Chris Stutzman

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving CMO & Marketing Leadership PROFESSIONALS

Chris serves CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals as well as agency leaders. He is a leading expert on modern brand strategy, digital-era advertising, and the evolving agency landscape.

Previous Work Experience

Chris has more than 17 years of experience in management consulting and advertising. He helps marketers navigate emerging media and technology, transform their advertising strategy, and adapt their organizations for the digital age. Clients such as Facebook, L'Oreal, Kraft Foods, HP, and IBM have turned to Chris for his thought leadership. Additionally, he has worked across a broad spectrum of agencies — including holding companies such as Omnicom and WPP, network agencies such as JWT and DDB, and digital agencies such as Digitas, Rosetta, VML, and Blast Radius — to improve their strategic capabilities, competitive positioning, and new business strategies.

Prior to Forrester, Chris worked in advertising for more than eight years, developing brand strategies and discovering breakthrough consumer insights for clients such as Mars, Michelin, Novartis, and Wachovia. Chris started his career as a management consultant for Accenture, where he developed customer experience and marketing technology strategies for clients such as AT&T and Bell South.

Chris is a member of The Wharton School's Future of Advertising project. He is also a regular contributor to industry publications and events, including Advertising Age CMO Strategy and the ANA.


Education

Chris received an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.A. in English from Bucknell University.

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    Client Inquiry:Aggregation Services Used By US Banks

    In the US, what is the percentage of online banking consumers who use account aggregators? How many US financial services (FS) firms provide account aggregation services: 1) retail banks; 2) pure...

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      Client Inquiry:Customer Communication Involved With Money Movements

      When customers transfer monies between accounts, there are different ways by which the bank advises them when it's completed -- SMS texting, letter confirmation, telephone call, etc. Does Forrester...

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        Report:Strategic Staffing For Mobile eBusiness

        As mobile adoption increases, eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are challenged to determine how these devices integrate with their existing sales and service channels. It is imperative...

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        Charts & Figures:Consumer-Facing Budgets Rise In 2010

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        Blog:So You Want To Be A Chief Digital Officer?

        During my sullen teenage years my father invented a nonsensical, rhetorical question to proffer when conversation ran dry. During particularly quiet moments he’d ask, “So you want to be a...

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          Report:Trends 2011: Cost Of eBusiness Operations And Customer Acquisition

          Budgets And Costs Spike For B2B And Financial Services Firms

          eBusiness budgets have risen steadily since 2008. In our annual survey of eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, we find that B2B and financial services firms in particular have dramatically...

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          Client Inquiry:Will Customers Pay For Alerts?

          What is customers' attitude around paying for alerts? Are there ones they would pay for and others they would not pay for? How much would they be willing to pay? Is anyone using alerts from a...

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            Blog:Join Forrester’s New Online Community For eBusiness And Channel Strategy Professionals

            The eBusiness team at Forrester is excited to announce that we have launched The Forrester Community For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals focused on the key business challenges...

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              Blog:Are you spending enough on eBusiness?

              Ever wonder if you're spending enough on your eBusiness efforts compared with your peers? We've been benchmarking key metrics like team size, channel responsibilities, and spending for four...

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                Report:Mobile Channel Strategy: An Overview

                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...

                • Downloads: 2166
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                Report:Adapting Your eBusiness Strategy For The Era Of Agile Commerce

                To bring eBusiness strategies in line with a vision of agile commerce — where companies serve customers seamlessly across touchpoints — we find that many firms are in the midst of massive...

                • Downloads: 685
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                Blog:Q&A with Bert DuMars, VP, Digital Marketing & Ecommerce, Newell Rubbermaid

                I had the chance to catch up with Bert DuMars, VP of Digital Marketing & eCommerce at Newell Rubbermaid, in advance of his keynote later this month at the eBusiness Forum. I spoke with Bert...

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                  Blog:Seizing Opportunity From Digital Disruption

                  I recently wrote a post about "eBusiness professionals edging closer and closer to the C-Suite. It's happening across many organizations and has a lot of implications -- from eBusiness pros...

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                    Report:Benchmark Your eBusiness Strategy And Results

                    Five Key Metrics For Tracking eBusiness Progress And Maturity

                    How does your eBusiness strategy stack up to your peers and competition? In this report we identify five key benchmarks for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals to help you gauge the success...

                    • Downloads: 883
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                    Report:The Building Blocks For Social Success In eBusiness

                    As consumers become more comfortable integrating social tools into their everyday lives, eBusiness leaders seek the right social strategy to achieve their goals. While the benefits of social media...

                    • Downloads: 898
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                    Report:Trends 2011: Staffing And Hiring For eBusiness

                    eBusiness Leaders Who Struggle To Fill Open Jobs Can't Settle For Mediocrity

                    Unemployment plagues the US, yet eBusiness and channel strategy professionals face a counterintuitive problem — hiring. They struggle to fill customer experience, IT, and business analyst...

                    • Downloads: 477
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                    Report:eBusiness Must Become Customer-Obsessed

                    Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer

                    As eBusiness and channel strategy professionals know all too well, empowered consumers disrupt business models across every industry. Success in the age of the customer requires companies to go...

                    • Downloads: 515
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                    Report:Multichannel Execution Falls Short

                    eBusiness Executives Report A Gap In Multichannel Strategy Vision And Execution

                    eBusiness executives have been fighting for increased investments in digital channels, and their efforts have paid off: The web channel tops their firms' channel investment priorities for 2011....

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                    Blog:Benchmark Your eBusiness Strategy And Results

                    I'm so excited to announce that today we have launched Forrester's new free eBusiness benchmarking tool. With the tool you can compare your key performance metrics against your peers'....

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                      Blog:Making eBusiness Outside In

                      Today Forrester released its new book Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business. At the crux of the book is a powerful message for all firms and in particular for...

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                        Blog:Moving eBusiness Into The C-Suite (Or Close To It)

                        After years of fighting for a voice in the organization, eBusiness leaders are finding themselves in the spotlight. Some all-stars command total compensation packages of more than $1 million and...

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                          Blog:Live Streaming From Forrester's Consumer Forum 2010 - Day Two

                          8:30 a.m.-8:35 a.m. CST Day Two Opening Remarks Carrie Johnson, Vice President, Research Director, Forrester   8:35 a.m.-8:50 a.m. CST Working With IT To Build An Empowered Organization Ted...

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                            Tool:Key eBusiness Benchmarks Defined

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                            Blog:Digital Disruption Will Tear Down And Rebuild Every Product In Every Industry

                              Digital disruption is forcing business leaders in every industry to rethink their strategy. Music, media, and publishing have been turned upside down. Now, non-digital products and services...

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                              Blog:Where Are You On The Social Spectrum?

                              Social shopping -- and service -- has become a reality: The percent of US online consumers opting out of social media -- Inactives -- has fallen dramatically, from 52% in 2006 to just...

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                                Report:eBusiness Teams Reorganize . . . Again

                                Traditional Models Are Stepping Stones To Long-Run Agile Strategies

                                The evolution from multichannel to agile commerce strategies has eBusiness teams scrambling. Finding the right organizational structure to accommodate the complexities of the...

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