Outsourcing

While there are many types of outsourcing, in general it refers to contracting a business process or function previously performed in-house to an outside entity. Research coverage includes application outsourcing, data center outsourcing, and hosting and managed services.

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  • Customer Experience Management
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  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:An Overview Of Online Consumers In Argentina

    Latin American Consumer Technographics®

    Latin America is on the priority list of many global companies. This is not surprising given the meteoric rise of social networks like Facebook and Twitter and Latin Americans' willingness to connect...

    • Downloads: 37
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Customer Experience In The Post-PC Era

    The rapid consumer adoption of mobile devices, new interfaces, and the changing behaviors they encourage have fundamentally changed how customers engage with companies. Gone are the days when...

    • Downloads: 566
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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Survey:North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 1), Q2 2012 (US, Canada)

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in April and May 2012 of 58,068 US and 5,635 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on randomly chosen samples of these sizes (N = 58,068...

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Charts & Figures:Forecast: Chinese Technology Adoption, 2012 To 2016

      Asia Pacific Consumer Technographics®

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark 2012, US

      North American Consumer Technographics®

      This report is a graphical analysis of Forrester's North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 1), Q2 2012 (US, Canada). It provides a generational overview of US consumers'...

      • Downloads: 332
      • Comments: 3
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Emerging Markets Overview: Brazil

      A Global Consumer Technographics® Report

      By far the largest and most populated country in South America, Brazil has a presence on the world stage that continues to win global attention and inspire awe with as much flair as Adriana Lima...

      • Downloads: 19
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Emerging Touchpoints Require A Marketing Mind Shift

      Vision: The Emerging Touchpoints For Marketing Playbook

      Emerging technologies — from smart objects and wearables to behind-the-scenes taxonomy tools — radically change how your customers think, act, and relate to others. Marketers who try to...

      • Downloads: 449
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    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Survey:Latin American Technographics® Online Survey, Q4 2011 (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina)

      Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2011 of 5,998 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban cities/states of Mexico and Brazil and top urban cities/provinces of Argentina. In...

      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Report:Google, Amazon, Apple, And Facebook: What eBusiness Executives Need To Know For 2012

        As four of the largest and arguably most currently influential technology companies — Google, Amazon.com, Apple, and Facebook — continue to exhibit ambitious tendencies to capture...

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      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Survey:Latin American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012 (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico)

        Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July and August 2012 of 6,008 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban areas/provinces of Argentina and top urban areas/states of Brazil and Mexico. In...

        • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

          Report:The Future Of Mobile eBusiness Is Context

          Vision: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

          Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. In mobile, this translates to services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. The ability to...

          • Downloads: 1645
        • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

          Survey:Hispanic Technographics® Online Survey, Q4 2011 (US)

          Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2011 of 4,030 US Hispanic individuals ages 18 to 75. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,030), there is 95%...

          • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

            Survey:Asia Pacific Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012 (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea)

            Forrester Research conducted an online survey in May 2012 of 7,047 consumers ages 18 and older in South Korea, Australia, Japan, metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou,...

            • 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 CIO Professionals

              Report:CIO: The Future Of Mobile Is Context

              Building A Foundation To Enable Next-Generation Mobile Services

              CIOs that Forrester interviewed understand the potential of context and are building the foundational infrastructure needed to support the use of context across consumer touchpoints — not just...

              • Downloads: 767
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            • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

              Report:A Systematic Approach To Mobile Strategy

              Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

              Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...

              • Downloads: 4236
            • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

              Report:The Top Five Trends In Digital Wealth Management For 2012

              Mobile, Social, Video, Advice, And Usability Will Change Retail Investing

              Rocketing adoption — by financial advisors and agents as well as investors — is driving five digital trends that will change the wealth management industry. Smart eBusiness managers will...

              • Downloads: 991
              • Comments: 1
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            • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

              Report:Getting Mobile Right With Mobility POST

              A Methodical Approach To Building Your Mobile Phone, Tablet, And Wearables Strategies

              Back in 2009, Forrester created the first version of mobile POST — a methodology to help our clients create mobile strategies that align well with the mobile sophistication of their customer...

              • Downloads: 231
            • For CIO Professionals

              Report:Smart Products Will Require A Hybrid CTO/CIO Skill Set

              The Burgeoning Set Of Connected Offerings Will Require New Skills

              The era of the standalone product is over. More and more offerings are becoming intelligent, connected, and thus able to provide more engaging experiences for customers in business or consumer...

              • Downloads: 252
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            • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

              Report:US Online Hispanics: A Demographic Overview

              North American Technographics®

              This demographic overview highlights the unique behaviors and attitudes that characterize US online Hispanics compared with their non-Hispanic peers. US online Hispanics lead the way in mobile device...

              • Downloads: 70
            • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

              Report:Understanding The Changing Needs Of Online Consumers In Latin America

              Latin American Consumer Technographics®

              Over the past couple of years, Latin America has risen on many global companies' priority lists of new markets to focus on and understand. Given the meteoric rise of social networks like orkut and...

              • Downloads: 107
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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...

              • Downloads: 2276
              • Comments: 2
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            • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

              Report:Website Functionality Benchmark: Australian Consumer Electronics Retailers

              Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Websites Of Five Australian Consumer Electronics Retailers

              Consumer electronics retailers in Australia face many challenges, but online retail is booming despite the relatively modest feature set provided by most Australian sites. To dig deeper, Forrester...

              • Downloads: 160
            • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

              Survey:North American Technographics® Telecom And Devices Online Benchmark Recontact Survey, Q3 2012 (US)

              Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 4,731 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,731), there is 95% confidence that...

              • 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...

                • Downloads: 1429
                • Comments: 7
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              • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

                Report:Design Mobile Apps From The Outside In

                Policy And Procedures: The Mobile App Development Playbook

                This report outlines best practices in mobile app design that application development & delivery professionals can use to design great mobile apps. Customer expectations for mobile apps have never...

                • Downloads: 3132
               
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