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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Using Tmall To Sell Online In China

Understanding The Opportunity On China's Largest B2C Website

Taking a business online in China is intimidating. Seemingly endless red tape, a diverse online population, and differences in consumer behavior are all issues a company must carefully consider....

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:SAP In The Cloud: Market Update And Lessons Learned From Early Adopters

The cloud continues to get a lot of attention — and scrutiny — from IT buyers. Most IT buyers have accepted the value of the cloud for process areas such as human capital management and...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:How To Engage Your Omnichannel Consumer

Brand Engagement The Consumer Way

The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 1), Q2 2012 (US, Canada)

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in April and May 2012 of 58,068 US and 5,635 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on randomly chosen samples of these sizes (N = 58,068...

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:European Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012

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...

For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Customer Loyalty Ecosystem

Tools And Technology: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

Customer loyalty is top of mind for most marketers, but with so many vendors claiming to drive explicit or implicit loyalty, it's often difficult to identify a solution that best fits marketers'...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:Latin American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012 (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico)

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...

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 2), Q3 2012 (US, Canada)

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...

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Supportive Brands Win The Hearts Of Customers

Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, May 2012

Pleasing consumers is becoming increasingly difficult, and the experiences encountered while buying a product can make or break a brand’s reputation with its consumers. One bad experience can...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The Global eCommerce Opportunity

Landscape: The eCommerce Globalization Playbook

Gone are the days when most brands offered just one or two international sites: Today, a global eCommerce footprint is the end goal. To reach that goal, companies are taking a strategic look at the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Why Amazon Matters Now More Than Ever

As Amazon.com has grown aggressively in recent years, expanded into diverse businesses, and achieved profitability, its impact on the eBusiness and retail sectors is now top of mind. For many...

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For Security & Risk Professionals

Report:Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability

Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Latin American Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017

A Look At eCommerce Growth In Brazil, Mexico, And Argentina

Latin American online retail markets continue to intrigue eBusiness professionals around the world. As in years past, Brazil remains the leading market in Latin America: Online shopping extends to...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Latin America)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

Online retail spending by category in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and software, consumer...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:North American Technographics® Customer Life Cycle Survey, Q1 2013

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,549 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,549), there is 95% confidence...

For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Best And Worst Of Website Experience, 2011

Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Survey:North American Technographics® Financial Services Affluent Survey 2013

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in January 2013 of 1,051 affluent US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 1,051), there is 95%...

For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:US Online Retail Forecast, 2011 To 2016

eCommerce Tops $200 Billion In 2011

eCommerce sales continue to grow rapidly, having topped $200 billion in 2011. Forrester expects that online sales will grow from 7% of overall retail sales to close to 9% by 2016. Key drivers of this...

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Report:Website Functionality Benchmark 2011: Mass Merchants

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four US Mass Merchants

In the large-format mass merchant sector, Wal-Mart and Target have successfully implemented market-leading online retail functionality and connected consumer touchpoints to enhance their customer...

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Report:Community Speaks: A Look Into Consumers' 2012 Holiday Season Shopping Habits

A Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report

In recent years, we have seen a continued increase in online shopping around the holidays. Forrester's US Online Holiday Retail Forecast, 2012 again showed an increase in consumer spending; online...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Must-Have eCommerce Features

Road Map: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

Companies often struggle with how to prioritize the countless issues that populate eCommerce to-do lists. This chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook is a prescriptive look at the industry...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2013: US Retail eBusiness

As US online retail continues to grow and capture shopper wallet share, online retail executives must determine the best areas on which to focus their limited resources, particularly given the number...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Perspectives On Asia's BT Journey

Insights From Asian CIOs At Forrester's CIO Summit APAC 2012

CIOs in Asia face an inconvenient truth: transform or be overwhelmed by the forces of change. These forces include the consumerization of IT, "everything-as-a-service," enterprise mobility, big data,...

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