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

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...

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...
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),...
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...
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...

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...
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...

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...
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...

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,...
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...

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...

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...

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...
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...
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...

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...

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...
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...
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...

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...
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...
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,...

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.