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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....

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...

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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 understand the impact of required registration on conversion rates, Forrester asked US online shoppers what they did last time they were required to register before making a purchase online. The...
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...
Six Principles For Maximizing The Value Of Customer Reviews
Online customer reviews are a trusted source of product information for consumers — and therefore a potentially valuable sales asset. But many sites do not implement these tools effectively. To...