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Based in Sydney, Australia, Tim serves CIOs. He helps clients better manage their IT departments and ensure IT is delivering the solutions required by the business. His research focuses on the key IT challenges for CIOs and IT departments in Asia Pacific, as well as providing insights into the technologies that will deliver significant business value over the next few years. He also assists clients with the design of IT organizations, IT governance and processes, and IT/business alignment.
Tim also works with members of The CIO Group in the Forrester Leadership Boards in Asia Pacific. In this role, he writes CIO-targeted research, answers or facilitates answers for individual members' business and technology inquiries, and facilitates CIO Group member exchanges and peer-to-peer discussions.
Tim comes to Forrester with more than 10 years of IT analyst experience with ICT vendors and IT research providers. Most recently, he was the research director of IT solutions at IDC in Australia, where he assisted IT vendors in designing solutions to better fit market requirements and assisted user clients with their strategies to improve the effectiveness of their IT functions. In this role, he developed a reputation as a respected and sought-after industry analyst and an entertaining and informative public speaker on many of the key trends in the IT market.
Prior to this role, Tim worked with Hutchison 3G as an analyst, helping to launch and optimize its direct sales channels and developing strategies to increase the use of non-voice products on the high-speed 3G network. He also spent a number of years working as an independent ICT analyst. In addition, he worked for IDC in the UK, managing its European Wireless & Mobile Communications research program.
Tim is a highly regarded industry speaker, presenting regularly to CIOs and senior IT and business audiences at IT conferences in Asia Pacific and across the globe.
Tim holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and research from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Understanding The Investment And Commitment Required
Marketplaces are cropping up everywhere. For retailers, the allure of low cost-of-sales and no inventory risk is compelling. Media companies think about monetizing their traffic and reinventing...

A Look At Growth In Five Markets With A Focus On China, Japan, And Australia
Forrester Research wrote its first online retail forecast for Asia Pacific in October 2010. Since then, eCommerce in every market in the region has charged ahead, with growth continuing unabated....


I cover the recommendation engines space for online retail and got a call recently that one of the better-known players in the space Rich Relevance acquired a smaller but specialized player in the...
Banks get a bad rap for not being innovative enough. But at least one provider is proving the haters wrong: Early this year, U.S. Bank launched Mobile Photo Bill Pay, a feature that lets mobile...
In the early years of the Internet, online customer service involved the marketing departments writing content for a handful of online FAQs and including a telephone number in the "contact us"...

Most of the news this morning at WWDC was around iPhone 4 and iOS 4. Will leave the new device and platform play to my colleague Charles Golvin. I can't wait to get one of the new phones ....
Last week Forrester published a report on the state of online retail in Canada. We surveyed 1,103 adult online shoppers in Canada to understand what challenges the Canadian public face when shopping...
One of the questions I'm frequently asked by clients is if virtual agents are a good idea. Many of us have had frustrating interactive agent experiences over the years (recall Clippy,...
Digital disruption is forcing business leaders in every industry to rethink their strategy. Music, media, and publishing have been turned upside down. Now, non-digital products and services...
US Online Insurance Sales Will Grow Steadily Through 2015
In 2010, online motor and home insurance sales in the US grew to $8.4 billion, which represents less than a 4% share of insurance sales in these two categories. What's behind that online single-digit...
Forrester conducted a mail survey fielded in August and September 2010 of 5,469 US and Canadian households and individuals ages 18 and older. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this...
I have done searches on the web and on here and am unable to find solid research that gives me the answer to this question. We all know that at the end of the day, the content of the website needs...
Welcome to the eBusiness and Channel Strategy job board, a public listing of available jobs in eBusiness/eCommerce. Anyone can post a job opening provided that it is relevant for eBusiness and...
A few weeks ago, my colleague Martin Gill and I took a stroll around London in order to see what retailers were doing in their multichannel efforts. Martin challenged me to do a similar...
When customers transfer monies between accounts, there are different ways by which the bank advises them when it's completed -- SMS texting, letter confirmation, telephone call, etc. Does Forrester...
eBusiness Budgets Rise Again . . . And Will Continue To Grow
eBusiness budgets rose again in 2011 and will keep rising in 2012. Why? Competition is heating up. The average eBusiness team is still maturing, and B2B firms increasingly are entering the eBusiness...

Executive Overview: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are faced with the challenge of an ever more connected consumer. Yet only recently have they begun to set mobile strategies in place. The mobile eBusiness...

UK newspapers reported on Monday, January 24, 2011, that UK tourism minister John Penrose stated the government is considering phasing out government-sanctioned star-ratings of various lodging...
Image source: Universal Pictures At Finovate Europe in London, the leading event on innovation in financial services, I met a strange banker. He claimed to be from the year 1993 and had...