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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.
Business Plan: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the business plan for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives working on Agile and Lean. It is designed to help AD&D execs plan for Agile...
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Tell Your Partners To Remove The Do Not Disturb Sign And Join The Team
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Outsourced testing is here to stay — but the situation is changing. In previous years, the decision to outsource testing was primarily cost driven; however, the decision to outsource today must...
Challenges Breed Opportunities
Forrester Research and the Project Management Institute (PMI) recently hosted a survey regarding the state of the project management office (PMO) in 2011. The survey garnered 693 respondents, and the...
Crowdsourcing Enables Realistic Testing Across Multiple Platforms
Making sure that a company has optimum test coverage for customer-facing applications in a fast-paced environment can be impossible if you don't plan carefully. When you throw mobile into the mix,...
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Tackling Today's Challenges To Prepare For Tomorrow
As the economy continues to recover, firms are looking at how to prepare for growth while maintaining a lean approach. Because of this, project management offices (PMOs) are continually evolving...
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CSC announced today that it is acquiring AppLabs, a US-based IV&V testing vendor. At first glance, it's a win, maybe a win for both sides. CSC states that one of the reasons that it...
Could you please define and provide some discussion around: 1) governance versus assurance, and 2) the business owner/sponsor role versus the program manager role?
Incremental Changes Can Have A Big Impact On Quality
All software has bugs. Application development teams do the best they can to avoid and fix them. But developing quality software is hard. Why? Virtually all application development teams are squeezed...
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Change Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook
This report outlines the change management for Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on Agile and Lean. This report is designed to help you...
Performance Management: The Agile And Lean Playbook
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Use this tool to assess your organization's readiness for, or maturity in, Agile testing.

Policy And Procedures: The Agile And Lean Playbook
While companies are increasingly adopting Agile, for the most part these processes remain limited to the single project level. Agile thought leaders have not provided much clear or detailed guidance...

Can you provide a list of sample metrics to use to monitor vendors during the course of a software development project? We would like to measure the performance of the vendor on an ongoing basis for...
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