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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  • Marketing Measurement
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    Report:Are You Ready For Cross-Channel Attribution?

    Assessment: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

    Cross-channel attribution is a complex, advanced measurement approach, allowing marketers to uncover the true impact of their marketing campaigns across channels. To get it right, organizations must...

    • Downloads: 314
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Cross-Channel Attribution Puts The Science In Marketing Measurement

    Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

    Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...

    • Downloads: 341
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Evaluate Your Marketing Optimization Initiative

    Benchmarks: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Few marketers have a structured approach to optimizing their marketing mix, often missing the opportunity to deliver better results with the same level of investment or to effectively reallocate...

    • Downloads: 205
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Matching Customer Activities With Marketing Actions

  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The Keys To A Social Intelligence Command Center

    Continuous Improvement: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    If you represent a large consumer brand, consider a social intelligence command center — a dedicated resource for listening to the groundswell. A command center like this can improve your...

    • Downloads: 1326
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Managing Brand Health In The Digital Age

    How To Diagnose And Treat Your Brand's Resilience And Responsiveness

    CMOs who remain detached from the everyday pulse of consumer sentiment are putting their brands at great risk. A brand's health is more vulnerable in the digital age as consumer opinion travels...

    • Downloads: 790
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The State Of Social Media Marketing In Europe, 2011

    Measurement And Staffing Challenges Keep Social From Taking Off

    As more European consumers use social media, more European interactive marketers are adopting the channel as well. But there are still key challenges to overcome. First, marketers fail to measure the...

    • Downloads: 587
  • 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: 357
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:Determine The CORE Directive Most Critical For You

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Future Of Interactive Marketing

    How Embracing CORE Directives Will Help You Foster Adaptability

    Interactivity is changing life as we know it, a scope too big for most firms' siloed, understaffed interactive marketing organizations. The solution? To customize, optimize, respond, and empower...

    • Downloads: 2130
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Social Media Metrics That Matter

    Communicating The Right Data To Different Internal Stakeholders

    Social media contributes value to interactive marketing programs in many ways — but measuring that value is difficult. The sheer volume of social media metrics can quickly become overwhelming...

    • Downloads: 2531
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:It's Time For CI To Engage In The Campaign Process

    Today's approach to marketing campaigns is broken, and customer relationships are suffering as a result. Although Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals have traditionally been detached from the...

    • Downloads: 215
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The ROI Of Social Marketing

    Business Case: The Social Marketing Playbook

    The demand has never been greater for marketers to validate and measure the benefits delivered by their increasing investment in social media. Marketers often frame this question as, "What is the ROI...

    • Downloads: 4947
    • Comments: 1
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Bigger B2B Marketing Budgets Come With Great Expectations

    Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation

    After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...

    • Downloads: 709
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Interactive Attribution Vendors, Q2 2012

    Visual IQ, Adometry, And ClearSaleing Lead The Category

    In Forrester's 45-criteria evaluation of interactive attribution vendors, we identified and analyzed the eight significant providers in this category — Adobe, Adometry, C3 Metrics,...

    • Downloads: 894
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:How B2B Firms Can Improve Their Email Marketing

    B2B email marketing programs still trail B2C programs in terms of their customer centricity, in part because of the complexity of business products, the poor alignment of marketing and sales, and...

    • Downloads: 552
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The Facebook Factor

    Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions

    Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...

    • Downloads: 1231
    • Comments: 4
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The Road Map To Integrated Social Intelligence

    Road Map: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Too many companies remain trapped by merely monitoring or passively collecting social media. Few actually reach social intelligence: driving their marketing and business strategy using the data that...

    • Downloads: 1206
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Upgrading Your Interactive Measurement Strategy

    Why You Should Make Multichannel Measurement A Priority

    Marketers measure digital channels in isolation from one another. However, consumers don't act within channels; they act across channels. Cross-channel measurement, a nice-to-have for most marketers...

    • Downloads: 961
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:Publishers Confront Dramatic Shifts To Their Monetization Models

  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Tool:Tailor Dashboard Information To Different Roles

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Win The Social Marketing Measurement Game

    Performance Management: The Social Marketing Playbook

    You've no doubt heard the question: "How do we know that social marketing drives sales?" But just as not all TV spots or billboards are intended to drive direct response, not every social marketing...

    • Downloads: 45
  • Report:A Single View Of The Customer Is Table Stakes To Enable Cross-Channel Attribution

    The Cross-Channel Attribution Blueprint

    When it comes to articulating the business value of data, marketing pros are among the most enlightened of business stakeholders. Marketers rely on customer, transaction, and third-party data to...

    • Downloads: 487
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:A Measurement Maturity Framework For Interactive Marketers

    Measurement is universally valued by interactive marketers. Approaches and levels of sophistication vary, but nearly everyone recognizes that smart measurement leads to optimized business results...

    • Downloads: 355
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Understanding The Cross-Channel Attribution Landscape

    Customer intelligence (CI) professionals are eager to develop a fully integrated cross-channel attribution strategy as a critical first step to optimizing marketing budgets and plans. However, the...

    • Downloads: 570
  • 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: 167
 
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