Jill is an accomplished analyst, having focused on strategic market analysis, competitive intelligence and research methodology throughout her career. She has worked with executives to fuel strategic, data-driven decisions surrounding workforce productivity and technology development and marketing. Her past experience enables a keen understanding of both the demand and supplier side of the forces influencing the Learning and productivity markets that Ambient Insight tracks.
Most recently, Jill was Director of Research and Information Services at The MASIE Center, the leading eLearning think-tank in the industry, where she worked extensively with both suppliers and global implementers of eLearning technology to promote thought leadership and best practices to drive the industry.
Prior to joining the MASIE Center, Jill was Manager of Research Analysis for Microsoft Corporation where she worked closely with the Business Productivity and Knowledge Management groups. At Microsoft, Jill oversaw the corporate-wide selection and purchase of industry research from market research vendors such as IDC, Gartner Group, Forrester, Meta Group, Giga Research, Jupiter, Zona and many more niche players. In this role, she was responsible for analyzing the methodology and information veracity of reports and determining the relevancy to Microsoft's business needs.
As Senior Market Analyst at Blue Slate Solutions, a technology and strategy consultancy, she helped to establish their Market Intelligence practice. There, she worked with such companies as General Electric, United Technologies and Siemens and numerous technology start-ups.
Jill has authored reports on eLearning for International Data Corp (IDC), ASTD, and The MASIE Center. She received her BA from the University of Buffalo, and an MA and Masters of Library and Information Science from the State University of New York at Albany. She was further trained in market research methodology (Burke Institute) and in econometric forecasting (WEFA Group).
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