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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.
Organization: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Forrester collected and analyzed data about chief customer officers (CCOs) to understand who they are, where they came from, what companies appoint them, and what they do for their firms. This year,...

Credit Card Companies And Wireless Service Providers Benefit From Higher Net Promoter Scores Through Better Customer Experience
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a wildly popular tool for assessing customers' likelihood to recommend a company's product or service. As valuable as NPS can be, by itself, the "one number you need to...

Building A Customer-Centric Culture
Changing from a product-centric company to a customer-centric company requires a cultural transformation. This is no small task. That's because transformation involves changing the beliefs and...

Assessment: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
Forrester's customer experience maturity framework outlines the 40 essential practices companies must perform in order to design, implement, and manage customer experience in a disciplined way....

Despite professed customer centricity, many firms don't think to involve customers, employees, or key delivery partners in the experience design process. This oversight costs firms precious time and...

Delivering Relevant Experiences In The Multichannel World
Firms want to deliver the right experience to the right user at the right time and on the right device — a tricky proposition in this age of device proliferation. The splinternet — and...

Journey Mapping Enables A Diverse Global Airline To Lift Quality Of Service While Growing Rapidly
Emirates is one of the world's fastest-growing airlines and positions itself as a lifestyle brand, setting high expectations for service quality in a competitive market. As Emirates expanded rapidly,...
Enjoyment is one of the best possible outcomes of any customer experience. But the majority of firms can barely design a useful, usable experience, much less a pleasurable one. Recent advances in the...

Road Map: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Nearly 75% of customer experience leaders say their firms' goal is to differentiate on the basis of customer experience. Despite that aspiration, only 3% of companies succeed in delivering an...
Why Customer Experience Professionals Need To Have A Seat At The Table When Their Companies Make Pricing Decisions
Customers consciously or unconsciously judge pricing as part of their experiences with a company. Pricing both sets expectations for an experience and affects perceptions and recollections of that...

Transform To An Experience-Driven Organization
Companies see substantial business benefit when they systematically hunt down and eliminate customer experience problems. But eventually they need to stop doing business in ways that create those...
Strategic Plan: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How To Develop Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on July 13, 2011. Companies need a digital customer experience strategy to ensure that they...
Organization: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How Are Digital Customer Experience Teams Structured?" originally published on September 30, 2011. To understand how digital customer experience teams are changing to...
Compelling customer experiences stem from a company's deep understanding of its target customers' goals and behaviors. This requires uncovering customer needs in a disciplined manner. This report...
Vision: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Companies have historically failed to meet the needs of their customers in individual channels. As customers increasingly engage with multiple channels in pursuit of a single goal, companies need to...

Vision: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Even companies that make customer experience a strategic priority struggle to implement major long-lasting improvements. That's because they fail to connect behind-the-scenes activities to customer...
Many firms want to differentiate on the basis of customer experience. To reach that goal, they must first define an experience that's truly differentiating and then deliver that experience...
Time To Get Serious About Social Voice Of The Customer
Most consumers have gotten poor service at some point in the past year. Among that group, the vast majority told friends or family about their disappointing experiences. To understand the causes of...
What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead
Over the past two years, consumer technology adoption and market forces have catapulted the field of customer experience into strategic stature. But it will be years before customer experience is...

Landscape: The Customer Experience Management Playbook
Customer experience management (CEM) is top of mind for many companies as they kick off 2013. This report sheds light on the current state of CEM, using data we collected from our Customer Experience...

What methodology did Forrester use to rank the winners of the VoC Awards?
To measure customer experience (CX), firms need a framework that tells them not only how good their customers' experiences are but also how to improve them and what benefits to expect from doing so....
