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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.
Is Social Computing use in IT a distraction? Not according to our latest research. Our survey of social media users indicates that IT staff increase productivity by adapting Social Computing to their...

Latin Americans' active presence in the online world is relatively new. Some consumers in metropolitan cities in countries like Brazil and Mexico have come online, but a digital divide still exists,...

Responding To Rising Customer Expectations Requires New Approaches
Organizations are struggling to deal with the increasing need to improve the customer experience. They must not only deliver best-in-class products and services, but also optimize the quality of the...

How Online Retail In China Is Evolving Differently From Other Major Markets
China's eCommerce market is both one of the largest and one of the fastest growing in the world. While Forrester estimates the traditional B2C online retail markets to be larger in the US and Japan...
Targeting Your Social Media Marketing Programs By Country And Language
The groundswell has gone global: The majority of users on sites like Facebook and Twitter now come from outside the US, and if your social media content reaches the wrong audience, you risk...

Technology Trends That Will Change The Way Government Operates
The US government, with its almost $80 billion annual IT budget, is one of the largest consumers of IT goods and services in the world. It is therefore not surprising that the same technological...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November and December 2010 of 4,007 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban cities/states of Mexico including México City (Distrito Federal),...
Findings From Forrester's Q1 2011 Web Content Management Survey
Forrester recently surveyed 260 content and collaboration (C&C) professionals with decision-making roles in web content management (WCM) about their WCM strategies for the coming year. Enterprises...
Navigating the complex contact center solution landscape continues to be challenging, particularly in light of the rapid rise of social computing, mobility, and voice of the customer initiatives...
Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, February 2012
Pleasing consumers is becoming increasingly difficult, and the experiences encountered while buying a product can make or break a brand’s reputation with its consumers. One bad experience can...
An Empowered Report: A Social Co-Creation Case Study
Earlier this year, Ford launched a social co-creation site called "Your Ideas," which is an offshoot of its "The Ford Story" site designed to engage Ford enthusiasts. At Your Ideas, customers are...
Using Blogs To Empower Consumers And Gain Back Trust For Your Brand
Blogging is an often misused social marketing platform. Marketers often recycle generic content, follow quarterly content schedules, and plan more for search optimization than engagement. Old school...
An Empowered Report
Innovation leaders at IBM developed Jam sessions as a way of empowering employees and connecting contributors across large demographics in order to generate innovative, worldwide collaboration. These...
Despite the momentum in Australian online retail, the sector is still quite focused on the basics of customer engagement. When it comes to marketing, this means online retailers don't just prioritize...
Forrester estimates that, in 2011, hotels will produce $27 billion in online sales from US leisure and unmanaged business travelers. Not bad, but how much better could that be? To help travel firms...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in April and May 2012 of 58,068 US and 5,635 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on randomly chosen samples of these sizes (N = 58,068...
Forrester Research conducted an online survey in October and November 2010 of 5,897 consumers ages 18 and older in South Korea, Australia, Japan, metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Shanghai,...
2010 marked a year of significant changes in the Internet landscape (primarily with the growth of social networks and mobile devices); these changes forced retail executives to think hard about the...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2011 of 64,515 US and Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 64,515), there is 95%...