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Nigel serves CIOs and business technology leaders, focusing on the role of technology as an enabler of business outcomes. His research focuses on the intersection of technology and marketing and includes coverage of business and technology strategy, digital business, social business strategy, marketing technology, and technology trends and their impact on competitive advantage.
Ever since becoming an executive director and CIO at Reebok UK at the age of 26, Nigel has consistently led many technology industry trends: He was the first CIO to partner with Infosys to pioneer the offshore development model; he was the first CIO to introduce a marketing role to IT; and he was an early advocate of the business relationship management role that is now so critical to many IT organizations. Nigel went on to a successful career in retail technology marketing with Radius Retail and Transatlantic Software before becoming an entrepreneur, starting up an eCommerce research publishing business and a GPS fleet management software business. He joined Forrester as the general manager of the IT Leadership Boards business in 2006, growing the business more than 300% in three years. Having spent equal time over his career in IT, marketing, and general management, Nigel now brings a unique business technology perspective to his research at Forrester.
Since becoming an analyst, Nigel's leading-edge research has focused on business at the intersection of IT and marketing. Recognized as a visionary with insight into emerging trends, Nigel has published research on social business strategy, business technology strategy, innovation, retail, and marketing. His latest research on digital business examines the role of technology in delivering outstanding customer experience.
Nigel holds a B.A. (hons) in computing in business from the University of Huddersfield and an M.B.A. with concentrations in marketing and international business from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick.
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An Empowered Report: Tools To Assess How Employees Use Technology
To have a fact-based conversation about what your employees need from technology, you have to ask them. Field a survey when you absolutely must have the facts without bias. For a quick and dirty...
You're absolutely right to say that EA should contribute well to these exercises. We've been involved in a similar Application Maintenance bid process at BP. The key areas where we supported were:...

Mobile Banking's Time Has Finally Come
Empowered Employees Solve Customer Problems: Find Them And Help Them
Groundswell technologies — social, mobile, video, and cloud — put tremendous power in the hands of customers. Only empowered employees can respond at the speed of empowered customers...
Information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals continue to investigate master data management (MDM) as a strategic means to deliver a trusted view of critical data throughout the...
Google now has two recent examples of how not to launch a product. To be more specific, the launches of Wave and Buzz are unfortunate illustrations of product management and product marketing...
This is super ground breaking work. The reference model is extremely valuable in comparing to vendor implementations. Do you have an assessment or RFI template for IC-BPMS?
Vision: The Strategic Software Sourcing Playbook
This report describes Forrester's vision of strategic software sourcing for sourcing and vendor management (SVM) executives. It is more difficult than ever for software sourcing professionals to meet...
Microsoft has entered the enterprise search market with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), joining BEA Systems, Google, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and a long list of pure-plays in a volatile...
Jawbone, a privately-held company based in San Francisco with a $1.5 billion valuation, today announced the relaunch of its UP wristband, which it discontinued one year ago due to manufacturing...
A Look At How Consumers Describe Their Banks And Investment Firms
We examined how often consumers use the words "honest" and "helpful" to describe their primary bank and investment firm. It turns out that Seniors are the group most likely to use these terms across...
Despite early signs of a global recovery, online shoppers in all regions of the world continue to be cautious in making purchase decisions. Consumers today are visiting a variety of sites before...
Local Franchises Have Strategic Advantages Over National Competitors
Events and entertainment are a strategic business for local media properties online. Local entertainment is under threat from national providers that can spread the necessary software development...
Was the introduction of the Ford Model T an improvement or an innovation over the horse drawn wagon? As an SVM professional, you may ask, “Why is this question important for me?” But as...
Some positions prove to be more difficult to fill than others. One area where managers see many challenges in obtaining and keeping quality employees is in the world of eBusiness. It proves to be...
Building off of Tom Grant's post about Google Buzz earlier today, Google Buzz is an interesting case study about how winning market share is not just about having the first or the best product....
One interesting question is whether or not EA 1.0 to EA 2.0 is evolutionary or revolutionary. Can EA 1.0 org's and people make the change? or does the EA 1.0 organization need to be totally...