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Charles serves CIOs. His research covers mobility and the digital home. He has an end-to-end understanding of wireless, encompassing end user behavior, devices, networks, carrier strategy, content, and applications, as well as mobile as a marketing channel. His research on the digital home examines the enabling networks; connectivity solutions; content and applications; and the changing role for service providers, media companies, marketers, device makers, and application developers in this evolving environment. Charles' research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as on ABC, CNBC, CNN, NPR, and PBS.
Prior to joining Forrester, Charles held senior technology positions at Citigroup, providing strategic technology guidance across business units in consumer and corporate finance. Among his projects were initiatives in consumer mobile banking in Japan, mobile commerce in Japan, and mobile payments in the US. His previous experience covers a wide variety of technologies and markets, including CAD for integrated circuit design, 3D graphics for film and broadcast, consumer entertainment software, interactive television, and production systems for game development.
Charles holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Competition Shifts From Devices To Ecosystems
CIOs might interpret the recent flood of mobile device product announcements, highlighted by the September 12 unveiling of Apple's iPhone 5, as competing vendors fomenting demand for the holiday...

Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...
Apple's Cross-Device Product Strategy Drives Product Differentiation And Customer Loyalty
Let's face it: Many observers, anticipating a redesign and a raft of hardware innovations, reacted with disappointment to Apple's iPhone 4S unveiling. Does it matter? No. Why? Because Apple launched...
Understanding Global Smartphone Adoption Today And Tomorrow
In a global population that exceeds 5 billion subscriptions, consumer product strategists recognize that smartphones are a niche today. Yet in the US and in some European countries, smartphone...
Device And App Product Strategists Must Scale Up To Keep Up
Consumer product strategists throughout the broader wireless ecosystem are waking up to a potentially radical shift in the industry landscape as AT&T announces its plan to reclaim the top spot in the...
Product Strategists Must Segment The US Smartphone Market
Consumer product strategists — across many categories — are increasingly focused on smartphone owners, and Forrester's recently published US mobile phone forecast confirms the value of...
Their Market Disrupted, Both Require Differentiation To Succeed
Nokia, its once-leading global smartphone market share declining rapidly, announced that it will shift from its own Symbian platform to Microsoft's Windows Phone platform in an attempt to regain...

Product Loyalty's New Calculus
Connectivity is becoming a default feature in a diverse range of consumer products, from portables like tablets and eReaders to TVs and Blu-ray players. As the cost of adding connectivity to devices...
An Empowered Report: Understanding The Mobile Behavior Of Your Target Audience
The first step in building or refining a mobile strategy is understanding the mobile behaviors of your target audience. In April 2009, Forrester introduced Mobile Technographics, allowing companies...
Product Strategists Face A New Competitive Landscape
Verizon Wireless today announced that it would begin selling the iPhone to the public on February 10. This much anticipated expiration of AT&T's exclusive agreement with Apple changes the competitive...
In May 2009, Forrester predicted that, while a growing number of consumers would embrace navigation solutions, the phone would be the most widely used tool for navigation by 2013. Our most recent...
An Empowered Report: Understanding The Mobile Behavior Of Your Target Audience
The first step in building or refining a mobile strategy is understanding the mobile behaviors of your target audience. Mobile Technographics offers consumer product strategists a means of obtaining...
An Empowered Report: Understanding The Mobile Behavior Of Your Target Audience
The first step in building or refining a mobile strategy is understanding the mobile behaviors of your target audience. In April 2009, Forrester first published Mobile Technographics, offering...
US Consumers Have Little Clue About Their Phone's Software
In the white-hot US smartphone market, the once-invisible underlying software platforms have become one of the fiercest areas of competition. RIM and Apple lead this market, while platforms from...
Smartphones And Quick Messaging Devices Make Up A Third Of US Phones
As 2009 drew to a close, many in the press were keen to label it "the year of the smartphone." That's true, but it's not the whole story: The past year saw massive growth in mobile phones that carry...
A Life Stage Analysis Of The Canadian Benchmark Survey
This is a graphical analysis of the Canadian consumer market based on Forrester’s North American Technographics® Benchmark Survey, 2009 (US, Canada). It describes the current state of...
Growth Will Continue Despite Looming Subscriber Saturation
Mobile phones and networks have reached near-ubiquity in the US. Despite a paucity of new subscribers to sell service to, mobile operators will continue to reap the benefits of the advance of their...
Earlier this year, Forrester predicted that, while a growing number of consumers would embrace navigation solutions, the phone would be the most widely used tool for navigation by 2013. Our most...
It's Not Smartphones; It's Their Younger "Quick Messaging" Siblings
While smartphones like Apple's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, and T-Mobile's Android-based MyTouch get all the attention, another category of mobile phones has quietly been accelerating its market...
A Life Stage Analysis Of The US Benchmark Survey
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Benchmark Survey, 2009. It provides an overview of US consumers' demographics, behaviors, and technology...
On June 8, 2009, Apple announced the latest addition to its iPhone lineup: the iPhone 3G S. Apple's decision to differentiate this new version via not only its new features, such as video capture and...
Understanding Mobile Phone Usage Is The Foundation Of A Mobile Strategy
Consumer adoption and usage of mobile communication and multimedia services has reached critical mass. Any brand that interacts regularly with consumers — from retailers to banks to media...
Except For A Fickle Minority, Service And Value Far Outweigh Devices As Drivers For Switching
With cellular service saturation looming on the horizon — more than nine out of 10 US online consumers own a mobile phone today — mobile operators have shifted their focus to subscriber...
North American Youth Would Use Their Mobiles Even More If Service Improved
Three-quarters of online youth in North America have a mobile phone today, including more than 90% of 18-year-olds. These young people rely heavily on their cell phones for a wide variety of...
A Generational Analysis Of Canadian Consumers
This is a graphical analysis of the Canadian consumer market using Forrester's North American Technographics® Benchmark Survey, 2008. It forecasts device and service adoption, and it provides an...