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Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2011: Merchandising, Headcount, And Global Strategies

Benchmarks: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

This is the second of two reports that detail the findings from "The State Of Retailing Online, 2011," a Shop.org research survey conducted by Forrester Research. Specific topics covered in this...

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Report:European Online Retail: Five Trends To Watch In 2013

European eBusiness Executives Must Embrace A Multi-Touchpoint Reality

European retail eBusiness executives face a time of unprecedented change. The range of touchpoints that customers use to discover, explore, buy, and re-engage with brands is growing by the day. New...

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Report:Trends 2013: US Retail eBusiness

As US online retail continues to grow and capture shopper wallet share, online retail executives must determine the best areas on which to focus their limited resources, particularly given the number...

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Report:2013 US Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

Forrester Evaluates The Four Largest Banks' Retail Mobile Offerings

With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they need to keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail...

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Report:Optimize Performance For Global eCommerce

Nothing Kills An Online Sale Quicker Than A Sluggish Site

Global is all the rage: eBusiness teams are feverishly building new international initiatives in the search for lucrative foreign customers and their wallets. Unfortunately the Internet was not...

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Report:2013 Global Mobile Banking Functionality Rankings

Benchmarks: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

We used our Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark methodology to evaluate the retail mobile banking offerings of 15 retail banks in in North America, Western Europe, and Australia across more than...

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Report:Trends 2013: Staffing And Hiring For eBusiness

Our Annual Benchmark Of eBusiness Team Sizes And Job Functions

In our annual organizational and staffing survey of eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, we find yet again that although eBusiness team sizes are growing, eBusiness professionals feel that...

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Report:Must-Have eCommerce Features

Road Map: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

Companies often struggle with how to prioritize the countless issues that populate eCommerce to-do lists. This chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook is a prescriptive look at the industry...

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Report:The State Of Retailing Online 2013: Key Metrics And Initiatives

eCommerce continues to grow at a rapid pace; on average, the retailers surveyed for Forrester and Shop.org's annual The State of Retailing Online study experienced 28% growth in sales in 2012 over...

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Report:2012 US Bank Secure Website Rankings

Citi Moves To The Top With Added Functionality And A New Look

Digital banking teams want to know where they stack up against competitors when it comes to their secure websites and other digital features — everything from mobile functionality to customer...

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Report:How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services

A Technographics® Data Essentials Report

Discovery is the first phase of the customer life cycle — it's the crucial time when consumers first find out about new brands, products, and services. If the "Discover" phase is successful,...

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Report:Building A Pervasive Corporate Mobile Competency

Organization: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

Mobile strategy has evolved since 2010. Then, a mobile strategy equated to a mobile services road map and technology platform choices. An individual or small team could both create a strategy and...

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Report:Best Practices Case Study: B2B Ratings And Reviews

Processes: The B2B eCommerce Playbook

As B2B organizations embark on an eCommerce path, there are many features, functions, and interfaces from which to choose to maximize their business opportunity. Separating the wheat from the chaff...

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Report:2012 Canadian Bank Secure Website Rankings

Firms Continue To Enhance Core Functionality But Lack New Digital Banking Features

This report details how the secure websites of the six largest retail banks in Canada stack up against each other across six categories and 66 individual criteria measuring the banks' online...

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Report:The State Of Mobile Insurance In 2013

Landscape: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook

Insurance companies are rolling out a widening range of mobile insurance functionality for both consumers and agents. While there's substantial consumer interest in mobile insurance, actual use is...

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Report:The Luxury Retailer's Guide To Agile Commerce

A new breed of luxury goods online shopper has arrived that is young, tech-savvy, Internet-aware, mobile-enabled, and embracing tablets fast. This new breed of global consumer is keen to find fresh...

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Report:Mobile Habits Of The Retail Shopper In China

How Mobile Influences Sales In The World's Largest Mobile Phone Market

China, the world's largest mobile phone market, boasts more subscribers than the US by a wide margin, with more than 1 billion mobile subscribers, 202 million of which are 3G subscribers. eBusiness...

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Report:Understand Communication Channel Needs To Craft Your Customer Service Strategy

Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

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Report:The Global eCommerce Opportunity

Landscape: The eCommerce Globalization Playbook

Gone are the days when most brands offered just one or two international sites: Today, a global eCommerce footprint is the end goal. To reach that goal, companies are taking a strategic look at the...

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Report:Managing The Cross-Touchpoint Customer Journey

Processes: The Agile Commerce Playbook

Today's consumer engages through a variety of touchpoints, yet many brands struggle to deliver cross-touchpoint experiences. Too many firms focus on each touchpoint in isolation and fail to enable...

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Report:Best Practices In Mobile Banking

Processes: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook

The critical question for many digital banking teams after they build mobile banking is how to encourage customer adoption and use. Forrester spoke to eBusiness executives at banks about the current...

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Report:2013 Mobile Wealth Management Functionality Benchmark

E-Trade And Fidelity Lead The Pack

With investor expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital wealth management teams know they need to improve their portfolios of mobile sites and apps. Forrester evaluated the...

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Report:Case Study: SunTrust Reboots Its Digital Platform

Responsive Web Design And Agile Development Prove A Winning Formula

With mobile and tablet usage now mainstream, Forrester believes that eBusiness teams must find time-to-market and cost efficiencies in their digital development processes. In previous research we...

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Report:Best Practices In Digital Money Management

Processes: The Digital Money Management Playbook

The critical question for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals who have launched, or are about to launch, digital money management is how to drive customer adoption and use. To help,...

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Report:eBusiness Teams' Two Paths To Cross-Channel Measurement Success

In The Long Term, Cross-Channel Measurement Is An Enterprisewide Concern, But In The Near Term, eBusiness Must Act Now

eBusiness and channel strategy professionals have a lot on their plates these days: Consumers are moving across channels for sales and service, spanning digital touchpoints like Twitter and public...

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