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Marketers Must Exchange Value For Customers' Social Data
Through social interactions on channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, consumers are creating a massive amount of data. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals want this data and are now...

Excellent capture of the next wave for Targeting via social listening and CRM integration
The online marketing suite transforms organizations' customer relationships through coordinated, relevant multichannel experiences. To satisfy this vision, all participants in the marketing...
Good look at the online marketing landscape - a refreshed view that was needed - great job!
What are some great examples of automated, highly personalized, multichannel communications programs? My company has a few programs in pilot mode, but it seems that this concept of highly automated,...
Why Market Insights + Customer Intelligence = Competitive Advantage
Companies now have more data on their customers than ever before, from surveys to social media, web analytics, and transactional data. However, most firms lack the structure and process to translate...
Zach, Great topic, and you have some great points here. I have to disagree on one thing: Text analytics shouldn't focus on just unstructured data. It's obvious that finding as much actionable...
Suresh, great report. We proposed and offered Inbound and Outbound consolidation for marketing and csutomer service in 2001. We were and still are far ahead in that game. I am glad that you turn this...
Aligning Market Insights To Business Goals Drives Value
In most organizations, market insights professionals struggle to link the insights they provide to actual business impact and value. This is at odds with executives, who are aligning their internal...
Why Market Insights + Customer Intelligence = Competitive Advantage
Despite an abundance of customer-related data, most companies still struggle to understand their customers — lacking the culture, process, technology, data, measurement framework, and business...
Processes: The Customer Loyalty Playbook
Loyalty programs promise to increase retention and satisfaction, but they often fall short of delivering results because they lack an innovative strategy to set them apart from the competition. This...

Market Insights Needs To Invest In Richer Data, Technology, And Skills To Prepare For The Future
The market insights industry is at a crossroads. Digital disruption has created an environment in which customer and competitive change is happening much more quickly and having a bigger impact on...
Tools And Technology: The Customer Analytics Playbook
With the increased focus on data-driven marketing, few firms have the budgets, technology capabilities, or analytical skills to advance their analytics agendas internally, and they frequently turn to...
This report provides a case study supporting Forrester's best practices for customer intelligence professionals working to drive customer loyalty. Forrester identifies four crucial best practices for...
Fatemeh, Very well done CEA Wave! CEA is the future for MSP/digital agencies. Agree with your observations that their is a long road to maturity with the larger, well entrenched providers in...
Zach, do you see a difference between Customer-centric and Customer-obsessive business profiles? If you do, I'd love to know what it is. Gregory