Leading Edge Forum

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Leading Edge Forum
Type Division
Industryresearch and advisory services
Founded1989;34 years ago (1989)
Headquarters,
Number of locations
10
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Richard Davies, Managing Director. [1]
Parent DXC Technology
Website leadingedgeforum.com

Leading Edge Forum (LEF) helps clients challenge conventional assumptions with original, future-focused thinking.

Contents

LEF’s programme of progressive research and thought leadership, next-practice advisory interventions, and immersive events augment clients' capabilities for horizon-scanning and sense-making and helps some of the world’s leading organizations accelerate the business outcomes of technology-enabled change. Leading Edge Forum is a business unit of DXC Technology.

History

The organization traces its roots back to 1988 when CSC acquired the consulting and research firms, Index Group [2] in the United States and later the Butler Cox Foundation [3] in the United Kingdom in 1991.

Index Group, founded by Thomas P. Gerrity and others from MIT was perhaps best known for coining the term business re-engineering popularized by the book by James Champy and Michael Hammer, Re-engineering the Corporation. [4] In collaboration with Michael Treacy, it also helped establish the Value Disciplines approach to business strategy. [5] The Butler Cox Foundation founded by David Butler [6] and George Cox [7] and created "the most successful membership organisation for CIOs ever initiated in Europe", [6] that would enable senior IT executives to exchange ideas and share experiences, backed by an ongoing research process.

The term, consumerization, was first fully explored by LEF in a position paper in June 2004, [8] first known published paper on this topic. Four years later, in June 2008 the Wikipedia entry for Consumerization was created.

Leadership

As of 2014, the Managing Director is Richard Davies [9]

Press coverage

Leading Edge Forum research has been mentioned by many news institutions including Forbes, [10] The Economist, [11] CIO Magazine [12] and Wall St Journal. [13]

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References

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