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Steven serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He is an authority on Australian online retail, including the behavior of Australian consumers, the sector's pattern of growth, Australian online retail technology adoption, and local retail practices across the entire customer life cycle, including marketing, merchandizing, and customer experience. A consistent theme of his recent research is the need to bury the funnel as a model of how marketing and commerce function, replacing it with a holistic understanding of the customer life cycle. From his base in Australia, Steven observes Asia Pacific trends, with a focus on China. His global research has addressed issues that range from content moderation and green marketing to global marketing management.
Before joining Forrester, Steven spent almost five years with the global, full-service public relations agency Hill & Knowlton. There he launched and managed the company's digital PR offering in Australia. Prior to this, Steven's roles included editor of Australian Macworld and eBusiness editor of Marketing magazine.
Steven received an MBA from the University of Technology Sydney, a graduate certificate in professional writing and editing from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and a B.A. with honors in economic history and industrial relations from the University of Melbourne.
Apple's Cross-Device Product Strategy Drives Product Differentiation And Customer Loyalty
Let's face it: Many observers, anticipating a redesign and a raft of hardware innovations, reacted with disappointment to Apple's iPhone 4S unveiling. Does it matter? No. Why? Because Apple launched...
A Panel Discussion At The 2010 Customer Experience Forum
Highlights of the Trends In Customer Experience panel at Forrester's Customer Experience Forum 2010 included a debate about the need for a chief customer officer (CCO), a prediction that "Web sites...
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Forrester's 2012 Tech Industry Predictions
From Desktop Virtualization To User Experience Management
Over the next several years, successful organizations across Asia Pacific will radically alter their approach to end user computing. Companies will continue to use desktop virtualization to simplify...
This document provides an overview of IT services within the ASEAN countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam for vendor strategists. The report discusses market...
Nail The Basics To Quickly Expose The Value Of The Channel
In the US, adoption of mobile financial services is rising: 11% of US online adults are now mobile bankers and 7% of those with investment accounts are mobile investors, although just 3% of online...
A Guide To Approaching Or Revitalizing A Retail eCommerce Video Campaign
Shoppers are beginning to use online video to inform their purchases. Although consumer uptake is slow when compared with the wider acceptance of Internet video, online retailers are turning to video...
Customer Struggles With Social, Cloud, And Mobile Signal A Transition
Microsoft SharePoint is the centerpiece of many enterprises' collaboration and content strategies, but it isn't clear to us that enterprises will continue to invest in SharePoint to provide a broader...

ForecastView Spreadsheet
Smartphone installed base and subscriber data for 16 countries in Western Europe. Includes age and income ownership demographics by country as well as subscribers by operating system for selected...
US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace
This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...
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...
This document provides market size estimates for 2010 in Australia and New Zealand, including vendor rankings and activities, forecasts, and market trends for vendor strategists. The report is based...
Empower Users With Desktop Transformation, Achieve Cloud Economics In The Data Center, And Improve Productivity With Industrialized Operations
In 2011, your business views IT as a source of productivity and competitiveness more than ever. At the same time, however, it's becoming much easier for empowered employees to act on their technology...
Leverage These Business Models And Features For Media App Success
Product strategists launching media applications on tablets have an opportunity to launch new products on these devices and enter a new era of media consumption. The tablet is a unique device with...
Your Technology And Culture Create An Environment Of Empowered Employees
Consumerization — employees using devices, applications, and web services without permission — is a threat to the status quo and a risk to the security of the firm. But it's also a key...

Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey retailers on their attitudes toward and investments in the online retail channel. This year the research specifically probes mobile and tablet...

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
Benchmarks: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines the benchmarks of Forrester's solution for security and risk (S&R) executives working on mobile security and operations initiatives. This report provides a benchmark of budgets,...

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...
IEEE Steps In With A Standard For Mobility Infrastructure Experts
Understanding mobile technology was a key priority for IT managers in June 2008 when Forrester originally published this report. Controlling cost was paramount and new investments were stagnated, but...
Strategy Deep Dive: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
Mobile devices are everywhere: at work, in the hands of your customers, and with employees. Security and risk (S&R) professionals need to provide users with secure and seamless mobile access to...

Improved Tablet Browsers Will Force Apps To Evolve
Product strategists designing content experiences for tablets must decide on their development priorities across apps and browsers. While some proclaim that "the Web is dead," we see improving...
But Workers Should Have The Freedom To Use Windows 8 Devices
Windows 8 is the boldest release of the OS since Windows 95. Microsoft chose to discard the Start button in favor of a new look designed to tie together the PC, tablet, and, smartphone experience....
This document provides vendor strategists with an analysis of the key trends in the Asia Pacific IT market in 2010 and previews the top trends that will shape the local market in 2011. This document...