Jaap Favier Jaap Favier
Vice President, Research Director

Research Coverage

Social Computing & Web 2.0, Customer Experience

Research Focus

Jaap serves Marketing Leadership professionals and leads a team, based in Europe and the US, that researches how Chief Marketing Officers and their teams can harness emerging consumer trends, benefit from market and technology change, differentiate the brand experience, maximize the ROI of the marketing and media mix, demonstrate the value of marketing, and build a high-performance team and business partnerships. Jaap's own research focuses on the impact of Social Computing and Web 2.0 on the way that brands and media firms communicate with their target consumers.

Previous Work Experience

Before joining Forrester, Jaap held senior positions in business strategy and marketing in KLM Royal Dutch Airlines/Alitalia. He developed KLM's overall eBusiness strategy, managed business-to-business marketing, and started the eBusiness company and brand Traxxer. Before that, Jaap helped set up distribution firm Galileo in various management team positions. His prior experience includes IT consulting and defense industry research.

Education

Jaap holds a degree in aerospace engineering from Delft University in the Netherlands.

Latest Research

Planned Research

Selecting Sustainable Marketing Vendors May 2008
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Marketing Budget 2008 August 2008
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Case Study: CMO-CIO Collaboration June 2008
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Developing Future Marketing Leaders October 2008
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Building A Business-Driven Marketing Team November 2008
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Upcoming Appearances
Jaap Favier will be speaking at the following upcoming events:
  • Interact 2008
    Keynote Speech: The Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
    June 03, 2008, 09:45AM
    Ullstein Hall,Berlin, DE
Recent Media Citations
Marketing Facts (Netherlands), "Forrester: Challenges For Marketing Decision-Makers," April 9, 2008
RTL-Z (Netherlands), "Increasing Counts Of Fishing," November 30, 2007
Il Corriere della Sera (Italy), "Web 2.0 Surprised Managers," November 9, 2007
Tijdschrift Voor Marketing (Netherlands), "How To Expand A Brand Community Today," May 24, 2007
CIO (Germany), "Forrester: Blogs, You Need To Communicate, Not Control," March 15, 2007

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