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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.
An Empowered Report: High-Impact Technologies That You Should Track
Forrester began summarizing technology trends last year to help enterprise architects create their organizations' technology watch lists. For this year's list of top trends, we've used the same...
Road Map: The Business Intelligence Playbook
In the face of rising data volume and complexity and increased need for self-service, enterprises need an effective business intelligence (BI) reference architecture to utilize BI as a key corporate...


Create A Cohesive Business From Your (Seemingly Random) Collection Of Applications And Data
Integration is a perennial challenge for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. Vintage, monolithic applications are hard to deal with, and point solutions abound, including point...

Nastel Uses Complex Event Processing To Manage Application Performance
IT complexity is the major underlying theme of the years to come for infrastructure and operations. I&O teams have attempted to abstract this complexity with virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS,...

A SWOT Analysis Of APM And BTM Software Vendors
IT and business services have grown exponentially in size, diversity, and complexity over the past few years. The complexity of many transactional business services has reached a point where the...