Analyst Profile Detailed
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Meredith Whalen
Group Vice President/General Manager, Vertical Market Business Units
Team:
Vertical Markets
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Meredith Whalen is the Group Vice President/General Manager of IDC's Industry Insights, and is responsible for the research, consulting and marketing for the Insights business units which include Energy Insights, Financial Insights, Global Retail Insights, Government Insights, Health Industry Insights and Manufacturing Insights, as well as IDC’s U.S. Vertical Research Group.
Ms. Whalen leads IDC’s end user focused research and advisory units. In this capacity she designs research strategies, builds and oversees analyst and management teams, and leverages IDC’s global organization to uniquely position Industry Insights' advisory services. Ms. Whalen and her team of analysts advise end user organizations and IT vendors on the critical business initiatives of industries and the role IT will play in addressing them.
Among her recent research initiatives, Ms. Whalen is leading an Insights team on industry sustainability initiatives that examines how businesses are working to create more sustainable business practices. She also analyzes best practices of leading IT vendors for organizing and selling to industry, including effective go-to-market strategies.
Prior to IDC's Vertical Research Group, Ms. Whalen was a Vice President with IDC's Services Research Group. She initiated IDC's award-winning coverage of application service providers (ASPs), and also covered eBusiness, wireless, and Web services. Ms. Whalen created IDC's first global view of business process outsourcing services and designed the Services Group's global research process that ensures consistency in market taxonomies, research architecture, and forecasting.
Ms. Whalen started her career in end user business consulting, advising clients on mid-range systems. Ms. Whalen holds a B.A. with honors from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. with honors with from Babson's F.W. Olin Graduate School of Management.
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