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Benjamin serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. His research focuses on how consumers perceive, adopt, and use new technologies and what that means for business executives at consumer companies, encompassing topics like customer segmentation, business models, and managing multiple distribution channels.
His research explores how emerging technologies like the Internet and mobile phones affect consumers' behavior, what motivates their use of different channels for different tasks, and how new channels and technologies are changing consumers' media consumption and their relationships with consumer firms like retailers and financial services companies. In particular, he specializes in understanding the effect of the Internet and other new technologies on business models in retail financial services, including payments, banking, lending, investments, and insurance.
During his 13 years at Forrester, Benjamin has worked in the company's Consumer Technographics®, financial services, and eBusiness channel & product management professional teams. He is based in Forrester's London office.
Before he joined Forrester, Benjamin was an analyst at Fletcher Research, the UK Internet research company that Forrester acquired. There, he researched the nascent online retail, online financial services, and online advertising markets. Before joining Fletcher Research, Benjamin worked as a financial journalist in London for four years.
Benjamin has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford.
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Though offshore vendors routinely boast about their innovation capabilities, clients tell Forrester a different story: Their offshore vendors are still unable to generate innovation at the level and...

Results From Forrester's Q4 2010 Global Sourcing And Vendor Management Priorities Online Survey
In October 2010 Forrester conducted a survey of 113 senior-level sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals from global organizations. The survey work was completed to clarify the broad range...
What does Forrester refer to as co-sourcing model; what is Forrester's definition of a co-sourcing model; and what are the major pros and cons of a co-sourcing model compared to dedicated model?
The Coming Upheaval In Tech Services
Since the end of 2008 and continuing today, sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals have been telling Forrester that they are rationalizing the number of providers they use, renegotiating...
What are some of the main methodologies and sources that are used in your organization for benchmarking prices of products and services?It can often be a challenge to understand whether or not your...
Accelerate Your Business Objectives With A Professional SVMO
Rapid changes in technology offerings, along with growing demand for technology-driven innovation, are forcing companies to rely much more heavily on their suppliers. More and more companies are...
How can we construct a negotiation framework like this within our organization? What it might look like? And how it would be used in conjunction with a sourcing strategy?
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Does Forrester track average external consulting rates, onshore and offshore, by different roles (i.e., developer, tester, etc.)?
While many sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals frequently play a critical role in evaluating emerging technologies, their exact responsibilities in this process are not always clearly...
Last week, Forrester hosted a breakfast roundtable in Sydney for approximately 20 tech vendors seeking to capitalize on current IT spending trends in Australia and New Zealand. With expected IT...
As promised in a previous blog post: Which Software Licensing Policy Is The Unfairest Of Them All? , we've launched a survey to find out what sourcing and vendor management professionals think...
Analysis Of Resourcing Models Across 186 SAP Customers
Forrester clients investing in SAP solutions frequently ask us questions about how many resources they should expect to need for SAP projects and ongoing SAP support. These SAP shops want to know how...
Why, or why, was this Q&A piece presented in a spreadsheet? Spreadsheets are for numbers / Tables are for words. That aside, the content is OK as far as it goes, however the discussion would...
What support should I choose to help make the decision of what external resource to source (time and materials, strategic partner through managed services, external consultants with niche, specific...
A Fact-Based Approach To Workforce Technology Needs Assessment
How well do you know your stakeholders? Business users today expect consumer-like usability and functionality from their work tools. And much of what they want to use can be purchased with a credit...
Oracle's long-awaited Fusion Applications are still very much in their infancy, which means that buyers have many questions about how they can take advantage of this emerging Oracle product line and...