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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.
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.
Rob is a gradaute of Clemson University and Indiana University.
As customer databases grow in functionality and organizational influence, Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals must choose between insourcing and outsourcing strategies to best facilitate their...
How CI Can Use Technology To Drive Competitive Advantage
Marketers require ever more technology to capture, integrate, analyze, and apply customer data to marketing programs. Forrester recommends that marketers establish an enterprisewide marketing...
