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Tool:Low Scorers Complain About Budget; All Struggle With Strategy And Cooperation

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Report:What's The Right Customer Experience Strategy?

Strategic Plan: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

Most companies lack a customer experience strategy. As a result, their leaders struggle with decisions about funding and prioritizing projects meant to improve customer experience at the enterprise...

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Tool:Top-Scoring Companies Report Better Executive Support

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Blog:How To Build A Customer-Centric Culture

Building a customer-centric culture is occupying the minds and activities of a lot of companies that I’m talking with lately. This is great, because culture is the difference between going...

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Blog:Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Roundtable On CX Maturity

“Customer experience (CX) maturity” was the topic of Forrester’s recent chief customer officer (CCO) roundtable meeting. Based on a recent report by Megan Burns called...

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Report:Drive Differentiation With Your Ecosystem

Executive Overview: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

To deliver great customer experiences, firms must align a complex interdependent ecosystem of employees, partners, policies, processes, and technologies. Forrester calls this the "customer experience...

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Blog:Making Customer Experience Relevant Behind The Scenes

“Customer experience is everyone’s business” is a mantra that I often hear from customer experience leaders. Of course, it’s true. The entire purpose of a company as an entity...

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Tool:Top-Scoring Firms Emphasize Interactions Across Channels

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Blog:Differentiating On Customer Experience

Michael Porter famously wrote that companies differentiate themselves by performing a unique set of activities from their competitors' or by performing the same activities differently. Here...

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Report:Innovative Customer Experience Strategies

Strategic Plan: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report is an update to "Innovative Customer Experience Strategies" originally published on August 22, 2011. It outlines the strategic plan for customer experience professionals planning to...

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Report:Conversations With Customer Experience Leaders: Maersk Line's Jesper Engelbrecht Thomsen

In 2009, Maersk Line asked Jesper Engelbrecht Thomsen, vice president of customer service, to take on the role of improving customer experience enterprisewide. Faced with increasing competition and...

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Blog:The Trader Joe’s Experience: Simplicity For A Cost Leader

I came across a recent Fortune article describing the activities behind Trader Joe’s experience, which illustrate well many aspects I talk about for Cost Leaders in my latest customer...

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Blog:Suits On The Floor, Call Center Disconnect, And Boarding Idiots

Most companies have the intention of providing excellent customer experiences. However, most find it difficult to translate those intentions into the cultural fabric of their companies. I like to...

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Tool:Self-Test: Is Your Company Ready For A CCO?

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Report:Three Organizational Models For Chief Customer Officers

Organization: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report outlines common models of organization used by customer experience professionals seeking to act and transform their company into an experience-driven organization. To update our research...

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Blog:The Right Customer Experience Strategy

What is the right customer experience strategy? My new report on customer experience strategy investigates this question. To give it some context, consider customers’ expectations of...

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Tool:Customer Journey Map Effectiveness Assessment

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Blog:The Rise Of The Chief Customer Officer

Over the past five years, Forrester has observed an increase in the number of companies that have a single executive leading customer experience efforts across a business unit or an entire company....

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Report:Adapt Business Process Improvement For Customer Experience

Continuous Improvement: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

Firms that seek to differentiate based on customer experience must transform the way their companies operate. Customer experience professionals have the tools required to guide this transformation,...

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Report:Conversations With Chief Customer Officers: KeyBank's Trina Evans

Trina Evans was appointed as KeyBank's executive vice president (EVP) and director of client experience in April 2010. Forrester interviewed Trina as part of an ongoing series to understand the role...

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Tool:VoC Program Self-Assessment Tool

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Client Inquiry:There Are Three Types Of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) Authority Models

You identify three different types of CCO authority models: advisory, matrixed, and operational. Could you give more detail on the specific types of decisions that the CCO will have the authority to...

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Report:Conversations With Chief Customer Officers: USAA's Wayne Peacock

Wayne Peacock was appointed USAA's executive vice president, member experience, in January 2010. Forrester interviewed Wayne as part of an ongoing series to understand the role of a new type of...

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Report:Customer Experience Trends: Leaders At FedEx, Time Warner Cable, And USAA Weigh In

A Panel Discussion At The 2010 Customer Experience Forum

Highlights of the Trends In Customer Experience panel at Forrester's Customer Experience Forum 2010 included a debate about the need for a chief customer officer (CCO), a prediction that "Web sites...

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Report:Beyond CRM: Manage Customer Experiences

Adopt An Outside-In Approach To Shift The CRM Mindset

Well-intentioned customer relationship management (CRM) efforts that focus on internal processes and objectives have largely failed to serve the most important stakeholder: the customer. Customer...

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