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Clay Richardson

Clay Richardson
Senior Analyst

Research Coverage

Business Process Management, Business Process Management Suites, Business Process Methodologies, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Optimization, Deliver information across business processes to drive decisions, Packaged Applications, Workflow

Research Focus

Clay serves Business Process professionals and is a leading expert on business process management software, services, and methodologies. Clay delivers strategic guidance to Business Process professionals seeking to improve collaborative and operational business processes. Clay specifically helps enterprises establish BPM strategies, governance standards, and BPM centers of excellence; identify Agile and Lean methodologies best suited for BPM projects; and establish vendors and technologies that help automate and optimize mission-critical business processes.

Previous Work Experience

Clay comes to Forrester with many years of experience in business process improvement projects, BPM platforms and solutions selection, systems analysis and design, and project management for enterprise software implementations. Clay has led projects to successfully deploy BPM solutions for government and commercial organizations around the world and has specialized in helping create BPM Centers of Excellence.

Most recently, Clay served as BPM practice leader at Project Performance Corporation, a system integrator based in Washington, D.C., where he launched and managed the company's business process management practice. Prior to that, Clay directed a team of 30 consultants, trainers, and support engineers in delivery and support of BPM solutions, as the director of professional services at HandySoft Global Corporation, a pure-play BPM vendor.

Clay is active with several BPM industry associations, including the Workflow Management Coalition, where he served as founder and co-chair of the organization's Public Sector chapter.

Education

Clay earned a B.S. in computer science from The University of South Carolina and a BPM Professional Certificate from Boston University.

Latest Research

Planned Research

Market Overview for Microsoft-Oriented BPM Suites February 2012
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Inquiry Insights: BPM Suite Trends 2012 April 2012
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Evaluating the ROI of BPM SaaS March 2012
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The Forrester Wave: BPM Suites, Q2 2012 July 2012
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Did You Know?

Clay is an avid golfer who also loves travel and politics.


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Recent Media Citations
SearchCIO, "Business process improvement is about more than efficiency gains," November 21, 2011
IT Business Edge, "Take BPM Out Of Technology Trenches ," September 12, 2011
eBizQ, "Crowdsourcing: Bringing Thousands of New Ideas into the Process," May 31, 2011
Information Management, "Software AG to Purchase Mobile Platform Provider Metismo," May 31, 2011
Le MagIT (FRA), "Impact 2011: IBM Concretizes Lombardi's fusion with their BPM offer," April 13, 201
InformationWeek, "Data Gaps Plague Process Initiatives," March 28, 2011