Leaving Forrester, Joining Jive

September 14th 2009 Posted to Personal

With great excitement and a bit of sadness I wanted to quickly announce that I will be leaving Forrester Research and joining Jive Software. My last day at Forrester is tomorrow.

All told its been a great (nearly) five years at Forrester and I am tremendously grateful to all the past and present Forrester employees who made the job so exciting for me. I’m confident that the Forrester team I leave behind will be in great shape to pick up my research themes and carry them as far as I would have, if not further. Specifically Laura Ramos, Rob Koplowitz, and TJ Keitt will be taking over where I left off.

As for me, I will be joining Jive Software as a Sr. Product Manager. I’m very excited for the new challenge.

Finally, for the loyal readers of this blog, I don’t expect much to change at StrategicHeading.com — the blog should be just as focused as before and cover largely the same content. As for the recent posting hiatus, please forgive me — I was a bit tied up working out all the above details!

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  • creatorbase
    Congrats! The Jive team and Dave Hersh are good people.
  • Carine
    Oliver - hate seeing such a good analyst leaving us but congrats on your new job!!! We sure will miss your expertise, flexibility and knowledge.
  • Thanks everyone for the kind notes. The outpouring on my blog and on Twitter has been really overwhelming. For the first time in my life I think I am actually speechless . . .
  • Nick Hill
    Looking forward to working with you Oliver!
  • Looking forward to having you on the team. Jive is getting stronger every day
  • Congratulations! Definitely and exciting move... Best of luck.
  • Oliver it was a pleasure working with you at Forrester, we could always rely on your industry view, strong quantitative skills, and keen insight on the social space.

    Jive really got a great industry player in their team, great move, congrats!
  • Good luck Oliver. It was a pleasure meeting you last year at Web 2.0 when you were working around the Enterprise Mashup area, and I've been following your work since then.

    Justo Hidalgo
  • First Gil, now you? Boy it's tough to keep losing my analysts. Good luck over at Jive! If you're going to work out of the Palo Alto office, we should get together some time soon.
  • Congrats, Oliver!!! Still hope we can continue the conversation, at least at an industry level.
  • Holy crap! That's awesome news! Glad to have you aboard the Jive Juggernaut!
  • rhoward
    Congratulations Oliver. We've enjoyed working with you.

    -- Rob Howard, Telligent
  • Sincere congrats to you. Good luck!
  • Gorsie
    Congratulations and thanks so much for all your insight present, past and future!
  • Wow, Oliver, congrat's to the new gig!
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