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Report:Executive Q&A: Design Personas And Customer Journey Maps

Design personas and customer journey maps are valuable tools that support companies' tactical design decisions and the high-level strategic goal of progressing toward Experience-Based...

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Client Inquiry:What Are The Top Five Best Practices In Onboarding?

What are the top five best practices in onboarding that lead to a positive customer experience?

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Blog:Healthcare Customer Experience Insight At Forrester's Customer Experience Forum — Wednesday, June 27th — New York, NY

I'm excited that I'll be spending time with Forrester clients next week at Forrester’s Customer Experience Forum 2012 East. On the second day of the forum (Wednesday, June...

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Report:Tools For Mastering The Customer Experience Ecosystem

Processes: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

To make meaningful customer experience improvements, organizations need to align their customer experience ecosystems. That requires understanding customers' deep needs, viewing interactions from the...

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Report:Web Site User Experience 2010: UK Grocers

Forrester Applies Its Web Site User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top UK Grocers

Forrester evaluated the user experience at the Web sites of four leading UK online grocery retailers: Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose. Overall scores were above average, but no site passed our...

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Client Inquiry:What Is Forrester's View On Applying Consumer Decision Journey Maps To Marketing?

What is Forrester's point of view on applying consumer decision journey learning to marketing, in particular media planning?

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Report:Executive Q&A: Design Personas In 2011

Design personas have become widely used tools for design teams, but the state of persona adoption is uneven. While some companies are still novices, others are seeking ways to optimize their use of...

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Report:Executive Q&A: Customer Understanding For Customer Experience Management

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...

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Report:BBVA Makes Online Banking Customized, Aggregated, Relevant, And Social

CARS Improves Customer Experience And Supports The Bank's Growth Strategy

Forrester has predicted that the next generation of online experiences will be customized, aggregated, relevant, and social (CARS). We can already see early examples of companies that are...

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Report:Customer Journey Mapping: What Is It For?

Five Firms Describe How Customer Journey Mapping Helps Them

Forrester clients tell us that they're eager to use customer journey maps because they see the documents as ideal tools to analyze and communicate their customers' perspectives on the interactions...

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Report:The State Of The Art Of Personas

Personas Have Evolved To Support Differentiated Customer Experience Design In The Age Of The Customer

Personas offer a proven solution for a common design challenge: Keeping the end user in mind during all phases of design, development, and testing. Recently, shortsighted firms have wrongly dismissed...

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Client Inquiry:Website Design RFP Process: How Do You Select An Agency?

Thanks for taking the time to inform us on how best to structure the request for proposal (RFP) process for website redesign projects. We are looking to understand if it's better to hire an agency to...

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Report:How Does Social Media Contribute To Customer Experience? Let Us Count The Ways

It's Time To Document Best Practices For Social Media And Customer Experience

Social media already plays a role at each step of customers' complex journeys to discover, evaluate, buy, access, use, and get support for products and services. Customer experience professionals...

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Report:Web Site User Experience 2010: UK Banks

Forrester Applies Its Web Site User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top UK Banks

Forrester evaluated the user experience at the public-facing Web sites of the four leading UK banks by share of primary current accounts: Lloyds TSB, Barclays Bank, NatWest, and HSBC Bank. No site...

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Tool:Overall Results For Tested Grocers' Sites

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Report:Persona Best Practices Of UK Interactive Agencies

Forrester Applies Its Evaluation Methodology To Personas Provided By Nine UK Interactive Agencies

Forrester applied its persona evaluation criteria to reference personas provided by nine interactive agencies in the UK for the recent Forrester Wave™. Most of the personas showed some room for...

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Report:Scorecard: Customer Journey Map Review 1.0

Assess your customer journey map by completing this scorecard.

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Blog:Social Media Has Transformed Customer Expectations At Every Step Of The Customer Journey

After moving to a new apartment in September, I needed to get a new TV. My first instinct was to gather information from a few sources. I browsed online retailers to get an idea of prices, and I...

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Report:Giffgaff Manages Its Community To Deliver A Great Customer Experience

Social Media Management Gives Control To Members And Builds The Brand

Giffgaff, a low-cost mobile virtual network operator, uses an online community for customer support, sales and marketing, as well as product development functions. To ensure a positive customer...

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Tool:Tested Grocers' Sites Showed Common Shortcomings

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Report:Personas Require Regular Updates

Ensure Personas Accurately Reflect Customers' New Behaviors And Technologies

Personas are ideal tools to guide the design of products, channels, and messaging, but companies are concerned that they fail to keep track of evolving behaviors. Although customers' psychographics...

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Blog:Interactive Design Agencies In Europe — Please Report Your Capabilities In Forrester's 2012 Online Survey

Once again, I'm going to write an overview of the European interactive design agency market to help Forrester clients identify design agencies to help them with their projects in Europe. The...

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Client Inquiry:Creating Personas That Cater To Regional Differences

If you had to think about creating personas on a European level to share a common understanding of the customer across Poland, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Portugal, what would you do?

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Report:What To Look For When Hiring Consultants To Help With Customer Journey Maps

Companies tell us that they're interested in using customer journey maps as tools to analyze and communicate their customers' perspectives on the interactions they deliver. Creating and using...

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Tool:Distribution Of Web Site User Experience Review Scores Across 1,387 Sites