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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.
Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations
The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...
But They Are Poorly Positioned For The Larger Value-Added Service Opportunity
Telcos face increasing pressure on traditional voice revenues and seek new revenues from services leveraging existing assets. Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, including radio frequency...

As Carriers Move To Embrace OTT, Enterprises Will Benefit
Over the top (OTT), the network-agnostic delivery of digital services, marks an important shift in the delivery and consumption of information and communications technology (ICT) services. OTT breaks...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Egypt for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...
Forrester's Framework Benchmarks Mobile Capabilities And Provides A Road Map For Progress
Everyone needs a mobile strategy, but what is the right approach and what are the appropriate objectives and metrics? To help product strategists and executives in charge of defining their company's...

Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity
The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

Choosing An Approach To Meet Your Objectives Cost-Effectively
The browser-based mobile Web experience is more important than ever, with dramatic growth in the usage of the mobile Internet — especially from smartphones — in the past 24 months. In...
Changes Will Accelerate Over The Next 24 Months
The IT services industry is in the middle of a fundamental transformation of who it sells to, what services it sells, and how it delivers those services. Upstart vendors specializing in new...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Israel for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and challenges, market awareness and...

2010 Storage Acquisitions Yield Three Lessons Learned For I&O To Apply To 2011 Storage Strategies
Acquisitions have long been a part of the storage vendor landscape. But 2010 and the first part of 2011 saw an explosion of huge deals from almost every storage vendor. There are few independent...

Understanding Who Chooses And Who Pays For Devices That Span Business And Personal Tasks
The spreading bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has created a more complex landscape of tech buying. But traditional divisions between consumer tech purchases and business tech purchases still...
To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...
Human resource management (HRM) applications — consisting of six categories of solutions ranging from core transactions to strategic talent management — represent a market in transition....
This document provides an overview of cloud computing end user adoption trends in Japan for vendor strategists. The report is based on findings from a cloud computing survey targeting Japanese...
How You Sell Is As Important As What You Sell
Executive decision-makers find that the technology vendors that best differentiate themselves from the pack are the ones that can match a relevant set of capabilities to their specific circumstances....
Service Provider Market Dynamics Will Muddy The Channel Ecosystem
An inflection point has surfaced in the managed service provider (MSP) market. Tech vendors must awaken to the revolution that is swiftly taking shape in the ecosystem as cloud computing adoption...

Forrester's M&A Value Prediction Framework
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be driven by a variety of different objectives, ranging from strategic asset deals, to patent motivated deals, to hostile takeovers. Acquisitions that lead to the...
Financing, Marketing, And Collaboration Top Their Wish Lists
Channel partners are afflicted with "cloud identity disorder" — the symptomatology of which is characterized by confusion and fear about their place in the cloud computing demand chain and...
With the right pricing models, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals can build the foundation for flexibility in infrastructure outsourcing contracts. Flexibility has different flavors,...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Turkey for vendor strategists. There is a focus on cloud adoption trends and demand drivers, benefits and concerns, market awareness and user...

Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure
During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...

Emerging Opportunities And Imperatives For An IT Industry In Transformation
Rather than quietly maturing into middle age as it enters its seventh decade, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry is continuing to evolve rapidly. The ICT landscape is roiled...
Results, not products, differentiate vendors in the eyes of executives.Executives assign strategic supplier status to vendors that are willing and able to align in substantial, not superficial, ways....
App Innovation On Phones Will Spread To Cars, Appliances And Entertainment
The explosion of app innovation that started on the iPhone and then spread to Android devices and tablets will continue to drive tech industry innovation and have far-reaching pricing and...
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