Simon was the Vice President, Enterprise Strategy at 451 Research. He led the product development and delivery strategy for research, data, events, consulting and community services to 451 Research's enterprise end-user clients.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Simon was Vice President at Forrester Research for 12 years. During that time, he created primary research for IT professionals on personal computing, mobility and workforce technology experience. He served as the Research Director for the Infrastructure and Operations and Security and Risk research teams, chaired Forrester's IT Forum EMEA events for three years, ran the CIO Group Leadership Board peer networking community business, and led numerous large consulting projects.
Prior to joining Forrester, Simon spent 10 years in technical book acquisition and publishing at McGraw-Hill and Addision Wesley (now Pearson).
More than 200 IT leaders joined 451 Research in Santa Clara, California for our first Digital Infrastructure Summit. For most, this was a three-day educational update on the technologies and techniques driving their most challenging IT transformation to date: becoming a digital business.
IT, business and procurement teams must work together to acquire the right technology, at the right time and the right price, to meet the overall business goals. Here we outline a collaborative end-to-end IT acquisition process that organizations can use to build better use cases, identify the best possible vendors, and finalize technology decisions with confidence.
Designed for IT infrastructure and operations professionals, the 451 Research Digital Infrastructure Summit will be held in Santa Clara, May 19-21. It brings together IT leaders from a variety of industries to discuss the critical technology transformations that will define their business for years to come – building the infrastructure to enable the digital enterprise.
In 2014, we hosted more than 500 IT leaders at a series of one-day summits on information security, storage, cloud and mobility. These summits gave IT leaders an opportunity to identify the dominant trends and challenges, and their requirements in an open forum with their peers and vendors.
451 Research recently hosted 60 IT decision-makers at an Executive IT Mobility Summit in New York. The focus of the event was on driving mobile productivity in the enterprise, and identifying key areas of innovation that IT leaders will encounter in the coming years.
451 Research's Enterprise Mobility research team recently hosted 60 IT decision-makers for an Executive Summit in New York City. The focus of the event was on driving mobile productivity in the enterprise. This report details key learnings from several deep-dive sessions with practicing IT executives in the areas of mobile security, app development, wearables and the Internet of Things.
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