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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 finance & insurance sector.
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 manufacturing sector.
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 business services sector.
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 utilities and telecommunications sectors.
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 retail and wholesale sectors.
Business Data Services: Asia Pacific
This Data Overview is a graphical analysis of Enterprise And SMB IT Budgets And Spending Survey, North America, Europe, And Asia Pacific, Q4 2007. It explores the 2008 enterprise IT budget outlook...
This data chart examines the latest Forrester data on SaaS usage in China from the Enterprise Technology Adoption Survey, Asia Pacific, Q4 2007 and the Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North...
China And ANZ Lead A Maturing Region
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) continues to show growth in Asia Pacific as many businesses fulfill their previous plans to move toward an SOA as they aim to enhance their IT agility, integrate...
The Finance And Public Sectors Consolidate, While Other Sectors Play Catch-Up
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) continues to show growth in Asia Pacific; many businesses are fulfilling their previous plans to move toward an SOA as they look to enhance their IT agility,...
Challenges Ahead For Non-English-Speaking Countries
Software-as-a-service (SaaS), a new model for software licensing and distribution, has created huge levels of hype as it wins market share and mindshare with IT and business buyers. However, many of...
Australia And New Zealand Lead The Adoption Curve; China Lags
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions are capturing the interest of many IT vendors around the world, partly due to the high services-to-software dollar ratio. Asia Pacific (AP) is no...
Public Sector And Finance Will Drive SOA Spend
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is capturing the imagination of many businesses in the Asia Pacific (AP) region as they look to enhance their IT agility, integrate with partners, and drive down...
Business Data Services Asia Pacific
This Data Overview is a graphical analysis of the Business Technographics® November 2006 Asia Pacific IT Budgets And Spending Survey. We look at the 2007 enterprise IT budget outlook for...
Business Technographics® Asia Pacific
Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) IT organizations will continue to drive the success of IT through stronger links to the business and better internal processes, such as the IT Infrastructure Library...