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Forrester Research

#7389

Rank

$317.42M

Marketcap

US United States

Country

Forrester Research
Leadership team

Mr. George F. Colony (Founder, Chairman, CEO & Pres)

Mr. L. Christian Finn (Chief Financial Officer)

Mr. Scott R. Chouinard (Chief Accounting Officer & Treasurer)

Products/ Services
Advice, Consulting, Peer to Peer
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Established
1983
Company Registration
SEC CIK number: 0001023313
Net Income
20M - 100M
Revenue
500M - 1B
Traded as
FORR
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Overview
Location
Summary
Forrester Research, Inc. operates as an independent research and advisory services company. The company operates in three segments: Research, Consulting, and Events. The Research segment primary subscription research portfolio services include Forrester Research, SiriusDecisions Research, and Forrester Decisions, which are designed to provide business and technology leaders with a proven path to growth through customer obsession. This segment delivers content, such as future trends, predictions, and market forecasts; deep consumer and business buyer data and insights; curated best practice models and tools to run business functions; operational and performance benchmarking data; and technology and service market landscapes and vendor evaluations through online access. The Consulting segment provides consulting projecs, including conducting maturity assessments, prioritizing best practices, developing strategies, building business cases, selecting technology vendors, structuring organizations, developing content marketing strategies and collateral, and sales tools; and advisory services. The Events segment hosts in-person and virtual events related to business-to-business marketing, sales and product leadership, customer experience, security and risk, new technology and innovation, and data strategies and insights. The company sells its products and services through direct sales force in various locations in the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Asia Pacific region, and internationally. Forrester Research, Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
History

Forrester was founded in July 1983 by George Forrester Colony, now chairman of the board and chief executive officer, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company's first report, "The Professional Automation Report," was published in November 1983. In November 1996, Forrester announced its initial public offering of 2,300,000 shares. In February 2000, the company announced its secondary public offering of 626,459 shares.

In 2011, Forrester announced the arrival of a new era, the “age of the customer,” that would reshape the way organizations succeed and grow. Forrester anchored its strategy, organization, and research around the age of the customer to help its customers adapt to a market driven by customers.

Forrester has made a number of acquisitions over the past 20 years, including Fletcher Research, a British Internet research firm, in November 1999; FORIT GmbH, a German market research and consulting firm, in October 2000; Giga Information Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based information technology research and consulting company, in February 2003; New York City-based Jupiter Research, in July 2008;

Strategic Oxygen on December 1, 2009; Springboard Research on May 12, 2011; FeedbackNow and GlimpzIt in 2018; and SiriusDecisions, a business-to-business research and advisory firm, in 2019.

Forrester serves clients in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Forrester's head office has always been in Cambridge, Massachusetts: first, near Harvard Square, then, in Technology Square, and now in Cambridge Discovery Park .

Mission
Forrester is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. We help business and technology leaders use customer obsession to accelerate growth by putting their customers at the center of their leadership, strategy, and operations. Through Forrester’s proprietary research, consulting, and events, leaders from around the globe are empowered to be bold at work — to navigate change and chart new paths. Our unique insights are grounded in annual surveys of more than 675,000 consumers, business leaders, and technology leaders worldwide; rigorous and objective methodologies, including Forrester Wave™ evaluations; and the shared wisdom of our most innovative clients.
Vision
We are the most respected technology research and advisory firm in the world. We are the first call for business and technology executives concerned with understanding customer, employee, and marketing technology needs, trends, and marketplace opportunities.
Key Team

Mr. Ryan D. Darrah (Chief Legal Officer & Sec.)

Mr. Jon Symons (VP of Corp. Communications & Employee Experience)

Ms. Carrie Johnson Fanlo (Chief Product Officer)

Ms. Shirley Macbeth (Chief Marketing Officer)

Mr. Steven Peltzman (Chief Bus. Technology Officer)

Mr. Russell Sweeney (Investor Relations)

Mr. Mike Kasparian (Chief Information Officer)

Recognition and Awards
Forrester won 1 award in 2016. In 2016, Forrester won for Top 15% Rated Team. Based on 539 ratings and 49 participants, employees at Forrester are satisfied with their work experience. The overall culture score, 70/100 or B-, incorporates employee ratings based on their feedback on the Environment, Office Culture, Manager and more.
References
Forrester Research
Leadership team

Mr. George F. Colony (Founder, Chairman, CEO & Pres)

Mr. L. Christian Finn (Chief Financial Officer)

Mr. Scott R. Chouinard (Chief Accounting Officer & Treasurer)

Products/ Services
Advice, Consulting, Peer to Peer
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Established
1983
Company Registration
SEC CIK number: 0001023313
Net Income
20M - 100M
Revenue
500M - 1B
Traded as
FORR
Social Media