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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...

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...
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...

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...
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...

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,...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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...
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...
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...