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TJ serves CIO Professionals. His research focuses on the business of collaboration software, which includes adoption, business models, pricing, and positioning, and how information workers affect the adoption and deployment of collaboration software within their business. His research of the collaboration space also deals with how these technologies are applied to facilitate interactions between companies — vendor to partner, vendor to supplier, vendor to customer — for purposes of marketing, product development, and innovation. In addition, TJ researches serious gaming, which is the use of games and gaming dynamics for business or educational purposes and the use of virtual worlds for collaboration and training. His work helps professionals understand the technology and demographic trends that are affecting the markets they serve and provides guidance on how best to position their products to meet these challenges. TJ has been cited in ComputerWorld and the Financial Times.
Prior to joining Forrester, TJ was an analyst at a new product development firm, conducting voice of the customer and litigation-related market research for technology and other firms.
TJ has a B.S. in public relations and an M.S. in applied communication research from Boston University.
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...
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...

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...


Converseon, Nielsen, And Radian6 Lead A Fragmented Market
Dell is a global brand that generates more than 25,000 online conversations every day. Keeping up with that volume isn't easy, but the firm uses its Social Media Listening Command Center to...
Using Cross-Channel Attribution To Understand Marketing Effectiveness
In an environment where media fragmentation is the status quo, traditional one-to-one, last-touch methods of allocating demand to marketing efforts are outdated and lead to a suboptimal marketing...
Intel has an internal team of seven employees — aligned by business function — to listen to the groundswell, engage in online discussion, and set corporate guidelines for social media....

As the demand for customer intelligence (CI) from business stakeholders grows and more organizations increase their CI maturity, organizations' marketing agency needs have also changed. A few...

Exploring The Tools And Technologies That Manage Social Media Data
In January 2009, Forrester identified an evolution in the social media technology market: Social media monitoring tools grew into a more advanced technology and analytics infrastructure —...

With customer communication channels growing at an exponential pace, brands must adapt their marketing campaigns to provide messages that are more customer-relevant and that differentiate their...
An Empowered Report: How Data-Driven Strategies Strengthen Empowered Organizations
An empowered organization gives its employees the resources they need to build relationships with their constantly evolving customers. But many companies still struggle to adapt their marketing...

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...
Major Changes Are In Store For The Market Research Profession
Until a couple of years ago, the market research department was the only department that proactively collected data from customers and prospects and broadcast it into the organization, but now data...
Identifying and tapping customer influence remains a popular topic for Customer Intelligence professionals. But with all of the interest, most see influence as a nebulous concept. Some of the...

Disruption is coming — is your company ready? Organizations need to realize that their customers want things faster, better, cheaper, and with a higher degree of service, and technology makes...
Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...
Leverage Social Data To Elevate Customer Intelligence
Social media's prevalence across the Web gives consumers and brands a new way to connect online. But while most businesses know the importance of social media, most are missing opportunities by not...
Findings From Forrester's Listening Platforms Wave™ Evaluation
We recently surveyed 153 listening platform customers about their vendor partnerships and Social Intelligence practices. Listening platform customers represent companies of all sizes and industries...
A Readiness Framework For Successful Implementation
Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals are increasingly tasked with assessing marketing effectiveness across all channels within the organization. But without access to next-generation attribution...
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)...
