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Bill serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He is a leading expert on customer relationship management (CRM). His research focuses on helping organizations establish and validate CRM strategies, prioritize and focus CRM projects, build executive consensus, facilitate CRM vendor selection, and plan for project success.
Bill is the author of two books on customer-driven business strategies: Creating Value for Customers: Designing and Implementing a Total Corporate Strategy and Touchstones: Ten New Ideas Revolutionizing Business. He was named one of CRM Magazine's 2007 Influential Leaders, which recognizes the foremost thinkers, visionaries, and achievers in the industry.
Bill has extensive industry experience, with more than 25 years of leadership in several management consulting and systems integration firms. He was a managing director of CRM strategy with BearingPoint. Earlier in his career, he was a partner with both Accenture and Coopers & Lybrand Consulting.
An accomplished public speaker, Bill also has delivered speeches at many events, including Forrester's Consumer Forum, Marketing Forum, and Business Technology Forum.
Bill earned an MBA with Dean's List honors in marketing from the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario.
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This report is the executive overview of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals looking to implement customer relationship management (CRM) strategies...

This report, originally written for CIOs, includes content relevant to application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. With Oracle's strong footprint in the enterprise business apps m...

Oracle faces a strategic dilemma, and how it responds to this dilemma will present the CIOs at its clients with some tough choices. Oracle Fusion Applications — Oracle's new generation of ...

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Forrester's customer relationship management (CRM) research helps business process professionals embrace best practices — from process optimization to technology implementation — to ...
Forrester's customer relationship management (CRM) research helps CRM professionals embrace best practices — from process optimization to technology implementation — to improve the c...
Forrester evaluated leading enterprise CRM suite solutions against 516 criteria and found that with the latest releases of their solutions, Oracle's Siebel and SAP maintain their status as Leade...
Forrester evaluated 18 leading customer relationship management (CRM) suite solutions against 516 criteria reflecting the requirements of large organizations. We found that heavyweight Leaders O...
As the economy recovers, what are the key trends that will drive customer relationship management (CRM) strategies and technology adoption in 2010? Business and IT professionals who support cust...
This report discusses a timeline and associated roadmap for rolling out its CRM strategy, including what key aspects of the strategy to tackle first, timeline, and milestones.
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