Alexander Peters, Ph.D.

Principal Analyst serving CIOs

Alex serves CIO Professionals. His coverage includes business technology strategies, business sustainability, business-driven governance frameworks, process-oriented organizational design, change management, and continuous improvement. He is also a leading expert on best practices for making technology organizations more effective and business relevant through the implementation of service-oriented structures and process frameworks.

Alex helps clients partner with business peers to drive growth and customer engagement; develop business technology people and processes for future success; and adopt business process management (BPM), Lean, and Six Sigma to deliver business outcomes.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to taking on his current role, Alex focused his research on Business Process Professionals' challenges, such as the development of business process architectures, portfolio management capabilities, centers of excellence, and deployment of change management programs. Before joining Forrester in 2005, Alex developed the IT consolidation program and managed the data center of a large European automotive company. Previously, he spent 10 years at IBM and EDS as an executive senior consultant and led several international customer projects in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, IT shared services, sourcing, organizational change, process, and technology management. Alex also worked for five years as a research scientist in the area of high-performance computing at the IBM Scientific Center Heidelberg, publishing in refereed journals and co-editing three proceeding books.


Education

Alex received a master's degree in engineering from the Civil Engineering Institute in Bucharest, Romania, and a Ph.D. in engineering from the Technical University Aachen, Germany. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from Princeton University.

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  • Customer Intelligence Strategy and Process
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    Report:Plan Customer-Centric Campaign Management Requirements

    Assessment: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    This report outlines the capabilities assessment of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence (CI) professionals working on marketing technology. Transforming marketing programs into...

    • Downloads: 295
  • For Interactive Marketing Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Marketing Mix Modeling, Q2 2013

    The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

    Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...

    • Downloads: 247
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Optimize Your Mobile Banking Strategy

    Continuous Improvement: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

    Congratulations! Your mobile banking web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live, and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Digital banking teams need to test and optimize...

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    Charts & Figures:Business Process Criteria: Execution

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:Market Overview: Chat Solutions For Customer Service

    Twenty Solutions For Delivering Differentiated Experiences

    Customers demand superior service and support as the price for their ongoing loyalty and patronage, and they are increasingly leveraging the chat channel for customer service. The chat vendor...

    • Downloads: 153
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Tool:TechRadar™: Contact Center Technologies, Q3 2011

  • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Tool:TechRadar™: Growth Phase Technologies

  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Tool:Users Want Vendors To Improve Application Reporting And Usability

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Manage Your Marketing Mix Modeling Vendors

    Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...

    • Downloads: 193
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Organize For Social Intelligence

    Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...

    • Downloads: 1038
  • For Business Process Professionals

    Client Inquiry:Call Center: From Administration To Selling Activity

    We believe we can increase sales with our call centers in our direct marketing organization if we can figure out how to transform our phone interactions into selling activities instead of...

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The Forrester Wave™: Customer Engagement Agencies, Q4 2012

      How 13 Vendors Stack Up In An Emerging Market

      In Forrester's 19-criteria evaluation of emerging customer engagement agencies (CEAs), we found that only OgilvyOne Worldwide has made a significant-enough shift in this segment of its business to be...

      • Downloads: 520
      • Comments: 2
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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:How To Identify Online Marketing Suite Requirements

      Assess Your Current State To Inform The Online Marketing Suite Road Map

      The online marketing suite is a well-regarded framework for coordinating interactive marketing, but it consistently proves difficult to implement. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals struggle to...

      • Downloads: 358
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:Mobile Measurement Is An eBusiness Imperative

      Performance Management: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

      Mobile has reached critical mass due to improved infrastructure, advances in device utility, and overall market penetration. Engaging with customers via mobile is unavoidable: Whether or not...

      • Downloads: 554
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    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Tool:Customer Data Management Capabilities Best Practice Self-Assessment

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Organizing For Site Optimization

      Incorporating testing into marketing and customer experience management programs is crucial because consumer behaviors change continually and vary by a multitude of dimensions that are nearly...

      • Downloads: 650
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    • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

      Tool:TechRadar™: Contact Center Solutions, Q3 2011: Technologies Evaluated

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:The New Interactive Agency Landscape

      Agencies Reinvented As Mediators Will Win While The Rest Wither

      The agency model is crumbling under the weight of continual innovation in digital channels, the changing media behaviors of the always-addressable customer, and marketers' frustration with a siloed...

      • Downloads: 985
      • Comments: 7
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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Tool:Improving Customer Experience Is Top Of Mind For CI Professionals

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Evolve Your Approach To Acquisition And Retention

      Processes: The Customer Analytics Playbook

      Marketers continue to emphasize acquisition and are willing to take the risk of acquiring customers with low long-term profitability. While retention efforts typically enjoy the spotlight in an...

      • Downloads: 391
    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Client Inquiry:Best-In-Class Highly Personalized Multichannel Communications Programs

      What are some great examples of automated, highly personalized, multichannel communications programs? My company has a few programs in pilot mode, but it seems that this concept of highly automated,...

      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:The Evolution Of The Customer Engagement Agency

        As the demand for customer intelligence (CI) from business stakeholders grows and more organizations increase their CI maturity, organizations' marketing agency needs have also changed. A few...

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      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:Cross-Channel Attribution Presents A Clear Path To Marketing ROI

        Vision: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

        Today's customers interact with brands via a wide variety of touchpoints and at different stages of the brand life cycle. But companies measure campaign success using last-touch methods that fail to...

        • Downloads: 473
      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:Don't Wait To Optimize Mobile Sites And Apps

        Tailored Experiences Are Critical As Mobile Rewrites Customer Engagement Standards

        The drumbeat of mobile is increasingly difficult to ignore as usage and revenue gain momentum and smartphones become tightly woven into multichannel customer experiences. But developing engaging...

        • Downloads: 703
      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Report:Digital Experience Delivery Maturity Assessment

        Assessment: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

        This report outlines for IT professionals more than 100 essential practices for organizations looking to deliver their digital experience transformation strategies. It asks questions such as: Do you...

        • Downloads: 194
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:Web Site Brand Experience 2010: Hotels

        Forrester Applies Its Web Site Brand Experience Review Methodology To Four Top Sites

        The hotel industry features highly recognized brand names like Crowne Plaza, Hilton, Marriott, and Sheraton. But how good is the brand experience offered by major hotel brands' Web sites? To find...

        • Downloads: 493
       
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