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Connie is a member of Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. Her research focus is on smart computing and analytics.
Connie came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group in 2003. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has been an analyst for 19 years. Most of her research focuses on business process management and business optimization. Prior to joining Giga, Connie managed BIS Strategic Decisions' European IT consulting group, headquartered in the UK. Before then, Connie was vice president of product marketing at TDC (now part of BancTec), a manufacturer of high-end document capture systems. She was also a manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), specializing in document management, document imaging, and end user computing. Earlier, Connie was with Wang Laboratories, where she managed Wang's technical support resources for the US Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. She began her career in IT and management at Mathematica Policy Research.
Connie was the co-champion of Forrester's 2009 Business Technology Forum, with its theme of "Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative." Connie also co-championed Forrester's 2007 Technology Leadership Forum, with the theme of "Design for People, Build for Change," and Forrester's 2008 Technology Leadership Forum, themed as "Embrace Technology Chaos, Deliver Business Results." Connie is a widely sought speaker. She has keynoted at many industry events, chaired 10 business process and workflow conferences in Europe and the US, and co-chaired Giga's "Leveraging Knowledge" conference. Connie also served as a director of AIIM International, the premier association for the content management industry, and is a member of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals.
Connie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a B.A. in political science and history from East Carolina University and an M.B.A. in information systems from George Washington University.
In the midst of the recession and ongoing sovereign debt crisis, only 29% of Europeans believe their bank acts in their best interest. However, some banks rank much higher than others in our customer...

Over the past couple of years I have been intrigued by the concept of a 'digital wallet' that will combine mobile payments with a variety of other benefits for customers. The more people I...
Ten years ago, Forrester published some research with the slightly awkward title of ‘New Payment Systems’ Survival Guide’. One of our findings was that many successful new payment...

Back in November 2006, a startup called Wesabe first showed the potential of online money management. Packaged personal financial management (PFM) software for PCs like Intuit's Quicken had...
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals at insurers face a strategic dilemma — managing the in-person agent field force while migrating services online. Israeli insurance provider Migdal,...
We're looking for a new analyst or senior analyst to join our eBusiness and channel strategy team, based in either Amsterdam or London. We're looking for someone with an analytical mind, good...
A Global Guide To Choosing White-Label Personal Financial Management
Online personal financial management (PFM) is rapidly moving up the priority lists of many eBusiness executives at banks and wealth management firms worldwide. Executives who want to offer online...

Alternative Payment Systems Provide Opportunities For European Merchants
The European online payment landscape is highly fragmented, with different payment methods achieving varied adoption levels across European countries. One in two European online buyers does not own a...
I attended a briefing from Visa Europe yesterday, about its V.me digital wallet. Here’s what Visa said: V.me is more than a mobile digital wallet. Customers will be able to use V.me to make...
Executive Overview: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Mobile banking is the most important strategic change in retail banking in more than a decade. Yet too many banks have taken a haphazard approach to mobile strategy, rolling out apps and features...
Many of my colleagues in the eBusiness & Channel Strategy team at Forrester have been working extremely hard for the past few weeks, preparing for next week's Consumer Forum, which is taking...
I love video as a communication media. The combination of sound and moving pictures so much more engaging and more memorable than text. We wrote in our research last year about how we're starting...
For the second year in succession, the UK's Co-operative Bank has come top in our European Bank Customer Advocacy Rankings, just ahead of Poland's ING Bank Śląski, with Germany's...
I am intrigued by last week's announcement from UK payment processor VocaLink and Australian financial software vendor eWise that they are collaborating to build an online banking transfer...
The Netherlands continues to be the leader in online banking adoption in Europe. With just 9% of Dutch consumers using branches and 85% using online banking each month, the Web has become the heart...
The other day, Smile*, one of the banks I have an account with, sent me a new contactless card. The striking thing about this otherwise ordinary event was that the bank didn’t mention that...
Among the biggest strategic questions facing eBusiness & Channel Strategy executives are how to make use of the growing potential of the mobile channel, how to integrate mobile phones into their...
One of the (many) things I have been working on for the past few months is this year’s European Marketing & Strategy Forum, which is taking place on the 16th and 17th of November at the...
One of the things that continues to surprise me about many banks’ multi-channel strategies is how little most banks have integrated their ATMs into those strategies. Cash machines are by far...
A few months ago I wrote here about our benchmark of the sales content and functionality of UK banks' sales sites. My colleague Vanessa Niemeyer has just published a benchmark of the big four...
Executives Need To Put Digital Touchpoints At The Heart Of Their Strategies
Online banking has changed the way people use other banking channels over the past decade. Even so, half of UK adults still visit a branch each month. eBusiness and channel strategy executives need...
I’ve spent the past two days at Finovate Europe in London, which has rapidly established itself as the leading European retail financial technology event of the year. This year’s event...
In our research on eBusiness and channel strategy, we often come across clusters of innovation where innovation by one company in a sector causes its competitors not only to match it, but to try to...
Landscape: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Mobile banking continues to gather momentum across developed countries, fueled by rising smartphone use and the steadily improving supply of mobile banking from banks in North America, Europe, and...

The use of digital banking channels has grown rapidly in Italy, which has the highest mobile banking adoption in Europe — while the growth of branch use has come to a halt. Channel strategy...
