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Mary Beth contributes to Forrester's research offerings for CMO & Marketing Leadership Professionals. She lends a global point of view on the challenges facing marketers — increasingly fragmented media, the pervasiveness of new technologies, changing consumer behavior, and the growing accountability of marketing. Her current research touches marketing innovation, orchestrating the brand experience, the role of marketing in the company, matching digital to business strategy and ubiquitous marketing. Mary Beth is based in Paris.
Before joining Forrester, Mary Beth spent more than 20 years as an international marketer, advising and coaching blue chip brands and organizations. She has worked on both the client and agency side. Mary Beth was CRM director at Dassault Systèmes, designing and championing its customer-centric business strategy. She also chalked up 10 years in the Ogilvy network, in Paris and New York. There she developed interactive and relationship marketing strategies with Air France, IBM, Nestlé, and Unilever. She began her career in direct marketing working with clients American Express and AT&T.
Mary Beth holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Drake University.
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This morning, HP announced it was buying ArcSight for $1.5 billion, at a 70% market value premium compared to its value a month ago. My colleague John Kindervag will probably be blogging on this...
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It was common knowledge that Microsoft was releasing a new version of its communications and collaboration suite this year, but behind the traditional development cycle, the Microsoft marketing...
We Identified A Strong Group Of Globally Successful Vendors In A Growing Market
Forrester surveyed 14 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2006 deals. The outcome of the deal analysis? i-flex solutions and TEMENOS are still the power sellers. Two of the new...
Processes: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
The critical question for many digital banking teams after they build mobile banking is how to encourage customer adoption and use. Forrester spoke to eBusiness executives at banks about the current...
Today Informatica announced the availability of a trust site similar to what other major cloud platforms like salesforce.com (trust.salesforce.com) and NetSuite (with its availability status)...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the IT services market in APeJ in 2011. The research is based on interviews with key MNCs and local vendors in the Asia Pacific IT...
One of the pillars of crafting an “ideal customer service experience” is to offer a consistent service experience across the communication channels that you support. So what does this...
In Q1 2007, companies based in EMEA signed 75 large outsourcing deals — with a total deal value of almost €5.7 billion. More than half of these deals included infrastructure outsourcing...
This document provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market in Pakistan. This analysis will allow vendor strategists to address market opportunities in Pakistan more...

Last Sunday my washing machine broke down. And for a family with young children, a washing machine is right up there with shelter and food in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. As the shops are closed...
A usable market segmentation analysis is one of the keys to any market-driven company's success, yet many segmentations fail. This is troubling not only because these types of failures tend to be...
One of the more common questions we get from clients is about how to decide between enterprise service bus (ESB) and comprehensive integration solutions (CIS's) for meeting integration...
Tools And Technologies: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Even the best mobile strategy can be a victim of poor execution. Managing technology is hard enough, but as new phone features and capabilities crop up seemingly every day, navigating the ever...

Rarely does vendor consolidation reflect such fragmentation of a market. Picking up on the recent acquisition trend of independent market leaders, IBM today announced plans to acquire long-time GRC...
What Should The Telecoms Sector Do?
Despite the efforts of governments and regulatory bodies, the financial crisis rumbles on and has yet to be fully resolved. As feared, it has spread like a contagious virus from finance and banking...
[Posted by David Card] follow me at davidcard Chatting with board members at a major apparel company last night, a few mentioned a story on NPR's Morning Edition about the social divide between...