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	Roy C. Wildeman Senior Analyst

Research Coverage

Application Development, Application Strategy & Selection, Automotive, Collaborative Product Development, Communication Service Provider Issues & Technologies, Energy & Utilities, Healthcare & Life Sciences, High-Tech, IT Management, IT Strategy, Planning, & Governance, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, Manufacturing, Order Management, Packaged Applications, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology, Portfolio Management & PMOs, Product Life-Cycle Management, Project Portfolio Management, Telecommunications Services, eBusiness/eCommerce, eCommerce Platforms & Technologies

Research Focus

Roy serves Business Process & Applications professionals. He focuses on the strategies, practices, and technologies that enable high-performance product development, manufacturing, and order fulfillment processes. His primary research areas include order management hubs, product configurators, and product life-cycle management (PLM) applications. As part of this coverage, he also participates in research on bringing product-centric roles, practices, processes, and behaviors to application development organizations.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to joining Forrester, Roy was a manager in Accenture's supply chain management practice, where he led operations strategy and improvement engagements for a variety of high-tech, industrial, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Prior to that, Roy was at Intel, where he conducted research on applying Lean manufacturing principles within a semiconductor production process.

Education

Roy has an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an S.M. in mechanical engineering from MIT. He also holds two bachelor's degrees in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College.

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