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Processes: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
To take advantage of an app in an employee's or customer's pocket, you have to help them accomplish a task quickly and easily whenever they want to and wherever they are. That means CIOs and business...

Strategic Plan: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Mobile technology is rapidly evolving as a means for organizations to deliver new customer experiences, enhance customer value, and improve employee productivity. When combined with social, cloud,...

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Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...
Vision: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
By 2014, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers, including your employees and partners and customers. However, mobile is not simply another device for IT...

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Total and online travel spending for unmanaged business and leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, rail, hotel, and car hire. Includes regional and individual country data for...
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Includes mobile buyers as well as revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, and daily deals, with average spend per mobile buyer. Includes data from 2010 plus a five-year forecast.
Mobile eCommerce revenues across Europe will rise from €1.7 billion in 2011 to €19.2 billion in 2017, reaching 6.8% of total web sales. Simple, easy to merchandise categories such as...
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Includes mobile commerce buyers and revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, daily deals, and gaming app downloads. Country level detail for France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,...
Forrester's ForecastView service provides reliable insight into the online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. It offers a framework for understanding market drivers and inhibitors and helps...
The Best And Worst Of Online Customer Service Among The Top Four US Airlines
Forrester evaluated the online customer service offerings of the four largest US airlines: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and American Airlines. Our analysis uncovered a few...

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four Online Travel Agencies
In the highly competitive world of the four major online travel agencies (OTAs), Travelocity pulls ahead of the pack with its content and messaging functionality. Its site excelled in offering...

Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...
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Interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's IM spending is further broken into the various components of IM: display, paid search, SEO, email, and mobile advertising.

Female Online Travel Bookers Crave Deals, Visual Content, And Ways To Share Their Experiences
In spite of online travel's maturity and massive acceptance, women and men differ in planning and booking trips online. And while men and women spend similar amounts on travel, men are more likely to...
Forrester's 2011 to 2016 forecast of US leisure and unmanaged business travel illustrates a mature market due to a plateau in Bookers and the high penetration of suppliers already generating a...
Mobile is an ideal channel for travelers. Within this touchpoint, smartphones excel. Though just 22% of all US online adults have a smartphone, 35% of US online leisure travelers and 55% of business...
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Online travel forecast (US): Total and online travel spending by managed business and unmanaged business plus leisure travel. Travel spending is segmented by air, hotel, car, cruise, and tours. Also...
Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer
As Delta Air Lines can attest, there is perhaps no industry as susceptible to empowered consumers as the travel industry. Travelers' growing use of social media, strong adoption of smartphones, and...
How eBusiness Leaders Should Approach Mobile As A Sales And Service Channel
Across the globe, the mobile channel is growing at a rapid rate. eBusiness and channel strategy leaders at B2B and B2C firms are at the forefront: 94% of eBusiness managers we surveyed are either...
Welcome To The Era Of Agile Commerce
Traditional ways of describing multichannel commerce no longer work, because customers don't interact with companies from a channel perspective. Customers now use a rapidly evolving set of devices as...
A Technographics® Data Essentials Document
Sales through online retail channels continue to grow, up almost $21 billion from last year alone. In order to fuel this projected growth, it is important to recognize where these growth...
Forrester estimates that, in 2011, hotels will produce $27 billion in online sales from US leisure and unmanaged business travelers. Not bad, but how much better could that be? To help travel firms...
eBusiness Execs Must Evolve Channel Strategies To Embrace Market Changes
Multichannel commerce is being reborn. Traditional ways of describing multichannel commerce no longer work because customers don't interact with companies from a "channel" perspective. Customers now...
How eBusiness Executives Can Create Unique Offerings For Portable Devices
eBusiness professionals often start mobile initiatives by thinking, "How do I scale down my PC-based web experience and leverage my existing infrastructure?" This approach is pragmatic in that it is...
Forrester expects that the use of video content on travel websites will emerge as a significant trend in travel eBusiness in 2011. Why? For one thing, more than one in five US online leisure...