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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.
Why Pharma Should Integrate Social Into The Multichannel Customer View
The pharmaceutical industry faces significant sales and marketing challenges as many of its blockbuster drugs come off of patent and access to healthcare providers becomes increasingly restricted. In...

The explosion of consumer adoption of social technologies is changing the nature of relationships between companies and their customers. eBusiness professionals in the healthcare industry need to...
Multipayer Portals Are Emerging As Providers' Preferred Channel
Payer-provider connectivity remains quite fragmented in the US. As the feds gear up for the inaugural trial of a nascent Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) in late 2008, many payers and...
North American Consumer Technographics
Now more than ever, the Web is teeming with health-related content as new sites, products, and services seem to flood the market under the health and wellness guise. So how are consumers responding?...
Forrester Exposes Glaring Lack Of Loyalty In A Highly Price-Sensitive Market
Individual consumers seeking health coverage are increasingly going online to find it, but today, many health insurers' Web sites are ill-prepared to turn these visitors into profitable members....
A Market That Is Ripe For The Picking
The individual health insurance market is slowly but steadily growing, driven by the gradual erosion of employer-sponsored coverage, the rising population of uninsured, and a government that...
2009 Will Be A Time Of Uncertainty And Transition In The Healthcare Industry
A recession is hitting US consumers hard as the financial crisis continues to send ripples across US and global economies. Most US industries are feeling the effects —banks, retailers, auto...
A Call For eBusiness Professionals To Respond To Industry Transformation
The needs of online healthcare consumers are evolving, and many of the tools that plans make available to them aren't keeping up. The good news is that consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) members...
HSAs Swell To More Than 6 Million Accounts And More Than $8 Billion In Assets
The so-called consumer-directed health (CDH) market plunges its roots deeper into the health insurance industry as US employers continue to fight the rising costs of healthcare and more consumers...
The Demographic Profiles And Attitudes Of US Individual Purchasers Of Health
Who's purchasing individual insurance? And why? To answer these and other questions, we looked at Forrester's North American Technographics® Healthcare Online Survey, Q2 2008. We found that...
Healthcare Marketers Have An Uphill Battle Ahead Of Them
According to Forrester's North American Technographics® Healthcare Online Survey, Q2 2008, 39% of non-elderly commercially insured adults in the US now own a health spending account. This...
Consumer Visits To Retail Health Clinics More Than Double From 2007
Walk-in retail health clinics are forging ahead across the US, with new locations opening at a steady pace. In our recent North American Technographics® Healthcare Online Survey, Q2 2008, we...
Engagement Among Account Holders Is Higher, But An Education Gap Remains
Growth in the consumer-directed health (CDH) market — the most controversial phenomenon in US healthcare since the rise of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) during the Nixon...
Unrest Is Looming Behind A Deceptively Positive Attitude Among HSA Owners
The so-called consumer-directed health (CDH) market has opened a new door for financial services firms. Health savings accounts (HSAs) are the controversial but quickly growing financial "half" of...
Forrester defines customer relationship management (CRM) as a set of business processes and supporting technologies that is used to acquire, retain, and enhance customer relationships. While...
What does the average uninsured person in the US look like? Are there differences among this population? Is there a real market opportunity for healthcare eBusiness managers hoping to gain individual...
Most Consumers Still Buy Offline And Ignore Drug Advertisements
Despite the fact that U.S. consumers are shopping for everything from music to clothing online, prescription medications just don't make it to their online shopping lists. Doctors remain the most...
Market penetration for health savings accounts (HSAs) among US households is gaining momentum. Even an impending presidential election, in which healthcare reform is a top priority, cannot break the...
Health Plans' Service Issues Will Cause Market Deceleration If Ignored
Recent evidence shows that consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) are beginning to gain market share faster than Forrester predicted in 2003. However, enrollees in these plans will demand improved...
Approval From Feds Levels The Playing Field In The CDHP Market
Fourteen months after it announced plans to get into the banking business, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has received federal approval of its application for a federal savings...