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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.
Business Leaders Must Focus On People, Technologies, And Facilities Management
With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside a corporate office at least occasionally during a month, it's imperative that business leaders initiate...
An IT Support Report Card On Employee Mobile, Social, And Collaboration Tools
In 2016, Forrester projects that 63 million US information workers will telecommute at least part-time. Our recent survey of 4,985 US information workers indicates we're well on our way to hitting...
Giving Employees Choice As To When And Where They Work Helps Recruiting, Retention, Team Work, And Sustainability Efforts
In 2009, State Street, a Boston-based financial services firm, created its Flex Work Program to recruit and retain top talent. Why? State Street's leaders felt that finding and holding on to these...
Leverage Forrester's Mobile Worker Taxonomy To Facilitate Remote Working Styles
Whether at home, on the road, or from an office, work is becoming something people do, not somewhere people go. In fact, 66% of information workers in North America and Europe already work remotely....
Governments Are Playing Catch-Up In Terms Of Mobility And Collaboration
North American and European governments are striving for efficiency, openness, and responsiveness as their constituencies increasingly organize and mobilize using social technologies. However,...
Information Workers Flex Muscles As Business Tech Decision-Makers
Technology Populism — information workers provisioning technology outside of IT's auspices — is a topic of great interest to both technology vendors and IT departments. But is it more...
Firms Continue To Turn To Collaboration Software After Recession
Collaboration software adoption grew during the recessionary years of 2008 and 2009, and we anticipate this continuing. Why? Changes in how businesses work internally and with their customers and...
New Billing Services Emerge To Help Monetize Online Businesses
The opportunity to serve more than 195 million online adults with goods, content, and services has drawn businesses to the Internet. Building an online product is relatively easy; monetizing it has...
The Changing Workforce Makes Understanding End User Habits Essential For Tech Vendors
This is a graphical overview highlighting results from Forrester's Workforce Technographics®, US, Canada, And UK Survey, Q3 2009, a survey of 3,904 information workers (iWorkers) at companies...
Vendors Should Prepare For An Empowered, Mobile, And Collaborative Workforce
Business leaders' increased interest in enterprise 2.0 technology has spurred collaboration software vendors of all stripes to roll out social applications in their suite of tools. Despite this...
Universal Business Needs Make Collaboration Tools Important Globally
Universal business concerns about keeping employees and partners on the same page and productive in an increasingly stratified business environment have business leaders around the world scrambling...
The challenge of managing numerous research requests with a small staff is one that affects many market research organizations. Verizon's repository of secondary research, managed by the Verizon...
The telecom managed services market is full of activity, with 88% of North American and European firms reporting that they have purchased some type of managed telecom service. Despite the heat in the...