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Sharyn Leaver

Vice President, Practice Leader - Enterprise Architecture serving Enterprise Architecture PROFESSIONALS

Blog: Enterprise Architecture Blog

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 such as 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.

Research Coverage:

Business Process Management, Enterprise Resource Planning Applications (ERP), Packaged Applications, Supply Chain Management, Technology Product Strategies

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Sharyn Leaver
IT Management

For CIO Professionals
Report:Tools For IT Planning
Sharyn LeaverMarch 23, 2009
Strategic planning is more difficult than ever. Today's volatile economic environment means that IT must plan quickly, more flexibly, and more thoroughly. Plans that don't follow this path quickly...
- Downloads: 1537
For CIO Professionals
Report:Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?
Tim DeGennaro, Sharyn LeaverMay 17, 2010
CIOs are constantly working to run IT like a business — focusing on business orientation through capabilities like IT planning, portfolio management, and IT investment optimization. A myriad of...
- Downloads: 966
For CIO Professionals
Report:Two Texas Healthcare CIOs — Driven To Innovate
Texas Health And CHRISTUS Health Both Have Entrepreneurial Execs
Sharyn LeaverJuly 15, 2009
It's an exciting time to be a healthcare CIO. Technology advancements, healthcare consumerism, and government funding have created a perfect storm of opportunity for innovation. Forrester recently...
- Downloads: 550
For CIO Professionals
Report:CIOs: Use TEI To Unearth IT Investment "Options"
Sharyn LeaverSeptember 21, 2009
As firms look to squeeze value from technology, IT executives' ability to understand, quantify, and communicate the flexibility options of an IT investment becomes vital for business health....
- Downloads: 533
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Report:CIOs: Consider Apps Support Alternatives For Cost Savings
Third-Party Apps Maintenance Is A Viable Option — Particularly In Tough Times
Sharyn LeaverMarch 26, 2009
Paying in advance for rarely used upgrades of applications like enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other software makes little sense in today's economic environment. Representing one-third of...
- Downloads: 356
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Report:CIOs: The Web's Golden Age Is Ending
Sharyn LeaverFebruary 10, 2011
As CIOs continue to evaluate business technology and plan for future investments, it is essential to accept the fact that the golden age of the Internet is ending. In the past decade, nearly all...
- Downloads: 426
For Enterprise Architecture Professionals
Report:Business Process And Applications Pros Should Embrace Informal Learning Methods
Sharyn LeaverFebruary 09, 2009
Continuously building knowledge is critical to improving the quality of your workforce, which is necessary now more than ever. But uncertain economic times mean human resources (HR) professionals...
- Downloads: 306
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Report:Priorities Shift As Business' Grip On Technology Tightens
CIOs Can Drive Better Tech Decisions — Even When Business Is Making Them
Bobby Cameron, Sharyn LeaverJuly 17, 2009
In Q4 2008, Forrester surveyed 1,104 IT decision-makers to find out how they set their budgets and allocated funds to different software types and initiatives. As part of this study, Forrester asked...
- Downloads: 284
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Report:Business Process And Apps Economic Downturn Insights
Sharyn Leaver, Elisse GaynorJanuary 22, 2009
Data highlights from Forrester¿s November 2008 Global Economic Downturn Insights Online Survey.

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Report:Tools For IT Planning

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Report:Do CIOs Care About IT Management Tools?

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Report:Two Texas Healthcare CIOs — Driven To Innovate

For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: Use TEI To Unearth IT Investment "Options"

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Report:CIOs: Consider Apps Support Alternatives For Cost Savings

For CIO Professionals

Report:CIOs: The Web's Golden Age Is Ending

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Report:Business Process And Applications Pros Should Embrace Informal Learning Methods

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Report:Priorities Shift As Business' Grip On Technology Tightens

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Business Process And Apps Economic Downturn Insights

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