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Megan serves Customer Experience Professionals. She is a leading expert on customer experience management, maturity, benchmarking, governance, and ROI. She is the creator of Forrester's Customer Experience Maturity Framework and manages The Customer Experience Index, Forrester's annual benchmark of customer experience quality across more than 150 large US firms.
As an accomplished public speaker, Megan is a frequent presenter at industry events such as Forrester's Customer Experience Forum and the NetPromoter Conference. She has been quoted in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Internet Retailer, and B2B Magazine.
Before joining Forrester, Megan spent more than six years defining online customer experiences for B2C and B2B websites at AT&T. That work included eCommerce, online customer service, and online marketing sites. Prior to that she spent time at both Intel and IBM as a software engineer.
Megan holds a master's degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where she specialized in user and business requirements. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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....

Credit Card Companies And Wireless Service Providers Benefit From Higher Net Promoter Scores Through Better Customer Experience
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a wildly popular tool for assessing customers' likelihood to recommend a company's product or service. As valuable as NPS can be, by itself, the "one number you need to...
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...

Investments in customer experience improvements are likely to drive a higher Net Promoter Score (NPS). Forrester tested the strength of the correlation between customer experience quality — as...
Technical And Organizational Silos Hinder Cross-Channel Tracking
Forrester recently surveyed decision-makers at 41 companies and found that their primary challenges when it comes to customer experience measurement relate to tracking experiences across channels....
Go Beyond Measurement To Modeling And Diagnosis
Customer satisfaction surveys are popular, but overall satisfaction scores don't produce actionable insights. Firms need detailed data on specific factors that influence visitors' overall perception...
Web analytics data is one of the few pieces of customer data that direct marketers have not yet integrated into their customer databases. This is a missed opportunity for most direct marketers: Web...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
Omniture delivers a powerful Web analytics tool that can be tailored to meet almost any need, coupled with an experienced professional services team and the industry's most robust education program....
Unica entered the Web analytics market with its purchase of Sane Solutions in March 2006. The move is part of the company's plan to build an Online Marketing Management platform as a complement to...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
ClickTracks is a small Web analytics vendor that offers basic reporting, strong data visualizations, and some analysis tools — especially visitor segmentation — at a low price. The...
Buyers Must Choose The Level Of Power And Complexity That's Right For Them
Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of eight top Web analytics products against 127 criteria. Coremetrics came out as a Leader, with a product suite that balances power, usability, and...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
Coremetrics is once again a Leader in our evaluation of the Web analytics market, with a solid reporting and analysis platform that strikes the right balance of usability and flexibility. The vendor...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
Visual Site's HBX Analytics platform just barely missed the Leader designation in our evaluation of top Web analytics platforms. Why? Because it offers less flexibility than larger platforms like...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q3 2007
Google Analytics released version 2 of its product in May of this year. The tool has a simplified interface that's based on extensive user research and provides context and visualizations that make...
WebTrends offers a robust analytics platform that is highly customizable and a good fit for large enterprises that have the resources to understand and use the technology to its full potential. As...
Visual Site and the underlying Platform 5 technology provide the most powerful data architecture and real-time analysis tools in the industry. The product lacks one critical element for the Web...