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Based in Sydney, Australia, Tim serves CIOs. He helps clients better manage their IT departments and ensure IT is delivering the solutions required by the business. His research focuses on the key IT challenges for CIOs and IT departments in Asia Pacific, as well as providing insights into the technologies that will deliver significant business value over the next few years. He also assists clients with the design of IT organizations, IT governance and processes, and IT/business alignment.
Tim also works with members of The CIO Group in the Forrester Leadership Boards in Asia Pacific. In this role, he writes CIO-targeted research, answers or facilitates answers for individual members' business and technology inquiries, and facilitates CIO Group member exchanges and peer-to-peer discussions.
Tim comes to Forrester with more than 10 years of IT analyst experience with ICT vendors and IT research providers. Most recently, he was the research director of IT solutions at IDC in Australia, where he assisted IT vendors in designing solutions to better fit market requirements and assisted user clients with their strategies to improve the effectiveness of their IT functions. In this role, he developed a reputation as a respected and sought-after industry analyst and an entertaining and informative public speaker on many of the key trends in the IT market.
Prior to this role, Tim worked with Hutchison 3G as an analyst, helping to launch and optimize its direct sales channels and developing strategies to increase the use of non-voice products on the high-speed 3G network. He also spent a number of years working as an independent ICT analyst. In addition, he worked for IDC in the UK, managing its European Wireless & Mobile Communications research program.
Tim is a highly regarded industry speaker, presenting regularly to CIOs and senior IT and business audiences at IT conferences in Asia Pacific and across the globe.
Tim holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and research from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Businesses in Asia Pacific are looking forward to 2011 with renewed vigor and enthusiasm. Forrester's recent Forrsights survey looks at IT budgets and priorities and highlights how CIOs across...
It's Time To Review Your Asia Pacific Strategy
The Asian IT market is set for considerable growth over the next few years as the fast-growth economies move on from the financial crisis and return to high gross domestic product (GDP) growth mode....
CIOs Should Step Cautiously — Not All Segments Are Market-Ready
CIOs in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) are beginning to examine the impact cloud can have on their businesses. This is the first step in broad market adoption of cloud computing. Before they make...
In mid-2010, Forrester surveyed 598 CIOs and other senior IT managers across Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and New Zealand on their current cloud implementations and their plans for and...
CIOs Drive IT Efficiency To Free Up Resources For Business Priorities
CIOs across Australia and New Zealand are emerging from the global financial crisis with a renewed vigor to ensure they effectively meet the needs of the rest of the business. However, their keen...
The Internet and the mobile Internet have effectively combined — driven by the improvement in networks, devices, and operating systems. This means that we no longer have to consider mobility a...
Cloud computing is coming to your organization — if it is not there already. However, most IT organizations in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) do not have a full understanding of the impact...
The Asia Pacific (AP) region is one of many complexities for regional firms and for those entering the market from outside the region. Understanding language requirements is one of the many...
Knowing when to use the best pricing model for your IT consulting and systems integration projects can be difficult to determine. This tool helps you better select the appropriate pricing model based...
Introducing A Tool To Help Simplify The Selection Process
Sourcing executives trying to strengthen their relationships with business and IT users can do so by helping the users understand not just scope but the financial implications of their choices. One...
But Much Can Be Learned From Best Practices In North America And Europe
While there is a clear trend toward Green IT sourcing and practice within the Australian and New Zealand economies, these firms lag their North American and European peers in their levels of interest...
Despite A Resilient Economy, IT Spending Plans Remain Conservative
Since the credit crunch began to bite, Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) IT leaders have faced more positive market conditions than their peers in many other countries around the world —...
Benchmarking Your Practice Against Your Global Peers
With the tightening of IT budgets in the Australian federal government due to the review of IT operations by Sir Peter Gershon, the considerable consolidation of public sector agencies at the state...
Australia's Department Of Defence Lays The Groundwork For A New Sourcing Strategy
For many IT sourcing customers, the arguments and potential legal battles concerning what is in scope and what is not — both for project work and managed services engagements — are...
Project Work Is Down But Has Growth Potential; IT Outsourcing Is Just Weak
The IT services market is behaving peculiarly in this tech downturn. While project-based IT consulting and systems integration work is now falling, it: 1) held up remarkably well until Q4 2008; 2) is...
A Two-Speed IT Economy Is Emerging
IT budgets in the Asia Pacific region are hardly immune to the economic downturn — even in those economies witnessing growth, the IT spend is down. From January to March 2009, Forrester...
Managing The Balance Between Cost Cutting And Business Priorities
With IT departments really feeling the pinch in 2009, there is considerable pressure on CIOs to make a concerted effort to cut costs while at the same time delivering the essential capabilities that...
Many IT projects these days require service-oriented architecture (SOA) skills — however, SOA is one area where internal skills can be very thin on the ground. Therefore, it is often necessary...
IBM, CSC, And Wipro Lead, With THBS And Accenture Close Behind
In Forrester's 62-criteria evaluation of EMEA service-oriented architecture (SOA) systems integrators, we found that IBM Global Services (IBM), CSC, and Wipro lead the pack because of their broad and...
IBM And Infosys Lead The Pack, With Wipro Close Behind
In Forrester's 62-criteria evaluation of North American service-oriented architecture (SOA) systems integrators, we found that IBM Global Services (IBM) and Infosys led the pack because of their...
The move toward IT offshoring is already popular within the finance sector in Australia — particularly in the banking sector. Some firms have moved IT roles offshore to their own captive...
As enterprise appetite for IT project work slows down, systems integrators and IT consultants are trimming staff and reining in growth plans to ensure continued profitability. This might affect their...
The large drop of the Australian dollar against most currencies around the world has effectively increased the price of any IT solution sourced from outside of the country. On that basis, many IT...
Understanding The Complexities Of The Region
IT budgets vary considerably across Asia Pacific countries — driven by diverse levels of IT maturity, large differences in the cost of human resources, and the availability of lower-cost...
This data chart examines the latest vendor management data from our Enterprise IT Services Survey, North America And Europe, Q2 2008 as it pertains to the public sector.