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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.
Road Map: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
How do you build a road map for something as fast-moving and disruptive as mobile apps, devices, and projects? Certainly not by letting projects unfold at random as budgets and sponsors appear. To...

Here's a scary number for you - Forrester forecasts that companies will spend about $900 million on mobile process reinvention services in 2013, a number that will more than triple in 2014. WAIT!...
Assessment: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
CIOs, as the leaders driving technology strategy, must develop a mobile engagement strategy that embraces the needs of customers, partners, and employees. Don't get bogged down in the minute details...

Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

CIOs' Focus On The Workforce Experience Aligns Technology With Strategies To Engage And Motivate Productive Workers
Innovative products and services plus a laser focus on the customer are the engines of growth in the information economy. To succeed, business leaders must recruit, develop, and sustain an engaged...
Recently, my colleague Melissa Parrish wrote a great report on the Always-Addressable Customer, a population of ultra-connected consumers for whom mobile is a key touchpoint. Based on the number of...
It’s safe to say that the early adopters of Apple’s iPad didn’t go out and buy the device because they wanted a new gadget for work. They purchased the iPad because of what they...
As I mentioned in my last blog post, Ted Schadler and I are working on mobile strategy research for Forrester's CIO clients, and Ted's recent report Mobile Is The New Face of Engagement is...
After 7 years of management -- first running Forrester's Infrastructure & Operations team, then Security & Risk, and finally the CIO Group Leadership Board -- I decided it was time to move...
Processes: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
To take advantage of an app in an employee's or customer's pocket, you have to help them accomplish a task quickly and easily whenever they want to and wherever they are. That means CIOs and business...

As we get ready to host IT Forum EMEA June 9-11 in Lisbon, we will be conducting interviews with some of the key Forrester speakers and our invited industry keynotes. With so much attention being...
Landscape: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Tablets are the darlings of hypermobile employees who want to be always connected and productive. They are the newest player in the mobile landscape and are even starting to be a viable alternative...
After almost a year of research, interviews with hundreds of CIOs, integrators, vendors and mobile solution providers, Ted Schadler and I are proud to officially launch the CIO's Mobile...
Over the last few months, TJ Keitt and I have been wrestling with the concept that CIOs play a key role in employee engagement. All the signals point to this as hot topic. We've worked with many...
It’s hard to miss the buzz around mobile. Smartphones equipped with near field communications to instantly share video and voice control to allow for a handsfree web experience.New tablets like...
At Forrester's IT Forum EMEA 2010 this year, cloud computing is one of the hot topics that everyone wants to talk about. There are so many implications for every IT professional from CIO on...
Executive Overview: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
CIOs have a deep responsibility to lead their company's journey to a world where billions of customers, partners, and employees wield touchscreen mobile devices. CIOs will need to expand their...

Performance Management: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Mobile will touch and change everything in your business — from the way your sales reps use catalogs on iPads to engage customers at the point of sale to the way your finance team empowers your...
Today's Live Stream 10:25-11:05 GMT Forrester Keynote: How Much Of Your Future Will Be In The Cloud? Strategies For Embracing Cloud Computing Services James Staten, Principal Analyst,...
Forrester's IT Forum EMEA 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, is finally here! We're expecting about 500 people on-site and I can tell you that the content we've developed with Forrester analysts and our great...
In addition to the work I've been doing on enterprise mobile strategy with Ted Schadler, I'm also working with Bobby Cameron and Chip Gliedman on innovation. The pressure to innovate has...
Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

Selection And Prototyping: The Innovation Playbook
The pressure to innovate never been greater nor the possible sources of new ideas more diverse. You need a good system for collecting new ideas and sharing ideas among employees, customers, and...
