals and is a leading expert on on business process management software, services, and methodologies. Clay delivers strategic guidance to Business Process & Applications professionals seeking to improve collaborative and operational business processes. Clay specifically helps enterprises establish BPM strategies, governance standards, and BPM centers of excellence; identify Agile and Lean methodologies best suited for BPM projects; and establish vendors and technologies that help automate and optimize mission-critical business processes.
Clay comes to Forrester with many years of experience in business process improvement projects, BPM platforms and solutions selection, systems analysis and design, and project management for enterprise software implementations. Clay has led projects to successfully deploy BPM solutions for government and commercial organizations around the world and has specialized in helping create BPM Centers of Excellence.
Most recently, Clay served as BPM practice leader at Project Performance Corporation, a system integrator based in Washington, D.C., where he launched and managed the company's business process management practice. Prior to that, Clay directed a team of 30 consultants, trainers, and support engineers in delivery and support of BPM solutions, as the director of professional services at HandySoft Global Corporation, a pure-play BPM vendor.
Clay is active with several BPM industry associations, including the Workflow Management Coalition, where he served as founder and co-chair of the organization's Public Sector chapter.
Clay earned a B.S. in computer science from The University of South Carolina and a BPM Professional Certificate from Boston University.
What IBM-Lombardi Means To Application Development Professionals February 09, 2010 BookmarkPDF
Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative September 29, 2009 (Rating: 9) BookmarkPDF
Warning: Don't Assume Your Business Processes Use Master Data September 21, 2009 (Rating: 9) BookmarkPDF
Economic Forces Drive Lean BPM Trends And Adoption September 18, 2009
The Importance Of Matching BPM Tools To The Process September 04, 2009 BookmarkPDF
Clay is an avid golfer who also loves travel and politics.
