alea
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- Servers, storage and middleware (infrastructure)
- Information security, data security, and privacy solutions
- Process innovation in services
- Governance and compliance
- Virtual communities for governance issues (value chain),information security
- e-Europe
- Public sector
- EU technology policy
Dr. Alea Fairchild is a Vice President & Principal Analyst for Technology Infrastructure Strategy, Legacy Optimization, and EMEA policy. Fairchild provides strategy and counsel to key Constellation client types: Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, investment analysts, VCs, technology policy executives, and technology buyers.
Dr. Fairchild has eighteen years experience in global IT market analysis, and has worked for the major market research agencies as both an analyst and as a consultant. She has also been a consultant for the European Commission, as well as to major multinational IT companies throughout Europe.
Alea’s research explores key business themes such as intelligent data management and the changing view of the data landscape from the Cloud, value chain data management: insuring partners’ data protection policies, next gen government: data privacy and best practices, Internet of things: connected real estate: facilities management as a service provider, and co-creation: time window delivery options in e-commerce.
Topic areas will include technology infrastructure strategy, including data security and privacy, innovation, governance and compliance. As our resident e-Europe specialist, Dr. Fairchild provides insight on best practices in data protection in the value chain. She is a proven thought-leader who provides clients information and ideas backed with significant marketing expertise, specifically in banking, biotech/healthcare and the public sector.
Previous work experiences include serving as a professional technology consultant at The Constantia Institute bvba. She is also an Associate Professor of Management at Vesalius College, as well as faculty in the Economics department of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She was previously been a Senior Researcher at Tilburg University in The Netherlands in the Department of Information Management. Her technical expertise lies in open architectures and interoperability. Recent areas of research have included knowledge management and productivity metrics for technology. Her academic training is in the area of information economics.
Alea has authored several conference papers and articles and five books: “Interoperability for Enterprise Information Systems”, September 1996, “Year 2000 Compliance: The Guide to Successful Implementation”, May 1997, and “Reengineering and Restructuring the Enterprise”, February 1998, all published by CTR. Her book, “Technological Aspects of Virtual Organizations”, was published by Kluwer and her latest book, “Entrepreneurship: Introduction to Business Plans” was published by die Keure.
Alea’s coverage addresses key themes in legacy technology optimization and innovation, next generation commerce, for areas such as:
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Twitter: @afairch
Linked In: http://be.linkedin.com/pub/alea-fairchild/0/236/819
Geographical Location: Brussels, Belgium
Email: alea (at) ConstellationRG (dot) com.