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Processes: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
The critical question for many digital banking teams after they build mobile banking is how to encourage customer adoption and use. Forrester spoke to eBusiness executives at banks about the current...
Tools And Technologies: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Even the best mobile strategy can be a victim of poor execution. Managing technology is hard enough, but as new phone features and capabilities crop up seemingly every day, navigating the ever...

Benchmarks: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
We used our Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark methodology to evaluate the retail mobile banking offerings of 15 retail banks in in North America, Western Europe, and Australia across more than...

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Despite the fact that we are in the midst of a European crisis that could influence the insurance business dramatically, eBusiness and channel strategy executives in this region should be sensitive...
In the midst of the recession and ongoing sovereign debt crisis, only 29% of Europeans believe their bank acts in their best interest. However, some banks rank much higher than others in our customer...

Continuous Improvement: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
Congratulations! Your mobile banking web, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are live, and adoption has surpassed your wildest expectations. But what now? Digital banking teams need to test and optimize...

The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...
As eCommerce has exploded, eBusiness executives have often looked to various payment forms at checkout as a means of growing their businesses. Alternative payments, or non-card payments, purport to...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 20,778 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based on an...
These data charts present the results of Forrester's 2011 BPM Center Of Excellence Online Survey.
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals at insurers face a strategic dilemma — managing the in-person agent field force while migrating services online. Israeli insurance provider Migdal,...
E-Trade And Fidelity Lead The Pack
With investor expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital wealth management teams know they need to improve their portfolios of mobile sites and apps. Forrester evaluated the...
Commonwealth Bank Generates Leads With Convenient Mobile Services
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is generating 1% of its overall mortgage leads by using mobile augmented reality (AR) within a homebuyer's research application to enhance its home-buying service. This...

A Multitouch, Multichannel Approach Proves Successful
Customer retention is top of mind for eBusiness professionals at financial services firms, as are customer experience and engagement. An increasingly important strategy to achieve all these goals is...

Responsive Web Design And Agile Development Prove A Winning Formula
With mobile and tablet usage now mainstream, Forrester believes that eBusiness teams must find time-to-market and cost efficiencies in their digital development processes. In previous research we...
Sensor Devices Disrupt Marketing Practices
Your customers are becoming even more connected. Sensor-laden devices on our bodies, in our homes, in our cars, and virtually everywhere else are creating new opportunities and demands for marketers....

Transforms IT From Cost Center To Innovation Center By Leveraging Cloud And Policy-Based Orchestration
Facing rising IT infrastructure costs, inflexible vendor contracts, and labor-intensive processes, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) undertook a massive IT transformation over the last five years....

Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...
Strategic Plan: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook
Mobile strategies fail when firms approach them as purely technology solutions without clear business objectives and stakeholder support. Having a documented strategic plan that all stakeholders...

US Mobile Payments Will Reach $90 Billion By 2017
Innovation and competitive disruption in mobile payments continued at an accelerated pace throughout 2012, but consumer adoption lagged behind the industry hype. Over the next five years, US...
A Tool For Initial Steps Toward Selection Of A Transformation Service Firm
Forrester surveyed six global transformation service firms with focused offerings in the off-the-shelf banking platform space. Their transformation service offerings are broad and rich, covering many...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in April 2013 of 61,167 US individuals and 5,800 Canadian individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N =...
Vision: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
This report gives eBusiness and channel strategy professionals at banks a vision for what the future of mobile banking will be and why it is critical to develop a clear mobile strategy focused on...

Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases
Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...
A Global Consumer Technographics® Report
By far the largest and most populated country in South America, Brazil has a presence on the world stage that continues to win global attention and inspire awe with as much flair as Adriana Lima...