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Forrester Technographics® Digital Consumer Community Report, September 2012
In the age of the always addressable customer, where hyperconnected consumers are increasingly savvy and demanding of the brands with which they interact, marketers must become more audience-centric...

Market research online communities (MROCs) are an increasingly popular qualitative research method. They allow market insights professionals to engage with consumers via a number of different...

Partnership With Jellyvision Lab Leads To An Engaging Training Module
One of the challenges that market insights professionals struggle with is the communication of research results across the organization. The Customer Experience and NPS team at Philips was tasked...


Global Consumer Technographics®
In 2012, the majority of consumers in the US, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America owned a mobile phone. However, the ways in which global consumers use their phone varies across countries....
Forrester Research conducted an online survey in October 2011 of 3,621 consumers ages 18 and older in metropolitan China (including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, and Xian)....
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...

Landscape: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
Businesses face pressure from increased competition in a flat world and are also dealing with financial crises, the exponential growth of technological changes, Internet-enabled customer power, and...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in December 2011 of 4,672 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,672), there is 95% confidence...
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...
Performance Management: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
There's an old management adage that says "you can't manage what you can't measure." The key question, though, is what should you measure? Market insights professionals that focus on measuring the...
Business Case: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
In most organizations, market insights professionals struggle to link the insights they provide to actual business impact and value. This is at odds with executives, who are aligning their internal...

Organization: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
Market insights teams are used to doing more with less. Unfortunately, with workloads seeing year-over-year double-digit growth rates without much compensation in budget and headcount, Forrester...
After evaluating two categories of enterprise feedback management (EFM) vendors in Q3 2011, Forrester will no longer cover the vendor market landscape in the same way. This report explains why the...
Driving Growth With Customer Insights, Marketing Automation, And Content Marketing
Business-to-business (B2B) CMOs will have three key initiatives to execute on in 2013 in order to separate themselves from the competition in front of empowered business buyers. Marketers must work...

Asia Pacific Consumer Technographics®
This report provides an overview of metropolitan Chinese online consumers' behaviors and technology attitudes. In general, metropolitan Chinese consumers are enthusiastic mobile owners and social...
Market Insights Needs To Track Business Success To Show Value-Add
Market insights professionals often struggle to understand how they can identify and measure customer, competitive, and business changes and effectively guide stakeholders toward business success via...
Emerging Market Research Methodology: Neuroscience Techniques Can Clarify And Support Market Research Decisions
Market insights professionals are tasked with understanding how consumer preferences and emotions play a role in their decisions and influence their choices. However, these factors typically occur...

Generation Z, the generation born after the Millennials, are true digital natives who have grown up in the age of technology. The only world they know is a digital one — where they can connect...

North American Consumer Technographics®
US consumers today are exposed to more kinds of connected devices than ever before. Consumers associate the terms "going online" or "using the Internet" with devices like laptops and desktops. Social...
Compelling customer experiences stem from a company's deep understanding of its target customers' goals and behaviors. This requires uncovering customer needs in a disciplined manner. This report...
Processes: The Market Insights Optimization Playbook
Digital disruption has created an environment in which customer and competitive change are happening at much faster rates, leading stakeholders to increase their demands for more innovative, agile,...

Making Technographics® Segmentation Work
Consumers today have the choice of purchasing products and services from multiple brands, channels, and retailers. For that reason, understanding the underlying motivations and drivers that influence...

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...

The Most Important Metrics And How To Use Them To Show The Value-Add Of Market Insights
Market insights professionals can potentially track hundreds of metrics, but which ones are the most important and will provide the best visibility into the health of the business? In this report,...
Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook
Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions requires the right combination of a clear objective, business planning, technology, and, most importantly, people to do the...