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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.
Executive Overview: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Today's multichannel customers demand better experiences than they get from firms that design underperforming one-off touchpoints. Faced with an expanding ecosystem of legacy websites, mobile sites,...

Lately it’s become en vogue to talk about how to “surprise and delight” your customers. And why not? If companies are competing on experience, they need to find ways to impress and...

Road Map: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How To Build An Implementation Road Map For Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on August 11, 2011. In a world of proliferating digital...

Today’s digital landscape is complex. As companies use digital interfaces to engage with customers and foster long-term relationships, customer interactions are spanning an increasing array of...
Strategic Plan: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How To Develop Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on July 13, 2011. Companies need a digital customer experience strategy to ensure that they...
Delivering Experience Excellence Across A Fractured Network Of Digital Touchpoints
Today's digital landscape is distributed across an array of touchpoints and devices. With customers able to interact through multiple channels at any given moment, firms need to ensure that they...

Tablet applications offer a new way for customers to interact with brands, providing sustained engagement and bridging the capability-mobility gap between websites and smartphone applications. In the...
As part of Forrester’s ongoing initiative to provide annual industry benchmarks of online customer experiences, we recently evaluated the Brand Experience of four hotel brands’ Web sites...
Ever wonder why Web sites offer such lackluster brand experiences? Want to know how your site can help you differentiate your brand online? If you care about how your brand succeeds online and are...
The Splinternet Engagement Index
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes content relevant to customer experience professionals. Here's why: Firms deliver experiences across an increasing array of...
Delivering Relevant Experiences In The Multichannel World
Firms want to deliver the right experience to the right user at the right time and on the right device — a tricky proposition in this age of device proliferation. The splinternet — and...

For a long time, people have debated the meaning of every part of the acronym RIA (rich Internet application). What is rich? What do you mean by "Internet"? What's an application as opposed to a...
It's Time To Back Up The Claim That Digital Customer Experience Is Important
Companies say that digital touchpoints are critical to their customer experience efforts but don't have an approach for multi-touchpoint experience, don't know customers' expectations, and don't know...

Ever since I signed my daughter up for a frequent-flier program, she's been receiving at least one credit card offer from American Express every week. Problem is, she's 2. It's unnerving...
Vision: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Companies have historically failed to meet the needs of their customers in individual channels. As customers increasingly engage with multiple channels in pursuit of a single goal, companies need to...

Forrester Applies Its Website Review Methodology To Six Canadian Bank Sites
Forrester evaluated the user experience at the public-facing websites of six leading Canadian banks by assets: Bank of Montreal, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Scotiabank,...
Harley Manning recently wrote a post that explained Forrester’s definition of customer experience as: “How customers perceive their interactions with your company.” The key...
I’ve recently had several conversations with companies that are looking to improve how they standardize online experiences around the globe. It’s something I’ve been helping firms...
I would like to know how important robust search capability is within websites. What is the perceived value? Is it an important feature that needs an investment? Where does search rank as a core...
Tailor Apps For The iPad's Unique Form Factor And User Behaviors
The iPad's popularity has caused customer experience professionals to take a hard look at providing relevant experiences for yet another device. Because of the iPad's unique form factor and use...