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Suresh serves Customer Intelligence Professionals. His research agenda focuses on enterprise marketing technologies, database marketing strategies, customer analytics, and technologies that make customer insight operational. Suresh helps marketing clients navigate the ever-changing marketing technology landscape and develop data-driven marketing strategies.
In the past, Suresh has written about contact optimization, inbound marketing, marketing optimization, and the changing enterprise marketing software landscape.
Prior to joining Forrester in 2006, Suresh spent seven years as a consultant with SPSS. At SPSS, he focused on enabling marketing technologies at client companies. Suresh has successfully led the implementation of web analytics, data mining, real-time marketing, campaign optimization, and enterprise predictive applications in financial services, travel, and pharmaceutical verticals. Prior to SPSS, Suresh worked at NetGenesis, a leading web analytics provider, where he delivered web analytics and measurement services to clients.
Suresh has an M.B.A. from Greenwich College, The University of Hull in the UK, and an M.S. in computer information systems from Bentley College.
Landscape: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Digital touchpoints support an increasingly large percentage of the overall customer experience. 2012 saw the emergence of several important digital customer experience trends that will gain momentum...

Forrester Applies Its Web Site Brand Experience Review Methodology To Four Top Sites
The hotel industry features highly recognized brand names like Crowne Plaza, Hilton, Marriott, and Sheraton. But how good is the brand experience offered by major hotel brands' Web sites? To find...

I’ve recently had several conversations with companies that are looking to improve how they standardize online experiences around the globe. It’s something I’ve been helping firms...
Forrester Applies Its Website Review Methodology To Six US Bank Sites
Forrester evaluated the user experience at the public-facing websites of six leading US banks by assets: Bank of America, Chase (JPMorgan Chase), Citibank, PNC Financial Services, US Bank, and Wells...
I recently wrote a post describing an experience I had with an Empowered customer service rep at American Express. To sum it up, my 2-year-old was getting credit card applications in the mail so I...
The Splinternet Engagement Index
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes content relevant to customer experience professionals. Here's why: Firms deliver experiences across an increasing array of...
Vision: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Companies have historically failed to meet the needs of their customers in individual channels. As customers increasingly engage with multiple channels in pursuit of a single goal, companies need to...

Road Map: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How To Build An Implementation Road Map For Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on August 11, 2011. In a world of proliferating digital...

Forrester Applies Its Website Review Methodology To Six Canadian Bank Sites
Forrester evaluated the user experience at the public-facing websites of six leading Canadian banks by assets: Bank of Montreal, CIBC, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Scotiabank,...
Five Emotional Design Techniques That Drive Engagement
Engaging customers and prospects in digital interfaces is difficult. But the fields of social science and behavioral economics have uncovered techniques that can be effective for encouraging...
Strategic Plan: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How To Develop Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on July 13, 2011. Companies need a digital customer experience strategy to ensure that they...
Tailor Apps For The iPad's Unique Form Factor And User Behaviors
The iPad's popularity has caused customer experience professionals to take a hard look at providing relevant experiences for yet another device. Because of the iPad's unique form factor and use...
Today’s digital landscape is complex. As companies use digital interfaces to engage with customers and foster long-term relationships, customer interactions are spanning an increasing array of...
Mega-drop-down menus enable designers to quickly route site visitors to content that resides deep within a site's hierarchy without obligating them to sort through multiple menu layers. But once...
Today's cookie-cutter digital experiences fail to leave lasting impressions on customers, in part because they lack a coherent personality. Companies hoping to engage their customers in digital...
What Customer Experience Professionals Need To Know About The Year Ahead
In 2011, the customer experience ecosystem will expand to include a dizzying array of new devices, touchpoints, and physical interactions. The breadth of this emerging ecosystem and the number of...
Assessment: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "Executive Q&A: What Forrester's Customer Experience Maturity Framework Means For Digital" originally published on December 6, 2011. To help customer experience...

Ever wonder why websites offer such lackluster brand experiences? Want to know how your site can help you differentiate your brand? If you care about how your brand succeeds online and are attending...