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Tim serves Sales Enablement Professionals in developing SMB go-to-market channels via the application of best practices, business plans, metrics, tools, resources, relationships, and competitive intelligence. His research focuses on the impact of cloud computing and digital marketing on demand chain business models. Tim is a leading expert on business applications software (enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, marketing automation, and social project/collaboration management) and networking and hardware technologies.
Prior to joining Forrester, Tim served in executive management and mentoring roles in the vendor, user, industry analyst, and venture capital aspects of the IT industry. He has been a featured speaker at many industry conferences involving business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management, and enterprise applications and has been published in Austin-American Statesman, BI Review, DM Review, and Intelligent Enterprise. Tim is a member of the Corporate Portfolio Management Association.
Tim attended Iowa State University, majoring in computer science and math and business administration.
Exploiting A Major Recession-Catalyzed Transition In The Small-Business Market
History shows that small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) suffer less and recover faster from recessions than their large enterprise counterparts. This recession will prove to be no different....
Financing, Marketing, And Collaboration Top Their Wish Lists
Channel partners are afflicted with "cloud identity disorder" — the symptomatology of which is characterized by confusion and fear about their place in the cloud computing demand chain and...
Channel Enablement Is A Top Priority For 2011
2011 will be a bellwether year for tech vendors. Tech investment by customers and marketing investment by tech vendors are rising ahead of the economic recovery into 2011. Most tech marketers see...
Knowing Which Generators Customers Use For Information Is Paramount
Tech vendors' returns on marketing messaging are shaped as much by where it's said and who says it as by what is said. Indeed, social media grants "others," including customers and partners,...