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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.
A Panel Discussion At The 2010 Customer Experience Forum
Highlights of the Trends In Customer Experience panel at Forrester's Customer Experience Forum 2010 included a debate about the need for a chief customer officer (CCO), a prediction that "Web sites...
A Guide To Approaching Or Revitalizing A Retail eCommerce Video Campaign
Shoppers are beginning to use online video to inform their purchases. Although consumer uptake is slow when compared with the wider acceptance of Internet video, online retailers are turning to video...
US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace
This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure
Leverage These Business Models And Features For Media App Success
Product strategists launching media applications on tablets have an opportunity to launch new products on these devices and enter a new era of media consumption. The tablet is a unique device with...
These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013
For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...
Forrester partnered with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to better understand marketers' current attitudes toward TV and digital video advertising. Marketers have regained their...

Product Innovation At Market Leaders Must Leverage Disruptive Strategies
The pace of innovation now is ferocious: In every part of people's digital lives, everything is changing fundamentally. The Internet is everywhere. The last analog media types are becoming...
An Empowered Report: Reinvent Yourself To Serve Empowered Customers And Employees
Your customers and your employees have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources. To succeed in an era...
Successful Multidevice Strategies Will Use The Cloud, Sync, And Apps In Europe
Consumers no longer use one digital device. The era of one PC per household is giving way to a world of several smart mobile devices per person. For content, services, and software to run across...
Start Piloting Now To Be Prepared To Benefit From Growing Consumer Use
The 2D bar code is a promising mobile marketing tactic: It provides marketers a quick way to bridge the offline-online gap and enhance consumer engagement with their target audience anytime, anywhere...
Skype And Others Will Benefit From Apple's New iPhone 4 Hardware
Creating a successful strategy for consumer video telephony has eluded everyone bar Skype. Even the telecommunications industry itself has failed with this particular communications product:...
Forrester recently launched its Latin American Technographics® research to help companies understand the emerging offline and online trends of consumers in Brazil and Mexico. This report is...
Strategies To Counter Disruptive Smartphone Competition
Smartphones' benefits mean they continue to trample on adjacent product categories as the mobile market collides with the consumer electronics market. The role of the smartphone in consumers' lives...
Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure
During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...

As consumers access online content on more devices — computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, eReaders, and even gaming consoles — managing and delivering digital content has grown...

ForecastView Spreadsheet
Mobile Media And Messaging Forecast (Western Europe): Total SMS and MMS volume. Usage of and revenue generated from ring tones and ringback tones, mobile gaming, and mobile video. Distribution of the...
Tools To Manage And Deliver Video Are Growing; Videoconferencing Makes A Comeback
Enterprises increasingly use video in a wide range of use cases, changing how they collaborate, issue communications, train their employees, and even talk to customers. But the transformational...
Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs
CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

Leverage Professional Crowdsourcing Networks To Create New Video Content
The demand for video advertising and content — whether for television, online, or cinema — is outpacing the rate at which marketers can supply it. Specialized crowdsourcing networks are...