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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.
Product Strategists Face A New Competitive Landscape
Verizon Wireless today announced that it would begin selling the iPhone to the public on February 10. This much anticipated expiration of AT&T's exclusive agreement with Apple changes the competitive...
Telecommunications companies (telcos) of all sizes, and in many geographies, are now embracing cloud computing as a new market opportunity. However, not all telcos are as equally committed, or...
An Empowered Report
Just a few years ago, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) were a dime a dozen. Big companies like Disney and ESPN tried — yet failed — to create a mobile experience differentiated...

Technology Marketers Must Prepare For The Coming Storm
The Role Of Active Hosts In Briefing Success
Neustar has dramatically increased the level of analyst acceptances of briefing requests, the coverage it gains from those briefings, and the willingness of analysts to offer help in the form of...
Forrester's Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q3 2010, was fielded to 5,519 technology end users located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from SMB and enterprise companies with 20...
Forrester's Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2013, was fielded to 2,487 IT executives and technology decision-makers located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from...
This document provides a comprehensive background of public sector dynamics in Singapore in order to enable vendor strategists to address market opportunities more successfully. Particular focus is...
An Empowered Report: Nike Creates A Location-Aware Mobile Experience
Nike has created an integrated line of Nike+ products that support its customers' athletic activities through mobile and social means. Nike+ GPS leverages the most advanced capabilities of...
Customer service managers struggle to balance customer experience and cost: Siloed communication channels, impersonal service, and an inability to enforce company process or meet regulatory...
Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

Giving Employees Choice As To When And Where They Work Helps Recruiting, Retention, Team Work, And Sustainability Efforts
In 2009, State Street, a Boston-based financial services firm, created its Flex Work Program to recruit and retain top talent. Why? State Street's leaders felt that finding and holding on to these...
How are retailers and other companies getting their telecom service provider to help prevent telephone cramming?
The European Technographics® Retail, Customer Experience, And Travel Online Survey, Q3 2010, surveyed 14,193 respondents in the seven markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain,...
Cloud Computing Presents Opportunities And Risks For Telcos And Their Customers
Cloud computing is changing the telco business model: Traditional telecom offerings migrate into the cloud and evermore over-the-top (OTT) players enter the telco value chain. Corporate CIOs should...

But The Process Perspective Is A Work in Progress
Customer experience optimization is key to business success in all industries. Business process pros must balance process skills, execution best practices, and a growing set of tools for behavioral...
Governments Are Playing Catch-Up In Terms Of Mobility And Collaboration
North American and European governments are striving for efficiency, openness, and responsiveness as their constituencies increasingly organize and mobilize using social technologies. However,...
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the results from the survey on the India Datacenter market dynamics based on 102 interviews with Indian CIOs and top IT executives of...
This document provides an overview of software-as-a service (SaaS) end-user adoption trends in Asia Pacific Excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. SaaS adoption continues to accelerate across...
Since the dawn of mobile commerce, retailers have dreamed of leveraging location-based services to deliver an immersive multichannel experience for in-store shoppers. Retailers have experimented with...
When will we see mobile and home telephone numbers (E.164 numbers) replaced by addresses, such as a SIP address? The UK Payments Council is proposing to use a mobile number as a unique identifier in...
A Snapshot Of Adoption From The InformationWeek 500
Smart Computing, the latest cycle of tech innovation and growth based on new technologies of awareness, analysis, and alternatives, began in 2008. Since then, a growing number of companies have...
Forrester's Definitions For Tech Product Categories, Industries, And Geographies
Forrester is expanding the breadth and depth of data that we provide to vendor strategists on the size and growth trends of the market for information and communications technology (ICT) solutions....