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Alan Trefler is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist, best known as the founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc. , a leading software company specializing in customer relationship management and business process management.
Known for: Build For Change: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement Through Continuous Digital Innovation
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Build For Change: Revolutionizing Customer Engagement Through Continuous Digital Innovation
Build For Change argues that the greatest threat to modern organizations is not competition alone, but rigidity. In a world where customer expectations evolve faster than corporate structures, Alan Trefler makes the case that companies must stop designing systems, processes, and strategies for stability and start designing them for constant adaptation. The book explores how digital innovation can become a continuous capability rather than a one-time transformation project, especially in customer engagement, operations, and decision-making. What makes this book especially valuable is its practical perspective. Trefler does not treat digital transformation as a buzzword or a technology shopping list. Instead, he shows how organizations can create adaptive enterprise architectures, automate intelligently, connect business and IT, and reshape culture so they can respond quickly to change without creating chaos. His focus is on building organizations that are resilient, customer-centric, and operationally agile. As the founder and CEO of Pegasystems, Trefler brings decades of firsthand experience helping large enterprises modernize complex systems and processes. His authority comes from seeing where transformation efforts succeed, where they fail, and what it truly takes to build for change.
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Technology Reset Customer Expectations Forever
A customer rarely compares your company only with your direct competitors; they compare you with the best digital experience they had anywhere. That is one of the central realities behind Build for Change. Over the last two decades, digital technology has transformed convenience from a luxury into a...
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Build Systems Designed To Evolve
The future rarely rewards what is merely efficient today; it rewards what can be changed tomorrow. Trefler’s “build for change” philosophy is the book’s defining principle. Instead of creating systems and processes optimized for a fixed set of assumptions, organizations should design them to adapt a...
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The Adaptive Enterprise Wins Faster
Scale without agility creates impressive-looking inertia. Trefler argues that the organizations best positioned for the digital era are not necessarily the largest or most technologically advanced, but the most adaptive. An adaptive enterprise is structured to sense change early, respond quickly, an...
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Customer-Centricity Must Shape Operations
Most organizations claim to be customer-centric, but many still operate around internal convenience. Trefler makes a crucial distinction: true customer-centricity is not a slogan or a branding exercise; it is an operational discipline. It requires designing processes, systems, and decisions around w...
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Bridge Business And IT Realistically
Digital transformation fails less from lack of ambition than from lack of alignment. One of Trefler’s most practical insights is that business and IT must stop operating as separate worlds. In many enterprises, business leaders define goals in broad terms while IT teams manage technical complexity i...
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Culture Determines Transformation Durability
The hardest part of transformation is not installing new technology; it is changing how people think, decide, and work. Trefler repeatedly emphasizes that lasting digital innovation depends on culture. Organizations can purchase platforms and automate workflows, but if their mindset remains risk-ave...
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About Alan Trefler
Alan Trefler is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist, best known as the founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc., a leading software company specializing in customer relationship management and business process management. He is recognized for his thought leadership in digital transformation a...
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Alan Trefler is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist, best known as the founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc., a leading software company specializing in customer relationship management and business process management. He is recognized for his thought leadership in digital transformation a...
Alan Trefler is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist, best known as the founder and CEO of Pegasystems Inc., a leading software company specializing in customer relationship management and business process management. He is recognized for his thought leadership in digital transformation and adaptive enterprise systems.
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