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Martin serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. His focus is on the eCommerce market within the European Union, with a particular interest in the retail industry, covering both pure-play online and multichannel retailing. His current areas of research include the application of location- and context-aware mobile applications to the shopping experience; social commerce; the integration of interactive media such as video into the eCommerce mix; and physical/digital channel integration.
Martin's background spans both business and IT roles. He joined Forrester from the retail industry, having worked at Boots, a major European health and beauty retailer, for a number of years. His role there was to establish and develop a business-aligned enterprise architecture function, delivering transformational strategies for a number of key retail areas, including boots.com, the Advantage Card loyalty scheme, and the retail and pharmacy store systems. Prior to that, he worked in a variety of roles at Egg.com, Europe's largest pure-play digital bank, ranging from mergers and acquisitions to new product development for both Egg and PruDirect.
Martin holds a first degree in manufacturing engineering and operations management from Nottingham University and a Master of Philosophy from Newcastle University by research covering the simulation of commercial systems.
Road Map: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Developing a vision and building a strategic plan are vital first steps on the road to agile commerce. But once your CEO says "yes," what next? Getting ready for action and taking the first concrete...
Our Annual Benchmark Of eBusiness Team Sizes And Job Functions
In our annual organizational and staffing survey of eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, we find yet again that although eBusiness team sizes are growing, eBusiness professionals feel that...

eBusiness Professionals Believe Teams Should Integrate With Their Organizations
As digital channels and strategies grow in importance across firms and become increasingly vital to the success of the company as a whole, eBusiness teams see their responsibilities, budgets, and...
Tools And Technology: The Agile Commerce Playbook
The way we think of eBusiness technology has fundamentally changed. We are no longer selecting a set of platforms and technologies to launch a site; we are now selecting technologies that can support...
Executive Overview: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Consumer behavior is changing. Customers are becoming increasingly connected and adopting growing numbers of touchpoints as they discover, explore, buy, and engage with brands and products. And...
Economic Instability Across Europe Will Do Little To Slow Retail eCommerce Growth
By 2017, Europeans will spend more than €191 billion online on retail products, and online retail growth will continue to outpace offline growth. As wallet share gradually shifts toward the...
European eBusiness Executives Must Embrace A Multi-Touchpoint Reality
European retail eBusiness executives face a time of unprecedented change. The range of touchpoints that customers use to discover, explore, buy, and re-engage with brands is growing by the day. New...
A new breed of luxury goods online shopper has arrived that is young, tech-savvy, Internet-aware, mobile-enabled, and embracing tablets fast. This new breed of global consumer is keen to find fresh...
Benchmarks: The eBusiness Digital Transformation Playbook
Agile commerce has broken traditional metrics. Key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure the success of a single touchpoint fail to inform eBusiness executives of the impact of consumer...
Processes: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Today's consumer engages through a variety of touchpoints, yet many brands struggle to deliver cross-touchpoint experiences. Too many firms focus on each touchpoint in isolation and fail to enable...

Strategic Plan: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Today's multichannel company faces enormous pressure to adapt to changing customer expectations and emerging competitive threats. Legacy channel-centric approaches and siloed organizations can no...
Organization: The Agile Commerce Playbook
eBusiness leaders face an increasing number of organizational challenges. Delivering compelling cross-touchpoint customer experiences demands cross-functional collaboration and fundamentally new ways...

Continuous Improvement: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Organizations face a number of roadblocks to executing on an agile commerce vision. Legacy technology, siloed KPIs, and a lack of understanding of how customers really use emerging touchpoints can...
Landscape: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Executing on the agile commerce imperative is not easy. It requires a paradigm shift in how organizations think about and go to market now and in the future. While examples of companies that have...

Mobile eCommerce revenues across Europe will rise from €1.7 billion in 2011 to €19.2 billion in 2017, reaching 6.8% of total web sales. Simple, easy to merchandise categories such as...
Online Retail Sales Growth In Europe Will Continue To Outpace Offline Growth For Years To Come
Online retail sales will continue to outperform overall retail sales figures in terms of percentage growth for many years to come in Europe. As the Web becomes an increasingly mainstream part of the...

European eBusiness Executives Strive To Give Their Customers Choice And Flexibility Across The Purchase Journey
European shoppers are becoming increasingly web-savvy and are turning to a wider range of touchpoints as they research and buy products online and offline. In response, eBusiness executives across...
Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers
In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...
Brand And Margin Protection Inhibit Adoption, But Other Approaches Are Emerging
Skepticism is the watchword across Europe as eBusiness executives consider engaging with daily deals sites such as Groupon and Living Social. Concerns about brand damage and sales cannibalization are...
French Online Retail Is On The Brink Of A Multichannel Revolution
France is the third largest online retail market in Europe; although it will continue to mature and grow at a pace outstripping overall retail growth, there are significant changes in store for...

This Christmas Season eBusiness Executives Will Turn To A Wider Range Of Touchpoints Than Ever To Engage Bargain-Hungry, Web-Savvy Shoppers
Christmas 2011 will see European shoppers more connected, informed, and web-savvy than ever as they head both online and to the high street to find the perfect gift. With overall retail growth...
No Matter What Their Maturity, European eBusiness Success Will Hinge On An Effective Cross-Touchpoint Strategy
The most visionary European multichannel retailers are beginning their transformation toward agile commerce and are reaching out to their customers on new touchpoints — mobile, social, etc....
Despite A Thriving Online Market, Multichannel Retail Is Still An Untapped Opportunity For German Retailers
The German online retail market is the second largest in Europe. Amazon.de and eBay are dominant forces, with major German consumer brands selling through those sites, and others following suit...

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four Specialist European Consumer Electronics Retailers
Forrester applied its Website Functionality Benchmark evaluation methodology to four European consumer electronics retailers: Best Buy UK, Currys, Darty, and Redcoon. These specialist retailers...
As UK Shoppers Embrace Emerging Touchpoints, Some Notable Retailers Are Ahead Of The Field When It Comes To Adapting
The UK online retail market is the largest and most mature in Europe, but an almost daily stream of innovation is making things steadily more complex and chaotic. In a market led predominantly by...