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Simon is vice president and principal analyst on the CIO research team focused on mobility and workplace experience. His research focuses on the role of the CIO in driving mobile strategy for employees, customers, and partners; mobile technology planning and road map development; and defining the technology requirements in an ever-changing work environment.
Prior to his current role, Simon was responsible for the growth and development of the CIO Group, Forrester's Leadership Board of more than 400 CIOs worldwide. Prior to assuming this role, he was vice president and research director for the infrastructure and operations and security and risk research teams. For three years, Simon developed and hosted Forrester's IT Forum EMEA, was based in Paris, and worked extensively with European clients. Before that, Simon was a principal analyst on the infrastructure and operations team covering personal computing, mobility, and client virtualization. He joined Forrester in 2000 as an analyst covering enterprise application integration and web services.
Prior to joining Forrester, Simon spent 10 years in technical book acquisitions and publishing with Addison Wesley and McGraw-Hill.
Simon holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island in English and political science.
Assessment: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Cross-channel attribution is a complex, advanced measurement approach, allowing marketers to uncover the true impact of their marketing campaigns across channels. To get it right, organizations must...
Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...

Benchmarks: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Few marketers have a structured approach to optimizing their marketing mix, often missing the opportunity to deliver better results with the same level of investment or to effectively reallocate...

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...
How To Diagnose And Treat Your Brand's Resilience And Responsiveness
CMOs who remain detached from the everyday pulse of consumer sentiment are putting their brands at great risk. A brand's health is more vulnerable in the digital age as consumer opinion travels...
Measurement And Staffing Challenges Keep Social From Taking Off
As more European consumers use social media, more European interactive marketers are adopting the channel as well. But there are still key challenges to overcome. First, marketers fail to measure the...
Assess Your Current State To Inform The Online Marketing Suite Road Map
The online marketing suite is a well-regarded framework for coordinating interactive marketing, but it consistently proves difficult to implement. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals struggle to...
How Embracing CORE Directives Will Help You Foster Adaptability
Interactivity is changing life as we know it, a scope too big for most firms' siloed, understaffed interactive marketing organizations. The solution? To customize, optimize, respond, and empower...
Communicating The Right Data To Different Internal Stakeholders
Social media contributes value to interactive marketing programs in many ways — but measuring that value is difficult. The sheer volume of social media metrics can quickly become overwhelming...

Today's approach to marketing campaigns is broken, and customer relationships are suffering as a result. Although Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals have traditionally been detached from the...
Business Case: The Social Marketing Playbook
The demand has never been greater for marketers to validate and measure the benefits delivered by their increasing investment in social media. Marketers often frame this question as, "What is the ROI...

Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation
After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...
Visual IQ, Adometry, And ClearSaleing Lead The Category
In Forrester's 45-criteria evaluation of interactive attribution vendors, we identified and analyzed the eight significant providers in this category — Adobe, Adometry, C3 Metrics,...

B2B email marketing programs still trail B2C programs in terms of their customer centricity, in part because of the complexity of business products, the poor alignment of marketing and sales, and...
Quantifying The Impact Of A Facebook Fan On Brand Interactions
Quantifying the impact of a Facebook fan can be difficult and elusive for marketers. Forrester uses statistical modeling to analyze the effect of being a Facebook fan on brands. The model gives...

Road Map: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Too many companies remain trapped by merely monitoring or passively collecting social media. Few actually reach social intelligence: driving their marketing and business strategy using the data that...
Why You Should Make Multichannel Measurement A Priority
Marketers measure digital channels in isolation from one another. However, consumers don't act within channels; they act across channels. Cross-channel measurement, a nice-to-have for most marketers...
Performance Management: The Social Marketing Playbook
You've no doubt heard the question: "How do we know that social marketing drives sales?" But just as not all TV spots or billboards are intended to drive direct response, not every social marketing...
The Cross-Channel Attribution Blueprint
When it comes to articulating the business value of data, marketing pros are among the most enlightened of business stakeholders. Marketers rely on customer, transaction, and third-party data to...
Measurement is universally valued by interactive marketers. Approaches and levels of sophistication vary, but nearly everyone recognizes that smart measurement leads to optimized business results...
Customer intelligence (CI) professionals are eager to develop a fully integrated cross-channel attribution strategy as a critical first step to optimizing marketing budgets and plans. However, the...
Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...