Robert Brosnan

Principal Analyst serving Customer Insights PROFESSIONALS

Rob services Customer Insights Professionals. He is a leading expert on how businesses can use marketing technologies to build customer relationships and create competitive differentiation. As a principal analyst with Forrester, Rob provides research and consulting to clients on technology strategy, road maps, readiness, benchmarking, and organizational design.

Rob's research focuses on marketing technology trends, forecasts, best practices, requirements planning, organizational models, and ROI assessments. He covers marketing technology products and vendors in campaign management and marketing automation, customer decision management, real-time optimization, and marketing resource management.

Previous Work Experience

His prior work experience includes marketing software development, digital analytics, and marketing strategy. Rob consults with companies in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, and software. Rob also frequently speaks at industry events, and his press coverage includes MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, and Destination CRM.


Education

Rob is a gradaute of Clemson University and Indiana University.

Robert Brosnan's Research

  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report: Move Beyond Campaigns To Tap Hidden Customer Potential

    Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve ...

    • Downloads: 84
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    Report: Take A Startup Approach To Develop Customer Relationships

    Customers, empowered by always connected digital devices, can engage with brands at any time, from any place, and at any point within the customer life cycle. To respond with relevance in real t...

    • Downloads: 451
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report: Measure The Strength Of The Marketing Technology Stack

    The evolution from channel-specific to cross-channel campaigns affords firms the opportunity to improve relevance and deliver sustainable competitive advantage. The processes of measuring and re...

    • Downloads: 157
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    Report: Mastering New Marketing Automation Approaches

    The age of the customer ties success to firms' ability to know and serve their customers. Campaigns provide an instrument to drive customer behavior, but traditional campaign approaches can't ke...

    • Downloads: 456
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    Report: Tackle Behavioral Targeting To Modernize Customer Interactions

    For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the ...

    • Downloads: 632
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    Report: The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management, Q1 2012

    In Forrester's 81-criteria evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) vendors, we identified, researched, and scored 12 products from 11 providers: Alterian, Aprimo, ExactTarget, IBM...

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    Report: Revisiting The Enterprise Marketing Software Landscape

    Marketing today is impossible without significant investments in technology. When Forrester first charted the landscape of marketing technologies in 2007, we found that marketers were investing ...

    • Downloads: 898
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report: Tackle Behavioral Targeting To Modernize Customer Interactions

    For the recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation of cross-channel campaign management (CCCM), we surveyed 130 customers about their vendors. We found that users were generally satisfied with the ...

    • Downloads: 632
    • Rating:
  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report: Investing In Marketing's Technology Future

    Marketers require ever more technology to capture, integrate, analyze, and apply customer data to marketing programs. Forrester recommends that marketers establish an enterprisewide marketing te...

    • Downloads: 637
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  • For Customer Insights Professionals

    Report: The State Of MRM In 2011

    Marketing resource management (MRM) systems promise to enhance marketers' ability to optimize planning, budgeting, collaboration, and asset creation. MRM received significant attention in the mi...

    • Downloads: 554
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Robert Brosnan's Planned Reports

May 2013

Report: Recast Marketing Technology's Role For The Era Of The Always Addressable Consumer

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