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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.
Video Games Provide An Effective Way To Reach Customers And Employees
Serious gaming, or the use of games and gaming dynamics for non-entertainment purposes, is poised to take off thanks to the rise of Technology Populism, the greening of IT, and the emergence of the...
It's Not As Simple As Focusing On Young Men
Video gaming is mainstream — today, 37% of US consumers report that they play video games. These gamers are not just young men but include Baby Boomers and women. Women constitute 49% of...
Users Coalesce On Key Vendors For Simple Survey Projects
Market researchers today are using online surveys in droves — in stark contrast to previous models of software package use and pure outsourcing. Why? They are quick, inexpensive, and offer...
Player Interest Points To Game-Market Opportunities
Cisco Systems, IBM, and Microsoft all have made early investments in serious games. Whether or not these tech titans are being prudent depends on the answer to two critical questions: Are the games...