Benjamin Ensor

Vice President, Research Director serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy PROFESSIONALS

Benjamin serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. His research focuses on how consumers perceive, adopt, and use new technologies and what that means for business executives at consumer companies, encompassing topics like customer segmentation, business models, and managing multiple distribution channels.

His research explores how emerging technologies like the Internet and mobile phones affect consumers' behavior, what motivates their use of different channels for different tasks, and how new channels and technologies are changing consumers' media consumption and their relationships with consumer firms like retailers and financial services companies. In particular, he specializes in understanding the effect of the Internet and other new technologies on business models in retail financial services, including payments, banking, lending, investments, and insurance.

During his 13 years at Forrester, Benjamin has worked in the company's Consumer Technographics®, financial services, and eBusiness channel & product management professional teams. He is based in Forrester's London office.

Previous Work Experience

Before he joined Forrester, Benjamin was an analyst at Fletcher Research, the UK Internet research company that Forrester acquired. There, he researched the nascent online retail, online financial services, and online advertising markets. Before joining Fletcher Research, Benjamin worked as a financial journalist in London for four years.


Education

Benjamin has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford.

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    Report:Tracking The Renegade Technology Buyer

    Understanding The What And Why Of Business Executives' Spending On Technology

    After nearly a decade in hibernation, the business buyer has re-emerged as a major spender and force in IT spending. To better understand the return of tech spending outside the formal IT budget and...

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    Report:Industry Innovation: Retail

    Technology Trends That Retail CIOs Must Tap To Drive Growth

    Today's retail CIOs can radically influence the future of their business, with more new opportunities to use technology to transform the competitive landscape since the emergence of EPOS in the early...

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    Report:Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure Markets

    Cloud Services, New Technologies, And The Rise Of Informal Computing Buyers

    Important trends are surfacing in computing infrastructure markets that will cause vendor strategists to take a fresh look at new buyer behavior, shifts in business models, and adoption of emerging...

    • Downloads: 839
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    Report:Ignoring Cloud Risks A Growing Gap Between I&O And The Business

    Navigating The Shifts In Computing Infrastructure

    Over the past several years, we've seen two key cloud trends in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space: 1) Public cloud adoption rates are highest among "informal buyers" (non-IT employees),...

    • Downloads: 660
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Mobilize Your Collaboration Strategy

    Mobile Collaboration Requires An App Internet Architecture

    The days when a Windows application and a server cluster in the data center could handle your collaboration needs are over. An increasingly mobile and remote workforce with experiences forged by...

    • Downloads: 1083
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    Report:Executive Overview: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

    Executive Overview: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

    CIOs have a deep responsibility to lead their company's journey to a world where billions of customers, partners, and employees wield touchscreen mobile devices. CIOs will need to expand their...

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    Report:CIOs: Master The Mobile Banking Imperative

    The Mobile Banking Imperative

    This report, written for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, is also relevant to CIOs and other IT leaders. CIOs at every bank face major changes as consumers move their banking activities...

    • Downloads: 77
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:CIO: The Future Of Mobile Is Context

    Building A Foundation To Enable Next-Generation Mobile Services

    CIOs that Forrester interviewed understand the potential of context and are building the foundational infrastructure needed to support the use of context across consumer touchpoints — not just...

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    Report:Seven Mobile Engagement Pitfalls To Avoid

    And Seven Mobile-First Alternatives That Are Better

    Great mobile experiences are built on systems of engagement, and that means spending money on new engagement technology. Mobile apps have the thorny problem of needing to work spectacularly and...

    • Downloads: 337
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Benchmarking Mobile Engagement: Consumers And Employees Outpace CIOs' Readiness

    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...

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    Report:The Coming Upheaval In Tech Services

    Four Economic And Technology Factors Will Combine To Recast The Business

    The tech services market is about to undergo a massive transformation that will call traditional provider business models into question. Four factors will combine to dramatically change the dynamics,...

    • Downloads: 1918
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    Report:Great Mobile Experiences Are Built On Systems Of Engagement

    Vision: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

    By 2014, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers, including your employees and partners and customers. However, mobile is not simply another device for IT...

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    Report:The Changing Cloud Agenda

    Cloud Computing Shifts From Cost To Innovation

    Cloud computing continues to grow at a tremendous speed. But as the market and the understanding of cloud computing grows, the drivers and deployment scenarios that framed the initial cloud agenda...

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    • Comments: 2
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    Report:Mobile Computing: It's All About The Ecosystem

    Competition Shifts From Devices To Ecosystems

    CIOs might interpret the recent flood of mobile device product announcements, highlighted by the September 12 unveiling of Apple's iPhone 5, as competing vendors fomenting demand for the holiday...

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    Report:Build A Mobile Engagement Dashboard

    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...

    • Downloads: 156
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Services-Led Solutions Reshape The Security Market

    Redefining Your Competition, Partners, And Value Proposition When Everyone's A Security Vendor

    The IT security market is about to undergo a significant transformation toward becoming a services-led market. Several disruptive trends are overwhelming end user IT security practices, and the...

    • Downloads: 839
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Business Networks Will Push The Cloud Beyond IT

    The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation

    Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

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    Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

    CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

    As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

    • Downloads: 277
    • Comments: 2
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    Report:Caution: IT Investment May Be Hurting US Job Growth

    IT Vendors Should Take Steps To Avoid Potential Political Backlash

    The 2010 US economic recovery has largely been a jobless recovery. While many factors have been blamed — ranging from too much economic stimulus and regulation to too little — investment...

    • Downloads: 129
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Mobile App Internet Recasts The Software And Services Landscape

    App Innovation On Phones Will Spread To Cars, Appliances And Entertainment

    The explosion of app innovation that started on the iPhone and then spread to Android devices and tablets will continue to drive tech industry innovation and have far-reaching pricing and...

    • Downloads: 2078
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Governments Embrace New Modes Of Constituent Engagement

    Social Media, Mobility, And Open Data Transform eGovernment From Electronic To Engaged

    One of the most significant changes in city governance has been the growing trend toward constituent engagement — both with individual citizens and local businesses. Even in non-democratic...

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    Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

    Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years

    This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...

    • Downloads: 266
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    Report:What Technology Populism Means For Tech Marketers

    Information Workers Flex Muscles As Business Tech Decision-Makers

    Technology Populism — information workers provisioning technology outside of IT's auspices — is a topic of great interest to both technology vendors and IT departments. But is it more...

    • Downloads: 372
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    Report:Build Your Mobile Engagement Strategy

    Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

    Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

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    Report:Another Year Of Outperformance For The Tech Industry

    Forrester's 2011 Tech Industry Predictions

    In this report, we highlight macro trends and specific predictions that indicate the directions of growth and disruption for the technology industry in 2011.

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