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Andy serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He focuses primarily on B2B and B2B2C eCommerce, as well as issues related to enabling channel partner businesses for manufacturers. Andy's current research areas include multichannel retailing, mobile couponing, affiliate marketing, and enabling manufacturers to sell online.
Prior to joining Forrester, Andy spent 11 years in product and marketing leadership roles within Silicon Valley. In that time, he developed Yahoo's Web2Store local shopping initiative, co-founded an eCommerce company, and helped create several award-winning products in the consumer Internet and mobile software spaces. Before moving to Silicon Valley, Andy spent four years in Washington, D.C., as a research analyst for an economic consulting firm.
Andy has been quoted in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Internet Retailer, Direct Marketing News, American Banker, and CNBC.
Andy is a summa cum laude graduate in economics from the University of Dayton and holds an M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.S. in integrated marketing from Northwestern University.
Market insights professionals often face challenges in building awareness and influence within their companies. To better understand how market insights can overcome these issues, Forrester spoke...

Why The Validation Process Is Critical To Product Strategy Success
"Ideate" is the first stage in the product development cycle; it's a time when product strategists gather ideas for new and innovative products and services. Before moving on to subsequent phases,...


Processes: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
Digital disruption has created an environment in which customer and competitive change are happening at much faster rates, leading stakeholders to increase their demands for more innovative, agile,...

After evaluating two categories of enterprise feedback management (EFM) vendors in Q3 2011, Forrester will no longer cover the vendor market landscape in the same way. This report explains why the...
Process For Market Insights Professionals To Quickly Identify Drivers Of And Solutions To Customer Satisfaction And Sales Issues
Market insights professionals often get confronted with requests for immediate insights when things don't go as planned with customers. This can be something like declining Net Promoter or...
Bringing Social Intelligence Into The Research Fold
Social media is here to stay, and the world of market research cannot ignore it any longer. Yet while most market insights professionals are interested in the concept of using social media as a...
Tools And Technology: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
With ballooning (big) data sources, a need to mine more valuable nuggets from this data, pressure to deliver insights more frequently, and stakeholders that you need to "wow" with deliverables,...
Customer Experience Professionals' Introduction To Enterprise Feedback Management Vendors
Customers know what good service is, and demand it from each interaction they have. More often than not, they are disappointed — and are quick to voice this disappointment. Customer service...
The European Technographics Consumer Technology Online Survey, Q4 2011, surveyed 13,000 respondents in the seven markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This...
Is there a uniform European market for information and communications technology (ICT) solutions? Many organizations approach Europe as one region, often combined with the Middle East and Africa (the...
Best Practices In VoC And CSAT Research For Market Insights Professionals
Market insights professionals often carry out customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys — a key component in voice of the customer (VoC) research — but then struggle to turn results into...
Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations
Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead
Over the past two years, consumer technology adoption and market forces have catapulted the field of customer experience into strategic stature. But it will be years before customer experience is...

The Most Important Metrics And How To Use Them To Show The Value-Add Of Market Insights
Market insights professionals can potentially track hundreds of metrics, but which ones are the most important and will provide the best visibility into the health of the business? In this report,...
European Interactive Agencies Report Their Capacity, Budget, And Industry Capabilities
Companies seeking agency partners in Europe find it challenging to identify the best agencies to meet their needs. To kick-start the vendor selection process, Forrester gathered self-reported data...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Mobile phones are an integral part of day-to-day life for most Chinese consumers. But not everyone uses their phone in the same way nor is similarly attached to their phone. Forrester's analysis of...
Strategic Plan: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
Market insights professionals want to evolve and be able to add higher value and influence, if not drive, business success. Evolution, though, requires a strong strategic plan, rationalizing scarce...
Global Consumer Technographics®
There are significant differences in the way that people access and manage their finances globally. Online banking is common among online consumers in the US, Europe, and metropolitan areas in Asia...
Seven Best Practices For Successfully Using A Market Research Online Community For Behavioral Tracking
Several market research online community (MROC) providers and client-side researchers are pushing the envelope with their communities and panels, using them as a platform for testing emerging...