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Carlton serves Customer Insights (CI) Professionals. He was a founding member of the CI practice in 2009, and currently leads the global team of Forrester analysts that help clients capture, manage, and analyze customer data as well as apply the resulting insights to marketing and business strategy. Carlton began his Forrester career in 2006 as an analyst specializing in digital channels, emerging products, and enterprise technology in healthcare. He also led Forrester's consumer product strategy practice, where he managed a team of analysts that focused on innovation and digital disruption.
In addition to leading his team at Forrester, Carlton posts his thoughts and opinions on Twitter and on his blog.
Prior to joining Forrester, Carlton spent nine years as an IT and eBusiness leader in the health insurance industry. He also has experience with two start-ups and a leading marketing services provider.
Carlton holds a B.S. in civil engineering management from the University of Vermont.
Skills And Staffing: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
All too often, IT approaches staffing for social business and collaboration initiatives as it would other IT-led projects. With a focus on providing the best technical solution possible, the...
Build/Buy Capabilities: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
Forrester's BT Strategic Planning playbook helps CIOs build a BT technology road map — starting with business goals and identifying the business and technology strategies to achieve the goals....
Road Map: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
How do you build a road map for something as fast-moving and disruptive as mobile apps, devices, and projects? Certainly not by letting projects unfold at random as budgets and sponsors appear. To...

The BT Governance Collection: Outcomes And Processes
Business technology (BT) governance concerns itself with decisions around investing in IT-enabled business change. As an integral part of business strategy, BT governance is exercised by senior...

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,...

The BT Governance Collection: Stakeholders And Structures
Enterprise governance is about decision rights: who has input into decisions, who makes them, how are outcomes measured, and who is held accountable for those outcomes. Business technology (BT)...
Business Goals: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
Clear business goals lie at the heart of good strategy. Unfortunately, many organizations have aspirational goals that make strategic planning difficult at best, and they lack the mechanism to...
