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The Leading Edge Forum (LEF) is an information technology research and advisory services firm based in London, England, with offices across Europe, North America and Asia. The forum specializes in analyzing the intersection of business and information technology in large organizations, aimed at senior executive audiences, in both the commercial and public sectors. The forum has categorized its research into five domains; Digital Business Strategies, Business/IT Alignment, Consumerization & the Customer, Learning from Silicon Valley, The Changing Nature of Work. .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Current LEF Research Domains )〕 ==History== The organization traces its roots back to 1988 when CSC acquired the consulting and research firms, Index Group 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CSC acquires Index Group, 1988 )〕 in the United States and later the Butler Cox Foundation 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CSC acquires Butler Cox, 1991 )〕 in the United Kingdom in 1991. Index Group, originally founded by Thomas P. Gerrity and others from MIT was perhaps best known for coining the term ''business re-engineering'' popularized by the book by James Champy and Michael Hammer, ''Re-engineering the Corporation'' . In collaboration with Michael Treacy, it also helped establish the Value Disciplines approach to business strategy. The Butler Cox Foundation founded by David Butler 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Butler, Co-Founder of Butler Cox )〕 and George Cox 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir George Cox, Co-Founder of Butler Cox )〕 and created "the most successful membership organisation for CIOs ever initiated in Europe",〔 that would enable senior IT executives to exchange ideas and share experiences, backed by an ongoing research process. The term, consumerization, was first fully explored by LEF in a position paper in June 2004 , first known published paper on this topic. Four years later, in June 2008 the Wikipedia entry for Consumerization was created. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leading Edge Forum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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