{"id":2787,"date":"2008-10-08T16:46:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T23:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/thanks\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T23:57:07","slug":"thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremiah_owyang\/2497171836\/\" title=\"Forrester Research, HQ, 400 Technology Square, Cambridge, Ma by jeremiah_owyang, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2317\/2497171836_818d64148d.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"365\" alt=\"Forrester Research, HQ, 400 Technology Square, Cambridge, Ma\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Image: The Mother Ship: Forrester Research, HQ, 400 Technology Square, Cambridge, Ma (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=400+Technology+Square,+Cambridge,+MA+02139&#038;sll=35.231402,-80.845841&#038;sspn=0.732494,1.455688&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=42.367185,-71.09122&#038;spn=0.010353,0.022745&#038;z=16&#038;layer=c&#038;cbll=42.362874,-71.092319&#038;panoid=OnWKI3bds3KIqYos2WNH5w&#038;cbp=1,16.0040055288066,,0,-0.873299930938598\">see Google map<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of people behind the scenes at Forrester that are supporting the public facing analysts, and they often have thankless jobs.  I want to take a moment to recognize them: Among them include the Inquiry team that helps to coordinate client calls between analysts and clients, a very difficult job: imagine trying to coordinate the schedules of over 2500 clients and 300 analysts, this isn&#8217;t easy, and I forget to be thankful for their support.  The Briefing team helps to schedule key meetings with vendors, also a challenge given there are thousands of companies and their PR firms that are trying to connect with analysts, this takes a considerable amount of effort.  The PR marketing team helps to provide best practices, thought leadership, arranges speaking engagements and sets analysts up with press and media interviews.  Account teams have a difficult job too, they bridge research and clients, and ultimately need to make sure clients are happy.  I&#8217;ve spent long hours with patient IT staff who have to deal with my abused laptops, and there&#8217;s also a team of Researchers who really hold down the fort, and I&#8217;m thankful, for their support. The biggest thanks is to my coach Christine, who has been clearing my schedule back for some time to focus on reports and client deliverables, thanks.  <\/p>\n<p>To all of these groups who are rarely talked about in public, but are critical to our success, thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Mother Ship: Forrester Research, HQ, 400 Technology Square, Cambridge, Ma (see Google map) There&rsquo;s a lot of people behind the scenes at Forrester that are supporting the public facing analysts, and they often have thankless jobs. I want to take a moment to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/08\/thanks\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanks!<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forrester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}