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Peter serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He focuses on eCommerce technologies and solutions, including B2C and B2B eCommerce platforms, mobile commerce solutions, digital in-store technologies, and digital commerce. Peter has specific expertise helping eBusiness leaders understand the integration challenges between eCommerce and back-office technologies across channels and touchpoints. His interests focus on mobile and tablet commerce trends, digital in-store experiences, multichannel retail, social commerce, and digital media.
Peter has extensive experience working with an ecosystem of eCommerce technologies, including eCommerce platforms, mobile commerce solutions, content management, web analytics, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), digital asset management, payment systems, and social media, to name a few. Peter has more than 13 years of experience in eCommerce and web technologies. Most recently, Peter held both product management and product marketing positions at Elastic Path, a leading eCommerce platform vendor. He also worked as a senior business analyst at JP Morgan and Ford Motor Company, where he started his career in eCommerce developing a direct online channel for new vehicle sales in the UK. Peter's experience spans both business and technology, including business analysis, product management, product marketing, solution architecture, user experience, and online marketing.
Peter holds a BEng in manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
Identifying Opportunities Beyond The Big Screen
3D-enabled TVs are in stores now, with manufacturers betting heavily that 3D will be a reason for consumers to upgrade their primary set. Audiences are starting to take an interest in 3D content, but...
Landscape: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Consumers join programs of brands they like, but they limit their participation to only a few programs and are motivated by the desire to seek out discounts. Since 2008, consumer attitudes toward...
Making The Business Case For Mobile Efforts At Wealth Management Firms
Mobile has become a high priority for eBusiness teams at wealth management and investment firms. In the US, the proportion of online adults who use the mobile channel to manage their investments rose...

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Despite the fact that we are in the midst of a European crisis that could influence the insurance business dramatically, eBusiness and channel strategy executives in this region should be sensitive...
In the midst of the recession and ongoing sovereign debt crisis, only 29% of Europeans believe their bank acts in their best interest. However, some banks rank much higher than others in our customer...

eBusiness Has A Key Role In The Understanding And Usage Of Social Media
Forrester recently published an analysis of the social habits of financial service customers along with a scan of current regulations and existing social marketing efforts. Overall, social media...
Social media is transforming the way European online buyers interact with each other and consume content. Online buyers are using social media to connect with their peers and, to a much lesser...
Skype And Others Will Benefit From Apple's New iPhone 4 Hardware
Creating a successful strategy for consumer video telephony has eluded everyone bar Skype. Even the telecommunications industry itself has failed with this particular communications product:...
Forrester's research shows that a key driver of customer retention and deeper customer relationships is a trait we call "customer advocacy," the perception by customers that a firm does what's best...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 20,778 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based on an...
An Empowered Report: Understanding The Mobile Behavior Of Your Target Audience
The first step in building or refining a mobile strategy is understanding the mobile behaviors of your target audience. Mobile Technographics offers consumer product strategists a means of obtaining...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in December 2010 of 5,575 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 5,575), there is 95%...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,575 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,575), there is 95% confidence...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September and October 2012 of 13,911 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based...
Location-Based Social Networking, Though Stagnant Now, Is Poised To Grow
Geosocial applications — also known as location-based social networks — hold potential for interactive marketers: They can help increase in-store visits, your brand's visibility, and...
The Convenience Quotient Of Mobile Services: A Facebook Case Study
Although a majority of consumers still prefer the traditional PC to a mobile phone when performing any task related to eBusiness, our research shows that mobile penetration continues to rise....
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 1,987 Russian individuals ages 16 and older who are members of the Ipsos-MORI online panel. Ipsos weighted the data by age, sex,...
The Business Impact Of Customer Experience
Business process professionals supporting customer-facing processes are often challenged to make the business case to their executive leaders that investing to improve the customer experience is a...
Website Quality Is Positively Correlated To More Money From Clients
Advisor-based firms serving the wealthiest US investors have neglected the online channel for years, leaning heavily on the person-to-person channel instead. But full-service firms' clients are...
