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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  • Past 18 months
  • Marketing Measurement
  • 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 CMO Professionals

    Report:Predictive Analytics Revolutionize Marketing Mix Planning

    Landscape: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

    Marketing mix modeling is no longer just a tool for consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketers to measure the effect of traditional marketing on overall sales. Today, marketing mix modeling can help all...

    • Downloads: 608
    • Comments: 2
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:The Shifting Role Of GRPs In Media Buying

    Why GRPs Will Fade As The Metric But Endure As The Currency For TV And Video

    Consumers are rapidly shifting the way they watch TV, embracing a wide variety of digital platforms to watch on their own terms. But the vast majority of advertising investments are still planned,...

    • Downloads: 313
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    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: 258
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    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...

    • Downloads: 2082
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Measure And Manage Brand Health

    Continuous Improvement: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Managing brand health has become more complicated as the expansion of marketing, sales, and service channels creates a vast array of consumer data that can be used for analysis in the 21st century....

    • Downloads: 442
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    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...

    • Downloads: 361
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Score Your Mobile Marketing Maturity

    Assessment: The Mobile Marketing Playbook

    This report for interactive marketers explains how to assess your mobile marketing capabilities. We find that although mobile budgets are beginning to increase, the majority of interactive marketers...

    • Downloads: 306
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    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,...

    • Downloads: 185
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:eBusiness Teams' Two Paths To Cross-Channel Measurement Success

    In The Long Term, Cross-Channel Measurement Is An Enterprisewide Concern, But In The Near Term, eBusiness Must Act Now

    eBusiness and channel strategy professionals have a lot on their plates these days: Consumers are moving across channels for sales and service, spanning digital touchpoints like Twitter and public...

    • Downloads: 201
  • 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: 2565
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Three-Dimensional Brand Health: A Data Mashup

    Harnessing Digital Data To Monitor The Brand's Past, Present, And Future Health

    Big data holds big promise for marketers who want to understand and manage their brand's health with greater precision. But challenges abound. While the technology is available to process new sources...

    • Downloads: 309
    • Comments: 1
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Value Your Subscribers More Accurately

    Performance Management: The Email Marketing Playbook

    This report, part of the email marketing playbook, provides interactive marketers with advice on email marketing performance management, with a focus specifically on list maintenance. We've outlined...

    • Downloads: 602
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    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...

    • Downloads: 1947
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The Social Intelligence Market Is Immature

    Landscape: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Over the years, we've evaluated the tools that marketers use to monitor, measure, and learn from online conversations. These listening platforms capture social media to help users analyze data and...

    • Downloads: 883
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The State Of Social Intelligence, 2012

    Benchmarks: The Social Intelligence Playbook

    Forrester recently polled 108 listening platform customers to learn about the evolution in companies' social intelligence practices. We reviewed their vendor partnerships, the ways they use listening...

    • Downloads: 1182
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:It's Time To Bridge The Audience Data Management Divide

    How Customer Intelligence Can Unify Audience Intelligence Across Channels To Enable Advanced Advertising

    Marketers constantly seek ways to design addressable marketing programs that reduce media waste and create targeting efficiencies: Direct marketers turn to marketing databases to inform audience...

    • Downloads: 536
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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:CCP Games Uses A DSP To Close The Loop On Acquisition And Cross-Sell

    CCP Games, a massive multiplayer online game provider, knew that its existing approach with key channels like display was suboptimized and that it could drive more efficient customer acquisition if...

    • Downloads: 172
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Determine The Best Attribution Provider Based On Long-Term Measurement Needs

    Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

    Customer intelligence (CI) professionals increasingly look to attribution experts for guidance and tools to help calculate true channel and customer purchase path. While there is a broad array of...

    • Downloads: 131
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    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...

    • Downloads: 432
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: SEO Platforms, Q4 2012

    Rio SEO Leads, With BrightEdge Following As A Strong Performer

    Forrester's 21-criteria evaluation of SEO platforms evaluates the four largest providers of tools for organic search auditing, ranking support, measurement, and project management: BrightEdge,...

    • Downloads: 395
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:Buyers Want Expertise From Attribution Providers

    Benchmarking: Measure Marketing Performance

    During the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel attribution providers, we surveyed 34 customers about their cross-channel attribution efforts and their vendor partnerships....

    • Downloads: 159
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:2013 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

    Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

    With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

    • Downloads: 720
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Marketers Miss A Big Opportunity With Marketing Mix Modeling

    Senior marketing leaders are missing a key opportunity by underinvesting in marketing mix modeling. Those who have adopted marketing mix modeling find that it works. They are able to proactively...

    • Downloads: 500
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