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The Time Is Right To Test Hyperlocal Near Field Communication (NFC)
Near field communication (NFC) allows consumers to use their mobile and custom devices to directly interact with almost any real-world object such as posters, clothes, and shop windows. The allure of...

Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
This report outlines the business case for customer experience professionals seeking to discover the business benefits of improving customer experience in an experience-driven organization. Years of...

Forrester conducted a survey from April to June 2012 of 22,662 European individuals ages 16 and older in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. For results based on a...

Broad Reach Among Consumers Demands That Mobile Messaging Is In The Mix
Ten to 15 years ago, SMS offered the only pragmatic mobile data service: it had broad reach, standardization, and carrier interoperability. Today, companies have more choices including application...

A Technographics® Global Overview Document
The global online population has more than doubled since 2005, but not all countries have reached saturated levels of online penetration. While the majority of consumers in the US, Europe, and...

In the early years of the Internet, online customer service involved the marketing departments writing content for a handful of online FAQs and including a telephone number in the "contact us"...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July and August 2012 of 6,008 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban areas/provinces of Argentina and top urban areas/states of Brazil and Mexico. In...
The Joyn Initiative Will Help Evolve Engagement Strategies
As companies evolve their strategies to embrace systems of engagement, CIOs are likely to benefit from the emergence of a new major social media communications platform, rich communication services...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 4,731 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,731), there is 95% confidence that...
Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
Years of Forrester data confirm the strong relationship between the quality of a firm's customer experience (CX) and loyalty. We built three simple models to estimate the impact customer experience...

Forrester Research conducted an online survey in May 2012 of 7,047 consumers ages 18 and older in South Korea, Australia, Japan, metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou,...
Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook
How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in August and September 2012 of 13,518 European individuals ages 16 to 92. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 13,518), there...
Forrester conducted the Asia Pacific Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012 of 9,569 consumers ages 18 and older in Japan, metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan,...
Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, June 2012
Almost everyone has a social media account these days. However, consumers are only just starting to use interactive features like checking in, and exchanges with brands via social media are still...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2011 of 5,998 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban cities/states of Mexico and Brazil and top urban cities/provinces of Argentina. In...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in May and June 2012 of 30,978 US and 2,032 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 30,978...
Consumers' preferences for customer service channels are rapidly changing. And it's not just the younger generation of consumers — there's disruption and change across all ages and...

Refine Your App Strategy In Anticipation Of The Second Wave
The Apple App Store and Google Play have recently passed the threshold of 40 billion cumulative apps downloaded. The smartphone boom is driving exploding usage of mobile apps across the globe....
