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For CMO Professionals

Report:Assess The Impact Of Touchpoints Along The Consumer Path-To-Purchase

How Research Touchpoints Affect Consumer Spending

Consumers connect with brands throughout the customer life cycle — they discover, explore, buy, and engage using a multitude of touchpoints. In the explore phase, consumers use a variety of...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Emerging Touchpoints Require A Marketing Mind Shift

Vision: The Emerging Touchpoints For Marketing Playbook

Emerging technologies — from smart objects and wearables to behind-the-scenes taxonomy tools — radically change how your customers think, act, and relate to others. Marketers who try to...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Best Practices Case Study: B2B Ratings And Reviews

Processes: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

As B2B organizations embark on an eCommerce path, there are many features, functions, and interfaces from which to choose to maximize their business opportunity. Separating the wheat from the chaff...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Build Your Mobile Engagement Strategy

Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Maximize Media ROI With A Customer-Centric Approach

Road Map: The Digital Media Buying Playbook

This report outlines the road map portion of Forrester's solution for interactive marketing executives working on digital media buying. Moving to a higher level of digital media buying maturity...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Understand Communication Channel Needs To Craft Your Customer Service Strategy

Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:European Online Retail: Five Trends To Watch In 2013

European eBusiness Executives Must Embrace A Multi-Touchpoint Reality

European retail eBusiness executives face a time of unprecedented change. The range of touchpoints that customers use to discover, explore, buy, and re-engage with brands is growing by the day. New...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Social Media Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Western Europe)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

Online social media users, user penetration, and social media advertising spending for 17 Western European countries. Includes historical data back to 2008 plus a five-year forecast.

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For CIO Professionals

Tool:Forrester Wave™: Video Platforms For The Enterprise, Q1 '13

For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Marketing Strategy For The Mobile Mind Shift

Delivering Utility At Speed To Perpetually Connected Customers

Customers are in the midst of a total mind shift. As a result of their perpetual mobile connections, their expectations have changed. They're not interested in your messaging and logos. They want...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Digital Experience Service Providers

Turn The Odd Couple Into The Power Couple

Selecting a digital experience service provider is a complex and stressful task. In many cases, marketing teams select the service providers and oversee product selection, leaving IT to support and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Drive Business Transformation With Digital Customer Experiences

Executive Overview: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

Digital customer experience has become a key business differentiator, and application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders of front-office, web, mobile, and digital development must step up to...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Navigate The Future Of CRM In 2013

Vision: The CRM Playbook

The only source of competitive advantage is the one that can survive technology-fueled disruption: an obsession with understanding, connecting with, serving, and delighting customers. But as...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Scientific Method Comes To Marketing

Executive Overview: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook

When making their investment decisions across the marketing mix, senior marketers face the constant challenge of coping with the proliferation of communication and engagement platforms while facing...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Best Practices In Digital Money Management

Processes: The Digital Money Management Playbook

The critical question for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals who have launched, or are about to launch, digital money management is how to drive customer adoption and use. To help,...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Contextual Delivery And Cross-Channel Analytics Revolutionize Digital Experiences

Landscape: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

AD&D pros have had an uphill journey to support digitally enabled customer experiences as they navigate the coordination of existing investments and management of a complicated technology ecosystem....

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Executive Q&A: Customer Experience Co-Creation

Despite professed customer centricity, many firms don't think to involve customers, employees, or key delivery partners in the experience design process. This oversight costs firms precious time and...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:B2B Marketers Prefer To Create Their Own Content Mostly For Lead Nurturing

Effective content marketing is now critical to B2B marketers' success because useful content accelerates potential buyers along their journey. That usefulness is predicated on the content being...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Trends For The B2C CMO To Watch In 2013

Embrace Digital Innovation To Deliver Compelling Brand Experiences

2013 will be a unique year for CMOs of consumer-focused companies. They will have to drive their brands to deliver cohesive brand experiences that use digital to augment and extend their engagement...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2013 UK Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

Forrester Evaluates Mobile Banking At The Four Largest UK Banks

With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they must keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail the...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Top Ways To Combat Survey Fatigue

Customer experience professionals depend on surveys for their voice of the customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) measurement programs. But with so many surveys coming at each individual...

• Downloads: 266

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Navigate The Future Of Customer Service

Vision: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

As organizations strive to succeed in the age of the customer, business and IT professionals responsible for customer service struggle to understand changing customer behavior, re-engineer end-to-end...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Exploring The Social Technographics Ladder: Conversationalists

North American Consumer Technographics®

Conversationalists are the highly active individuals that post updates and/or update their status on social networking sites at least weekly. Members of this group not only express their opinion on a...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Playbook:The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

Transform To An Experience-Driven Organization

Companies see substantial business benefit when they systematically hunt down and eliminate customer experience problems. But eventually they need to stop doing business in ways that create those...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Assess Customer Service Capabilities To Pinpoint Opportunities For Better Service

Assessment: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

This report describes the best practices assessment framework that underpins Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer service...

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