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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.
Social Computing and social media represent a new wave of energy sweeping through business. "Social" holds out the promise of a customer-driven business model, one in which the voice of the customer...

An effective social media policy provides an essential guide for employees with respect to their use of social media, whether they are engaging for personal reasons or business reasons. Research...

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...
An effective social media policy provides an essential guide for employees with respect to their use of social media, whether they are engaging in social media for personal or business reasons....
Is Social Computing use in IT a distraction? Not according to our latest research. Our survey of social media users indicates that IT staff increase productivity by adapting Social Computing to their...
This data chart presents highlights from Forrester's January 2010 Global Social Media Online Survey.
Executive Overview: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Business as we know it is changing. The next generation of market-leading organizations will digitize their enterprise model with new capabilities enabled by social technologies. But many of today's...

Any organization with thousands of employees faces a dilemma: There is a tremendous opportunity to tap into the collective wisdom of the employees, but the scale of the organization makes...

This template provides a starting point from which to draft your own social media policy. The template follows the outline provided in the associated report, "The CIO's Guide To Establishing A Social...
Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

This template provides a starting point from which to draft your own social media policy. The template follows the outline provided in the associated report, "The CMO's Guide To Establishing A Social...

Policy And Procedures: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
A clear social business policy is an essential guide for employees using social and collaboration tools for customer engagement and for internal or partner collaboration. While it takes a...
Best Practices For CIOs
Customer experience (CX) is too often thought of in terms of the IT help desk. But CIOs and their IT teams are increasingly being challenged with improving the customer experience for the...
Benchmarks: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business and collaboration (SBC) takes place independently of any specific technology, tool, or service. For example, employees constantly meet to choose how to adjust plans; customers...

The Social Ecosystem Maturity Assessment is presented in conjunction with the research report "Benchmark The Use Of Your Social Business And Collaboration Systems," which explains more fully how CIOs...