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Paul serves Customer Experience Professionals who are leading enterprise-wide customer experience efforts. His research focuses on customer experience strategy (B2C and B2B), organizational culture, and customer experience leadership structures including the Chief Customer Officer position. Secondary areas of research include CRM, voice of the customer, and customer experience measurement.
This is Paul’s second stint at Forrester. In between, Paul ran his own consulting organization focused on technology and business strategy, focused mostly on CRM. Paul held previous positions at Accenture, BBN Technologies, and Teach For America.
Paul holds an M.Ed. from Harvard University, where his area of concentration was educational technology and online learning. He also holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University.
Credit Card Companies And Wireless Service Providers Benefit From Higher Net Promoter Scores Through Better Customer Experience
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a wildly popular tool for assessing customers' likelihood to recommend a company's product or service. As valuable as NPS can be, by itself, the "one number you need to...

Partnership With Jellyvision Lab Leads To An Engaging Training Module
One of the challenges that market insights professionals struggle with is the communication of research results across the organization. The Customer Experience and NPS team at Philips was tasked...

How To Make Getting Visitor Feedback A Positive Customer Experience
Web site intercept surveys are a popular tool for finding problems with the online experience. But a poorly designed site intercept survey can hurt more than it helps by providing misleading insights...

Inquiry after reading Forrester's June 21, 2010, "The Four Essentials Of Effective Website Intercept Surveys report." We currently measure on-site satisfaction through a web survey vendor, but we...
Landscape: The CRM Playbook
Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

Process For Market Insights Professionals To Quickly Identify Drivers Of And Solutions To Customer Satisfaction And Sales Issues
Market insights professionals often get confronted with requests for immediate insights when things don't go as planned with customers. This can be something like declining Net Promoter or...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in December 2010 of 5,020 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 5,020), there is 95% confidence...
Since its introduction in 2003, Net Promoter has garnered significant attention as a tool to measure and improve customer loyalty. Many customer experience professionals want to know how — or...
Time To Get Serious About Social Voice Of The Customer
Most consumers have gotten poor service at some point in the past year. Among that group, the vast majority told friends or family about their disappointing experiences. To understand the causes of...
Medallia And MarketTools Lead With Strong Performers Close Behind
In Forrester's 76-criteria evaluation of enterprise feedback management (EFM) satisfaction and loyalty solutions, we found that Medallia and MarketTools led the pack with comprehensive software...
We are compiling a vendor shortlist of both software and SaaS solutions to replace our current survey tool, which HR uses for an annual and bi-monthly company survey. To date, we have been running a...
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....

We currently use the Key Survey tool and internal resources to monitor website satisfaction. This process has been in place since 2006 with little change. We are considering outsourcing this process...
What are the differences in the approaches to enterprise feedback management (EFM) for the customer experience (CX) role versus the market insights (MI) role?
Investments in customer experience improvements are likely to drive a higher Net Promoter Score (NPS). Forrester tested the strength of the correlation between customer experience quality — as...
Measure Expectations As Well As Satisfaction
Although spending on IT may be up a bit from past years, there is by no means any money to waste. CIOs must carefully prioritize initiatives and allocate scarce monetary and human resources to...
The Technology Tool That Will Help Market Insights Professionals Bring The Research Data Streams Within The Organization Together
Companies are in a unique position today: They have an unprecedented ability to collect information about their customers through various channels. However, what has arisen from what one would...
We are interested in learning more about the customer satisfaction measurement tools ForeSee provides. Please answer the following questions: 1) Could you provide an overview of what ForeSee does; 2)...
How do companies measure customers' experience after visiting a retail store? What methods do companies use to identify, contact, and survey customers after they have interacted with staff in a...