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In his role as research director, Mr. Burris helps set the overall CIO role research agenda at Forrester, craft effective CIO research with our senior Forrester analysts, and ensure overall CIO research quality. His research team focuses on the evolving relationship between CIOs and CMOs, best practices in building and instituting an IT/BT strategy, BT innovation approaches to accelerate business outcomes, and social business and collaboration strategies.
His personal research includes the role of IT/BT in the age of the customer. He also contributes to the Forrester's research on social business, specifically focusing on the functional evolution of social computing tool sets and how they will be applied to conduct complex, marketing-facing work. Finally, he is a leading thinker on IT/BT adoption in business.
Mr. Burris joined Forrester in 2008. Prior to Forrester, he held numerous senior IT, marketing, and analyst jobs at leading organizations, including the DoD, HP, and Meta Group. At Meta Group, he jointly ran research, developing the advanced and broadly adopted "adaptive infrastructure" method for implementing plastic, services-based IT infrastructure.
Peter attended Yale University.
Second Annual Review Of The Social Technographics Of Business Technologists
Forrester's North American And European business-to-business (B2B) Social Technographics Online Survey, Q1 2010, of technology buyers and their social media habits shows the important, but still...
Technology marketers' traditional demand generation and customer conversion playbook won't cut it in the tech market transformation from information technology (IT) to business technology (BT)....
Social Media Marketing That Is Persistent, Consistent, And Scalable
Social media is becoming a major focus in business-to-business (B2B) marketing. However, many marketers are allowing their community marketing approaches to emerge out of piecemeal technology...
Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations
The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...
B2B marketers continue to stretch the capabilities of social media tools as they find new ways to interactively market to business buyers. Marketers submitted their most successful programs as best...
Making Tech Marketing Socially Correct
Online IT communities are profoundly shaping the experiences of IT professionals. Information technology vendors must participate in these communities, but engaging them incorrectly will escalate...
North American marketers report on social media trends in 2010.
Vision: The B2B Online Community Playbook
This report is designed to help you revisit your strategy for engaging with customers through online communities and discussion forums, and demonstrate why your success will be based on taking the...
Do Your Technology Marketing Capabilities Align With Community Marketing Requirements?
Community marketing demands important changes to the missions, people, processes, and systems of tech industry (TI) marketing organizations in order to generate favorable business outcomes with...

Money Shifts To Operations In the Tech Marketing Flywheel
Tech marketers are making a big investment in the transition from "art to science" in 2012 as they flow more money into the activities and technologies of marketing operations. Two factors stand out...

Tech Marketing's Contribution To Revenue Opportunity Is Underwhelming
Technology sales and product groups routinely besiege tech marketing professionals to justify budgets, programs, and T-shirt designs. Tech marketers typically respond with a slew of marketing...