For Customer Experience Professionals (Length: 16 pages)

June 18, 2007

Electronics Retailers' Cross-Channel Experience, 2007

An Industry Look At Forrester's Best And Worst Of Cross-Channel Design

This is the eighth document in the "Best And Worst Of Experience Design, 2007" series.

by Bruce D. Temkin

with Adele Sage, Moira Dorsey, Andrew McInnes


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

As part of an analysis of 16 firms, Forrester evaluated the customer experiences delivered by four large consumer electronics retailers — Best Buy, Circuit City, RadioShack, and Wal-Mart. Overall, the retailers ended up with the highest average score compared with other industries, but the firms still delivered poor experiences in IVR systems, email, and channel transitions. But while each of the electronics retailers suffered from a different set of problems, our analysis also uncovered a number of good practices, such as Circuit City's product recommendation tool and RadioShack's phone agents who proactively directed users to Web self-service.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemExamining The Current State Of Multichannel Electronics Retailer Experiences

itemOverall Results For Consumer Electronics Retailers: Relatively Good

itemWhat Issues Plagued The Electronics Retailers?

itemSome Best Practices Emerge

recommendations

itemImprove Multichannel Experiences With A Companywide Effort

Forrester evaluated multichannel experiences at 16 firms — four large credit card issuers, consumer electronics retailers, PC manufacturers, and wireless carriers.

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Analyst: Bruce D. Temkin
Technology: Channel Design Strategies, Customer Experience, eBusiness/eCommerce, Web Site Design
Industry: Business-To-Consumer eCommerce, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Portals & Search, Consumer Retail & CPG, Consumer Technology, eBusiness/eCommerce Best Practices, eBusiness/eCommerce Strategy, Multichannel Retail, Retail
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America