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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...

Google Nexus and Microsoft Surface Force OEMs To Up Their Games
Google's and Microsoft's efforts to launch first-party hardware, form exclusive partnerships, and acquire partners are disrupting the status quo within their ecosystems. These changes are driven...
Best Practices From Firms That Created Experiences With CARS Attributes
Forrester believes that four attributes will characterize the next phase of development of the web. Online experiences will be: customized by the end user, aggregated at the point of use, relevant to...

Despite professed customer centricity, many firms don't think to involve customers, employees, or key delivery partners in the experience design process. This oversight costs firms precious time and...

Best Practices For Including Customers, Employees, And Partners In Customer Experience Design
Co-creation — the practice of involving people from across the customer experience ecosystem in the experience design process — is a valuable and versatile methodology, but it usually...
What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead
Over the past two years, consumer technology adoption and market forces have catapulted the field of customer experience into strategic stature. But it will be years before customer experience is...

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...
How Leading Hospital Systems Drive Change Inside And Outside Their Walls
Faced with regulatory reform, changing demographics, transparency initiatives, and competitive forces from within and outside of the industry, hospitals will have to innovate to provide...

Exploratory research uncovers customer needs that have yet to be met, exposes opportunities for differentiation, provides a holistic view of a problem space, and helps firms keep pace with the...