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Tim serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He leads Forrester's research on intranets/employee portals and the emerging next-generation information workplace, as well as portal server technologies and globalization practices, including machine translation. Tim also covers web content management and Microsoft SharePoint as a content and collaboration platform.
Tim comes to Forrester with a powerful combination of experience in teaching, advising, and software marketing and strategy. Most recently, he was director of international marketing and strategy for FatWire, a leading WCM provider, where he managed all marketing, competitive intelligence, and vertical market programs outside of North America. Earlier, Tim was a professor at the University of Rochester and New York University.
Tim has a B.A. in political science from Oregon State University and a Ph.D. from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Strategic Plan: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix optimization — the practice of using data-driven insights to strategically allocate and optimize marketing budgets across channels — is a powerful tool to help marketers...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...
Organization: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Most marketers have earned their stripes through corporate work experience and business-school training that takes a top-down linear approach to marketing planning and optimization. Today, the...

Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...
Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...
Executive Overview: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
When making their investment decisions across the marketing mix, senior marketers face the constant challenge of coping with the proliferation of communication and engagement platforms while facing...

Benchmarks: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Few marketers have a structured approach to optimizing their marketing mix, often missing the opportunity to deliver better results with the same level of investment or to effectively reallocate...
Tools And Technology: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is undergoing a transformation as marketers increasingly demand that vendors provide solutions that can be updated frequently, easily aggregate data streams, provide...