Forrester

For CIO Professionals

Report:Winning The Customer Experience Game

Best Practices For CIOs

Customer experience (CX) is too often thought of in terms of the IT help desk. But CIOs and their IT teams are increasingly being challenged with improving the customer experience for the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Quantify The Business Value Of CRM

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: Contact Center Solutions For Customer Service, Q2 2013

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...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Transform Customer Processes And Systems To Improve Experiences

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Choose Digital Experience Tools To Engage With Customers In A Cross-Channel World

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...

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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 Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: The Extended CRM Technology Ecosystem, Q1 2013

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Must-Have eCommerce Features

Road Map: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

Companies often struggle with how to prioritize the countless issues that populate eCommerce to-do lists. This chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook is a prescriptive look at the industry...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Best Practices In Mobile Banking

Processes: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

The critical question for many digital banking teams after they build mobile banking is how to encourage customer adoption and use. Forrester spoke to eBusiness executives at banks about the current...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 US Bank Secure Website Rankings

Citi Moves To The Top With Added Functionality And A New Look

Digital banking teams want to know where they stack up against competitors when it comes to their secure websites and other digital features — everything from mobile functionality to customer...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:2012 Canadian Bank Secure Website Rankings

Firms Continue To Enhance Core Functionality But Lack New Digital Banking Features

This report details how the secure websites of the six largest retail banks in Canada stack up against each other across six categories and 66 individual criteria measuring the banks' online...

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For Business Process Professionals

Report:Forrester's Best Practices Framework For Customer Service Self-Assessment

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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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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Choose The Right Customer Service Solution For Your Business

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Build An Outside-In Contact Center Road Map

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...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:How Consumers Complain About Poor Service

Time To Get Serious About Social Voice Of The Customer

Most consumers have gotten poor service at some point in the past year. Among that group, the vast majority told friends or family about their disappointing experiences. To understand the causes of...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Commonwealth Bank Of Australia Gets Service-Oriented Via Cloud Computing

Transforms IT From Cost Center To Innovation Center By Leveraging Cloud And Policy-Based Orchestration

Facing rising IT infrastructure costs, inflexible vendor contracts, and labor-intensive processes, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) undertook a massive IT transformation over the last five years....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Changing Face Of CRM In Asia Pacific

Unique Requirements Drive CRM Investments In Asia

As organizations evolve from transactional customer interaction methods to customer engagement, they struggle to support and enhance the customer experience across rapidly evolving channels like...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Win Funding For Your Customer Service Project

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...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Websites That Don't Support Customers Waste Millions

Business Case: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "Web Sites That Don't Support Customers' Goals Waste Millions" originally published on February 17, 2010. To understand the effect of poor website usability, Forrester...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Implement Effective Customer Service Metrics

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Design Your Contact Center From The Outside In

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...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Website Functionality Benchmark 2012: US Online Grocers

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores

Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How To Obtain Actionable Customer Service Satisfaction Metrics

Tactics That Can Help eBusiness Leaders Boost Sales And Loyalty

Forrester's Customer Experience Index has clearly demonstrated the strong relationship between customer experience and loyalty. At eBusiness organizations, customer service is a critical component of...

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