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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.
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Strategies To Counter Disruptive Smartphone Competition
Smartphones' benefits mean they continue to trample on adjacent product categories as the mobile market collides with the consumer electronics market. The role of the smartphone in consumers' lives...
Winning Tablet Product Strategies Will Exploit Both Apps And Browsers
Product strategists are struggling to make sense of the tablet opportunity: Will there be a market for tablets beyond Apple's iPad, and if so, how big will it be? In this report, we present data from...
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Adoption, ownership, and life cycle for Blu-ray Disc players, console game devices, and HDTVs. Contains data for each device on connectable and connected households. Includes historical data going...
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Unit sales and installed base of portable media players by device type (audio, video-capable, music-capable phones). Includes total number of users with a portable media player. Includes historical...
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Adoption and ownership of game console devices, Blu-ray Disc players, and HDTVs among US households. Includes unit sales and installed base of: 1) game consoles (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, etc.) by...
US eBook Forecast, 2010 To 2015
Since Amazon.com introduced the Kindle eReader in 2007, all of the industry's attention has focused on the rapid adoption and proliferation of eReaders. However, the success of the devices has been...
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Personal digital device users for portable media devices, tablets, dedicated eReaders, and portable gaming devices in the seven Western European countries of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands...
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Business models and rights issues have both distorted and fragmented the consumer digital music experience and products. A new generation of 360-degree music services is emerging that leverages cloud...
Media companies face significant challenges as they address the impact of the media meltdown, compounded by an economic downturn. As they rebuild their industries and construct new business models,...
North American Consumer Technographics®
This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2011 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...
In Europe, The Middle East, And Asia, Smartphones Will Be Mainstream Products
In 2011, yesteryear's high-end smartphones will become this year's entry level. As suppliers offer smartphones at lower prices — often less than €100 on prepay — the smartphone will...
Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...
Cannibalization Will Accelerate With The Next Wave Of Tablet Buyers
Product strategists regard tablets with an anxious eye, pondering the extent to which tablets will cannibalize products like newspapers, magazines, laptops, netbooks, and TVs. Forrester's data...