Director, Anywhere Consumer Research
Carl Howe is currently Director, Anywhere Consumer Research at Yankee Group. In this role, Carl examines how the Anywhere Network -- today’s world-wide broadband IP network made ubiquitous by wireless -- transforms consumer work, life and play. Carl’s contributions to Yankee Group’s Anywhere vision include reports such as “The Anywhere Economy”, “The Anywhere Tipping Point”, and “Building the Anywhere Web”. Carl’s current research agenda includes research on consumer broadband demand and deployment, mobile web sites and their evolution, connected consumer services and devices, and digital entertainment and media.
Before joining Yankee Group, Carl co-founded Blackfriars Communications with co-founder Joe Butt to advise companies in complex industries on how to distill, communicate, and deliver their value. Blackfriars developed syndicated marketing research about marketing budgets, attitudes, and spending as well the Blackfriars Marketing Index, a publicly recognized gauge of marketing spending. Carl also wrote the widely-read blog, Blackfriars Marketing and published financial research reports on Apple, Inc. while at Blackfriars.
Prior to Blackfriars, Carl directed Forrester's research in networking, computing, and infrastructure and was also a principal analyst. Carl's research predicted the next wave of Internet innovation in "The X Internet," forecast the impact of open source software in "Open Source Cracks The Code" and predicted the recession in the PC industry in 2000 in his 1998 report "PC Industry Roller Coaster." Prior to Forrester, Carl spent 18 years at BBN Corporation, where he helped develop operating systems for some of the largest parallel processors in the world and researched wearable computers, desktop videoconferencing, and distributed systems. In addition, Carl helped firms like Mastercard, Wang, and National Westminster Bank deploy early Internets.
Carl has commented on technology in television venues ranging from CNN Headline News to The Today Show to The CBS Evening News, and he speaks frequently at events in the US, Europe, and Asia. He has also commented on trends in technology for All Things Considered, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, and Wired magazine. as well as for numerous other international and national publications. Carl was also been named as one of the top 20 most influential U.S. industry analysts in 2002 by Technology Marketing magazine.
Carl has lectured as a member of the faculty at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wellesley College, and he holds a S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
You can contact Carl by emailing Carl (at) carlhowe.com.
