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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...

The Payment Methods That Appeal Most And Least To Leisure Travel Bookers
Since 2007, US travelers' usage and interest in alternative payment methods (APMs) for online travel purchases has been slowly, but steadily, increasing. Fifteen percent of US online leisure travel...
Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Call Center Agent Interactions Across 13 Industries
Consumers report low satisfaction for conversations with call center agents. PC manufacturers, TV service providers, and Internet service providers receive the brunt of their ire. The good news? The...

How eBusiness Leaders Should Approach Mobile As A Sales And Service Channel
Across the globe, the mobile channel is growing at a rapid rate. eBusiness and channel strategy leaders at B2B and B2C firms are at the forefront: 94% of eBusiness managers we surveyed are either...
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...

In-flight Wi-Fi has officially arrived, with more than 1,000 jets now equipped with wireless Internet technology. Forrester data reveals that 20% of US online business passengers have used in-flight...
An Empowered Report
Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Chase Card Services (Chase) won a 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award in the B2C Embracing category, and for good reason. These two companies hired a private...
The European Technographics® Retail, Customer Experience, And Travel Online Survey, Q3 2010, surveyed 14,193 respondents in the seven markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain,...
Female Online Travel Bookers Crave Deals, Visual Content, And Ways To Share Their Experiences
In spite of online travel's maturity and massive acceptance, women and men differ in planning and booking trips online. And while men and women spend similar amounts on travel, men are more likely to...
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...
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...
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,...
What A Higher Customer Experience Index Score Can Do For Revenue
To help customer experience professionals prove the business value of a better enterprise customer experience, we built simple models that show how revenue increases when a company's Customer...
Five Pragmatic Practices To Improve EA Value Throughout The M&A Process
A new wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is happening, and contrary to previous M&A periods in which IT was only tactically involved, organizations now draw IT into their plans for cost savings...
Driving A SharePoint-Based Information Workplace Will Challenge C&C Pros
Microsoft SharePoint is poised for broader adoption as an Information Workplace platform. While most use it for content and collaboration (C&C) needs today, the platform's broad, integrated...

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...

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...

The European Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2010, surveyed 25,535 respondents in the eight markets of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is...