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James serves CMOs. He is the foremost analyst tracking and defining the power and impact of digital disruption on traditional businesses. His consumer models identify the ways consumers have embraced digital experiences and platforms, and his strategy models help companies prepare to serve those consumers. Though he applies this knowledge to a wide variety of industries, he spends the majority of his consulting time with consumer media and consumer electronics companies that are at the forefront of dealing with digital disruption.In February of 2013, James published his book "Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation."
Previously at Forrester, James served as a vice president and research director, running Consumer Technographics® North America, Forrester's unparalleled consumer research effort. Before that, he was a senior analyst and founding member of the online retail strategies practice at Forrester. In addition to keynoting at industry events and Forrester Forums, James is routinely sought after for comment by such publications as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He also appears frequently on NPR and CNBC.
James comes to Forrester most recently after teaching marketing research and media management at Boston University's top-rated College of Communication. In addition, he has served as research director at WGBH in Boston and as a graduate fellow at Syracuse University.
James earned his Ph.D. in mass communication research at Syracuse University. He also holds an MBA with an emphasis in marketing.
An Empowered Report: Sizing The Opportunity As Individuals Embrace New Services For Managing Their Work And Personal Digital Lives
The personal computing experience for individuals is broken, ruptured by the fragmentation of personal information across PCs and mobile devices and the scattering of content across a multitude of...
Product Strategists Must Position PCs And Peripherals Within A Multidevice Lifestyle
The success of the Apple iPad has created a halo around tablets in general: Consumers are interested in these devices, even if they're confused about what they actually are. US online consumers who...

Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, June 2011
To understand more about this changing PC landscape and what it means for consumers’ expectations in the market, we tapped into our qualitative Technographics® community. During a...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Web-Influenced Retail Sales Forecast (US): Total offline retail sales that are influenced by online research. Offline-influenced retail sales by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares,...
Consumer Product Strategists' Critical Questions Answered
In the nine months since Apple's iPad hit the shelves, Forrester has conducted more than 200 conversations about iPads and tablets with clients through inquiries, one-on-one meetings at Forrester's...
An overview of media consumption in Asia Pacific, including the relationship between age and media consumption, as well as trust in ads in traditional versus online media.
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
With an estimated 49 million Hispanics living in the US and a projected buying power of 1.4 trillion by 2013, it is clear that market research professionals need to pay special attention to the...
The Business Impact Of Customer Experience
Business process professionals supporting customer-facing processes are often challenged to make the business case to their executive leaders that investing to improve the customer experience is a...
Retailers Can Act As Consumer Product Strategists, Too
Most retailers sell other companies' goods; on occasion, they will sell products developed by others but branded as their own. Best Buy does both of those things, but the company has also done...

Cannibalization Will Accelerate With The Next Wave Of Tablet Buyers
Product strategists regard tablets with an anxious eye, pondering the extent to which tablets will cannibalize products like newspapers, magazines, laptops, netbooks, and TVs. Forrester's data...
Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, February 2012
The economic recession has turned consumers into savvy bargain hunters. Now more than ever, they are on the lookout for the best deals and lowest prices they can find. Forrester conducted qualitative...
Business models and rights issues have both distorted and fragmented the consumer digital music experience and products. A new generation of 360-degree music services is emerging that leverages cloud...
The European Technographics Consumer Technology Online Survey, Q4 2010, surveyed 14,363 respondents in the seven markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This...
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,...