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Ari is a principal analyst serving Interactive Marketing Professionals. He has nearly 15 years of experience in crafting interactive marketing strategies and best practices that generate revenues, build customer relationships, and enrich intelligence. He focuses on email marketing, social media, digital direct and CRM, measurement and analysis, marketing operations, and organizational planning. Ari is based in New York City.
Ari brings extensive experience to Forrester's interactive marketing practice. Before joining Forrester, he served as director of relationship marketing for the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he managed database and email marketing, CRM, and membership programs. In this role, Ari focused on fan acquisition, engagement, and monetization primarily through digital channels. Prior to the NBA, he was director of strategic services for the interactive unit at Epsilon, where he helped clients develop, execute, and analyze digital marketing programs and strategies. His experience also includes brand management at a consumer packaged goods unit of Johnson & Johnson, as well as corporate marketing and client services roles for an international marketing services firm. Ari is also a frequent speaker at events on topics spanning digital and multichannel marketing.
Ari has an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from New York University's Stern School of Business and a B.S. degree in communications from Cornell University.
Benchmarks: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
In 2012, Forrester surveyed channel professionals to get a pulse on the progress vendors are making toward successfully building channel partner loyalty programs. The results show that the majority...

Business Case: The CRM Playbook
Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives must not only be technically sound but must answer the question, "What will we get for our money?" Application development and delivery (AD&D) pros...

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...

Performance Management: The Business Intelligence Playbook
Business intelligence (BI) is often defined as processes and technologies to manage business performance, with the ultimate goal of making more informed decisions based on real data, not hunches. But...

Metrics: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes the metrics that form part of Forrester's solution for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives who are moving to strategic software sourcing. Too many sourcing...
Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

The BT Governance Collection: Practitioners' Experiences
As technologies and markets change rapidly, senior executives need to revisit traditional IT governance. They need to identify and deploy next-generation practices to support the CIO's transition...

Landscape: The EA Practice Playbook
Since 2009, Forrester's global state of enterprise architecture (EA) online survey has tracked the trends, priorities, and challenges of the EA practice. In our latest survey, the scale of EA value...

Performance Management: The EA Method Playbook
A good enterprise architecture (EA) methodology focuses on business outcomes. Forrester's EA method addresses both business outcomes and business agility, starting with how the business plans to how...

The BT Governance Collection: Communications
Implementing strong business technology (BT) governance is on the agenda for many organizations as they continue the seemingly endless pursuits of aligning IT and business strategy, getting more...
Performance Management: The Identity And Access Management Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective objectives and metrics for identity and access management (IAM) programs and initiatives. Most security and risk (S&R) professionals...
Performance Management: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective metrics to measure the performance of your workforce computing initiatives. Identifying and implementing a comprehensive, relevant...
Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

Business Case: The Governance, Risk, And Compliance Playbook
As the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform market matures, product vendors struggle to point to credible return on investment figures, and potential buyers similarly struggle when asked...
Best Practices For CIOs
Customer experience (CX) is too often thought of in terms of the IT help desk. But CIOs and their IT teams are increasingly being challenged with improving the customer experience for the...

Put "People Change" Front And Center
Change management is an ongoing organizational process due to the continual change that characterizes today's business. The repercussions of not handling change well include lost revenue, lower staff...
Today, many companies see outsourcing as a strategic function and seek help from IT services providers to build and operate their IT environment. Yet the result of the outsourcing trend is the...

Benchmarks: The Business Architecture Playbook
Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture (BA) to help assess and plan them —...
Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...
Performance Management: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Mobile will touch and change everything in your business — from the way your sales reps use catalogs on iPads to engage customers at the point of sale to the way your finance team empowers your...
Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook
Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...
Findings From Forrester's Digital Customer Experience Online Survey
Forrester recently surveyed 233 digital customer experience professionals with decision-making roles in digital experience (DX) technologies, asking them about their strategies for the coming 12 to...
This tool assesses clients' outsourcing maturity level, identifies clients' weaknesses, and automatically prioritizes those weaknesses based on clients' scores. Additionally, it...

Business Case: The Business Intelligence Playbook
As the demand for pervasive and comprehensive business intelligence (BI) applications increases, so do the complexity and cost of large enterprise BI implementations. Organizations must demonstrate...
Performance Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
The benefits of improved information sharing and collaboration from deploying enterprise social computing are hard to quantify. With the exception of email and audioconferencing, collaboration...