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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This Technographics® Insight takes a look at consumers¿ trust of online customer ratings and reviews in the US. It compares differences in attitudes and behaviors among consumers who generally trust...
In 2006, 56% of European Net users regularly shopped online but not all of them made their payments online. European online shoppers continue to use a mix of online and offline payment methods to buy...
If European young consumers have to choose the device they feel they can't live without, the majority selects their mobile. It¿s not just the calling that counts: messaging is more popular than voice...
Online shopping uptake slows down in Europe, Sweden and the Netherlands show the largest increase in online shopping in the past year. However, the majority of European shoppers live in Germany or...
The senior segment in Europe currently represents a third of the total population and is expected to grow in the coming years. European seniors are an attractive target group, as they tend to have...
North American Technographics®
Moms (defined here as US online women ages 18 to 50 who are parents of a child younger than 18 living with them) are much like their non-mom counterparts when it comes to their basic demographics,...
This Technographics Insight takes a look at mobile penetration in Poland. It examines attrition of fixed line telephony and growth of mobile Internet in Poland.
What European Women Do Online, And How This Differs From What Men Do
The number of European women using the Internet regularly has jumped from 51 million to 71 million in the past four years. However, women are still less likely than men to be online, and those who...
For the past decade or so, an increasing number of European consumers have been relying on the Internet to provide them with information on products and services. Today, more than half of the...
European Sidelined Citizens Are A Valuable Target Group
Sidelined Citizens is Forrester's term for late adopters; they are also often referred to as laggards. They are low-income technology pessimists who adopt technology after everybody else. But...
Europeans are shopping via three main channels: stores, the Internet, and other remote channels, such as mail, phone, and catalogs. In recent years, the Internet channel has been gaining in...
Young professionals are an attractive group for financial companies — they are an affluent segment of the population, whose incomes are likely to grow with their career paths, and who have an...
This Technographics Insight takes a look at the customer service methods Europeans like and use. It examines more particularly the methods consumers use to contact their main mobile phone operator.
This Technographics Insight takes a look at Internet uptake in Asia Pacific markets. It examines Internet adoption across countries, the profile on online consumers, and their activities online.