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Andy serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He focuses primarily on B2B and B2B2C eCommerce, as well as issues related to enabling channel partner businesses for manufacturers. Andy's current research areas include multichannel retailing, mobile couponing, affiliate marketing, and enabling manufacturers to sell online.
Prior to joining Forrester, Andy spent 11 years in product and marketing leadership roles within Silicon Valley. In that time, he developed Yahoo's Web2Store local shopping initiative, co-founded an eCommerce company, and helped create several award-winning products in the consumer Internet and mobile software spaces. Before moving to Silicon Valley, Andy spent four years in Washington, D.C., as a research analyst for an economic consulting firm.
Andy has been quoted in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Internet Retailer, Direct Marketing News, American Banker, and CNBC.
Andy is a summa cum laude graduate in economics from the University of Dayton and holds an M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.S. in integrated marketing from Northwestern University.
Lessons In Product Innovation From A Leader In Co-Creation
Ask someone to name a company that embraces co-creation, and, sooner or later, you will hear "Lego." The Lego Group has been pursuing customer-led innovation for more than a decade, and it hasn't...

Overstock.com pursues innovation with gusto — and its executives look for help in order to do so. To tap into the bright minds of its employees, Overstock rolled out SpigitEngage, an innovation...
Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...
A European Perspective On Mobile Bar Codes
You've seen them everywhere: in the corners of print ads, across billboards, on buses, or in pieces of direct mail — those small blocks of even smaller squares. Marketers are increasingly using...
Sensor Devices Disrupt Marketing Practices
Your customers are becoming even more connected. Sensor-laden devices on our bodies, in our homes, in our cars, and virtually everywhere else are creating new opportunities and demands for marketers....

An Empowered Report: A Social Co-Creation Case Study
Starbucks has placed a strong emphasis on its social co-creation strategy. Product strategists at the world's largest chain of coffee houses have a well-established and active online community from...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's IM spending is further broken into the various components of IM: display, paid search, SEO, email, and mobile advertising.

Technology Marketers Must Prepare For The Coming Storm
Data from Forrester's Q1 2011 US and European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers indicates that both social media habits and the role social media is playing...
Using The Online Video Product Scorecard To Identify Best Practice
Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for building video products and adding video to your Web site. This report demonstrates how...
Retailers Can Act As Consumer Product Strategists, Too
Most retailers sell other companies' goods; on occasion, they will sell products developed by others but branded as their own. Best Buy does both of those things, but the company has also done...

Benchmarking Web Sites Using Forrester's Online Video Product Scorecard
Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for adding video to your Web site. In this report, we demonstrate how our online video product...

The Next Devices And Platforms That Matter To Your Product Strategy
Consumers are adopting technology faster than ever: Witness the rapid mainstreaming of devices such as the Apple iPad and Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360. Wearable devices will be next, but right now...

Product Strategists Must Overcome Three Challenges To Succeed
It's time for product strategists in clothing and apparel to consider offering mass-customized products. Consumers are beginning to look beyond off-the-shelf choices to new colors, designs, styles,...
Product Strategists Must Build Total Product Experiences To Combat Consumers' Declining Brand Loyalty
Brand loyalty has long been a critical pillar of product strategy, but its power is in relative decline. Technology and a recessionary economy have threatened the value of brand loyalty, especially...

US Consumers Have Little Clue About Their Phone's Software
In the white-hot US smartphone market, the once-invisible underlying software platforms have become one of the fiercest areas of competition. RIM and Apple lead this market, while platforms from...