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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Leveraging Outsourcing Services To Accelerate IT Maturation

Emerging Asia Steps Up

In terms of IT maturity, companies in emerging Asia — that is, Asia Pacific excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand — lag behind their Western counterparts. Up to now, the lack of...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Mobile Commerce Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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Includes mobile buyers as well as revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, and daily deals, with average spend per mobile buyer. Includes data from 2010 plus a five-year forecast.

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Best And Worst Of Website Experience, 2011

Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:ForecastView — An Overview Of Our Global Forecasts

Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:EU Mobile Commerce Forecast, 2012 To 2017

Mobile eCommerce revenues across Europe will rise from €1.7 billion in 2011 to €19.2 billion in 2017, reaching 6.8% of total web sales. Simple, easy to merchandise categories such as...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Case Study: Managing Virtual Server Capacity

For one of the travel industry leaders and one of the largest data center operators in Europe, virtualization appeared to be the ideal solution for lowering infrastructure management costs and...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience

Performance Management: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report is an update to "How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience Across The Enterprise" originally published on January 22, 2010. Chief customer experience officers (CC/EOs) need a set of...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2012

Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Online Customer Service Functionality Benchmark: US Airlines

The Best And Worst Of Online Customer Service Among The Top Four US Airlines

Forrester evaluated the online customer service offerings of the four largest US airlines: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and American Airlines. Our analysis uncovered a few...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:How Does Social Media Contribute To Customer Experience? Let Us Count The Ways

It's Time To Document Best Practices For Social Media And Customer Experience

Social media already plays a role at each step of customers' complex journeys to discover, evaluate, buy, access, use, and get support for products and services. Customer experience professionals...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:How Companies Improved Their CXi Scores, 2012

Forrester spoke to leaders at brands whose Customer Experience Index (CXi) scores went up appreciably in 2012. Our goal was to understand what drove those customer experience improvements. The...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Create A People-Focused HRM Business Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Human Resource Management Playbook

Companies need a human resource management (HRM) strategy that focuses on finding and developing successful employees who meet company goals and supporting them not only with a traditional...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement: An Executive Summary

This report summarizes the 28-page Forrester report "Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement." By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. However,...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Great Mobile Experiences Are Built On Systems Of Engagement

Vision: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

By 2014, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers, including your employees and partners and customers. However, mobile is not simply another device for IT...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Search Engine Marketing Forecast, 2013 To 2018 (Western Europe)

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Spending on paid search and search engine optimization (SEO) for each of the 17 Western European countries. Segments paid search spending by 11 different verticals. Includes historical...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Mobile Commerce Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (EU-7)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

Includes mobile commerce buyers and revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, daily deals, and gaming app downloads. Country level detail for France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012

Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report outlines the business case for customer experience professionals seeking to discover the business benefits of improving customer experience in an experience-driven organization. Years of...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Online Travel Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (EU-7)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

Total and online travel spending for unmanaged business and leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, rail, hotel, and car hire. Includes regional and individual country data for...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Compare Your Campaigns To 70 Others

Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook

This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Customer Loyalty Ecosystem

Tools And Technology: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Customer loyalty is top of mind for most marketers, but with so many vendors claiming to drive explicit or implicit loyalty, it's often difficult to identify a solution that best fits marketers'...

• Downloads: 1985

For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Build Your Mobile Engagement Strategy

Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Best And Worst Of Paid Search In 2012

Benchmarks: The Search Marketing Playbook

Forrester applied an adjusted version of its search marketing review methodology to 300 paid search ads from the retail, travel, consumer packaged goods (CPG), media and entertainment, financial...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Case Study: Emirates Uses Customer Journey Maps To Keep The Brand On Course

Journey Mapping Enables A Diverse Global Airline To Lift Quality Of Service While Growing Rapidly

Emirates is one of the world's fastest-growing airlines and positions itself as a lifestyle brand, setting high expectations for service quality in a competitive market. As Emirates expanded rapidly,...

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