About Toby Bell
Toby has over 25 years of leadership experience in technology strategy, analysis, development, and delivery. He's managed people, products, projects, and profits equally well. His work history ranges from marketing and communications to software design and development to global consulting to technology research and analysis to business leadership. He has provided strategic advice to many companies; has written a strong body of research; is widely quoted across technology and business media; and has been a keynote speaker for Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen, Gartner, and their clients.
Toby's role at IBM as ECM Marketing and Offering Strategy Lead is new.
Toby spent three years learning the enterprise software business from a vendor's perspective at Litéra. This included creating partner alliances with top technology vendors, leading both a marketing and product development team, and building business from major accounts.
Prior to Litéra, he was Research VP for Gartner, the leading provider of global research and analysis on the information technology industry. He covered (beyond ECM, BPM, Case Management, and Cool Vendors): enterprise reputation management, social media monitoring, digital asset management, Web content management, web and content analytics, globalization/localization, translation management, and customer communications management. Some of his experience in digital marketing initiatives came from previous work at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young.
Prior to joining Gartner, Toby was a Senior Manager and Director for Andersen. He focused on technology consulting, research, applications development, and legal practice management for this Big 5 global professional services firm.
Prior to that, Toby was a Manager at Ernst & Young -- focused primarily on business development, competitive intelligence, marketing technology, knowledge management, and process improvement applications design, development, and consulting.
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When I was a Gartner ECM analyst, I answered approximately 42,300 client questions. This rough estimate is based on three factors: time on job (9.4 years), inquiries per year (avg. 900), and questions per inquiry (avg. 5). Inquiries, by the … Continue reading →
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