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Stephen serves Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. He has 22 years of experience across a number of IT service management, finance, and consulting roles. He holds an accounting qualification (CIMA) as well as the information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) foundation and manager qualifications. At Forrester, his research focuses on service management strategy, adoption, and implementation, as well as the enabling technologies. In particular, Stephen helps IT leaders and their teams understand the business value of service management, develop their strategy, evaluate and select vendor tools, and implement service management processes such as those espoused by ITIL. Additionally, Stephen focuses on the organizational aspects of service management and its relationship to broader IT trends such as cloud computing.
In addition to IT management-related research, Stephen has experience across a broad range of IT service delivery and finance roles, including IT service management, ITSM consultancy, IT asset management, innovation/creativity facilitation, IT research, project management, finance consultancy, and internal audit.
Stephen has a B.A. degree in accounting and financial management and mathematics. He is also a qualified accountant (CIMA) and holds ITIL foundation and manager qualifications.
Road Map: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their road map of service management and automation processes (SMA) using Forrester's...

Executive Overview: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
Your business cares about outcomes, not technologies. Thus, it isn't enough to empower your developers and workers with the latest cloud, mobile, and analytics technologies. You must also invest in...

ITIL is now in many ways bigger than its "master" — IT service management. From its origins in the UK government, its use has grown rapidly in the last decade and ITIL continues to dominate...

Performance Management: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals to develop effective objectives and metrics for their service management and automation (SMA)...

Evaluate The Core And Differentiating Capabilities In An Increasingly Crowded Marketplace
The practice of IT service management (ITSM) is widely adopted by IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) organizations around the globe to help deliver technology services better, faster, and...

Assessment Framework: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report introduces Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to assess the maturity of their service management and automation (SMA) program. This is important,...
Business Impact: The Service Management And Automation Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders understand the business and IT impact of service management and automation (SMA). Building the...

Forrester's Service Management And Automation Assessment Framework consists of four SMA domains (oversight, technology, process, and people) and 26 SMA functions. This abbreviated version of the...
Despite A Growing Need For SAM, Capabilities Are Still Adrift From Business Need
The costs and risks associated with software purchases and use are a corporate concern. As a result, enterprises consider software asset management (SAM) capabilities as a "must-have" rather than a...
Good Practices When Migrating To An SaaS-Delivered ITSM Solution
How do you successfully move IT service management (ITSM) tool enablement from an on-premises model to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model? A North American brand communications agency found itself...
This template is intended to provide a starting point for thinking about sections to include in an RFP for software asset management (SAM) solutions. This template should be viewed as an...