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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  • Brand Growth & Expansion
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    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: 355
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    Report:Brands Must Adapt To Customers' Higher Standards

    Vision: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    The traditional pillars of brand equity are cracking under the weight of the higher standards of the 21st century consumer. Marketers are disoriented in this world where they are losing influence...

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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Start To Play With Social Gamers

    Social Gaming Provides A Ripe Marketing Opportunity

    Eighty-four percent of US interactive marketers have no plans to use games in their 2011 marketing strategies, making social gaming a large, untapped opportunity for marketers. Marketers should start...

    • Downloads: 826
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    Charts & Figures:Brand Performance And Brand Equity Are Being Shaped By Consumers' Higher Standards

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    Report:Consumers Demand More From 21st Century Brands

    Landscape: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Empowered consumers threaten the traditional building blocks of brand equity, as they have greater influence than ever over brand preference, recommendation, and pricing power. In February 2012,...

    • Downloads: 389
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    Report:Evaluate Your Brand Building Capabilities

    Assessment: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Today's digitally empowered consumers have more opportunities than ever to voice their wants, needs, and expectations, forcing marketers to rethink the way they build successful brands. This report...

    • Downloads: 249
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:How To Deliver A New Brand Experience

    Processes: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Many companies are well on their way to delivering a top-notch brand experience for their demanding customers. CMO and marketing leadership professionals can learn from the experiences and processes...

    • Downloads: 400
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Chart A New Course For Your Brand

    Strategic Plan: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    In order to build and preserve brand equity in the face of higher consumer expectations and support 21st century brand marketing, CMO and marketing leadership professionals must develop a strategic...

    • Downloads: 407
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    Report:Brand Building In The 21st Century

    The Quest For Market Share And Mindshare In An Age Of Higher Standards

    Like the ruins of Rome, the traditional pillars of brand equity are cracking under the weight of the higher standards of the 21st century consumer. Marketers are disoriented in this world where they...

    • Downloads: 691
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:The Post-Digital Rules Of Brand Building

    Executive Overview: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    In the 21st century, empowered consumers have steered brand marketing into foreign terrain — they have taken the driver's seat and told brands where, when, and how they want to be interacted...

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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Trends For The B2C CMO To Watch In 2013

    Embrace Digital Innovation To Deliver Compelling Brand Experiences

    2013 will be a unique year for CMOs of consumer-focused companies. They will have to drive their brands to deliver cohesive brand experiences that use digital to augment and extend their engagement...

    • Downloads: 471
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    Report:Become A Social CMO

    CMOs Must Experience Social Networking To Lead The Brand Experience

    CMOs indicate that, in the age of the customer, collaboration and influence through social networking will have the biggest impact on their organizations in the next three to five years. However,...

    • Downloads: 565
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Brand Loyalty Isn't Enough For Products Anymore

    Product Strategists Must Build Total Product Experiences To Combat Consumers' Declining Brand Loyalty

    Brand loyalty has long been a critical pillar of product strategy, but its power is in relative decline. Technology and a recessionary economy have threatened the value of brand loyalty, especially...

    • Downloads: 663
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Four Steps To Build Your Brand Experience

    Road Map: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    Once the brand has its strategic bearings laid out — the North Star, the experience map, and its brand compass — it's time to cast off and start thinking about how to plan for the brand...

    • Downloads: 416
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  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Mobile Adds New Appeal To Your Brand Experience

    The CMO Must Orchestrate Mobile Tightly Into Brand Experience From The Start

    Mobile is finally getting air time with the most innovative brands and marketers. Hoping to make mobile a more common and rich media choice among large brand advertisers, both Google and Apple have...

    • Downloads: 843
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Case Study: JetBlue Connects The Dots To Deliver Marketable Service

    JetBlue Airways has had trend-defying growth — at 10 years old, it is now a $4 billion company — in an environment where consumers are flying less, costs continue to increase, and the...

    • Downloads: 330
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:US Online Hispanics: A Demographic Overview

    North American Technographics®

    This demographic overview highlights the unique behaviors and attitudes that characterize US online Hispanics compared with their non-Hispanic peers. US online Hispanics lead the way in mobile device...

    • Downloads: 61
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Drive Higher Brand Engagement On Mobile Devices

    Mobile Marketing Needs To Be A Value Exchange Between Brand And Consumer

    Consumers' use of mobile is nearly ubiquitous in North America, but mobile marketing is still in its early years. Interactive marketers must take advantage of the opportunity to capture consumers'...

    • Downloads: 590
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Benchmark Your Brand Building Capabilities

    Benchmarks: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    In 2012, Forrester surveyed marketing leaders to get a pulse on their progress toward successfully building 21st century brands. The results show that marketers are in the early stages of 21st...

    • Downloads: 288
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Invest In The Brand Building Experience

    Business Case: The 21st Century Brand Marketing Playbook

    In the age of the customer, brand building is more important than ever to differentiate offerings and create long-term customer value. However, marketing leaders still need to convince their C-suite...

    • Downloads: 344
  • 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: 1371
  • 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: 380
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:Align Your Global Marketing Organization To Deliver On 21st Century Brand Building

    Consumers have higher expectations of 21st century brands, requiring marketers to rethink how they navigate the brand, from reestablishing the brand's North Star to creating a consistent set of brand...

    • Downloads: 83
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:Marketers Can Reach Broad Audiences In Social Games

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Tool:Social Gamers Straddle Between Average Adults And Other Types Of Gamers

  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Select The Right Interactive Agency In China

    Vet Interactive Agencies Against Four Key Criteria To Effectively Drive Your Marketing In China

    The opportunity for interactive marketing professionals to reach and win Chinese consumers via digital channels is enormous. But the threat of failure looms just as large for brands with a shallow...

    • Downloads: 103
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