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Diane serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. She focuses on how online customer service — including online self-service, virtual agents, email, chat, click-to-call, and social media — serves eBusiness goals by providing service and support, increasing sales, reducing operational costs, and improving customer satisfaction. Her online customer service research focuses on understanding consumer behavior and preferences, strategy development, and implementation best practices.
Diane has been quoted in media outlets including CNBC, CRM, Internet Retailer, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
Diane came to Forrester through its acquisition of JupiterResearch, where she served as a travel industry analyst focusing on how Web 2.0 can drive eBusiness goals.
Prior to joining Forrester, Diane had 10 years of senior marketing experience in the travel and publishing industries, working in Toronto; Melbourne and Sydney, Australia; and Helsinki. Her background includes senior positions in traditional and online travel retail and media companies, with responsibilities including marketing, branding, customer service, product development, channel strategy, and business development.
Diane holds an honors B.A. in history and labor management relations from the University of Toronto and an M.A. in marketing and public affairs from the University of Sydney, Australia.
Today, most organizations face growing data integration challenges due to increased data volume, complex data types, and an increased business need for real-time data. Information-as-a-service (IaaS)...
Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years
This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...
This set of data charts, taken from the November 2010 Global master Data Management Online Survey, analyzes data from 134 MDM-savvy IT professionals in five distinct industries-- healthcare; the...

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

ECM And BPM Anchor The Portfolio Of Technologies That Will Improve Hospitals' Processes
Our current paper-based health information process wastes hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Transforming this into a streamlined 21st century electronic system will require moving through...
Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros
Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

What (current and potential) features do patients/providers want to have in a patient-provider portal? How are these features ranked? What do patients/providers look for in their...
An Empowered Report: Using Social Technologies To Empower Innovation
Customers already use social technologies to wrest power away from large corporations. Now employees are also adapting social technologies in pursuit of innovations to support these empowered...
How To Find The Best Opportunities In A High-Growth Market
The software market is poised to enjoy its best growth in a decade, and small software companies face great growth opportunities as their larger competitors struggle to adapt to a new world of cloud...
ESBs Are The Most Popular Choice
Enterprise service buses (ESBs), comprehensive integration solutions (CISes), and integration appliances offer a range of overlapping features to meet integration challenges. Forrester recently...
These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
BCBST Leverages A Proactive Approach To Support eDiscovery And Cut Costs
In addition to regulatory requirements, health plans often face significant litigation burdens. In seeking to address eDiscovery objectives, many organizations struggle with the intersection of...
I am trying to find out some information/statistics on customer portal adoption. For example, what is the percentage of users who have registered for and use self-service portals such as online...
They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market
Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

A Snapshot Of Adoption From The InformationWeek 500
Smart Computing, the latest cycle of tech innovation and growth based on new technologies of awareness, analysis, and alternatives, began in 2008. Since then, a growing number of companies have...