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Michael is a senior consultant on Forrester's Technology Sales Enablement team. Using Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) methodology, he develops business cases to assist channel managers in recruiting channel partners and help channel partners make investment decisions. He also develops methodologies for measuring and communicating the value of business technology products and services to enable sales people to meet the business case justification needs of technology buyers.Michael was previously Forrester’s lead analyst researching IT vendor channel strategies, managed services, and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). His channels research focused on understanding channel management strategies, evolving channel models, and partner management. He worked with technology marketing and channel professionals to understand SMB buyer behavior and develop SMB go-to-market strategies. His SMB research focused on IT budgets, technology adoption, spending across a broad range of technologies, and segment analysis. His managed services research focused on managed services forecasts and buyer behavior.
Michael was the lead analyst and program manager for Forrester's Business Data Services® program (now Forrsights). This program helps IT vendor executives understand technology spending, adoption, IT buy behavior, and IT organizational structures. Michael grew this program from five to 20 annual global surveys, and oversaw sales growth of 80%.Prior to joining Forrester, Michael worked at Yankee Group. He was director of the small and medium business technologies practice, which helped IT vendors and service providers understand the spending, behaviors, and preferences of SMBs. He also served as associate director of the network hardware practice, covering both carrier and enterprise network hardware. Michael has also designed and managed IT infrastructures for high-growth companies and worked as a software developer.
Michael holds an M.B.A. from Babson College and B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa).
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Communications-As-A-Service Generates High Interest And Will Soon Displace Premises-Based Alternatives
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Earlier in my career, there were lots of discussions on topics relevant to not only software development teams (e.g. methodologies, processes, etc) but information relevant to developers such as use...

Mobile Banking's Time Has Finally Come
A Cold Breeze And Only One Hot Region Characterize The 2009 Market
Forrester surveyed 17 vendors of globally deployed banking platforms on their 2009 deals. The regional analysis shows that Asia Pacific has been the single highly active region. Most of the remaining...
Why Email Marketers Are Struggling To Break Through The Inbox
Overburdened marketers are largely failing to implement core delivery best practices such as message authentication schemes. With a forecasted $144 million dollars in email marketing spending in 2014...
Target Channel And Content Preferences To Drive Demand
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The Ultra-Connected Customer Will Upturn Marketing
In 2013, the ultra-connected customer base will grow at a staggering pace, destabilizing marketing as you've come to know it. This report identifies the changes you'll see in your customers'...
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New Rules To Improve The Bottom Line
Email marketer expectations and sophistication are increasing. Forrester's Q1 survey of 104 email marketers found that the number of email marketers using click-through data as a segmentation...
Today, with technology embedded in virtually every business process and market dynamics changing at a mind-boggling pace, the role of CIO is rapidly changing from a technology manager to a business...
The Customer Experience Index, 2008
Keeping customers happy directly affects the top and bottom lines. Because of this, Forrester asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies, gauging the...
Oracle is about to launch its Cloud Computing strategy with a worldwide roadshow. What does this mean for Oracle customers and partners? First of all, Oracle remains a technology platform...
I am in the processing of conducting primary research to create Forrester Business Intelligence Reference architecture. What do you think of the attached as a starting point? In addition to the usual...