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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.
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Insurance sales forecast (US): Includes online insurance buyers for motor insurance and home onsurance. Additionally, segments total premiums written and net online premiums written for motor and...
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Personal digital device users for portable media devices, tablets, dedicated eReaders, and portable gaming devices in the seven Western European countries of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands...
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Consumer payments by value and and volume for different alternative payment methods, including e-wallet payments, prepaid/stored-value cards, and deferred billing, as well as credit and debit card...
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Online retail spending by category in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and software, consumer...
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Online Retail Spending Forecast (US): Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, and consumer electronics and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such...
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Online retail forecast (Latin America): Online retail spending by category in Brazil and Mexico. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and...
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Mobile commerce forecast: Includes mobile commerce buyers segmented by age. Overall mobile commerce spending by consumers at an aggregate level across retail, travel, coupons, and mobile media and...
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Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, consumer electronics, and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such as online buyers, average spending per...
Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...
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Mobile Adoption (Global): Includes mobile subscriptions and mobile subscribers (people) by region and country. Includes historical data going back to 2009 plus a five-year forecast.
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Online Retail Forecast (Asia Pacific): Online retail spending by category in South Korea, Japan, Australia, India, and China. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such...
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Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes historical data going back to 2001 for paid search plus a five-year forecast.
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Worldwide online population forecast estimates the number of individuals with online access and includes total population and Internet penetration by region and country. Includes historical data...
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Online Retail Spending Forecast (Western Europe): Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online buyers and average online spending by...
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Online retail spending by category in South Korea, Japan, Australia, India, and China. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and software,...
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Worldwide Online Population Forecast estimates the number of individuals with online access and includes total population and Internet penetration by region and country. Includes historical data...
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Online travel forecast (US): Total and online travel spending by managed business and unmanaged business plus leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, hotel, car, cruise, and tours. Also...
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Web-Influenced Retail Sales Forecast (US): Total offline retail sales that are influenced by online (including mobile) research. Offline-influenced retail sales by 30 retail categories such as...
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Consumer-owned devices including tablets, desktops, notebooks, netbooks, and dedicated eReaders. Includes annual sales data and installed base of these devices among consumers. Includes historical...
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Online retail spending by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares, consumer electronics, and baby products. Includes metrics, by category, such as online buyers, average spending per...
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Web-Influenced Retail Sales Forecast (US): Total offline retail sales that are influenced by online research. Offline-influenced retail sales by 30 retail categories such as PCs, apparel, housewares,...
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Online retail spending forecast (Western Europe): Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online retail sales as a percent of total...