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Nigel serves CIOs and business technology leaders, focusing on the role of technology as an enabler of business outcomes. His research focuses on the intersection of technology and marketing and includes coverage of business and technology strategy, digital business, social business strategy, marketing technology, and technology trends and their impact on competitive advantage.
Ever since becoming an executive director and CIO at Reebok UK at the age of 26, Nigel has consistently led many technology industry trends: He was the first CIO to partner with Infosys to pioneer the offshore development model; he was the first CIO to introduce a marketing role to IT; and he was an early advocate of the business relationship management role that is now so critical to many IT organizations. Nigel went on to a successful career in retail technology marketing with Radius Retail and Transatlantic Software before becoming an entrepreneur, starting up an eCommerce research publishing business and a GPS fleet management software business. He joined Forrester as the general manager of the IT Leadership Boards business in 2006, growing the business more than 300% in three years. Having spent equal time over his career in IT, marketing, and general management, Nigel now brings a unique business technology perspective to his research at Forrester.
Since becoming an analyst, Nigel's leading-edge research has focused on business at the intersection of IT and marketing. Recognized as a visionary with insight into emerging trends, Nigel has published research on social business strategy, business technology strategy, innovation, retail, and marketing. His latest research on digital business examines the role of technology in delivering outstanding customer experience.
Nigel holds a B.A. (hons) in computing in business from the University of Huddersfield and an M.B.A. with concentrations in marketing and international business from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick.

Identifying Opportunities Beyond The Big Screen
3D-enabled TVs are in stores now, with manufacturers betting heavily that 3D will be a reason for consumers to upgrade their primary set. Audiences are starting to take an interest in 3D content, but...
2010 Storage Acquisitions Yield Three Lessons Learned For I&O To Apply To 2011 Storage Strategies
Acquisitions have long been a part of the storage vendor landscape. But 2010 and the first part of 2011 saw an explosion of huge deals from almost every storage vendor. There are few independent...

The French Yellow Pages Firm Is Turning Mobile Market Disruption Into Competitive Advantage
Local and social trends are converging and are strong mobile catalysts: These factors have accelerated the importance of mobile to PagesJaunes and its customers. The French yellow pages company has...
Engineering Valuable Content For Sales Enablement Success
Competitive and market intelligence (CMI) leaders and their teams currently structure the bulk of CMI content around a product point of view, forcing sales teams to figure out how and when to build...
Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities strategy has moved beyond concept stage with real business opportunities now emerging in several key hypergrowth markets. As distinct from other vendor's attempts...
Identifying Organizational Priorities For Creating New Digital Media Experiences
The media meltdown continues its slow burn across the media industries. Yet, enlivened by new devices like the iPad and audience enthusiasm for the content that new technologies have generated, many...
Springboard Research believes the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle will continue to have a significant impact on the enterprise IT landscape for years to come. For individual IT...
Vision: The Channel Partner Loyalty Playbook
The channel partner ecosystem is undergoing a massive upheaval, largely as a result of rapidly evolving cloud computing engagement and delivery models, and will go through several tectonic shifts...
Microsoft Has The Opportunity To Launch Profitable Enterprise Services
Vendor strategists across the technology industry have been consumed by the Microsoft acquisition of Skype since the announcement earlier this week. During this time, we've talked to strategists from...
Performance Management: The Open Innovation Playbook
Product strategists currently face a challenging necessity: how to measure their innovation projects and programs. While most product strategists believe that innovation is a top priority at their...
B2B Social Technographics® Data For Q1 2011 Confirms That Social Media Usage In Europe Continues At A High Level
Forrester has completed its Q1 2011 US And European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers, which marks the third year we've conducted this survey As in the US,...
An Empowered Report: Understanding The Mobile Behavior Of Your Target Audience
The first step in building or refining a mobile strategy is understanding the mobile behaviors of your target audience. Mobile Technographics offers consumer product strategists a means of obtaining...