Chris Andrews

Principal Analyst & Research Director serving Sourcing & Vendor Management PROFESSIONALS

Chris serves Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals with research focused on how organizations can define sourcing strategy, select and negotiate with key technology vendors, and maximize supplier performance over time. Chris is a recognized expert in IT and business services, and he focuses on how customers can manage innovation programs with their third-party service providers. He has written research about how the leading IT and business service providers facilitate innovation, introduce new technologies, and integrate technologies for IT and business customers. He has also created frameworks and evaluation methodologies to help sourcing professionals evaluate the risks, costs, and business value of emerging technologies. Prior to working on the sourcing and vendor management team, Chris served on Forrester's technology industry vendor strategy team. In this role, Chris wrote about topics relevant to technology strategists — such as long-term market trends, the importance of business customers in technology purchasing decisions, innovation, and emerging technology trends and disruptions.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to his work as an analyst, Chris was in Forrester's consulting group, where he led strategy consulting engagements for leading technology vendors. He has helped technology clients with market sizing, competitive assessments, customer segmentation, product marketing, and M&A strategy. Prior to joining Forrester, Chris had several years of experience in strategy consulting, including advisory and market research work for Fortune 500 technology companies and private equity investors.


Education

Chris received his M.B.A. from Georgetown University and his B.A., with honors, from Middlebury College.

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    Report:CMOs Must Connect The Dots Of The Online Brand

    Orchestrate Digital For The Best Brand Experience

    Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels — Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other...

    • Downloads: 906
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The Cross-Channel Attribution Blueprint

    A Readiness Framework For Successful Implementation

    Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals are increasingly tasked with assessing marketing effectiveness across all channels within the organization. But without access to next-generation attribution...

    • Downloads: 778
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:CMO Mandate: Adapt Or Perish

    The Five Habits Of Highly Adaptive Marketers

    Three out of four CMOs plan to revamp their organizations for the digital age by the end of 2011. The reason? Their initial efforts to create digital departments and outsource digital capabilities...

    • Downloads: 1372
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Charts & Figures:Marriott Surfaces Key Content Where Users Need It

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Upgrading Your Interactive Measurement Strategy

    Why You Should Make Multichannel Measurement A Priority

    Marketers measure digital channels in isolation from one another. However, consumers don't act within channels; they act across channels. Cross-channel measurement, a nice-to-have for most marketers...

    • Downloads: 961
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Profiling Brand-Loyal And Price-Conscious US Consumers

    A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    Brand loyalty and price sensitivity guide consumers' purchasing decisions, but these qualities also create unique audiences that embody distinct social attitudes, technology engagement, and...

    • Downloads: 37
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Marketing To Millennials: The Next Generation Of Purchasing Power

    Why Marketers Must Use A Skillful Approach To Reach Millennials Effectively

    As Millennials continue to flow into the workforce, marketers will naturally focus more of their efforts on this emerging adult generation with increasing purchasing power. However, Millennials are...

    • Downloads: 1057
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Listening Platforms, Q2 2012

    How Nine Vendors Stack Up In A Constantly Changing Market

    In Forrester's 64-criteria evaluation of enterprise listening platforms vendors, we found that Radian6 and Visible Technologies lead the pack because of their variably functional dashboards and...

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    Report:Case Study: Intel's "Social Media Center Of Excellence" Responds In Real Time

    Intel has an internal team of seven employees — aligned by business function — to listen to the groundswell, engage in online discussion, and set corporate guidelines for social media....

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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:CMOs Must Lead The Brand Experience

    Organization: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Twenty-first century brands are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world in which the companies that take an obsessive...

    • Downloads: 361
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Survey:North American Technographics® Brand Compass Survey, Q1 2013

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,575 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,575), there is 95% confidence...

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Tool:B2C And B2B Listening Customers Track A Variety Of Topics

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:B2B Financial Services Marketers Are Slow To Embrace Emerging IM Tactics

    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Tool:Overall Results Of Brand Reviews Across 14 Sites In Three Industries

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Defining Social Intelligence

      Vision: The Social Intelligence Playbook

      Listening platforms power marketers by analyzing their brands, products, and customers across social media channels. But although listening platforms make managing social data possible, marketers...

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    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Tool:Forrester's Web Site Brand Experience Review Criteria And Scoring

    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:.Brand And The Impact For eBusiness

      CMOs Must Drive Their Firms' Domain Strategy Now

      A fundamental transformation of the way brands and consumers connect on the Internet is amid us. Icann, the authority responsible for Internet domains, has approved a plan to expand the 22 currently...

      • Downloads: 381
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:How To Measure The Brand Impact Of Paid Search

      Interactive marketers consider branding one of the key objectives of their search marketing program; but few of them apply methods to understand the brand impact of search. Rather than focus only on...

      • Downloads: 534
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Let Your Product Do The Talking

      Build Your Brand With A Product Experience Platform

      As the effectiveness of traditional communications vehicles continues to decline, marketers must think differently about brand building. Forrester has identified that consumers are tuning out...

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    • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

      Report:The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2011 To 2013

      An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track

      Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...

      • Downloads: 6684
    • For CMO Professionals

      Tool:Most Marketers Invest Conservatively In Experimentation And Testing

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The 2011 Listening Platform Landscape

      Exploring The Tools And Technologies That Manage Social Media Data

      In January 2009, Forrester identified an evolution in the social media technology market: Social media monitoring tools grew into a more advanced technology and analytics infrastructure —...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:Online Users Are Facing A Tidal Wave Of Social Content

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Spotlight On Award-Winning Communities

      Processes: The B2B Online Community Playbook

      This report showcases the exemplary community processes into practice by Forrester's 2011 Groundswell Award winners and finalists. These community leaders did not achieve success by luck, rather they...

      • Downloads: 493
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:The New Blogging Strategy For Consumer Brands

      Using Blogs To Empower Consumers And Gain Back Trust For Your Brand

      Blogging is an often misused social marketing platform. Marketers often recycle generic content, follow quarterly content schedules, and plan more for search optimization than engagement. Old school...

      • Downloads: 779
     
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