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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.
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Carrie is a magna cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College.
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...
Good advice that applies to analyst strategies beyond major evaluations.
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...
I was wondering do you have any examples/processes to ensure that AR and the sales force are integrated in an organisation?
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...
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...
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...
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...
Do you have any insights into leveraging analysts in social media and their customer interaction to stimulate end user demand?
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...
Could anyone point me in the right direction to acquire such data? Thanks
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 -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.?
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...
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...
See the post here: The hype cycle of Vendor Briefing Requests
Hello Everyone,Can someone explain or get ideas about the approach to follow with Enterprise Reporting Strategy and its best practices ?Regards,Shyam
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...
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...
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...