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Report:Customer Intelligence Needs A New Breed Of Marketing Scientist

Organization: The Customer Analytics Playbook

A mature customer intelligence (CI) function needs optimized data processes, cutting-edge technologies, and the right analytics talent. Analysts add value to CI with their data-mining and...

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Report:Evolve Your Approach To Acquisition And Retention

Processes: The Customer Analytics Playbook

Marketers continue to emphasize acquisition and are willing to take the risk of acquiring customers with low long-term profitability. While retention efforts typically enjoy the spotlight in an...

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Report:CI Professionals: Plan For The Future Of Cross-Channel Marketing

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...

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Report:Building Data Stewardship Is A New Customer Intelligence Imperative

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'...

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Report:Ten Steps To Successful Social Intelligence Measurement

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...

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Report:Determine The Best Attribution Provider Based On Long-Term Measurement Needs

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...

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Report:Deciphering A Fragmented Customer Analytics Ecosystem

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...

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Report:Base Your Plan For Intelligent Loyalty On Maturity

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...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Customer Engagement Agencies, Q4 2012

How 13 Vendors Stack Up In An Emerging Market

In Forrester's 19-criteria evaluation of emerging customer engagement agencies (CEAs), we found that only OgilvyOne Worldwide has made a significant-enough shift in this segment of its business to be...

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Report:TechRadar™ For Customer Intelligence Professionals: Customer Loyalty Programs, Q1 2013

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...

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Report:The Consumerization Of Customer Analytics

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...

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Report:Move Beyond Campaigns To Tap Hidden Customer Potential

Cross-channel campaign management (CCCM) tools are the heart of the enterprise marketing platform, yet campaigns are too rigid and too rooted in batch-based techniques to allow firms to achieve...

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Report:Customer Analytics Turns Data Into Intelligence

Executive Overview: The Customer Analytics Playbook

A step change in the availability of customer data is providing firms with their biggest opportunity yet to understand their customers. However customer analytics practitioners have been shaken from...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Online Testing Platforms, Q1 2013

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...

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Report:The Online Marketing Suite Evolves

In the age of the customer, the requirements for the online marketing suite have evolved and become even more acute. Customer expectations are greater than ever, and business demands more marketing...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Online Testing Platforms, Q1 '13

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Report:How Real-Time Analytics Enables Digital Intelligence

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...

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Playbook:The Customer Loyalty Playbook

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...

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Report:Evaluate And Evolve Your Loyalty Program's Intelligence Quotient

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...

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Report:How Analytics Drives Customer Life-Cycle Management

Vision: The Customer Analytics Playbook

With the growing importance of customer intelligence (CI) in organizations, the role of analytics to extract insight and embed it back into organizational processes is at the forefront of business...

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Report:Case Study: SCENE Uses Customer Insights To Deliver Value To Loyalty Customers

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...

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Report:Rethink Existing Approaches To Embed Cross-Channel Attribution

Processes: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

Establishing a cross-channel attribution measurement framework requires a tremendous amount of due diligence, planning, and process across the organization. In this report of the cross-channel...

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Report:Five Ways To Mobilize Your Loyalty Program In 2013

Mobile Channels Offer Rich Opportunities For Rewards And Engagement

Mobile continues to grow in importance for reaching and engaging empowered consumers and loyalty program members. From a data perspective, it opens up new streams of information that provide better...

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Report:Are You Ready For Cross-Channel Attribution?

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...

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Report:Prepare For A World Of Consumer-Managed Data

Executive Overview: The Personal Identity Management Playbook

Amid the talk of big data and personal clouds, another important trend is emerging: Consumers are increasingly aware of the data they create as they move about the Web and engage with businesses and...

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