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Zach, Great topic, and you have some great points here. I have to disagree on one thing: Text analytics shouldn't focus on just unstructured data. It's obvious that finding as much actionable...
Market Insights Needs To Invest In Richer Data, Technology, And Skills To Prepare For The Future
The market insights industry is at a crossroads. Digital disruption has created an environment in which customer and competitive change is happening much more quickly and having a bigger impact on...
Tools And Technology: The Customer Analytics Playbook
With the increased focus on data-driven marketing, few firms have the budgets, technology capabilities, or analytical skills to advance their analytics agendas internally, and they frequently turn to...
This report provides a case study supporting Forrester's best practices for customer intelligence professionals working to drive customer loyalty. Forrester identifies four crucial best practices for...
Fatemeh, Very well done CEA Wave! CEA is the future for MSP/digital agencies. Agree with your observations that their is a long road to maturity with the larger, well entrenched providers in...
Tools And Technology: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Customer intelligence (CI) professionals increasingly look to attribution experts for guidance and tools to help calculate true channel and customer purchase path. While there is a broad array of...
Drive Smarter Customer Loyalty With Customer Intelligence
Customer loyalty is a hot topic. Companies look to loyalty programs to enhance customer knowledge and drive customer retention, revenue, and engagement. But, while they see the potential of loyalty...
Strategic Plan: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
A key piece in cross-channel attribution is developing a strategy that outlines where the organization needs to progress to achieve attribution nirvana. To be successful at cross-channel attribution,...

The online marketing suite supports many of the priorities that customer insights (CI) professionals hold dear: customer centricity, cost efficiency, measurement, and marketing relevance. But...

Hi Everyone,As many you know, I cover the attribution measurement space and I am currently writing a playbook around Cross-Channel Attribution. For my upcoming research, I would like to dive deeper...
Strategic Plan: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Loyalty programs that attempt to implement a cookie-cutter strategy and ignore customer insights typically struggle and usually lack meaningful results. Organizations seeking to build a program that...
Leverage Social Data To Elevate Customer Intelligence
Social media's prevalence across the Web gives consumers and brands a new way to connect online. But while most businesses know the importance of social media, most are missing opportunities by not...
Tools And Technology: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
With ballooning (big) data sources, a need to mine more valuable nuggets from this data, pressure to deliver insights more frequently, and stakeholders that you need to "wow" with deliverables,...
Organization: The Personal Identity Management Playbook
In anticipation of the increasing adoption of personal identity management (PIDM) tools and services, customer intelligence (CI) leaders will be held increasingly accountable for their organizations'...

Organization: The Cross-Channel Campaign Management Playbook
Customers, empowered by always connected digital devices, can engage with brands at any time, from any place, and at any point within the customer life cycle. To respond with relevance in real time,...