Carrie Johnson

Vice President, Practice Leader - eBusiness & Channel Strategy serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy PROFESSIONALS

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.

Previous Work Experience

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.


Education

Carrie is a magna cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College.

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  • Analyst Relations
  • Discussion:Sales Win/Loss Analysis & AR

    Is there a formalized win/loss analysis at your company? I know many AR professionals would love to be included, to document and benchmark where in the sales process AR efforts manifest - to 'test...

    • Discussion:Best Practices For Major Analyst Evaluations, Part 3: Interactions With Authors

      Good advice that applies to analyst strategies beyond major evaluations.

      • Discussion:Regarding The Project Identification For The Future

        I want to analyst some new technology without this no one can live and it will be the proper solution also like we were living without the mobile phone but now it becomes the Compolsary same way 5...

        • Discussion:Do you have any insights into working with the sales force to make the integration with AR happen?

          I was wondering do you have any examples/processes to ensure that AR and the sales force are integrated in an organisation?

          • Discussion:What do you think of Constellation?

            We got a preso yesternite by Ray Wang and Co at the IIAR London Forum: http://analystrelations.org/2012/03/15/more-stars-move-into-the-constellation/Seems like they're about to pull something...

            • Discussion:What is "AR maturity" anyway?

              Some time ago, I posted a question about analyst relations maturity - more specifically, what criteria would need to be considered in any maturity model created for self-assessment or...

              • Discussion:Pricing increases?

                Are you getting hit with pricing increases for 2011? My Forrester rep has warned me to expect 5% and my Gartner rep has signaled 4%. I haven't contacted IDC yet, but will soon. Are you expecting 2011...

                • Discussion:Forrester's Footprint in Asia Pac - and You!

                  Exciting news! Springboard Research is now a part of Forrester. While technically serving the Vendor Strategy role, this is also great news for Analyst Relations! We know that extending our footprint...

                  • Discussion:Leveraging analysts in social media and customer interaction in general to end user stimulate demand

                    Do you have any insights into leveraging analysts in social media and their customer interaction to stimulate end user demand?

                    • Discussion:Gartner buys IDEAS, how does that compare to Springboard?

                      Blogged about how Gartner followed Forrester's lead with their latest acquisition:http://analystrelations.org/2012/04/20/gartner-gets-the-ideas-from-forrester/Someone I don't know made a comment...

                      • Discussion:Stats referring to the adoption of mobile by trade or professional association

                        Could anyone point me in the right direction to acquire such data?  Thanks

                        • Discussion:Gartner's Elite program at Symposium - worth doing?

                          Hi All,I know this isn't a 'big picture' type question (and it's about Big G), but I wanted to get the community's view on a program that runs as part of the Symposium that I am not familiar with -...

                          • Discussion:How to best balance tactical versus strategic needs?

                            Seems that many of us are often faced with a common challenge... how to balance the tactical (business unit) needs versus strategic (corporate) needs of analyst relations.  I know that I am often...

                            • Discussion:Speaker Training for Analysts and Media

                              Can anyone recommend a firm for speaker training for analyst briefings and media interviews? I’m looking for someone that has expertise in improving communication skills for those speaking to...

                              • Discussion:Video wall screen resolution

                                Hi All,I am new to Forrester....I am in the process of setting up a video wall for my Operations centre. As part of this I have received responses from various manufacturers. The problem is most of...

                                • Discussion:Exciting times in the AR world

                                  An exciting couple weeks in the world of analyst relations.  There has been another flurry of AR job postings with seven new jobs on our board in November alone.  And a new firm was born taking with...

                                  • Discussion:What's the best AR result you know?

                                    If we really wanted to blow the socks off folk outside AR who don't fully understand what it can achieve, it would be great to recount AR's greatest achievements. So what was your finest AR hour? Or...

                                    • Discussion:Analyst Relations resources

                                      Not asking for actual numbers... but what is the ratio of PR (counting agency people) to AR people (also counting agency) in your company? 2:1?  3:1? etc.?

                                      • Discussion:Best Practices For Major Analyst Evaluations, Part 1: Preparing To Participate

                                        This is a great prep doc; the one recommendation that jumped off the page for me was to "address likely evaluation criteria year-round." That should be a mantra incorporated into every vendor's AR...

                                        • Discussion:It's Time To Engineer AR

                                          Here at Se2 we are just starting to take advantage of research firms, and while we have met with a few analysts the majority of our focus has been on the learn side. After reading this article I've...

                                          • Discussion:What would you improve in the Vendor Briefings process?

                                            See the post here: The hype cycle of Vendor Briefing Requests

                                            • Discussion:Enterprise Reporting Strategy - Approach and Best Practices

                                              Hello Everyone,Can someone explain or get ideas about the approach to follow with Enterprise Reporting Strategy and its best practices ?Regards,Shyam

                                              • Discussion:Social Media Strategy for Analyst Days

                                                Hello,One thing that we are grappling with currently is the extent to which Tweeting/LinkIn/Other posts should be encouraged at Analyst Days (Summits). Given the nature of information shared (often...

                                                • Discussion:Is AR back on the rise?

                                                  Welcome to the Forrester AR community.  I look forward to the lively debate and sharing of ideas that I know will take place here.  We AR people are not shy.I am curious what the AR world thinks...

                                                  • Discussion:Co-opetition, Working with the Competition

                                                    In these days of standards, technology crossing boundaries and temporary alliances forming when needed, you find your company in the position of working on a project (or announcement) with your...

                                                     
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