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Michele is a member of Forrester's Infrastructure & Operations research team. Her expertise focuses on enterprise mobility strategy development and mobile device and application adoption. Michele's research spans smartphone, tablet, and mobile application deployment; mobile application management; enterprise application stores; 4G and long-term evolution (LTE) technologies; mobile workforce segmentation; bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy; mobile metrics; and machine-to-machine (M2M) adoption.
Michele delivers strategic guidance to Forrester's enterprise, small and medium-size business (SMB), and vendor clients by identifying enterprise mobility service and technology trends, device adoption drivers, mobile application usage, and emerging M2M solution opportunities. She also focuses on strategic issues facing the telecom industry, gauging the effect of new competitor entry, new business models, new service usage patterns, and new technology initiatives such as M2M technologies.
Michele has more than 15 years of professional experience focusing on the telecommunications and enterprise mobility industry. She assisted domestic and international service providers in addressing strategic issues, conducting competitive assessments, evaluating product concepts, and developing marketing positioning messages on new technologies and services. Prior to joining Forrester, Michele was a management consultant serving national and international communications and technology clients in North America and Europe. Michele started her consulting career in Booz Allen & Hamilton's telecommunications group, where she helped telecom companies implement a federally mandated wireline and wireless service prioritization system used during national emergencies.
Michele has an M.B.A. from Boston University. She also holds a B.A. from St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Organization: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Customers, empowered by always connected digital devices, can engage with brands at any time, from any place, and at any point within the customer life cycle. To respond with relevance in real time,...
How CI Can Use Technology To Drive Competitive Advantage
Marketers require ever more technology to capture, integrate, analyze, and apply customer data to marketing programs. Forrester recommends that marketers establish an enterprisewide marketing...

The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...


Consolidation And Growth Drive A Dynamic Software Marketplace
Marketing today is impossible without significant investments in technology. When Forrester first charted the landscape of marketing technologies in 2007, we found that marketers were investing in...

Adobe And Autonomy Lead A Pack Of Strong Performers
In Forrester's inaugural evaluation of online testing vendors, we researched eight companies across 82 criteria. We found that Adobe and Autonomy lead the pack because of their consistent strength...
Business Case: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Enterprise marketing technologies promise to better engage customers, improve marketing performance, and boost efficiency. This report, part of Forrester's marketing technology playbook, helps...

The online marketing suite transforms organizations' customer relationships through coordinated, relevant multichannel experiences. To satisfy this vision, all participants in the marketing...
Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Once relegated to the province of direct mail teams and analysts, customer data and marketing technology are now essential to every marketing function, from strategy to creative development to...

Why Customer Intelligence Pros Must Collaborate With Interactive Marketers
The emergence of data management platforms (DMPs) as a technology that serves the audience segmentation and targeting needs of interactive marketers has wide implications for Customer Intelligence...
In the age of the customer, the requirements for the online marketing suite have evolved and become even more acute. Customer expectations are greater than ever, and business demands more marketing...

Assess Your Current State To Inform The Online Marketing Suite Road Map
The online marketing suite is a well-regarded framework for coordinating interactive marketing, but it consistently proves difficult to implement. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals struggle to...
Vision: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Listening platforms power marketers by analyzing their brands, products, and customers across social media channels. But although listening platforms make managing social data possible, marketers...

Assessment: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
This report outlines the capabilities assessment of Forrester's solution for customer intelligence (CI) professionals working on marketing technology. Transforming marketing programs into...
A Readiness Framework For Successful Implementation
Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals are increasingly tasked with assessing marketing effectiveness across all channels within the organization. But without access to next-generation attribution...
Benchmarks: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the...

Forrester recently surveyed 137 Customer Intelligence professionals to understand their marketing technology priorities, plans, and budgets. Marketers own technology decisions and consider cost and...

Adobe, comScore, IBM, And Webtrends Lead A Market In Transition
In Forrester's 80-criteria evaluation of web analytics vendors, we found that Adobe, comScore, IBM, and Webtrends are Leaders because of their consistent product strength combined with compelling...
How M&A Activity Brings Pain And Opportunity To CI Professionals
In recent months, Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals witnessed a spate of acquisitions that have forever altered the landscape of marketing technology suites and analysis tools. Such...
After several years of relative obscurity and false starts, the online marketing suite is poised to gain steam as marketers focus on resolving multichannel complexity and as vendors seek out new...
CI Professionals Are Fighting Wars On Multiple Fronts In Order To Evolve
As Customer Intelligence (CI) matures, CI professionals must adapt how they capture, integrate and manage, analyze, and apply knowledge about their customers. As we look ahead to 2011, we expect CI...