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Ellen is a senior analyst serving insurance eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. Her research focuses on the eBusiness strategies, technologies, adoption trends, and best practices of property and casualty, life, group, and health insurers globally. Ellen works with insurance clients to understand how market forces are changing how consumers, groups, and distributors engage with insurance carriers and the role that technology plays in maximizing new opportunities.
Ellen most recently served the technology sales enablement role, writing research and providing advisory on how technology vendors sell and market their solution value to industry buyers, with a particular focus on the insurance, banking, and securities industries.
Ellen brings nearly 20 years of experience in delivering technical and professional services to clients in a variety of industries and markets. She joined Forrester from ThruPoint, a New York-based professional services firm, where she was a principal consultant focusing on IT service business strategy to Global 100 clients in securities, banking, and insurance; telecommunications; and media and entertainment. Before joining ThruPoint, Ellen was a director and principal analyst for Gartner, following the infrastructure services market, including consulting, support, and managed services. Prior to her Gartner experience, Ellen spent seven years in a variety of sales enablement and support roles at the former Cabletron Systems, including strategic bid and proposal management; inclusion on approved vendor lists for corporate and global accounts; and master sales and GSA contract management.
Ellen has presented on vertical industry and role-based marketing in a variety of Forrester and client events. She has been cited in a number of publications, including Forbes, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Best's Review, Insurance & Technology, and American Banker.
Ellen received a B.S. in economics from Southern New Hampshire University.
Emerging Technologies Spur New Insurer Thinking And New Vendor Applications
North American insurers are reorienting from business as usual, where actuaries and underwriter drive product creation and sales, to a "business-as-unusual" model in which insurers sell a customer...
New Wave Of Vendors Bolsters Support Of Insurance Business Capabilities
Insurance enterprise architects are embracing their role in aligning technology and business strategies. In 2011, that alignment is even more important as insurers see markets firming as a result of...
Insurance Transformation Exposes Key Opportunities For Technology Vendors
The US insurance industry represents 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) and generated nearly $1 trillion in revenues in 2009, but even with that big number, premium growth has been declining for...
Forrester Forrsights For Business Technology
Even in this seesaw economy, the insurance industry marches forward. Post-crash, insurers have dusted themselves off and are moving onward. Carriers are getting hipper and more creative in their...
Inquiry Insights: Q1 2009 Through Q2 2010
Just because the recession is finally deemed over, it doesn't mean that the three financial services segments aren't still grappling with the recession's very long tail. To understand how the "Great...
This data chart summarizes findings from Forrester's Enterprise And SMB Security Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2009, regarding 2010 security budget and spending plans in the banking and...
Based off the 2009 Business Data Services hardware survey, this data chart is a banking and insurance industry look at desktop/laptop buyers and buyer preferences.
Based on the 2009 Business Data Services hardware survey, this is a banking and insurance industry look at cloud computing and cloud storage usage, risk perceptions, and decision-maker data.
A banking and insurance industry cut of the 2009 Business Data Services hardware survey for business continuity practices and investment plans.
Despite Gloom, Most North American Insurer Budgets Remain Stable
The North American insurance industry is still plowing forward in an economy that fell completely off the rails during the third quarter of 2008. This year, insurers are tackling the impacts of a...
A data chart on IT services banking and insurance budget data.
These data charts detail how the global recession has affected telecommunications spending and how budget spending and support in banking and insurance are affected.
These data charts detail how the global recession has affected telecommunications spending and how contact center spending and support in banking and insurance are affected.
CIOs, executives in IT, and managers of IT are responsible for different types of initiatives and have different priorities. To have the most effective sales conversation, tailor your conversation to...
These data charts detail how the global recession has affected telecommunications spending and how enterprise mobility spending and support in banking and insurance are affected.
How IBM Helps Banks And Insurers Get The Business They Really Want
Banks and insurers do a great job acquiring customers, but they fall down when it comes to cross- and upselling other services. Few financial services institutions even know if the customers they...
Tech Marketers Must Address Five Key Needs To Help Banks Get Back To Basics
The outlook for the North American banking industry is gloomy, requiring banks to be more judicious with their funds. Even in this morose environment, banks are planning on increasing their spending...
The insurance industry is contending with a tough market in 2008. Declining premium growth, a bear market, and larger Q1 incurred losses are making insurers more pessimistic this year than last, and...
The North American financial services industry — which includes banking, insurance, and capital markets — spends a lot on technology. But with the big downturn in financial services...
At the end of 2007, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)-insured banks in the US held nearly $6.9 trillion in deposits, supported more than 73,000 branches, and employed 1.8 million people....
ECM Vendors Are Thinking Small For Bigger Impact
Fragmentation and blurry boundaries among offerings create big challenges for enterprise content management (ECM) tech marketers to distinguish their products. How are enterprising ECM vendors...
Lessons From 100 Site Visits And One Excellent Example
IT buyers rate vendor Web sites as one of the most important information sources they use when researching technology purchases. Vendors, too, are increasingly trumpeting industry solutions on their...
The best B2B marketers are continually refining how they segment their markets. A leading customer segmentation scheme — by vertical — is about creating solutions that meet the needs of a...
Whether tech marketers acquire or train their way to vertical industry competency, maintaining the bloom on these industry resources can be a thorny proposition. Industry sales team training reflects...
Motivate And Defend Your Work Force With Industry Sales Rewards
To be credible and successful in selling into vertical markets, technology marketers need strong industry expertise on their teams. Competitive compensation programs can protect these precious assets...