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Tim serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals. His research covers EA practice maturity, development, and evolution. In addition, his research includes IT planning and EA management software tools. He covers vendor offerings, adoption trends, and best practices. Tim’s research provides practical advice for EA leaders moving their practices toward a business-centered and strategic approach.
Prior to his current role, Tim was a researcher on the Enterprise Architecture team, where he interviewed and surveyed hundreds of EA leaders, technology vendors, and technology users while conducting primary and secondary research for research reports and consulting engagements. During this time, Tim studied and developed maturity models for Forrester's BT client group, most recently the Forrester Enterprise Architecture Maturity Model.
Tim earned his B.S. in business administration from Boston University's School of Management.
Baseline Spending Allocation Figures For Comparison
During this time of year, Forrester receives a large number of requests for information about IT budget allocations. As CIOs and their planning teams engage in creating next year's IT budget, it is...
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...
Use Our Self-Assessment To Accelerate Your BT Transformation
As CIOs help their firms succeed with business technology (BT) — pervasive technology use with increased direct control by the business — they struggle to answer two deceptively simple...
This assessment workbook is intended be used in conjunction with "Forrester's Best Practices Framework For BT Leadership Maturity." IT leaders can rate their organizations on a one to five maturity...
Recommendations From Customer Reference Interviews For The Forrester Wave™ Evaluation Of PPM Software
In accordance with the Forrester Wave product evaluation methodology, Forrester conducted more than 50 customer reference interviews with users from 14 project portfolio management (PPM) software...
A Tweet or any other status update, by design, is a small packet of information. When collected and put in a business context — particularly complex collaborative situations like IT project...
Despite reduced IT budgets, demand for IT services continues and in some cases accelerates as the business strives to use IT to cut its own costs. Organizations that simply roll with the punches with...
IT Trades Business Innovation For Cost-Reduction Focus
From September to November 2009, Forrester asked 2,165 North American and European IT software decision-makers for their plans and perceptions on software spending and trends in 2010. Amid...
Project portfolio management (PPM) software tools remain a popular method for automating the process of gathering, evaluating, managing, tracking, and reporting on IT's project investments, and...
Use this step-by-step assessment workbook to estimate the costs of implementing a SaaS-based project portfolio management software tool.
This self-assessment workbook will help IT leaders assess the current state of their BT portfolio management leadership maturity and will serve as a tool to guide the organization’s development...
Keep ARRA In Your PPM Purchasing And Expansion Plans
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed in February of 2009, has caught many state and local governments unprepared. With billions in available stimulus funds, these entities are...