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Connie is a member of Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. Her research focus is on smart computing and analytics.
Connie came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group in 2003. She has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and has been an analyst for 19 years. Most of her research focuses on business process management and business optimization. Prior to joining Giga, Connie managed BIS Strategic Decisions' European IT consulting group, headquartered in the UK. Before then, Connie was vice president of product marketing at TDC (now part of BancTec), a manufacturer of high-end document capture systems. She was also a manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), specializing in document management, document imaging, and end user computing. Earlier, Connie was with Wang Laboratories, where she managed Wang's technical support resources for the US Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. She began her career in IT and management at Mathematica Policy Research.
Connie was the co-champion of Forrester's 2009 Business Technology Forum, with its theme of "Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative." Connie also co-championed Forrester's 2007 Technology Leadership Forum, with the theme of "Design for People, Build for Change," and Forrester's 2008 Technology Leadership Forum, themed as "Embrace Technology Chaos, Deliver Business Results." Connie is a widely sought speaker. She has keynoted at many industry events, chaired 10 business process and workflow conferences in Europe and the US, and co-chaired Giga's "Leveraging Knowledge" conference. Connie also served as a director of AIIM International, the premier association for the content management industry, and is a member of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals.
Connie attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a B.A. in political science and history from East Carolina University and an M.B.A. in information systems from George Washington University.
How A Focus On User Goals Breaks Down Silos Between Online Tools
In a market where well-established standards define digital capabilities, it's tempting to stay with the status quo and build tools that meet industry norms. But what if industry norms are badly out...

Forrester Applies Its Website Review Methodology To Seven Health Insurers' Sites
Health plans have invested a lot in their public consumer-facing websites. But have those investments yielded consumer-friendly experiences? To find out, Forrester evaluated the public websites of...
Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook
How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...


How Customer Experience Professionals Can Support Mobile Experiences
Mobile is quickly becoming a key touchpoint for consumers across industries, and health insurers are no exception. Insurers are jumping on the mobile bandwagon, but many are still unsure of how to...

I am looking for insight from research on how health insurance providers are dealing with anticipated healthcare exchanges. I'm specifically interested in multi-state carrier handling.
Health plans are looking for new ways to connect with consumers, including via social media. But plans worry about consumer engagement levels with these new platforms. Forrester asked consumers about...
Health plan customer experience professionals are tasked with reducing administrative costs (principally by diverting calls from the call center), while driving customer satisfaction scores up. This...
Improvements Can Add More Than $1 Billion In Revenue For Wireless Carriers And Hotels
Customer experience professionals must clearly articulate the business benefits of improving customer experience. Years of Forrester data confirm the strong relationship between the quality of a...
Consumers Rate The Customer Experience Across 153 Large US Brands
To assess the state of customer experience in 2011, Forrester asked more than 7,700 US consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies. Based on their responses, we calculated Customer...
How Leading Health Insurers Drive Change Inside And Outside Of Their Walls
The health insurance industry faces discontent from both its consumer and provider customers. With new regulations and an elevated national discourse on health reform, the time for change is now. But...
What A Higher Customer Experience Index Score Can Do For Revenue
To help customer experience professionals prove the business value of a better enterprise customer experience, we built simple models that show how revenue increases when a company's Customer...
eVisits — interactions between patients and care professionals that occur online — have the potential to simultaneously help control healthcare costs and allow physicians to dispense...

In an effort to control skyrocketing health costs, some pioneering health plans and employers are testing the waters of medical tourism by paying for consumers to travel overseas for less expensive...
As health insurance plans get more complex and members' responsibility rises, insurers struggle to meet members' needs for accurate plan- and member-specific cost estimates for medical services. In...
To understand how companies drive customer experience improvement, Forrester spoke to leaders at brands having Customer Experience Index (CxPi) scores that went up appreciably in 2011. We uncovered a...
How Focusing On Callers And Agents Can Drive Business Results
Today, user-centered design isn't widely used to improve call center interactions. That needs to change. When applied in the call center, the core activities of a user-centered design process —...
Today, healthcare remains a largely in-person proposition, but with the advancement of Internet-based videoconferencing technologies, the possibility of healthcare video visits is becoming a reality....
Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
This report outlines the business case for customer experience professionals seeking to discover the business benefits of improving customer experience in an experience-driven organization. Years of...

What is Forrester's take on how healthcare companies have responded to the rise of social media? How will healthcare companies gain traction in the social media space? What are good and the bad...
Could you direct me to any reports on healthcare institutes of quality/excellence and sites of service for procedures that will allow members to experience a lower cost through steerage to particular...