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After evaluating two categories of enterprise feedback management (EFM) vendors in Q3 2011, Forrester will no longer cover the vendor market landscape in the same way. This report explains why the...
Processes: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
Digital disruption has created an environment in which customer and competitive change are happening at much faster rates, leading stakeholders to increase their demands for more innovative, agile,...

Performance Management: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Social media — with its seemingly nebulous returns, such as "engagement" and "advocacy" — often baffles customer intelligence (CI) professionals trying to measure and optimize their...


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,...

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 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,...
Business Case: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Loyalty technologies play a central role in the execution and differentiation of customer loyalty programs and, more specifically, in driving consumer participation in a program across channels...

Assessment: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook
Cross-channel attribution is a complex, advanced measurement approach, allowing marketers to uncover the true impact of their marketing campaigns across channels. To get it right, organizations must...
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...
Landscape: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Consumers join programs of brands they like, but they limit their participation to only a few programs and are motivated by the desire to seek out discounts. Since 2008, consumer attitudes toward...
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...
Performance Management: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
There's an old management adage that says "you can't manage what you can't measure." The key question, though, is what should you measure? Market insights professionals that focus on measuring the...
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...
Enable Customer Obsession With Cross-Channel Campaign Management
Once relegated to the province of direct mail teams and analysts, customer data and marketing technology are now essential to every marketing function, from strategy to creative development to...
Cross-Channel Attribution Puts The Science In Marketing Measurement
Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...
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...
Landscape: The Customer Analytics Playbook
The analytics conversation is now front and center for marketers, thanks to the real estate that big data enjoys in mainstream media. As a result of this buzz, customer analytics practitioners who...
How Seven Vendors Are Addressing The Evolution Of Online Testing
In Forrester's 53-criteria evaluation of online testing platform vendors, we identified the seven most significant providers — Adobe, Autonomy, Maxymiser, Monetate, Optimizely, SiteSpect, and...
Real-Time Analysis Provides Visibility Into Critical Situations
Most organizations have invested in the tools and skills to track website activity, evaluate digital marketing campaigns, and conduct in-depth analysis of digital channels. With the increasing...

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...
Assessment: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Successful intelligence-driven loyalty involves five major components: strategy, data, customer intelligence, offer management, and measurement. This report outlines Forrester's assessment process...
