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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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Report:How Chief Customer Officers Orchestrate Experiences

Organization: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

Forrester collected and analyzed data about chief customer officers (CCOs) to understand who they are, where they came from, what companies appoint them, and what they do for their firms. This year,...

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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:Reinvent Customer Experience

Road Map: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

Nearly 75% of customer experience leaders say their firms' goal is to differentiate on the basis of customer experience. Despite that aspiration, only 3% of companies succeed in delivering an...

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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:How Customer Experience Change Agents Transform Culture

Building A Customer-Centric Culture

Changing from a product-centric company to a customer-centric company requires a cultural transformation. This is no small task. That's because transformation involves changing the beliefs and...

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Report:How B2B Firms Improve Customer And Partner Experience

Business-to-business (B2B) firms have largely ignored customer experience — and it shows. Three separate studies that Forrester Research conducted over the past year indicate that B2B customers...

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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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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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Report:Conversations With Chief Customer Officers: Rosetta Stone's Jay Topper

Rosetta Stone appointed Jay Topper to the role of senior vice president of customer success in 2009 to help the firm make a radical transition from a product company to a services model. The new...

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Report:Customer Experience Strategy Best Practices

Firms struggle when their customer experience strategy lacks critical details and fails to provide clear direction. The result: inconsistent execution and wasted effort. To orchestrate a consistent...

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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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Report:Conversations With Chief Customer Officers: Boeing Training And Flight Service's Roei Ganzarski

Roei Ganzarski was appointed as the chief customer officer for Boeing's training and flight services in March 2007. Forrester interviewed Roei as part of an ongoing series to understand the role of a...

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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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Report:The Chief Customer Officer's First 90 Days

Increasingly, companies appoint a chief customer officer (CCO) to lead the company in orchestrating a differentiated customer experience. But these senior executives must often navigate uncharted...

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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:The Rise Of The Chief Customer Officer

Forrester studied more than 100 executives in charge of enterprisewide customer experience to create a composite profile that includes their titles, tenure in the job, backgrounds, and where they...

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Report:How To Build A Customer-Centric Culture

A customer-centric culture is a system of shared values and behaviors that focus employee activity on improving the customer experience. Customer experience leaders have three tools they can use to...

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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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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:How Companies Improve Their Customer Experience Index Scores

Decision-makers at firms with low Customer Experience Index (CxPi) scores are more likely to say that they have insufficient budgets and lack executive support as well as less likely to say that they...

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