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eBusiness Professionals Believe Teams Should Integrate With Their Organizations
As digital channels and strategies grow in importance across firms and become increasingly vital to the success of the company as a whole, eBusiness teams see their responsibilities, budgets, and...
European online retail sales will reach €191 billion by 2017, up from €112 billion in 2012 – reflecting a 11% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years. ...
I’ve been thinking, talking to clients, and reading a lot recently about the rise of the Chief Digital Officer. Most of my recent research has been concerning the shift we are seeing in leading...

It’s no great surprise that many retailers are reporting an increase in multi-touchpoint engagement from their shoppers this year in the run-up to Christmas. Our own Technographics® data...
Executive Overview: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Consumer behavior is changing. Customers are becoming increasingly connected and adopting growing numbers of touchpoints as they discover, explore, buy, and engage with brands and products. And...
Benchmarks: The eBusiness Digital Transformation Playbook
Agile commerce has broken traditional metrics. Key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure the success of a single touchpoint fail to inform eBusiness executives of the impact of consumer...
2013 is going to be a fascinating year for retail in Europe. When I look at what’s to come this year, I can paint a picture of what Forrester predicts by looking at a tale of two brands. Both...
Strategic Plan: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Today's multichannel company faces enormous pressure to adapt to changing customer expectations and emerging competitive threats. Legacy channel-centric approaches and siloed organizations can no...
The following picture might be a little harsh... ...but I’ve spoken to a number of eBusiness executives in luxury retail companies over the last 12 months or so, and by and large they share a...
Road Map: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Developing a vision and building a strategic plan are vital first steps on the road to agile commerce. But once your CEO says "yes," what next? Getting ready for action and taking the first concrete...
A new breed of luxury goods online shopper has arrived that is young, tech-savvy, Internet-aware, mobile-enabled, and embracing tablets fast. This new breed of global consumer is keen to find fresh...
Economic Instability Across Europe Will Do Little To Slow Retail eCommerce Growth
By 2017, Europeans will spend more than €191 billion online on retail products, and online retail growth will continue to outpace offline growth. As wallet share gradually shifts toward the...
You’ve all heard the term “Omnichannel.” And since you are reading this blog I’m going to assume you’ve also all heard the term “Agile Commerce.” If not,...
Processes: The Agile Commerce Playbook
Today's consumer engages through a variety of touchpoints, yet many brands struggle to deliver cross-touchpoint experiences. Too many firms focus on each touchpoint in isolation and fail to enable...

Chief Digital Officer (or CDO) is the latest in a long line of snazzy C-level titles to emerge over the last few years. At Forrester we’ve been watching this trend for a while now and have made...
I’ve been called upon to present on agile commerce many times over the last year, and when I do I most commonly start with this quote: "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
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...
Tools And Technology: The Agile Commerce Playbook
The way we think of eBusiness technology has fundamentally changed. We are no longer selecting a set of platforms and technologies to launch a site; we are now selecting technologies that can support...
Our Annual Benchmark Of eBusiness Team Sizes And Job Functions
In our annual organizational and staffing survey of eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, we find yet again that although eBusiness team sizes are growing, eBusiness professionals feel that...
