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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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Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
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Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
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Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook
Marketers spend billions of dollars on social media every year, and they're increasingly turning to technology vendors to support their social programs. But for many marketers, the social technology...
Strategic Plan: The Open Innovation Playbook
Despite the fact that economists, consultants, and business experts have been advocating for open innovation for more than a decade, product strategists indicate that most firms continue to struggle...

How Vendors Will Drive Co-Creation Uptake By Product Strategists
Co-creation will become a pillar of product innovation by 2015. Although the market remains relatively immature, we have witnessed growing awareness of co-creation from our clients across a wide...
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Tools And Technology: The Social Intelligence Playbook
With the incessant growth of social networks, more and more businesses turn to listening platforms — technology and services vendors that help companies manage, learn from, and measure social...

Benchmarks: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Forrester recently polled 108 listening platform customers to learn about the evolution in companies' social intelligence practices. We reviewed their vendor partnerships, the ways they use listening...

Benchmarks: The Social Marketing Playbook
Despite the tremendous hype and even some pockets of success, our most recent social media benchmarking survey shows that social marketing is still at an early stage. In fact, most interactive...

Vision: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Listening platforms power marketers by analyzing their brands, products, and customers across social media channels. But although listening platforms make managing social data possible, marketers...

Business Case: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Listening platforms are hot and marketers are keen to use consumer conversations to inform marketing and business strategy. But as more businesses adopt listening platforms, the question that comes...
How Nine Vendors Stack Up In A Constantly Changing Market
In Forrester's 64-criteria evaluation of enterprise listening platforms vendors, we found that Radian6 and Visible Technologies lead the pack because of their variably functional dashboards and...

Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions requires the right combination of a clear objective, business planning, technology, and, most importantly, people to do the...
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...

Assessment: The Open Innovation Playbook
Product strategy professionals increasingly recognize the value of social co-creation engagements to involve the customer directly in the product development process and how this fits into the...

Assessment: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Over the past four years, Forrester has outlined why firms must monitor social media. But although most companies understand the importance of tracking conversations happening online, few actually...

Landscape: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Over the years, we've evaluated the tools that marketers use to monitor, measure, and learn from online conversations. These listening platforms capture social media to help users analyze data and...
2012 Investment In Social Media And Communities Remains Strong
Tech marketers may not be forthcoming about their organizations' New Year's resolutions, but Forrester's Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments (MOI) Survey provides strong indicators...

This is a deep-dive data update to last year's report, "European Tech Marketing Is Different: Here's How," based on Forrester's Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey. Most of the...
Continuous Improvement: The Social Intelligence Playbook
If you represent a large consumer brand, consider a social intelligence command center — a dedicated resource for listening to the groundswell. A command center like this can improve your...
Business-to-business (B2B) companies that do not already have a social media strategy or a listening platform are at risk of being left behind. While social media and business-to-consumer (B2C)...

Landscape: The CRM Playbook
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