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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:iPhone 4S Cements Apple's Product Strategy Leadership Position

Apple's Cross-Device Product Strategy Drives Product Differentiation And Customer Loyalty

Let's face it: Many observers, anticipating a redesign and a raft of hardware innovations, reacted with disappointment to Apple's iPhone 4S unveiling. Does it matter? No. Why? Because Apple launched...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Emerging Engagement Channel Model

Top Performers' Channel Investments Span The Customer Tech Adoption Life Cycle

Tech vendors have historically treated channels as "outsourced sales" — or have, at least, invested that way. But a handful of vendors have departed from this model, choosing instead to invest...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Breaking Down The Financial Barriers To Marketing Innovation

CMOs continue to fall short in marketing innovation. Most marketers experiment instead, putting the lion's share of their investment into testing one P of the marketing mix: promotion. While new...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Asset-Based IT Services Shift Service Vendors' Operating Models

Four Crucial Steps To Succeed With Asset-Based IT Services Offerings

Forrrester has previously described why the move to software asset-based offerings has been slow to date and what steps service vendors are increasingly taking in order to successfully grow their...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Design Your B2B Community For Maximum Engagement

Executive Overview: The B2B Online Community Playbook

This playbook provides you with a strategy framework, road map, and the tools to establish a healthy and active online B2B community that delivers value to prospects, customers, and peers at each...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Organizing For eBusiness — A Financial Services Perspective

The Dual Nature Of eBusiness Requires A Multidimensional Organizational Structure

Creating the optimal eBusiness organizational structure is one of the biggest challenges confronting eBusiness executives at financial services firms today. As both a channel and an enterprise...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Innovation In Health Insurance Customer Experience

How Leading Health Insurers Drive Change Inside And Outside Of Their Walls

The health insurance industry faces discontent from both its consumer and provider customers. With new regulations and an elevated national discourse on health reform, the time for change is now. But...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Globally Competitive Markets Demand Businesses Collaborate Beyond The Firewall

For businesses to remain competitive, they must enable their workers to draw ideas and labor from parties both inside and outside of the company. Employees charged with developing and marketing...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Forrester's Standards Guide For Sales-Ready Competitive Battle Cards

To accelerate the work of sales enablement professionals in overhauling sales battle cards, Forrester organized a group of experienced practitioners who helped create Forrester’s battle card...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:B2B Sales And Marketing Alignment Starts With The Customer

Use The Customer Buying Cycle To Align The Go-To-Market Strategy

Despite the best intentions, the conventional thinking of marketing and sales leaders around how to align these two teams is flawed, as it addresses the symptoms rather than the cause of the chasm....

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Case Study: Giffgaff Uses Co-Creation To Build A Differentiated Mobile Service Business

An Empowered Report

Just a few years ago, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) were a dime a dozen. Big companies like Disney and ESPN tried — yet failed — to create a mobile experience differentiated...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Servicing The Multichannel Buyer In Europe

Consumers Have Embraced All Touchpoints, And So Should eBusiness Professionals

Today, European consumers face a wide range of touchpoints and have adopted a complex purchasing journey. These consumers use more than one channel to research and buy a product, and they are...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:2013 Planning Brief: Listen To Customers, Engage With Influencers

How To Build A B2B Influencer Engagement Initiative

As you plan your 2013 social marketing initiatives, one area for you to focus on is influencer identification and engagement. B2B social marketers have begun to move beyond reactive responses to...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:How Do You Scale Strategic Account Programs?

Optimize Wallet Share By Industrializing The Execution Of Strategic Account Plans

In the current economic climate, it has become important for vendors with large portfolios to shift their focus from gaining market share to gaining more wallet share from targeted, existing...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Effective Channel Mapping Will Optimize Your Partner Portfolio Performance

Introducing Forrester's Partner Profile Modeling Method For Channel Marketers

In Forrester's Q4 2009 North American B2B Marketing Organizations Online Survey, 19% of tech vendors report that spending on channel enablement and management will increase in 2010. Even so, only...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How To Prepare For Mobile Total Product Experiences

Designing For Mobile In The Era Of Experience

Mobile is the most transformational technology since the Internet. The phone has evolved from a single-purpose handset offering telephony services over copper wires to a wireless handheld computer...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:How To Build A Mobile Web Site

Choosing An Approach To Meet Your Objectives Cost-Effectively

The browser-based mobile Web experience is more important than ever, with dramatic growth in the usage of the mobile Internet — especially from smartphones — in the past 24 months. In...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Who And How Of Influencing Customers' BT Decisions

Knowing Which Generators Customers Use For Information Is Paramount

Tech vendors' returns on marketing messaging are shaped as much by where it's said and who says it as by what is said. Indeed, social media grants "others," including customers and partners,...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Case Study: How Marks And Spencer Uses Online Video To Boost eCommerce

Online video is a success story. Next to the usage of social networking sites, watching online videos is one of the most used social media tools. Many companies have wondered how they can tap into...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Getting Product Ideas Past Stage One

Why The Validation Process Is Critical To Product Strategy Success

"Ideate" is the first stage in the product development cycle; it's a time when product strategists gather ideas for new and innovative products and services. Before moving on to subsequent phases,...

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For Analyst Relations Professionals

Report:Unleash Maximum Business Value From Industry Analyst Relations

Executive Overview: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook

Industry analyst relations (AR) is a profession. Done well, it delivers high business value through unique resources — industry analysts. But vendors understand its value poorly and resource it...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Beyond Tablets: The Next Five Computing Form Factors To Watch

Product Strategists Should Stay Ahead Of Disruption With Innovation Now

Tablets have been the "it" product of 2010 and 2011. But they're not the final form factor. It's time for product strategists to anticipate what's coming next. We've identified five form factors as...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:Sales Coaching Defined

Driving Sales Team Behavior Change With Tailored Coaching Conversations

The businesspeople and IT professionals responsible for solving problems at their companies expect vendor salespeople to engage with a clear understanding of who they are, what they do, and the...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Emphasize Flexibility In Telecom And Mobility Services Contract Negotiations To Reduce Risk

Processes: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

This report is an update to "Emphasize Flexibility In Communications Service Contract Negotiations To Reduce Risk," originally published on October 9, 2012. This updated report outlines Forrester's...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Mobile Payments Enter A Disruptive Phase

The pace of innovation in mobile payments is accelerating. 2011 is finally the year when Near Field Communication (NFC) will reach the hands of millions of consumers, while initiatives in the digital...

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