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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.
We interviewed measurement specialists at leading companies and interactive agencies to determine how they select the right Web site performance metrics. Through our analysis of their responses, we...
When the economy is in trouble, most executives start looking for ways to cut costs from their budgets. Customer experience professionals should take advantage of this situation and promote improving...
To help customer experience professionals estimate how far their Web site metrics are likely to move as a result of improvements in the customer experience, we aggregated data on the impact of more...
Companies are waking up to the importance of the online customer experience. Unfortunately, a lack of funding makes it difficult for many customer experience professionals to improve their company's...
To help customer experience professionals deliver compelling business cases, Forrester has created the Business Case Review Checklist For Customer Experience Professionals. This checklist should be...
Web site design case studies, articles, and consulting projects provide irrefutable evidence that companies that fix known usability problems — like those in Forrester's Web Site Review...
To understand their 2008 priorities, Forrester surveyed customer-experience decision-makers at large North American firms. Most plan to boost spending on customer experience in 2008, with measurement...
Who controls the checkbook for Web site improvements, and what those people think about when making funding decisions? To find out, we asked practitioners at leading firms. Our analysis of their...
To be successful, chief customer experience officers (CC/EOs) need a coalition of top executives who take an active role in transforming the organization. While most executives support the idea of...
More Firms Plan To Grow The Customer Experience Budget Than Cut It
A recent survey of Forrester's Customer Experience Peer Research Panel shows that the number of firms looking to spend more on customer experience in 2010 is up, while the number of firms that plan...
When seeking budget to improve the Web site customer experience, the most effective business cases appeal to executives on three levels: authority, logic, and emotion. To gauge how well firms are...
Firms Will Grow Customer Experience Spending Despite Tough Economic Times
A recent survey of Forrester's Customer Experience Peer Research Panel shows that while most firms will keep spending flat, many still plan to grow spending in key budget categories like Web design,...
The economic forecast for the 2010 budget cycle: tense. As Web customer experience professionals develop their budget requests for next year, they should take care to avoid five common but costly...