"I enjoy the Gartner balance between tactical/pragmatic and strategic/theoretical guidance. Interaction with technology providers and their buying audiences helps keep things interesting; and the innumerable opportunities to engage clients (and sometimes prospects, too) by phone, in person and at events builds a more complete perspective."

Toby Bell is a Vice President in Gartner Research, responsible for a range of document and content management technologies for the High Performance Workplace group. Some key areas of coverage include vendors and trends in the enterprise content management (ECM) marketplace, business process management as it applies to enterprise content (Content/Process Fusion), and content strategy, valuation, mining and analytics.

 

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Bell was a senior manager and director for a leading global consulting firm. He was responsible for identifying business problems and related emerging technology solutions that resulted in the highest immediate cost recovery for clients, coordinating and communicating global research and testing efforts related to advanced and emerging technologies, and setting direction for the firm's technology architecture. He also led a team of rapid application developers in designing the firm's document management, knowledge and collaboration, marketing information and back-office systems. Mr. Bell has held key management positions in large and small business advisory services organizations focused primarily on business intelligence, competitive intelligence, marketing technology and process improvement consulting.

Years of Experience

5 years with Gartner

22 years in IT industry

 

Professional Background

Andersen, Senior Manager/Director, 10 years

Ernst & Young, Manager, 4 years

Industry Awards/Accolades

AIIM Emerging Technology Advisory Group (EmTAG) committee (2003 - present)

 

Education

B.S., Computer Science, Concordia College