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Sharyn Leaver

Sharyn Leaver
Vice President, Practice Leader - Enterprise Architecture

Research Coverage

Business Process Management, Enterprise Resource Planning Applications, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Packaged Applications, Retail, Sales, Marketing, & Product Strategy, Supply Chain Management

Research Focus

Sharyn serves CIOs. She leads Forrester's research into IT leadership, with a focus on the emerging world of business technology (BT). Sharyn delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises identify best practices and identify vendors and technologies that help drive business success. Her current research agenda includes enterprise application strategies as well as IT planning processes and technologies. She also maintains a research interest in business process management (BPM); RFID; and other emerging technologies in consumer-driven and manufacturing industries like life sciences, healthcare, and consumer products. In addition, Sharyn was a key contributor to the development of the Forrester Wave™ methodology to help clients accurately assess key vendors in a given technology-focused market.

Previous Work Experience

Before joining Forrester, Sharyn spent several years as a consultant and project manager for Clarkston Consulting, a full-service professional services firm. She was responsible for the delivery of vendor selection and implementation projects involving SAP and other ERP applications, integration technology, and enterprise portals.

Education

Sharyn holds a B.S. in computer information systems technology from Purdue University.

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Recent Media Citations
Bloomberg Businessweek, "Intel's Bryant Brings Business to Changing Role of CIO," October 3, 2011
Forbes, "CIO & CMO: Driving Business Value in the Age of the Customer," September 16, 2011
SearchCIO-Midmarket, "The IT Roles Needed For The IT Organization Of The Future," June 15, 2011
Computerworld UK, "Forrester: Don't Wait for the Business to Set Its Strategy," June 8, 2011
Computerworld, "Volkswagen Aims For 'Rolling Computer,'" May 26, 2011
CIO, "IT-Business Alignment A Thing Of The Past," May 1, 2011