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Business Case: The CRM Playbook
Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives must not only be technically sound but must answer the question, "What will we get for our money?" Application development and delivery (AD&D) pros...

Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Locking in customer loyalty via deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead. But navigating the...

Vision: The Customer Data Management Playbook
Customer data is the lifeblood of the contemporary enterprise. It's used in virtually every function of the business, including product research, design, and development; advertising and marketing...

Executive Overview: The CRM Playbook
This report is the executive overview of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals looking to implement customer relationship management (CRM) strategies and...

Tools And Technology: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook
Systems that support digital experiences present challenges to tech buyers, who are discovering a vast and immature market. Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals face a...

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...

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...

Landscape: The CRM Playbook
Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

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...

Tools And Technology: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Delivering a differentiated customer experience requires that you have the right technologies, business processes, and empowered organizational structures to support your organization's customer...

Tools And Technology: The CRM Playbook
Traversing the customer relationship management (CRM) technology landscape is challenging — particularly due to the rise of social computing, the increasing adoption of software-as-a-service...
Road Map: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
This report outlines the road map planning of Forrester's solution for applications development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working in customer service. For most industries, a large percentage...

Processes: The CRM Playbook
This report prescribes solution governance best practices for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals who implement "cloud" customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. While...

Business Case: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Customer service is a cornerstone of a company's customer experience strategy. Delivering good customer service has quantifiable benefits measured in decreased operational costs, increased repurchase...

Benchmarks: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
This report outlines the method for defining metrics as part Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer service metrics. This report...

Strategic Plan: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
As more enterprises develop organizational and operational structures to better manage customer experience, they need to drive this down into contact center architectural design. Today's challenge is...

How The Top 18 Solutions Stack Up
During the past five years, the customer service capabilities of customer relationship management (CRM) suite solutions have greatly matured as vendors have focused on solidifying the foundational...

The 18 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
During the past five years, the customer relationship management (CRM) solutions market has experienced considerable growth and turmoil, including significant vendor consolidation and a rapid rise in...
The 17 Solutions That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
During the past five years, the customer relationship management (CRM) solutions market has experienced considerable growth and turmoil, including significant vendor consolidation and a rapid rise in...

Executive Overview: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
Customers increasingly demand experiences that include self-service options, real-time responses, mobile capabilities, and social interactions. But customer service executives face the constant...

Forrester’s best practices framework for CRM defines the critical capabilities necessary for building high-quality customer relationships. The framework distills findings from our interviews...
Assessment: The CRM Playbook
This report describes the best practices assessment that underpins Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer relationship...
