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Chris is a member of Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. His research focus is on tech-driven business transformation and smart computing and analytics, analyzing the economics and business models of IT suppliers, and emerging trends in technology adoption. Currently, his research is centered on the role of IT in enabling sustainability initiatives and improving corporate environmental responsibility.
Chris has been with Forrester for 13 years as an analyst and research team leader. He led Forrester's US research organization from 2002 to 2006, and he previously led the firm's research efforts in the financial services, automotive, healthcare, and telecom industries. He regularly speaks at industry conferences and Forrester events and is widely quoted in the business and IT industry press.
Prior to joining Forrester, Chris was a principal at GeoPartners Research, doing strategy consulting for leading technology companies. During the 1980s, he was with the investment bank Cowen & Company, where he headed its research coverage of the networking industry. He also worked at The Yankee Group as a telecom industry analyst. He began his career as a member of technical staff at IBM's network software labs.
Chris holds degrees from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the University of Pennsylvania.
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...
Latin American Consumer Technographics®
Over the past couple of years, Latin America has risen on many global companies' priority lists of new markets to focus on and understand. Given the meteoric rise of social networks like orkut and...


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Mainstream Adoption Hinges On Issues With Value, Security, And Support
Mobile banking adoption continues to gather momentum in the US, fueled by strong consumer appetite for smartphones and banks' burgeoning supply of new mobile banking applications, websites, and...
Effective mobile marketing begins with understanding how consumers use the two main types of mobile devices that can deliver rich marketing experiences: smartphones and tablets. This short report...

How Leading Health Insurers Drive Change Inside And Outside Of Their Walls
The health insurance industry faces discontent from both its consumer and provider customers. With new regulations and an elevated national discourse on health reform, the time for change is now. But...
eBusiness Has A Key Role In The Understanding And Usage Of Social Media
Forrester recently published an analysis of the social habits of financial service customers along with a scan of current regulations and existing social marketing efforts. Overall, social media...
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...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2012 of 4,501 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,501), there is 95% confidence...
Today, healthcare remains a largely in-person proposition, but with the advancement of Internet-based videoconferencing technologies, the possibility of healthcare video visits is becoming a reality....
Using Digital Touchpoints To Enhance Advisor-Client Relationships
In the past, financial advisors and agents typically didn't involve clients in the advice generation process. They worked their magic behind the scenes and then presented clients with the final...
Consumers Have Embraced All Touchpoints, And So Should eBusiness Professionals
Today, European consumers face a wide range of touchpoints and have adopted a complex purchasing journey. These consumers use more than one channel to research and buy a product, and they are...
Nail The Basics To Quickly Expose The Value Of The Channel
In the US, adoption of mobile financial services is rising: 11% of US online adults are now mobile bankers and 7% of those with investment accounts are mobile investors, although just 3% of online...
An Empowered Report: How Online And Mobile Behaviors Are Changing
For more than 10 years, Forrester has been tracking consumers' online and offline behavior in Europe. Our trending data shows that while consumers are continuing to expand their online behaviors,...
In an effort to control skyrocketing health costs, some pioneering health plans and employers are testing the waters of medical tourism by paying for consumers to travel overseas for less expensive...