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Report:A Market Researcher's Introduction To The Future Of Online Customer Experience

The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...

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Report:Digital Customer Experience Trends To Watch, 2013

Landscape: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

Digital touchpoints support an increasingly large percentage of the overall customer experience. 2012 saw the emergence of several important digital customer experience trends that will gain momentum...

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Report:Executive Q&A: Six Things You Need To Know About Apps

The now familiar refrain "There's an app for that!" captures the resurgence of interest in apps thanks to the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets. But apps — lightweight networked...

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Report:B2B Case Study: EMC Puts The Voice Of The Customer At The Center Of Its Business

In 2004, EMC embarked on a major initiative to become more proactive and holistic in its approach to customer experience. The voice of the customer played a key role in the transformation. EMC's...

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Report:Next In Tech: Indoor Positioning

Indoor Venues Are The Next Frontier For Location-Based Services

Location is a cornerstone of mobile experiences and enables some of the most widely used mobile apps, such as Foursquare and Yelp. Location has also become a new battleground as Apple, Google, and...

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Report:Mobile And Social Gain Ground In Wellness And Disease Management

Consumers Report On Program Availability, Usage, And Relevance

Forrester surveyed US online nonelderly commercially insured consumers to find out how open they are to using health management programs offered by their health plan or employer and in which channels...

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Report:Personas Require Regular Updates

Ensure Personas Accurately Reflect Customers' New Behaviors And Technologies

Personas are ideal tools to guide the design of products, channels, and messaging, but companies are concerned that they fail to keep track of evolving behaviors. Although customers' psychographics...

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Report:Lessons Learned From 1,500 Website User Experience Reviews

Since 1999, Forrester has used its Website User Experience Review methodology to evaluate the user experience of 1,500 websites spanning business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B)...

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Report:Giffgaff Manages Its Community To Deliver A Great Customer Experience

Social Media Management Gives Control To Members And Builds The Brand

Giffgaff, a low-cost mobile virtual network operator, uses an online community for customer support, sales and marketing, as well as product development functions. To ensure a positive customer...

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Report:Health Plan Customer Experience Professionals' Introduction To Making Proactive Chat Work

Health plan customer experience professionals are tasked with reducing administrative costs (principally by diverting calls from the call center), while driving customer satisfaction scores up. This...

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Report:How Customer Experience Professionals Can Use The Splinternet Engagement Index

The Splinternet Engagement Index

This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes content relevant to customer experience professionals. Here's why: Firms deliver experiences across an increasing array of...

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Report:How B2B Firms Improve Customer And Partner Experience

Business-to-business (B2B) firms have largely ignored customer experience — and it shows. Three separate studies that Forrester Research conducted over the past year indicate that B2B customers...

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Report:Customer Experience In The Post-PC Era

The rapid consumer adoption of mobile devices, new interfaces, and the changing behaviors they encourage have fundamentally changed how customers engage with companies. Gone are the days when...

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Report:Case Study: Pizza Pizza Cooks Up A Successful Mobile App

One of Canada's largest pizza chains wanted to be the first to market with a mobile experience that offered greater convenience to its customers. The company partnered with mobile agency Plastic...

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Report:Websites That Don't Support Customers Waste Millions

Business Case: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "Web Sites That Don't Support Customers' Goals Waste Millions" originally published on February 17, 2010. To understand the effect of poor website usability, Forrester...

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Report:The Future Of Mobile Experiences Is Context

Customer Experience Professionals Must Develop Mobile Paradigms

Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. On mobile phones, this means services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. Context — the...

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Report:Executive Q&A: Customer Experience Measurement

To measure customer experience (CX), firms need a framework that tells them not only how good their customers' experiences are but also how to improve them and what benefits to expect from doing so....

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Report:Key Considerations For Designing User Experiences On The iPad

Tailor Apps For The iPad's Unique Form Factor And User Behaviors

The iPad's popularity has caused customer experience professionals to take a hard look at providing relevant experiences for yet another device. Because of the iPad's unique form factor and use...

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Report:How Consumers Research, Buy, And Get Service, 2011

Forrester asked consumers about the channels they use when researching, buying, and getting customer service. In-store experiences were the most popular and the most satisfying across activities,...

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