Analyst Profile

Gard Little

Research Manager, Worldwide Services and Emerging Services Opportunities

Gard Little is a Research Manager with the Global Services Markets and Trends team. Mr. Little works with IDC analysts around the world to research leading global service providers, develop market sizing and spending forecasts, and analyze key developments in the services industry. As lead analyst for IDC's SOA and Cloud Services: The Professional Services Opportunity program, he conducts research and analysis of customer demand and service vendor offerings for consulting and professional services to help design and execute on a cloud strategy. SOA, as an important enabler of IT cloud services, is analyzed in this context.

Mr. Little has over twenty years of business and information technology experience as a consulting executive. While at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he co-authored Information Leadership, which described his work with CIOs and senior executives on creating information leadership teams. He has helped organizations such as Harvard Business School and eRoom Technology (now EMC) increase their value by implementing strategic information management practices and team collaboration technologies.

Mr. Little earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Northeastern University with a concentration in the study of high technology firms, and an undergraduate degree from Vassar College in Cognitive Science.

Research Authored by Gard Little

SAP's Landscape Transformation Offering: Service Productization with a Focus on Business Benefits Gard Little, Cushing Anderson, Ali Zaidi Aug 2010 - Doc # 224442      Insight This IDC Insight reviews the new offering of services and software from SAP, called Landscape Transformation. After a brief description of the offering, IDC analyzes the potential impact for customers and SAP's partners, and it discusses ... purchase document

Worldwide Services 2009 Vendor Analysis: Revenue Performance of the Top 10 Gard Little, Alexander Motsenigos Jun 2010 - Doc # 223372      Competitive Analysis This IDC study analyzes the IT and business services competitive landscape by examining and comparing the top 10 service providers worldwide. The study looks at the performance of these firms across IDC's three macromarkets (project-base ... purchase document

SAPPHIRE NOW 2010: SAP Broadens Offerings and Sets Out a Road Map for an In-Memory Future Henry D. Morris, Bo Lykkegaard, Mary Wardley, Robert Parker, Ruediger Spies, Stephen D. Drake, Praveen Sengar, Gard Little, Kimberly Knickle, Michael Fauscette, Alan Tong, Ricardo Villate, Brian McDonough, Mariana Zamoszczyk, Melinda-Carol Ballou, Raymond Boggs Jun 2010 - Doc # 223698      Vendor Profile This IDC Vendor Profile presents a review of SAP's user conference, SAPPHIRE NOW 2010. purchase document

IDC's Worldwide IT Spending Taxonomy, 2010: The Black Book Handbook Kuba Stolarski, Stephen Minton, Gard Little, Matthew Eastwood, David Emberley, Richard V. Heiman, Natalya Yezhkova, Robert Amatruda, Ramon T. Llamas, Loren Loverde, Thomas Dyer, Gary Koch Jun 2010 - Doc # 223624      Industry Development and Models This IDC study outlines IDC's IT market taxonomy for IDC's 2010 Worldwide Black Book. It includes detailed methodologies for each of the major market segments included in the Black Book, along with detailed catego ... purchase document

U.S. Cloud Professional Services 2010–2014 Forecast Gard Little, Rebecca Segal May 2010 - Doc # 223382      Market Analysis This IDC study presents the U.S. cloud professional services forecast for 2010–2014 and includes a segmentation of the cloud professional services opportunity by foundation market. This study summarizes market trends and analyz ... purchase document

Accenture 2010 Industry Analyst Event Cushing Anderson, Mukesh Dialani, Gard Little, Catherine Madden, Shawn P. McCarthy, Henry D. Morris, Alexander Motsenigos, Lisa Rowan, Rebecca Segal, Ali Zaidi May 2010 - Doc # 223510      Event Flash This IDC Flash summarizes the key takeaway points from the Accenture 2010 industry analyst event, focusing on Accenture's ambition to exploit the current environment. We caught up with Accenture's senior leadership in Boston re ... purchase document

Worldwide Services 2010–2014 Forecast: Evaluating the New Normal Gard Little Apr 2010 - Doc # 223025      Market Analysis This IDC study presents a five-year forecast for the worldwide services industry from 2010 through 2014 and updates Worldwide and U.S. Services 2009–2013 Forecast Update (IDC #220374, October 2009). The main purpose of t ... purchase document

Transforming and Building the Intelligent Enterprise: The Professional Services Opportunity Sebastien Ruest, Rebecca Segal, Gard Little Mar 2010 - Doc # DR2010_T7_GL      Event Proceeding The following was presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Boston and Santa Clara in March 2010.:

IDC's Worldwide Services Taxonomy, 2010 Gard Little Feb 2010 - Doc # 222046      Industry Development and Models This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's services market taxonomy. For 2010, the taxonomy includes individual foundation markets grouped within three macromarket segments: project based, outsourcing, and support ... purchase document

Dimension Data Sets Out Its Ambition for a Place in Outsourcing Marianne Kolding, Lionel Lamy, Curtis Robinson, Gard Little Feb 2010 - Doc # AE51S      Event Flash At the beginning of February 2010, we were invited to spend some time with the senior executives of Dimension Data in London. This flash summarizes the key take away point, specifically focusing on Dimension Data's ambition to ... purchase document

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