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Companies tell us that they're interested in using customer journey maps as tools to analyze and communicate their customers' perspectives on the interactions they deliver. Creating and using...

Companies Share Best Practices For Using Journey Maps Effectively
This report describes best practices for using journey maps to drive improvements in customer experience. Customer journey maps are foundational tools that support companies' efforts to improve...

Forrester Applies Its Evaluation Methodology To Personas Provided By Nine UK Interactive Agencies
Forrester applied its persona evaluation criteria to reference personas provided by nine interactive agencies in the UK for the recent Forrester Wave™. Most of the personas showed some room for...
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...
Ensure Personas Accurately Reflect Customers' New Behaviors And Technologies
Personas are ideal tools to guide the design of products, channels, and messaging, but companies are concerned that they fail to keep track of evolving behaviors. Although customers' psychographics...
Introduce Personas With Clear Purposes And Embed Them In Processes
Despite ample evidence of the value that personas contribute to user experience design and related business results, some firms still struggle to use them to the greatest effect. At the root of many...
European Interactive Agencies Report Their Capacity, Budget, And Industry Capabilities
Companies seeking agency partners in Europe find it challenging to identify the best agencies to meet their needs. To kick-start the vendor selection process, Forrester gathered self-reported data...
CARS Improves Customer Experience And Supports The Bank's Growth Strategy
Forrester has predicted that the next generation of online experiences will be customized, aggregated, relevant, and social (CARS). We can already see early examples of companies that are...
Design Firms Need Disciplined Approaches To Improve Online Experiences
Forrester's evaluations of Web sites and design personas created by the leading interactive agencies in North America and the UK show that agencies struggle to consistently create digital experiences...
Processes: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
To make meaningful customer experience improvements, organizations need to align their customer experience ecosystems. That requires understanding customers' deep needs, viewing interactions from the...

As mobile adoption increases, eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are challenged to determine how these devices integrate with their existing sales and service channels. It is imperative...

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It's Time To Document Best Practices For Social Media And Customer Experience
Social media already plays a role at each step of customers' complex journeys to discover, evaluate, buy, access, use, and get support for products and services. Customer experience professionals...
Personas Have Evolved To Support Differentiated Customer Experience Design In The Age Of The Customer
Personas offer a proven solution for a common design challenge: Keeping the end user in mind during all phases of design, development, and testing. Recently, shortsighted firms have wrongly dismissed...

Forrester Applies Its Web Site User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top UK Banks
Forrester evaluated the user experience at the public-facing Web sites of the four leading UK banks by share of primary current accounts: Lloyds TSB, Barclays Bank, NatWest, and HSBC Bank. No site...
Design personas and customer journey maps are valuable tools that support companies' tactical design decisions and the high-level strategic goal of progressing toward Experience-Based...
Forrester applied its Web Site User Experience Review methodology to 18 sites provided by nine interactive agencies in the UK. While agencies struggled with usability, a number of best practices...
Specialty retailer, Mothercare Group, worked with self-service vendor, Transversal, to improve knowledge management across its three key touchpoints — the Web, call centers, and retail stores....
Five Firms Describe How Customer Journey Mapping Helps Them
Forrester clients tell us that they're eager to use customer journey maps because they see the documents as ideal tools to analyze and communicate their customers' perspectives on the interactions...

Social Media Management Gives Control To Members And Builds The Brand
Giffgaff, a low-cost mobile virtual network operator, uses an online community for customer support, sales and marketing, as well as product development functions. To ensure a positive customer...
Compelling customer experiences stem from a company's deep understanding of its target customers' goals and behaviors. This requires uncovering customer needs in a disciplined manner. This report...
As part of a recent evaluation of UK interactive marketing agencies' Web design capabilities, Forrester applied its Brand Image Review methodology to 18 reference sites provided by nine agencies. We...
Use this reviewer's guide to assess your customer journey map.
Design personas have become widely used tools for design teams, but the state of persona adoption is uneven. While some companies are still novices, others are seeking ways to optimize their use of...
Tools And Technology: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Selecting the right interactive design vendor is a complex and stressful task. The splinternet — an explosion of digital touchpoints across an array of proprietary platforms — makes that...
