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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.
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores
Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As retail eCommerce sales continue to explode, eBusiness executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they are not missing opportunities in this critical channel. This playbook provides...

The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...

Landscape: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As eCommerce has exploded, eBusiness executives have often looked to various payment forms at checkout as a means of growing their businesses. Alternative payments, or non-card payments, purport to...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 20,778 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based on an...
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September and October 2012 of 13,911 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based...
As US online retail continues to grow and capture shopper wallet share, online retail executives must determine the best areas on which to focus their limited resources, particularly given the number...

Brand And Margin Protection Inhibit Adoption, But Other Approaches Are Emerging
Skepticism is the watchword across Europe as eBusiness executives consider engaging with daily deals sites such as Groupon and Living Social. Concerns about brand damage and sales cannibalization are...
Understanding The Opportunity On China's Largest B2C Website
Taking a business online in China is intimidating. Seemingly endless red tape, a diverse online population, and differences in consumer behavior are all issues a company must carefully consider....
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Mobile Will Accelerate While Retailers Will Combine Speed With Scale
Online retail is booming in Australia — and with 93% of households set to gain access to gigabit broadband in the years ahead, today's growth is just the beginning. In 2012, five trends will...
Sensor Devices Disrupt Marketing Practices
Your customers are becoming even more connected. Sensor-laden devices on our bodies, in our homes, in our cars, and virtually everywhere else are creating new opportunities and demands for marketers....

Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in April 2013 of 61,167 US individuals and 5,800 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N =...
Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases
Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...
How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending
Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...
eBusiness executives in retail will grapple with three key trends in 2012: growth of mobile device usage, heightened competition from Amazon.com, and continued market share shift to web retail....

French Online Retail Is On The Brink Of A Multichannel Revolution
France is the third largest online retail market in Europe; although it will continue to mature and grow at a pace outstripping overall retail growth, there are significant changes in store for...

We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years
US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...
How To Develop A Business Capability Map
This PPT shows you how to develop a business capability map. Please see "Forrester's Business Capability Map Development: Tool" to access the tool.

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...
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Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes historical...
Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure
During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...
