Leading Edge Forum

Leading Edge Forum (LEF) is a British company focusing on programme of research, advisory interventions, and events for clients' capabilities. Leading Edge Forum is a business unit of DXC Technology.

Leading Edge Forum

Company type	Division
Industry	Research and advisory services
Founded	1989; 36 years ago (1989)
Headquarters	London , United Kingdom
Number of locations	10
Area served	Worldwide[citation needed]
Key people	Richard Davies (Managing Director)[1]
Parent	DXC Technology
Website	leadingedgeforum.com

History

In 1988, CSC acquired the consulting and research firm Index Group^[2] in the United States and later the Butler Cox Foundation^[3] in the United Kingdom in 1991.

Index Group, founded by Thomas P. Gerrity and others from MIT, coined the term business re-engineering by James Champy and Michael Hammer's book, Re-engineering the Corporation,^[4] in collaboration with Michael Treacy.^[5]

The Butler Cox Foundation was founded by David Butler^[6] and George Cox^[7] for senior IT executives to share experiences.

The term consumerization was explored by LEF in a position paper in June 2004.^[8]

Leadership

As of 2014, the Managing Director is Richard Davies.^[9]

Press coverage

Leading Edge Forum has been mentioned by Forbes,^[10] The Economist,^[11] CIO,^[12] and The Wall Street Journal.^[13]