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Reineke serves Customer Insights Professionals and leads a team that helps these professionals understand the changes happening in the customer insights industry and how they should adapt their research agendas, research methodologies, and team structure to continue to be successful. Prior to this position, Reineke spent six years at Forrester managing all quantitative research operations for Forrester in Europe and Asia, including the Consumer Technographics® and UK Internet User Monitor studies and writing quantitative research about the effect of technology on consumer behavior. Before that she was an analyst at Forrester for four years, focusing primarily on retail and media topics.
Reineke comes to Forrester from Intres, a retail-service organization that manages a group of retail chains like Intersport and Livera in the Benelux countries. At Intres, Reineke advised the board of directors on business expansions and supported senior management with strategic decisions. Specializing in quantitative research, she used this knowledge to develop and introduce an electronic management information system at Intres.
Prior to Intres, Reineke worked for five years as a senior research executive at Market Response, a market research company in the Netherlands. At Market Response, she set up and coordinated research activities in Europe and Asia. Her focus there was on continuous and international research as well as on consulting. Reineke worked during this period for clients like Akzo, British American Tobacco, Mars/Effem, and Sara Lee.
Reineke is a graduate in social geography of the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Current Trends Shape Future Market Research Environment In Europe
Over the past 10 years, the Internet has changed the role of market research agencies, survey respondents, and consumer market researchers. Overall, the market research industry has seen steady...
Effective marketing requires sending the right message to the right person, and cell phones' anytime, anywhere character makes them the perfect delivery system for that message. The ubiquity of cell...
The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...
In this economic recession, market researchers have to support product strategists to understand shifting consumer priorities. An evaluation of purchase intentions can determine which products...
Mobile Research Adds "Anytime, Anywhere" To The Research Mix
Mobile research is still limited in uptake, but it will gain momentum in the years to come as mobile Internet penetration grows. Its mobility and flexibility offer consumer market research...
Major Changes Are In Store For The Market Research Profession
Until a couple of years ago, the market research department was the only department that proactively collected data from customers and prospects and broadcast it into the organization, but now data...
Ten Trends That Will Shape Consumer Market Research In 2010
Like so many people, market researchers have been through a lot in the past year. They saw their workload change significantly in 2009 because of an increased need for information, with higher...
There have been tough economic times before, but those were in a different era. In the 1980s, consumers only received information via television and newspapers, which meant a certain delay in getting...
In the past five years, the global Internet population has grown from about 1 billion to 1.6 billion, and this growth isn't about to stop any time soon. However, the future growth isn't equally...
In most companies, the development of a customer segmentation is the responsibility of the market research department. A good segmentation is used by the whole organization and especially guides...
Marketers often use the marketing funnel as a metaphor to illustrate how activities move people from prospects to customers. In most companies, the emphasis is at the opening of the funnel: on...
The terms "owned media," "paid media," and "earned media" have become very popular in the marketing space today. Marketers need to understand the benefits of each medium and how to identify the role...
Market Insights Professionals' Agenda Topics For 2012 Include Emerging Methods, Insights Delivery, And Collaboration
The market research profession has gone through significant change in the past few years, and Forrester predicts that more is yet to come. In fact, market insights professionals will face some...
One of the biggest challenges that market researchers face is to show the added value of market research to the company and to gain influence at the executive level. To increase visibility, market...
Creating and implementing a sound mobile strategy is challenging, but as consumers adopt higher-end cell phones, companies need to understand how they should connect with consumers on a device that's...
Understanding and analyzing the behavior of your company's Web site visitors should go beyond collecting and analyzing site statistics. Staples represents a best-in-class example of how quantitative...

A Technographics® Dashboard
This Data Essentials summarizes some key data points for the US from Forrester's North American Technographics retail surveys; it also includes data from the Forrester Research Online Retail...
Market researchers deal with a constant stream of requests from multiple departments and internal clients, which often results in too much to do in too little time. In such an environment, it's easy...
Why "Gen X" Isn't A Global Concept
Terms like Generation X and Boomers are used widely to describe the behavior and needs of a group of people that are born in a certain time period. These generations are defined by a similar...
This Technographics Insight takes a look at the financial attitudes among online consumers globally. It compares online consumers¿ willingness to shop around for financial products, trust in...
The eCommerce market in Poland is full of potential. It's growing faster than Western European markets and is overtaking Southern European countries such as Spain and Italy. Polish consumers are...
No two countries are the same when it comes to retail payment habits in Europe. Unlike in the US — where most firms can offer their customers a uniform set of payment options — companies...
Take a quick look at the online shopping behaviors in Asia, Europe, and the US. Discover which countries are the most active in online shopping, and which products are the most popular.
With a low 4% online gambling trails the list of activities Europeans do regularly online. European online gamblers still show a very early adopter profile: young tech savvy males. Online games are...
Mobile Research Helped Gain Insight In The Buildup Of Movie Promotion
Fox and Microsoft Advertising collaborated on a project at the end of 2008 to better understand the impact of and the interaction between the different media channels used to promote movies. They...