Adele Sage

Analyst serving Customer Experience PROFESSIONALS

Adele serves Customer Experience Professionals. She helps them improve customer experiences and related business results by identifying both problems and solutions through tools like voice of the customer programs and customer-centric testing methodologies. Adele has been instrumental in the development of many of Forrester's user experience evaluation methodologies, including the Website, IVR, and Cross-Channel User Experience Reviews. Adele's research also includes best practices for digital experiences — focused mainly on website and phone self-service design.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to becoming an analyst, Adele was a researcher at Forrester. In that role, she was a key contributor to updating, maintaining, and applying the Forrester Website User Experience Review and Cross-Channel User Experience Review methodologies.


Education

Adele holds a B.A. in psychology from Harvard University.

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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:How Consumers Complain About Poor Service

    Time To Get Serious About Social Voice Of The Customer

    Most consumers have gotten poor service at some point in the past year. Among that group, the vast majority told friends or family about their disappointing experiences. To understand the causes of...

    • Downloads: 878
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Websites That Don't Support Customers Waste Millions

    Business Case: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

    This report is an update to "Web Sites That Don't Support Customers' Goals Waste Millions" originally published on February 17, 2010. To understand the effect of poor website usability, Forrester...

    • Downloads: 1772
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    Report:How Consumers Research, Buy, And Get Service, 2011

    Forrester asked consumers about the channels they use when researching, buying, and getting customer service. In-store experiences were the most popular and the most satisfying across activities,...

    • Downloads: 887
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:How Satisfied Are US Consumers With Online Chat?

    Companies are increasingly offering online chat as an interaction channel for customers and prospects. But how successful are those interactions? Of the 18% of consumers who have used chat, most are...

    • Downloads: 525
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Web-Phone User Experience 2010: PC Laptop Manufacturers

    Forrester Applies Its Web-Phone User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top US Firms

    Forrester applied its Web-Phone User Experience Review methodology to the experiences at four large PC laptop manufacturers: Apple, Dell, HP, and Toshiba. The results: Apple came out ahead, but the...

    • Downloads: 250
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:What Consumers Do When They Can't Complete A Goal In Their Channel Of Choice

    Forrester asked US consumers what they did after their first channel of choice — either Web or phone — failed to provide the information they needed. Our data shows that among those who...

    • Downloads: 667
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Web-Phone User Experience 2010: Discount Retailers

    Forrester Applies Its Web-Phone User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top US Firms

    Forrester applied its Web-Phone User Experience Review methodology to the experiences at the four largest discount retailers in the US: Costco, Kmart, Target, and Wal-Mart. The results: Target led...

    • Downloads: 298
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  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Scorecard: Web-Email User Experience Review 8.0

    This is the working scorecard for Forrester's Web-Email User Experience Review methodology, version 8.0.

    • Downloads: 9
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Scorecard: Web-Phone User Experience Review 8.0

    This is the working scorecard for Forrester's Web-Phone User Experience Review, version 8.0. It evaluates single-channel experiences on the Web site, in the IVR system, and with a phone agent, and...

    • Downloads: 10
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Footwear Manufacturers' Cross-Channel Experience, 2009

    An Industry Look At This Year's Best And Worst Of Cross-Channel Design

    As part of a larger analysis of 16 firms, Forrester evaluated the cross-channel experiences of four large footwear manufacturers — adidas, New Balance, Nike, and Puma. Overall, the footwear...

    • Downloads: 319
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Small IVR Investments That Pay Off

    With low phone self-service satisfaction rates, there's lots of room to improve IVR systems. Our research uncovered five low-cost techniques that improve routing, boost containment rates, increase...

    • Downloads: 579
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Phone Self-Service Design, 2009

    Forrester Applies Its IVR Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

    Forrester applied its IVR Review methodology to the phone self-service experiences at 16 US firms — four each of the largest auto insurers, discount retailers, footwear manufacturers, and...

    • Downloads: 724
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Email Interaction Design, 2008

    Forrester Applies Its Email Interaction Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

    Forrester applied its Email Interaction Review to the email interactions of 16 firms: four each of the largest airlines, banks, department stores, and MP3 player manufacturers. None of the 13...

    • Downloads: 626
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Best And Worst Of Phone Self-Service Design, 2008

    Forrester Applies Its IVR Review Methodology To 16 Major Firms

    Forrester applied its IVR Review methodology to the phone self-service experiences at 16 firms — four each of the largest airlines, banks, department stores, and MP3 player manufacturers. Among...

    • Downloads: 630
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Executive Q&A: Click-To-Chat Interaction Reviews

    Click-to-chat reviews uncover flaws that prevent users from accomplishing key goals by chatting with agents. To get the most out of the click-to-chat interaction review, site owners should identify...

    • Downloads: 500
  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report:Click-To-Chat Interaction Review Scorecard

    This is the working scorecard for Forrester's Click-To-Chat Review methodology.

    • Downloads: 2
 
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