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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.
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Supporting Sales Is The Hardest Challenge For AR
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Analyst relations (AR) managers want to influence what analysts write and present. Yet they miss the opportunity to supply publishable content because they send stock collateral instead, and they...
Analyst relations (AR) professionals are weighing the opportunities and threats posed by social media, but many take a backward approach to developing a social AR strategy. They often begin with...

Branded vendor comparisons from well-known research firms hold a very special place in analyst relations (AR) programs. Excluded vendors want to be included in them, and those already there jockey...
Analyst relations (AR) people are weighing the opportunities and threats posed by social media, but many take a backward approach to developing a social AR strategy and begin with technology-driven...

As a surgeon's scalpel is to a hacksaw, so BMC Software's precision AR strategy is to the more generic AR approaches of other firms. Clear, focused goals ensure that the AR team wastes no time on...
AR managers struggle to build value-driven AR plans, let alone to articulate any resultant business value in crisp statements that convince executives of AR's worth. But the plan and the value...

Branded vendor comparisons from well-known research firms hold a very special place in analyst relations (AR) programs. Excluded vendors want to be included in them, and those already there jockey...
Strategic Plan: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Analyst relations (AR) managers constantly ask us how to prove the value of their AR programs. Worryingly, so do some of their bosses. Unfortunately, many struggle because they didn't build plans to...

Influence: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Most valuable AR programs rely, sometimes exclusively, on analysts enhancing the commercial fortunes of the vendors by influencing marketplace players like buyers, partners, journalists, and...

This self-assessment tool helps you review your current industry analyst relations (AR) program, analyze its weaknesses, and identify what you need to change if your program is to join the best. The...

Branded vendor comparisons from well-known research firms hold a very special place in analyst relations (AR) programs. Excluded vendors want to be included in them, and those already there jockey...
Executive Overview: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Industry analyst relations (AR) is a profession. Done well, it delivers high business value through unique resources — industry analysts. But vendors understand its value poorly and resource it...

Introducing The Ebbinghaus Briefing Model
Vendors need analysts to remember key facts about their companies, products, services, customer value, and more, but the format of today's briefings and the contexts in which they take place cast...
The Role Of Active Hosts In Briefing Success
Neustar has dramatically increased the level of analyst acceptances of briefing requests, the coverage it gains from those briefings, and the willingness of analysts to offer help in the form of...
Landscape: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
The industry analyst relations (AR) tradition of supporting marketing and sales all too easily limits AR when the parent vendor faces greater business challenges elsewhere. Furthermore, whether AR is...

Business Impact: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
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Assessment: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook
Analyst relations (AR) managers get very little time to assess their AR programs because they're so busy executing on the next apparent priority. To help, Forrester has distilled AR best practices...
Sapient's industry analyst relations (AR) team is producing direct sales benefits by generating leads from analysts and their publications and by getting involved in sales cycles in person,...