William Band

Vice President, Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

Bill serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He is a leading expert on customer relationship management (CRM). His research focuses on helping organizations establish and validate CRM strategies, prioritize and focus CRM projects, build executive consensus, facilitate CRM vendor selection, and plan for project success.

Bill is the author of two books on customer-driven business strategies: Creating Value for Customers: Designing and Implementing a Total Corporate Strategy and Touchstones: Ten New Ideas Revolutionizing Business. He was named one of CRM Magazine's 2007 Influential Leaders, which recognizes the foremost thinkers, visionaries, and achievers in the industry.

Previous Work Experience

Bill has extensive industry experience, with more than 25 years of leadership in several management consulting and systems integration firms. He was a managing director of CRM strategy with BearingPoint. Earlier in his career, he was a partner with both Accenture and Coopers & Lybrand Consulting.

An accomplished public speaker, Bill also has delivered speeches at many events, including Forrester's Consumer Forum, Marketing Forum, and Business Technology Forum.


Education

Bill earned an MBA with Dean's List honors in marketing from the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario.

William Band's Research

  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Quantify The Business Value Of CRM

    Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives must not only be technically sound but must answer the question, "What will we get for our money?" Application development and delivery (AD&D) ...

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    Report: Transform Customer Processes And Systems To Improve Experiences

    This report is the executive overview of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals looking to implement customer relationship management (CRM) strategies...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Oracle Customers Are Hesitant To Embrace Fusion Applications

    This report, originally written for CIOs, includes content relevant to application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals. With Oracle's strong footprint in the enterprise business apps m...

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  • For CIOs

    Report: Oracle's Dilemma: Applications Unlimited Versus Oracle Fusion Applications

    Oracle faces a strategic dilemma, and how it responds to this dilemma will present the CIOs at its clients with some tough choices. Oracle Fusion Applications — Oracle's new generation of ...

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    Report: Navigate The Future Of CRM In 2013

    The only source of competitive advantage is the one that can survive technology-fueled disruption: an obsession with understanding, connecting with, serving, and delighting customers. But as org...

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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Topic Overview: Social CRM Goes Mainstream

    Forrester's customer relationship management (CRM) research helps business process professionals embrace best practices — from process optimization to technology implementation — to ...

    • Downloads: 5541
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Topic Overview: Customer Relationship Management 2008

    Forrester's customer relationship management (CRM) research helps CRM professionals embrace best practices — from process optimization to technology implementation — to improve the c...

    • Downloads: 4687
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise CRM Suites, Q3 2008

    Forrester evaluated leading enterprise CRM suite solutions against 516 criteria and found that with the latest releases of their solutions, Oracle's Siebel and SAP maintain their status as Leade...

    • Downloads: 3209
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: The Forrester Wave™: CRM Suites For Large Organizations, Q2 2010

    Forrester evaluated 18 leading customer relationship management (CRM) suite solutions against 516 criteria reflecting the requirements of large organizations. We found that heavyweight Leaders O...

    • Downloads: 3162
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report: Trends 2010: Customer Relationship Management

    As the economy recovers, what are the key trends that will drive customer relationship management (CRM) strategies and technology adoption in 2010? Business and IT professionals who support cust...

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William Band's Planned Reports

Jun 2013

Report: Defining The Road Map For CRM Adoption

This report discusses a timeline and associated roadmap for rolling out its CRM strategy, including what key aspects of the strategy to tackle first, timeline, and milestones.

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