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In her role as an analyst, Roxana focuses on technology's impact on the market research industry. She tracks emerging and innovative research methodologies, such as social market research, mobile research, neuroscience, and prediction markets, and helps clients understand how to incorporate them into their research mix and combine them with traditional research methods. In addition, she leads all the data innovation efforts at Forrester, where she tests and seeks to understand which data sources, research methodologies, and frameworks are appropriate to help clients gain an intricate, 360-degree view of the consumer.
She is also an expert on Latin American consumer behavior and technology adoption and is responsible for managing Forrester's Latin American Technographics® research. She frequently advises clients on entering the Latin American market, understanding Latin American consumer segments, and increasing their visibility in this fast-changing region.
Roxana has spoken at numerous Forrester events and market-research-focused conferences, such as the Insights Innovation Exchange, Future of Consumer Intelligence, Market Research in a Mobile World and The Market Research Event. In addition, she has spoken at several conferences specializing in understanding the Latin American market, including ESOMAR's Latin American conference, Portada's Pan-Regional Advertising and Media Summit, and Ciab FEBRABAN. Her research has been cited in AdAge, the UK's Research, and was also highlighted in the book Latino Link: Building Brands Online with Hispanic Communities and Content.
Since she started at Forrester in 2006, Roxana has specialized in advising research and clients on sound survey design and data collection methodologies and on using advanced analytic tools on our Consumer Technographics data as well as on custom research surveys. Prior to her current role, Roxana was a senior survey manager and previously a data advisor with Consumer Technographics. In both roles, she used her expertise to deliver value to clients of all industries, from consumer electronics to advertising and media companies, through customized analysis and application of Consumer Technographics data.
Roxana received her B.S. in psychology from The Florida State University and an M.A. in psychology from The College of William and Mary.
Key Takeaways That Can Help You Strengthen Your Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Plans
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Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

Performance Management: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
As capability maps become the prevailing form for modeling business architectures, capability-based planning is growing into an effective practice to map organizations' general path forward....

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Assessment Framework: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
Putting in place Forrester's BT strategy framework requires a business-savvy IT team to support and work with the business-unit leadership teams. It also requires the IT team to have...
This HRM assessment tool enables a self-evaluation of four key areas: strategic alignment between HR and the overall business, the current portfolio of HRM applications, the effectiveness and...
Some Growth, Some Alignment, But More Business Visibility Is Needed
Budgets represent more than a spending schedule for CIOs. They also are an essential tool for creating collaboration with business leaders regarding tech-related business priorities, as well as a...

Forrester Research, in conjunction with itSMF-USA, conducted its second annual survey to understand the state of IT service management (ITSM) in 2012 and its direction in 2013 — a critical...

How Firms Can Best Capitalize On Software Development And Configuration Opportunities In India
The continued economic viability of software development in India, whether by independent software vendors (ISVs) or "captive" business units, depends less on pure labor arbitrage and more on...

Strategic Plan: The S&R Practice Playbook
This report outlines the strategic vision of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) professionals looking to build a high-performance security program and organization. This report is...
Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...
Enterprise architecture practices have a number of choices to make when deciding where responsibilities land within their organization. Forrester sees an increasing trend for EA leaders to take more...
Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012, was fielded to 3,753 IT executives and technology decision-makers located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany,...
Strategic Plan: The I&O Practice Playbook
The writing is on the wall: As-a-service technology, tech-savvy workers, and increased business complexity are widening the gap between business demand and traditional IT supply. This era is making...
Application performance management (APM) is a natural evolution of infrastructure monitoring. As IT management evolves toward service management and ultimately to business technology, quality of...

Vision: The Portfolio Management And PMO Playbook
Before IT can transition to business technology (BT) and become an effective partner with the business, the two groups of leaders must completely rethink the way they plan and execute — and...
If You're Not Planning Your Meetings, You're Planning To Fail
With 37% of information workers spending an hour or more in meetings every day, it's crucial to make that time productive. Organizing the meeting and using the right collaboration tools is a great...

Develop Effective BT Strategy
Today's executives are totally dependent on technology to achieve their organization's goals and objectives — without technology they cannot compete. CIOs increasingly play a vital role in...
To redesign an IT organization, you need to know the potential organizational models, their pros and cons, and how they would meet the needs of your organization. Fortunately, there are a relatively...

Road Map: The Content Management Playbook
This report outlines the enterprise content management (ECM) road map for enterprise architecture professionals working on content management. An ECM road map that maps the ECM components to a time...
Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

Technology Vision Toolkit: The BT Strategic Planning Playbook
This toolkit is a companion to the "Track Tech Trends That Influence Business Strategies" report from the BT Strategic Planning playbook. It presents a simple yet effective tool for targeting...
Landscape: The Business Technology Resiliency Playbook
This report defines and dissects the intersections and future directions of the solutions that make up the business technology (BT) resiliency landscape. It also identifies and catalogs the vendors...
