Bobby Cameron

Bobby Cameron

Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving CIO Professionals

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Bobby serves CIOs. He is a leading expert on best practices for IT, including: business technology (BT), the empowered BT archetype, transformation from IT to BT, BT demand management, driving business innovation, business alignment, the business value of IT, BT strategic planning, IT governance, IT structure, IT/BT maturity, the marketing of IT, architecture and technology strategy, application development, IT operations, and serving the business.

His specialty is transformative technology use that drives business success in the emerging world of business technology (BT), like IT value creation, technology-based business innovation, and digital business networks.

While Bobby focuses his research on delivering IT excellence on the road to BT, he continues his close work with members of The CIO Group in the Forrester Leadership Boards, which he conceived and piloted in 2002. In this role, he writes CIO-targeted research, answers individual members' business and technology inquiries, and facilitates CIO Group member exchange meetings where CIOs discuss member-selected topics.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to taking on this role, Bobby's research focused on technology leadership — the impact of technology and services on organizations, budgets, and roles. Bobby previously led Forrester's research on IT services and enterprisewide applications, such as ERP, supply chain, and customer management, that can make or break a company's business performance. Bobby has also directed Forrester's software strategies service. Bobby has led Forrester's research into the transformation of IT governance, measuring IT's success, eBusiness organizations, business growth through applications, harnessing computing chaos, and distributed information infrastructures. He is also a recognized expert in many Internet/intranet technologies and client/server software issues, including packaged applications, databases, middleware, application design, decision support, software development, and security.

Before joining Forrester, Bobby spent five years as director of product management at Dun and Bradstreet Software (DBS), with responsibility for that company's client/server directions, decision support products, and tools and technologies. Bobby came to DBS from Dataquest, the San Jose, Calif.-based market research firm, where he spent two years as associate director for Northeast Research, focusing on business applications and systems. Prior to Dataquest, he spent nine years at Chase Manhattan's electronic banking business in Lexington, Mass., connecting 8,000 treasurers with 100 bank back offices worldwide. While at Chase, Bobby was MIS director and director of product management.

Education

Bobby holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and an M.S. in economics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Bobby Cameron

Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving CIO Professionals

Read Bobby's blog posts

Bobby serves CIOs. He is a leading expert on best practices for IT, including: business technology (BT), the empowered BT archetype, transformation from IT to BT, BT demand management, driving business innovation, business alignment, the business value of IT, BT strategic planning, IT governance, IT structure, IT/BT maturity, the marketing of IT, architecture and technology strategy, application development, IT operations, and serving the business.

His specialty is transformative technology use that drives business success in the emerging world of business technology (BT), like IT value creation, technology-based business innovation, and digital business networks.

While Bobby focuses his research on delivering IT excellence on the road to BT, he continues his close work with members of The CIO Group in the Forrester Leadership Boards, which he conceived and piloted in 2002. In this role, he writes CIO-targeted research, answers individual members' business and technology inquiries, and facilitates CIO Group member exchange meetings where CIOs discuss member-selected topics.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to taking on this role, Bobby's research focused on technology leadership — the impact of technology and services on organizations, budgets, and roles. Bobby previously led Forrester's research on IT services and enterprisewide applications, such as ERP, supply chain, and customer management, that can make or break a company's business performance. Bobby has also directed Forrester's software strategies service. Bobby has led Forrester's research into the transformation of IT governance, measuring IT's success, eBusiness organizations, business growth through applications, harnessing computing chaos, and distributed information infrastructures. He is also a recognized expert in many Internet/intranet technologies and client/server software issues, including packaged applications, databases, middleware, application design, decision support, software development, and security.

Before joining Forrester, Bobby spent five years as director of product management at Dun and Bradstreet Software (DBS), with responsibility for that company's client/server directions, decision support products, and tools and technologies. Bobby came to DBS from Dataquest, the San Jose, Calif.-based market research firm, where he spent two years as associate director for Northeast Research, focusing on business applications and systems. Prior to Dataquest, he spent nine years at Chase Manhattan's electronic banking business in Lexington, Mass., connecting 8,000 treasurers with 100 bank back offices worldwide. While at Chase, Bobby was MIS director and director of product management.

Education

Bobby holds a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and an M.S. in economics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Research Coverage

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  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: Dare To Disrupt With Technology-Driven Innovation

    Lead With Technology To Create Explosive 4x Returns

    May 14, 2019 Brian Hopkins, Bobby Cameron, James Staten

    Most firms use traditional innovation methods to meet their business goals. As a result, they get non-differentiated offerings and average results. CIOs and other business leaders should read this report to see how advanced firms drive innovation with technology to change the game and dominate markets. In this report, we introduce the practice of technology-driven innovation. Learn how to do technology-driven innovation well, and you'll see two, three, or four times the growth of your competitors.

  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: Beyond Agility — Adaptive Enterprises Hold The Winning Hand

    Adaptive Enterprises Win At Customer Obsession, Growing Three Times Their Industries' Averages

    May 7, 2019 Brian Hopkins, Bobby Cameron

    Agile delivery and digital business no longer drive the competitive advantage they once did, making it difficult for firms to continue delivering on customer obsession. Symbiotic loops between technologies and people are forcing market changes at a pace most firms can't match with digital's reactive responses and agile's iterative delivery. CIOs and technology leaders should read this report to understand how adaptive enterprises establish market leadership by proactively reconfiguring their underlying business concepts — like core mission, value proposition, core competencies, markets, and end customers.

  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: Understand Four Key Factors To Define Your Future Adaptive Ops Model

    Poorly Designed IT Operating Models Are The Primary Cause Of Failed Business Transformations

    March 4, 2019 Gordon Barnett, Bobby Cameron

    The quest for customer obsession is arduous — littered with obstacles that impede progress. Those firms that have obtained the highest levels of customer obsession have done so by adopting a well-defined, adaptive operating model. Those that have struggled often have siloed or misaligned operating models. CIOs and C-suite executives should read this brief to understand how their firm's customer-obsessed, adaptive business operating model will help IT define its operating model.

  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: The State Of IT Maturity, 2018

    The Benchmark Report In The IT Transformation Playbook

    February 25, 2019Bobby Cameron

    Forrester surveyed nearly 10,000 global business and technology decision makers to better understand what mature technology leaders are doing to meet their firms' customer-obsessed business needs. Half of the respondents were IT leaders, and the other half were tech-focused business leaders. The results uncover areas where mature CIOs and other leaders are investing significantly more than others — as well as some capabilities where they aren't doing enough.

  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: Real-Time Is The Next Evolution In CX Success

    Build Real-Time Capabilities That Allow Your Business To Move At The Customer's Speed

    December 17, 2018Bobby Cameron

    Companies striving to be customer-obsessed are running into customer experience (CX) roadblocks. Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) scores are not improving; instead, Forrester finds them to be flat or declining. This report examines the role of unresponsive, standalone CX solutions in this phenomenon and identifies what CIOs can do to help turn things around.

  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: The Top 10 Technology Trends To Watch: 2018 To 2020

    Ten Trends Will Help You Maximize The Value Of Business Technology

    October 19, 2017 Brian Hopkins, Bobby Cameron, Ted Schadler, Rusty Warner

    Maximizing the value of your business technology investments requires an understanding of trends — not just as interesting reading but as vital clues to your firm's future success and, possibly, even survival. CIOs must demand trend analysis that goes deeper than trite statements about artificial intelligence, digital platforms, or meshes. Our 2018 to 2020 trends do exactly that. Read this report to understand the top 10 trends and how they will change the nature of your business.

  • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

    REPORT: The Top 10 Technology Trends To Watch: 2016 To 2018

    The Age Of The Customer Will Drive Firms To Increase Their Investments In End-To-End Technology Solutions

    September 8, 2015 Brian Hopkins, Bobby Cameron

    Five years into the age of the customer, investments in mobile, cloud, big data, predictive analytics, and social technologies are booming. But unlike previous technology cycles, tech investments will continue to grow rather than diminish throughout the refinement period. This year's top 10 tech trends demonstrate why; a shift is underway from cyclical, invention-led spending on point solutions to investments targeting customer-driven, end-to-end value. Enterprise architects should read this report to understand the trends that are enabling continuous customer value innovation from end to end — across journeys, channels, and the enterprise.

  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: The Emerging Technology Trends That CIOs Should Care About

    August 13, 2008Bobby Cameron

    Today's technology trends may appear like only incremental changes compared with historic changes like ERP and the Internet, but Forrester believes that we are in the initial phases of a major technology innovation and growth wave called "IT everywhere." We are witnessing multiple trends that, when combined, will drive a dramatic change in technology adoption and use. Some of these trends — like X Internet, mobile, SOA, and BPM — have been around for a few years but are just gaining the footing required to launch them into enterprise use. Others — including Technology Populism, Digital Business Architecture, security and risk management, IT ecosystems, the Information Workplace, master data management, and Dynamic Business Applications — are just truly coming online. CIOs must continuously assess these trends to successfully navigate this new wave.

  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: Engaging Customers With Technology

    Take An Outside-In View Of The World

    February 8, 2016Bobby Cameron

    Technology brings together technology and traditionally customer-facing roles like marketing, sales, service, brand/product management, and fulfillment to deliver superior (digital) customer experience. The increasingly crucial role that digital technologies play in customer engagement elevates the CIO role in business. Read this report to understand how the age of the customer requires tech management to transform into an outside-in function that plans, builds, and runs technology according to customers' expectations.

  • For CIO Professionals

    REPORT: Forrester's Balanced Scorecard Helps Redefine How You Manage Performance

    Make Business Outcomes And Agility The Key Metrics For Your Team

    September 15, 2016 Martha Bennett, Bobby Cameron

    Forrester developed its IT Balanced Scorecard for CIOs almost a decade ago, based on the original Balanced Scorecard framework proposed by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. In 2014, we updated this framework to reflect that — in an age where powerful customers are disrupting every industry — companies will have to change how they develop, market, sell, and deliver products and services. CIOs and their teams need new metrics to track transformation and performance. This report discusses Forrester's current Tech Management Balanced Scorecard.

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