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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.
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...
Mastering The Customer Data Flow Requires Marketing And IT To Join Forces
Today's marketing organization must use technology to deliver compelling brand experiences and drive business growth. Today's IT organizations must tune their efforts to needs of the business. This...
The Five Habits Of Highly Adaptive Marketers
Three out of four CMOs plan to revamp their organizations for the digital age by the end of 2011. The reason? Their initial efforts to create digital departments and outsource digital capabilities...

Why You Should Make Multichannel Measurement A Priority
Marketers measure digital channels in isolation from one another. However, consumers don't act within channels; they act across channels. Cross-channel measurement, a nice-to-have for most marketers...
Who (job title, level, and role) are the (across multiple industries) IT professionals that influence selection, purchasing, and implementation decisions regarding marketing applications and...
Road Map: The Email Marketing Playbook
This report provides a road map for interactive marketers responsible for email marketing. It will help you unify your customer view, organize your teams by customer instead of by channel, and...
A Guide To Search Marketing Technology And Services Providers
Companies have a wide array of partners to choose from when managing their search marketing programs. This report provides an overview of many of the vendors currently serving this space, including...
For 30 years, CIOs have set up increasingly complex IT processes and industrialized IT operations in the hope of driving down costs while increasing IT and business alignment. While efforts toward...
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...

Despite A Dynamic Landscape And Confusing Buzzwords, B2B Tech Marketers Can Select The Platforms That Best Meet Their Needs
The large and diverse ecosystem of social media platform technologies is undergoing rapid change. As customer needs and technologies evolve, suppliers are feverishly consolidating, integrating, and...
Strategic Plan: The Mobile Marketing Playbook
This report helps interactive marketers craft a strategic plan for their mobile marketing. Mobile is hot. As with most hot topics in technology, marketers may be tempted to adopt strategies that are...
Tools And Technology: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Systems that support digital experiences present challenges to tech buyers, who are discovering a vast and immature market. Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals face a...

Use Forrester's Marketing Automation Maturity Model To Map Your Strategy
Business-to-business (B2B) marketers use technology to aggressively push more leads into the top of the sales funnel. Businesses have changed their buying behavior, and while the capabilities of the...
Measurement is universally valued by interactive marketers. Approaches and levels of sophistication vary, but nearly everyone recognizes that smart measurement leads to optimized business results...
The rapid adoption of new digital technologies by consumers is pushing marketing and IT closer together. Two companies that Forrester spoke with took very different approaches to the challenge of how...
Take A Strategic Approach To These Requirements For Greater Impact
The old concept of the marketing funnel has become passé, requiring firms to make a dramatic shift to focus on the full customer life cycle and customer relationship. To help enable the...
How Embracing CORE Directives Will Help You Foster Adaptability
Interactivity is changing life as we know it, a scope too big for most firms' siloed, understaffed interactive marketing organizations. The solution? To customize, optimize, respond, and empower...