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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.
Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

From Technology Foundations To Business Outcomes
Forrester sees six important trends unfolding in business technology (BT), where information technology will most directly and visibly affect business outcomes. Not having an initiative or effort...

Landscape: The Business Process Management Playbook
Firms continue to invest massive amounts of money and time into improving their business processes. Why? Because of the imperative to optimize their business operations for their markets, even as...


As Multidevice Adoption Spreads, Today's Weak Attachment To Vendor Ecosystems Will Strengthen
Benchmarks: The IT Infrastructure Playbook
This report provides IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals with strategic benchmarks to compare their IT infrastructure budgets, priorities, motivations, and technology adoption to...
Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

The New Foundations For Innovation In A Maturing Industry
As more IT organizations operate under the dueling mandates of delivering cost savings and innovation, suppliers of applications outsourcing services are getting ready for the next phase of their...
Organizations Across The Region Will Invest In Five Key Areas As Workforce Demand For Mobility Continues To Rise
This report gives enterprise mobility vendors guidance on how to identify business opportunities in Asia Pacific (AP) in 2013, providing insights into end user companies' telecom and mobility...
Policy And Procedures: The S&R Practice Playbook
Over recent years, the information security industry has matured nicely; experts and associations have documented many best practice models, and their adoption has been widespread. It's disconcerting...
Making A Compelling Argument For ALM Investment
Implementing a more effective application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy will depend on making a compelling business case for investing in changes. Buying new ALM tools, hiring new staff, and...
Road Map: The Emerging Technology Playbook
Firms increasingly depend on technology to be innovative and disruptive. However, our data indicates that most firms are not doing a good job of getting new technology in the door and ensuring that...

Forrester's 2013 Predictions For Asia Pacific
2013 will be a transformative year for IT adoption in Asia Pacific (AP); multiple IT trends will converge to drive industry disruptions and help spur renewed growth in IT spending. Overall, we...
As Multidevice Adoption Spreads, Today's Weak Attachment To Vendor Ecosystems Will Strengthen
Personal technology vendors are engaged in a battle for their customers' loyalty, which (they hope) will translate to ongoing investment in related devices, software, and services. As individuals...

Mobility And Analytics Drive Spending Growth Despite Business Pessimism
What are the 2013 budget plans and priorities for CIOs and other IT decision-makers? Forrester's Forrsights Budgets And Priorities Tracker Survey, Q4 2012 provides insight on the 2013 tech buying...

Emerging Asia Steps Up
In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...
Providers Driving Workplace Services In EMEA
Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

Forrsights Telecom And Mobility Workforce Survey, Q2 2013, was fielded to 5,116 information workers located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from SMB and enterprise companies with two...
When considering hosted virtual desktops (also known as virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI) as an alternative or in addition to physical PCs, it's difficult to find reliable information about the...
Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...
Vision: The CRM Playbook
The only source of competitive advantage is the one that can survive technology-fueled disruption: an obsession with understanding, connecting with, serving, and delighting customers. But as...

As companies continue to expand and diversify their global delivery models, they are increasingly evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of new geographies. This report examines three key geographic...
Shrinking storage budgets and rapidly expanding data stores are putting extraordinary amounts of pressure on storage administrators. Storage vendors have responded to new customer requirements for...

Protect Your Sensitive Data With Endpoint Encryption
Security and risk (S&R) professionals often turn to endpoint encryption technologies to protect corporate data, meet regulatory requirements, and prevent accidental data leaks. Full disk and...
CIOs' Focus On The Workforce Experience Aligns Technology With Strategies To Engage And Motivate Productive Workers
Innovative products and services plus a laser focus on the customer are the engines of growth in the information economy. To succeed, business leaders must recruit, develop, and sustain an engaged...