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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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Case For Channel-Shifting Customers Online

Business Case: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

Business-to-business (B2B) companies know they can generate revenue and save money by migrating their offline customers online. The question is, how much and under what circumstances? Forrester...

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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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Lead Your Mobile Insurance Future With Sound Strategic Planning

Strategic Plan: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook

Mobile strategies fail when firms approach them as purely technology solutions without clear business objectives and stakeholder support. Having a documented strategic plan that all stakeholders...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2013: North American Insurance eBusiness And Channel Strategy

Disruption Drives 12 Trends In Digital Insurance Agendas

There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications...

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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 Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Managing Information Security In BYOT Environments In Asia Pacific

I&O Professionals Need The Right Policies, Technologies, And Skills To Secure Enterprise Data

Employees are rapidly embracing personal devices, consumer software, and public cloud services for work to increase personal productivity and efficiency, a trend that Forrester refers to as...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Five Keys To Effective B2B eCommerce

Strategic Plan: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

Building a world-class B2B eCommerce business is a process. It takes time, and it costs money. But whatever process you follow to build your B2B eCommerce business, you will find five key issues...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Transform Marketing With A Revenue-Relevant Customer Engagement Strategy

Executive Overview: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

In 2010, Forrester introduced the term "lead-to-revenue management" (L2RM) to categorize a set of integrated processes, goals, and metrics that frame marketing practices from lead generation to sales...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years

This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Building A World-Class B2B eCommerce Business

Executive Overview: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

Although some eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are very mature in their understanding and execution of business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce, most organizations are still in the early...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Subscription And Recurring Billing Solutions 2012

Few industries are immune from the digitization of experiences, content, services, and products. In this era of cloud computing and consumer mobile devices, today's digital products have evolved from...

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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:Align Your B2B Community Marketing With Your Customers' Life Cycle

How, Why, And When Your Buyers Tap Into Communities

Communities provide the interactions and content that buyers seek when they want to discover, explore, and engage with a brand. But business-to-business (B2B) marketers often hesitate to interact...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:China Appliance Market Dynamics, 2013 To 2017

Understanding of and interest in appliances is surging in China as organizations there struggle to manage massive growth while simultaneously using traditional infrastructure and platforms to...

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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 Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:2013 Mobile Trends For Marketers

Multiyear Strategies And Larger Investments Define This Year

With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

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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 CMO Professionals

Report:Nurture Thought Leadership To Nurture Your Brand

Make Thought Leadership The Tip Of The Content Marketing Spear

Great marketing content fuels the demand generation engine, boosts brand visibility, and attracts buyers interested in the problems your company can solve. But when marketers publish promotional...

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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 Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Skills And Structures For L2R Success

Organization: The Lead-To-Revenue Playbook

B2B marketers are adopting the lead-to-revenue (L2R) concept to ensure that revenue goals are met on time by optimizing the balance among lead value, velocity, and volumes, as well as ensuring that...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Global, Industry, And Technology Forces Shape The ERP Landscape

Three key forces are reshaping the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market: the growing demands of global businesses; the increasing need for industry-specific functionality; and the expanding use...

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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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Western Europe)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online retail sales as a percent of total retail sales. Also includes online buyers, online...

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