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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.
Assessment: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As retail companies evaluate their eCommerce opportunities, establishing a level set of their current strengths and weaknesses is essential. In 2008, Forrester introduced its proprietary eBusiness...
How eBusiness Leaders Should Approach Mobile As A Sales And Service Channel
Across the globe, the mobile channel is growing at a rapid rate. eBusiness and channel strategy leaders at B2B and B2C firms are at the forefront: 94% of eBusiness managers we surveyed are either...
Initial Lessons Learned As A Large, National B2B Brand Pilots eCommerce
Furniture Brands International, one of the US's leading designers, manufacturers, and retailers of home furnishings, has marketed through a wide range of retail channels — from mass-merchant...
Forrester recently released a report showing the results of a survey of more than 4,500 US consumers and their level of satisfaction with Web, phone, and in-person interactions across 12 different...
Competition Heats Up As Budgets Rise Along With Acquisition Costs
There's good news and bad news for eBusiness executives. A recent survey of our eBusiness And Channel Strategy Professional Research Panel found that online budgets will increase this year. While...
Understanding Online Auction Buyers And The Role Of The Auction Marketplace
By year-end 2007, 21% of US online consumers had purchased from an online auction in the past 12 months, representing a hefty slice of the eCommerce pie. Young, affluent, and tech-savvy, online...
Forrester has released its annual guide to US device adoption and forecasts, demographics, and technology attitudes and behaviors. This year's report offers a generational analysis to show key...
How Consumers Research, Buy, And Get Service
Our research still shows that despite the adoption of online transactions, consumers prefer in-store experiences over the Web when it comes to researching, buying, and getting customer service. This...
Results Of Our Q4 2007 eBusiness, Channel And Product Management Panel
Forrester recently surveyed 131 current members of our eBusiness, Channel And Product Management Research Panel to get a sense of how they feel their firms are doing in the area of online sales...
Experienced Web Buyers Are Becoming The New Mainstream
The online shopper is maturing: Only one in 10 Web buyers has less than one year of online shopping experience, down from one out of five Web buyers in 2005. In fact, today, nearly one-third of Web...
Understanding Web Buyers' Price Expectations For Retail Shopping Channels
Although the number of technologically inclined Web buyers is steadily increasing, Web buyers still prefer to shop in traditional offline stores, and their spending behavior confirms this — on...
A look at US adults who are bidding and selling in online auctions.
Canadian eCommerce Adoption Remains Stagnant
Online adoption continues to build momentum in Canada, but eCommerce adoption does not: The number of Canadian consumers shopping online during 2006 remained stagnant over 2005. What's holding back...
Industry Results Of Our eBusiness, Channel And Product Management Survey
Forrester recently surveyed our panel of 107 eBusiness and channel and product management executives to examine 2007 online budgets and priorities. Retail companies represented almost one-fifth of...
Results Of Our First eBusiness, Channel And Product Management Survey
Forrester recently surveyed 107 current clients and prospects within our eBusiness, channel and product management research panel to examine 2007 online budgets and priorities. Our panelists include...
But That Doesn't Mean Retailers Have To Bottom Feed
A history of insane promotions and deals has left the Web with the dubious reputation of being a bargain basement. As a result, online shoppers expect to find lower prices online than in other...
More Advanced Online Activities Correlate To Increased Online Spending
As the Web matures, firms from health plans to brokerages are opening up eBusiness channels that introduce consumers to more and more complex online transactions that go far beyond simple book...