Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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  • Retail
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012

    Slower Than Expected 2011 Spending Portends 6.6% Growth In 2012

    The US tech market posted weaker growth in 2011 than we expected; the outlook for 2012 is for more of the same, with business and government purchases of IT goods and services growing by 6.8% to 6.6%...

    • Downloads: 1150
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Case Study: How Marks And Spencer Uses Online Video To Boost eCommerce

    Online video is a success story. Next to the usage of social networking sites, watching online videos is one of the most used social media tools. Many companies have wondered how they can tap into...

    • Downloads: 542
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Postmortem: US Online Holiday Season, 2009

    The 2009 holiday season arrived during the great recession. In spite of the economic slowdown, nearly three-quarters of online holiday buyers maintained or increased spend in the online channel...

    • Downloads: 256
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Online Video Best Practice

    Benchmarking Web Sites Using Forrester's Online Video Product Scorecard

    Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for adding video to your Web site. In this report, we demonstrate how our online video product...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:European Social Retail Is A Work In Progress

    Social media is transforming the way European online buyers interact with each other and consume content. Online buyers are using social media to connect with their peers and, to a much lesser...

    • Downloads: 567
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Australia, China, And India Set The Pace In Asian IT Services

    Individual Country Dynamics Drive Growth And Industry Maturity

    Different factors will drive the growth of the IT services and outsourcing industries in Australia, China, and India. In Australia, as-a-service offerings, mobile application development, and mobile...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Online Retailing In Australia 2012: Mobile

    For The First Time, Most Local Online Retailers Sell On Mobile

    Australia knows that mobile's time has come, but the rate at which mobile has become a priority for local online retail professionals is staggering nonetheless. This report highlights the extent to...

    • Downloads: 217
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Supportive Brands Win The Hearts Of Customers

    Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, May 2012

    Pleasing consumers is becoming increasingly difficult, and the experiences encountered while buying a product can make or break a brand’s reputation with its consumers. One bad experience can...

    • Downloads: 8
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:US Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2011 To 2016

    Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...

    • Downloads: 1550
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Why Every Retailer Needs An Online Marketplace

    Multichannel retailers that are looking to compete effectively with aggressive pure-play counterparts that often offer cutthroat pricing or shipping programs will find that the marketplace model is a...

    • Downloads: 600
    • Comments: 2
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Trends 2012: US Retail eBusiness

    eBusiness executives in retail will grapple with three key trends in 2012: growth of mobile device usage, heightened competition from Amazon.com, and continued market share shift to web retail....

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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2012 To 2017 (US)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...

    • Downloads: 8
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The State Of Mobile Commerce In Europe

    Mobile Commerce Is Still Nascent And Shows A Small But Growing Market Opportunity

    European mobile commerce is still at an early stage. Digital content is still the primary product purchased via mobile devices, but consumers show growing interest in using their mobile phone for all...

    • Downloads: 997
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2013: Key Metrics And Initiatives

    eCommerce continues to grow at a rapid pace; on average, the retailers surveyed for Forrester and Shop.org's annual The State of Retailing Online study experienced 28% growth in sales in 2012 over...

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2010: Marketing, Social Commerce, And Mobile

    The annual fielding of "The State of Retailing Online," a Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research, asked Web retailers to share levels of interactive marketing spend, effectiveness of social...

    • Downloads: 2620
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Technographics® Survey Highlights: Online Shopping And Multichannel Shopping Overview

    This highlight deck outlines online shopping and multichannel shopping in the US from our North American Technographics Retail Online Benchmark Recontact Survey, Q2 2010 (US)

    • Downloads: 1
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Banks And Retailers: You Cannot Price Your Way Out Of Bad Customer Experiences

    Why Customer Experience Matters More To Loyalty Than Price

    Have you ever wondered whether it makes more sense to invest in customer experience or in dropping your prices to improve customer loyalty? We tested the relationship between customers' perceptions...

    • Downloads: 203
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Web Site User Experience 2010: UK Grocers

    Forrester Applies Its Web Site User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top UK Grocers

    Forrester evaluated the user experience at the Web sites of four leading UK online grocery retailers: Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose. Overall scores were above average, but no site passed our...

    • Downloads: 261
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Why Product Strategists At The Lego Group Treat Co-Creators Like Royalty

    Lessons In Product Innovation From A Leader In Co-Creation

    Ask someone to name a company that embraces co-creation, and, sooner or later, you will hear "Lego." The Lego Group has been pursuing customer-led innovation for more than a decade, and it hasn't...

    • Downloads: 247
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

    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...

    • Downloads: 1277
    • Comments: 7
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  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Report:ERP Workflow: A New Option To Treat Business Process Pain

    Business Process Pros Now Have An Additional BPM Tool At Their Disposal

    Business process professionals often struggle with how to bridge the gap between the functionality of the inflexible enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications they're using to run their...

    • Downloads: 312
  • For CIO Professionals

    Report:Forrsights: Business Execs Increase Direct IT Spend To Support Systems Of Engagement

    Our Q4 2011 Business Decision-Makers Survey Shows CIOs Under Pressure

    During October and November of 2011, Forrester surveyed 3,534 business decision-makers in North American and European enterprises regarding their business priorities (and views of IT priorities),...

    • Downloads: 494
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Using Online Video To Drive Clicks And Conversion

    A Guide To Approaching Or Revitalizing A Retail eCommerce Video Campaign

    Shoppers are beginning to use online video to inform their purchases. Although consumer uptake is slow when compared with the wider acceptance of Internet video, online retailers are turning to video...

    • Downloads: 982
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:The Art And Science Of Retail eCommerce

    Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

    As retail eCommerce sales continue to explode, eBusiness executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they are not missing opportunities in this critical channel. This playbook provides...

    • Downloads: 1092
    • Comments: 4
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Website Functionality Benchmark: European Consumer Electronics Retailers

    Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four Specialist European Consumer Electronics Retailers

    Forrester applied its Website Functionality Benchmark evaluation methodology to four European consumer electronics retailers: Best Buy UK, Currys, Darty, and Redcoon. These specialist retailers...

    • Downloads: 309
 
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