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Angèle Boyd
Group VP, General Manager , Imaging/Output Document Solutions & SMB

Team: IDC Predictions Team
Angèle Boyd is responsible for IDC's worldwide research practice in the areas of imaging, output and document solutions (printing, scanning, business-critical document workflows, and managed print/document services). She is also responsible for IDC’s U.S. small/medium business research spanning the IT industry. She has conducted research and consulting at IDC since 1986.

During this time, she has been recognized as a Chairman's Achiever, and received the company's award for research excellence, the James Peacock Award.

Her research and consulting experience includes market plan development, strategic analysis, extensive demand-side research by company size and industry, and analysis of customer purchasing behavior using various distribution channels. Topics covered in her work are document-intensive business processes, document digitization solutions, printing and imaging services, and color printing technologies.

Ms. Boyd has written white papers and spoken on topics such as managed print/document services, information overload and the role of document solutions, and the impact of the economy and the green/sustainable movement on printing, scanning and business process document workflows.

She is quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, Investors Business Daily, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes and Fortune magazine.

Prior to IDC, at the consulting company Arthur D. Little Inc., she was a core team member evaluating the costs and benefits of computerized management information systems. She assisted in the design, implementation, and analysis of several evaluations.

She received her B.A. from Tufts University (magna cum laude) and MBA (honors) from Babson College. She is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma.


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Samsung Seeks to Establish U.S. Channel Presence After Resolution of Technology and Market Alignment
Dinesh Srirangpatna, Angèle Boyd, Holly Muscolino, Ron Glaz
Apr 2012 - Doc # lcUS23425412      IDC Link
On March 26, Samsung Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, announced the launch of the Samsung PrintIQ managed print services (MPS) program. The MPS program is designed to help Samsung’s dealer, reseller ...
HP Unifies Personal Systems and Imaging and Printing Groups, Consolidates Global Marketing and Communications, Realigns Global Accounts Sales
Crawford Del Prete, Angèle Boyd, Danielle Levitas, Richard Vancil
Mar 2012 - Doc # lcUS23392512      IDC Link
Earlier today, HP announced that it is combining its Imaging and Printing (IPG) and Personal Systems Group (PSG) into a single unit, The Printing and Personal Systems Group. Executive Vice President Todd Bradley (previously the Executive VP ...

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Document Workflow Software Opportunity for Hardcopy Vendor Transformation
Angèle Boyd
May 2013 - Doc # 241128      IDC Presentation
This IDC Presentation examines the opportunity for hardcopy vendor to leverage content management software for transformation. Content management software has relevance for business process document automation and optimization, a growing ...
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Document Workflow Opportunities by Vertical Industry
Angèle Boyd
May 2013 - Doc # 241029      IDC Presentation
This IDC presentation is based on a survey of end users in the United States. It examines drivers for document workflow streamlining and optimization through digitization as well as the top vertical industries with the most apparent oppo ...
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Appearances

Managed Print Services (MPS) Impact on Printing: Voice of the Customer
Framingham, MA United States
April 30, 2013

IDC Predictions 2013: A Transformation in the Making for the Hardcopy Market
Framingham, MA United States
February 07, 2013