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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Disruption is coming — is your company ready? Organizations need to realize that their customers want things faster, better, cheaper, and with a higher degree of service, and technology makes...
Is there a uniform European market for information and communications technology (ICT) solutions? Many organizations approach Europe as one region, often combined with the Middle East and Africa (the...
Partnership With Jellyvision Lab Leads To An Engaging Training Module
One of the challenges that market insights professionals struggle with is the communication of research results across the organization. The Customer Experience and NPS team at Philips was tasked...

To better understand how the recession has changed market researchers' lives in the past year, we've conducted a survey of Forrester's Research Panel For Market Research Professionals about workload,...
Forrester's research shows that firms that seek to place the customer at the core of their operations closely align their market insights and customer intelligence functions and in time have them...
Market Insights Needs To Invest In Richer Data, Technology, And Skills To Prepare For The Future
The market insights industry is at a crossroads. Digital disruption has created an environment in which customer and competitive change is happening much more quickly and having a bigger impact on...
North American Technographics®
This demographic overview highlights the unique behaviors and attitudes that characterize US online Hispanics compared with their non-Hispanic peers. US online Hispanics lead the way in mobile device...
North American Technographics®
In this demographic overview, we take a look at US young professionals — an ambitious group that seems to embody the "work hard, play hard" lifestyle. Forrester defines young professionals as...
North American Consumer Technographics®
Conversationalists are the highly active individuals that post updates and/or update their status on social networking sites at least weekly. Members of this group not only express their opinion on a...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Mobile phones are an integral part of day-to-day life for most Chinese consumers. But not everyone uses their phone in the same way nor is similarly attached to their phone. Forrester's analysis of...