Pascal Matzke Pascal Matzke
Vice President, Principal Analyst

Research Coverage

Marketing & Advertising, Partnership Best Practices, Sourcing Strategy & Execution, Strategy Execution & Measurement, Systems Integration, Stakeholder Alignment, Sourcing & Procurement, Go-To-Market Strategies, Packaged Applications, Product & Solutions Strategies, Offshore Services, High-Tech, Sourcing Execution, Partner Relationship Management, Customer Relationship Management, Partner & Affiliate Marketing, Partnership Strategies, Partner Ecosystems, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy Frameworks & Models, Outsourcing, IT Services, Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Restructuring, Product Portfolio Strategies, Mergers & Acquisitions Best Practices

Research Focus

Pascal serves Vendor Strategy professionals. He provides advice and support to IT vendors and service providers on their overall market positioning, as well as on their product, services, sales, and partnering strategies. In addition, Pascal regularly advises end user clients on their IT services and sourcing strategies, with a particular emphasis on outsourcing decision issues, RFP creation, and vendor selection and vendor management.
Pascal is a recognized authority on global IT services and outsourcing trends as well as on underlying IT market dynamics. His research spans the business strategies, operational processes, and portfolio elements required to achieve and sustain market leadership. For example, he co-authored Forrester’s Big Idea on "Converged Service Delivery: The Missing Link In Achieving Business Flexibility." Pascal is a frequent public speaker and is regularly quoted by leading business newspapers and IT magazines, such as The Economist, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Handelsblatt, CIO Magazine, Computing, and InformationWeek.

Previous Work Experience

Pascal joined Forrester in 2005 from META Group, where he was a European lead analyst and consulting director responsible for IT services and vendor strategy issues. Previously, Pascal came from Giga Information Group, where he was a senior analyst and solution program manager covering IT services and outsourcing topics as well as the relevant vendor evaluation methodologies. Prior to joining Giga Information Group in 1997, Pascal was involved in management consulting projects at a Munich-based consulting company, mainly in the telecommunications and IT services area.

Education

Pascal earned an M.A. in political science, economics, and modern history from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.

Latest Research

Planned Research

European IT/Telecom Converged Service Delivery Outsourcing Deals, H1 2008 December 2008
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Offshore Country Assessments: Central & Eastern European Countries December 2008
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Innovation Management in Outsourcing September 2008
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IT & Business Services Value Chain August 2008
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M&A Integration Generalists September 2008
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Languages Spoken

English, German


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Recent Media Citations
Total Telecom (UK), "M&As: Automatic Reactions," June 1, 2008
VNUNet (UK), "A Helping Hand To Profit," April 29, 2008
Computerwoche (Germany), "IT Providers Confuse Their Customers," January 17, 2008
CIO (Germany), "Economic Boom Lets IT-Budgets Grow Too," May 2, 2007
Financial Times Deutschland (Germany), "The Networked Office," April 11, 2007