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TJ serves CIO Professionals. His research focuses on the business of collaboration software, which includes adoption, business models, pricing, and positioning, and how information workers affect the adoption and deployment of collaboration software within their business. His research of the collaboration space also deals with how these technologies are applied to facilitate interactions between companies — vendor to partner, vendor to supplier, vendor to customer — for purposes of marketing, product development, and innovation. In addition, TJ researches serious gaming, which is the use of games and gaming dynamics for business or educational purposes and the use of virtual worlds for collaboration and training. His work helps professionals understand the technology and demographic trends that are affecting the markets they serve and provides guidance on how best to position their products to meet these challenges. TJ has been cited in ComputerWorld and the Financial Times.
Prior to joining Forrester, TJ was an analyst at a new product development firm, conducting voice of the customer and litigation-related market research for technology and other firms.
TJ has a B.S. in public relations and an M.S. in applied communication research from Boston University.
As health insurance plans get more complex and members' responsibility rises, insurers struggle to meet members' needs for accurate plan- and member-specific cost estimates for medical services. In...
The right customer interactions, implemented the right way, don't just happen. Instead, they must be actively designed. This requires learning — and then sticking to — the steps in a...


In just 18 short months, customer experience professionals at Rogers Communications (Canada's largest telecommunications company) developed and gained support for a new customer experience...
Assessment: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Customer interactions are shaped by a complex set of interdependencies that Forrester calls the customer experience ecosystem. In order to make significant and long-lasting customer experience...
Investments in customer experience improvements are likely to drive a higher Net Promoter Score (NPS). Forrester tested the strength of the correlation between customer experience quality — as...
Five Firms Describe How Customer Journey Mapping Helps Them
Forrester clients tell us that they're eager to use customer journey maps because they see the documents as ideal tools to analyze and communicate their customers' perspectives on the interactions...

What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead
While consumer technology adoption was the impetus for many customer experience efforts in 2011, an increasingly competitive industry landscape, the ever-increasing power of consumers, and a slippery...
This is the working scorecard for Forrester's Application User Experience Review, version 1.0. It evaluates application experiences on mobile and tablet devices as well as desktop, browser, and...
A Look Inside The VoC Practices At Adobe, Fidelity, And JetBlue
This year, Forrester recognized three winners of its annual Voice Of The Customer Awards: Adobe Systems, Fidelity Investments, and JetBlue Airways. Each firm had its own unique practices. Adobe...
Operating a comprehensive voice of the customer program involves complex challenges, such as collecting customer feedback across channels and tailoring reports for diverse internal audiences....
Tablet sales are booming, and while applications (apps) are all the rage, consumers are still spending more time using browsers on their tablets than they are using apps. That makes sense because...
Strategic Plan: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
This report is an update to "Innovative Customer Experience Strategies" originally published on August 22, 2011. It outlines the strategic plan for customer experience professionals planning to...

Companies are increasingly offering online chat as an interaction channel for customers and prospects. But how successful are those interactions? Of the 18% of consumers who have used chat, most are...
European Interactive Agencies Report Their Capacity, Budget, And Industry Capabilities
Companies seeking agency partners in Europe find it challenging to identify the best agencies to meet their needs. To kick-start the vendor selection process, Forrester gathered self-reported data...
In 2009, Maersk Line asked Jesper Engelbrecht Thomsen, vice president of customer service, to take on the role of improving customer experience enterprisewide. Faced with increasing competition and...
Increasingly, companies appoint a chief customer officer (CCO) to lead the company in orchestrating a differentiated customer experience. But these senior executives must often navigate uncharted...