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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    Report:Accelerate Your Social Maturity

    Assessment: The Social Marketing Playbook

    Customers and employees are becoming increasingly empowered by social technologies, dramatically changing the way they communicate and collaborate. To succeed in this new world, companies must make...

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    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...

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    Tool:Determine Your Level Of Measurement Maturity

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    Charts & Figures:Determine Your Level Of Measurement Maturity

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    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
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    Report:The Digital Media Buying Maturity Framework

    Assessment: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

    Marketers fall into four categories of digital media buying maturity, based on their strength across their organization, planning and execution, measurement, and technology. This report of the...

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    Report:Deliver Transparent Returns On Your Marketing Dollar

    Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...

    • Downloads: 232
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    Tool:Take This Diagnostic To Determine Your Level Of Measurement Maturity

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    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...

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    Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2013: Key Metrics And Initiatives

    eCommerce continues to grow at a rapid pace; on average, the retailers surveyed for Forrester and Shop.org's annual The State of Retailing Online study experienced 28% growth in sales in 2012 over...

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    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: 170
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    Report:Boost Marketing Returns With Model-Driven Insights

    Tools And Technology: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix modeling is undergoing a transformation as marketers increasingly demand that vendors provide solutions that can be updated frequently, easily aggregate data streams, provide...

    • Downloads: 279
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    Tool:The Customer Life-Cycle Maturity Assessment

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    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Attribution Providers, Q2 2012

    Visual IQ Surfaces At The Top Of A Relatively Immature Market

    In Forrester's 67-criteria evaluation of cross-channel attribution vendors, we found that Visual IQ led the pack because of its expertise in cross-channel attribution methodology, reporting, and...

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    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...

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    Report:How To Make Social Media Data Actionable

    Processes: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Social media provides customer intelligence (CI) professionals with a wealth of customer data. But every piece of valuable insight is surrounded by noise. Cutting through that noise and getting to...

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    Report:Adapting Measurement For Digital Intelligence

    Deliver Comprehensive Measurement Using A Tiered Framework

    Organizations have a rich trove of data resources and analytics technology at their disposal to support effective customer interactions and process efficiencies. Yet many firms struggle to translate...

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    Report:TV And Video Advertising Is On The Upswing In 2012

    Forrester partnered with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to better understand marketers' current attitudes toward TV and digital video advertising. Marketers have regained their...

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    Report:The New Search Marketing Review

    Introducing Forrester's Search Marketing Review Methodology 2.0

    Paid search marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) are still mainstays in the interactive marketer's toolkit. And many legacy best practices still apply to paid search and SEO. However,...

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    Report:Model The ROI Of Cross-Channel Campaign Management

    Business Case: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook

    Enterprise marketing technologies promise to better engage customers, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report, part of Forrester's marketing technology playbook, helps...

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    Report:Become Scientific About Marketing Investments And Outcomes

    Road Map: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix optimization (MMO) has become an indispensable discipline for marketing leaders because it helps in effectively allocating marketing budgets across an increasingly fragmented media and...

    • Downloads: 270
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    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,...

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    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: 438
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Business Metrics Market Insights Professionals Can Track And Where To Get Them

    Market Insights Needs To Track Business Success To Show Value-Add

    Market insights professionals often struggle to understand how they can identify and measure customer, competitive, and business changes and effectively guide stakeholders toward business success via...

    • Downloads: 437
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    Report:Culture, Data, And Technology Are Key Ingredients For Measurement Success

    Strategic Plan: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

    A key piece in cross-channel attribution is developing a strategy that outlines where the organization needs to progress to achieve attribution nirvana. To be successful at cross-channel attribution,...

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    Report:Listening Metrics That Matter

    As social media becomes more prevalent, the data it creates becomes a critical research and insight-generation activity. Businesses turn to listening platforms to harvest the rich trove of consumer...

    • Downloads: 1662
 
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