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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.
Collaborative Relationships Help Vendors Meet The Needs Of Partners And Customers
Technology product managers and marketers face a simple truth: You have to work closely with your partners and customers or you risk failing to meet their needs. However, a range of technical and...
An IT Support Report Card On Employee Mobile, Social, And Collaboration Tools
In 2016, Forrester projects that 63 million US information workers will telecommute at least part-time. Our recent survey of 4,985 US information workers indicates we're well on our way to hitting...
Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...


Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...
Businesses Still Mainly Use Collaboration Tools To Reduce Travel Costs
Businesses large and small are continuing to invest in a range of collaboration technologies. While vendors promise that these technologies can solve a range of business problems, most content and...
Business Impact: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside of their corporate office at least occasionally every month, it's imperative that business leaders...
What are the vendors and tool sets for virtual worlds (Second Life, Teleplace, etc.)?
Moving collaboration workloads to the public cloud is an attractive proposition for content and collaboration professionals and information workers alike. Why? They're inexpensive to stand up and...
A Buyer's Guide For Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps For Business, And IBM SmartCloud For Social Business
Over the past two years, Forrester clients have shown great interest in the cloud collaboration and productivity suites Microsoft, Google, and IBM offer: We've fielded more than 150 inquiries on this...
Is Web 2.0 (wikis, blogs etc. for both internal use for employees and external stakeholders) common in government agencies, especially compared to private industries? What are the trends? Does being...
For businesses to remain competitive, they must enable their workers to draw ideas and labor from parties both inside and outside of the company. Employees charged with developing and marketing...
Dimdim Points To How Small SaaS Firms Can Thrive In Crowded Markets
Interest in software-as-a-service (SaaS) is heating up; 55% of firms tell us they are deploying the technology, will be deploying it in the next year or so, or are interested in it. In response,...
Social Software Plugs Partners And Customers Into The Product Development Process
Psion, a manufacturer of ruggedized handheld devices, has made intercompany collaboration core to its business. Psion CEO John Conoley and CMO Nick Eades have partnered in recent years to turn around...
More Than A Million Shared Slides Get An Audio And Video Facelift; Consumerization Gets Another Injection; IT Gets Another Vendor To Track
Why does the world need yet another webconferencing vendor? Because the existing solutions don't deliver all the value that your employees crave at a price you can afford. SlideShare has answered the...
Office 365 Has Much But Not All Of What Firms Need From A Collaboration Platform
On June 28, 2011, Microsoft launched Office 365 in 40 countries after a massive public beta involving 200,000 organizations from every region. This product encompasses Office Professional Plus and...
A Small, Technically Savvy Group Leverages Publicly Available Social Software To Enhance Their Efficiency And Productivity At Work
Enterprise 2.0 is a hot topic as business executives and IT leaders seek ways to bring social technologies into their business. But hype aside, are we close to seeing a social revolution in business?...

In Forrester's 38-criteria evaluation of the cloud strategies of online collaboration software vendors, we identified eight significant collaboration services providers — Box, Cisco Systems,...

Business Leaders Must Focus On People, Technologies, And Facilities Management
With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside a corporate office at least occasionally during a month, it's imperative that business leaders initiate...
Spurring Adoption Requires Management Advocacy And Concrete Use Cases
Videoconferencing technology promises contextual communications over distance. One type — desktop video — is gaining traction because it can provide access to visual communication to more...
Forrester's Convenience Quotient Weighs The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Tools To Predict What Technologies Employees Will Use
Content and collaboration (C&C) professionals are helping their businesses deploy a number of tools to keep information workers connected and productive. However, Forrester data consistently shows...

Governments Are Playing Catch-Up In Terms Of Mobility And Collaboration
North American and European governments are striving for efficiency, openness, and responsiveness as their constituencies increasingly organize and mobilize using social technologies. However,...
An Empowered Report: Microsoft Uses Productivity Games To Test Windows And Office Communicator
For product managers, getting workers to help test new products has always proven to be a challenge, making finding an engaging inducement for participation the Holy Grail. As a panacea, a small but...