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Carrie serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals and leads a team that helps these professionals in the retail, financial services, travel, and healthcare industries optimize sales and service strategies across channels. Carrie's current research focuses on online and multichannel retailing.
Prior to this position, Carrie spent eight years at Forrester researching the dynamics and growth of online retailing. In this role, she analyzed consumers' adoption of eCommerce, their multichannel behavior, and how retailers optimize sales to those consumers with key technologies and strategies. In this role, Carrie authored many key Forrester reports, including Forrester's annual eCommerce forecast. In addition, since 2002, Carrie has authored or led the research effort for "The State of Retailing Online," a Shop.org survey conducted by Forrester Research.
Carrie's background prior to Forrester includes work at the Harvard Business School, where she wrote case studies on Barnes & Noble, Frontgate, PlanetAll, QVC, Streamline, and TV Guide.
Carrie has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNBC, and CNNfn to speak about online retail trends and react to various retail news events. She has also been quoted in various newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Boston Globe.
Carrie is a magna cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College.
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Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July and August 2012 of 6,008 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban areas/provinces of Argentina and top urban areas/states of Brazil and Mexico. In...
Forrester believes that chief marketing officers (CMOs) must abandon the century-old marketing/sales funnel and embrace the customer life cycle in order to better manage their customers' interaction...

Royal Bank Of Canada Takes The Top Spot For 2012
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As business executives develop an appreciation for the potential value in their information assets, they're looking to architects to help them dramatically improve their information management and...
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Mobile, Social, Video, Advice, And Usability Will Change Retail Investing
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A Global Consumer Technographics® Report
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Exploratory research uncovers customer needs that have yet to be met, exposes opportunities for differentiation, provides a holistic view of a problem space, and helps firms keep pace with the...
Multichannel Integration Uncovers New Opportunities
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Forrester conducted a mail survey fielded from April to June 2012 of 12,181 US and Canadian households and individuals ages 18 and older. For results based on randomly chosen samples of these sizes...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Adoption of mobile banking by individual mobile users. The forecast segments the addressable market and reports for mobile bankers by generation (age), phone type, access type (SMS, mobile site,...
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Executive Overview: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
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