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Disruption Drives 12 Trends In Digital Insurance Agendas
There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications...
Health plan customer experience professionals are tasked with reducing administrative costs (principally by diverting calls from the call center), while driving customer satisfaction scores up. This...
Examining Four Segments Of Consumers Across 12 Industries
In previous research, Forrester found that US consumers looked for good customer service more often than lower prices. To understand this dynamic in more detail, we created four segments of...
Forrester recently released a report showing the results of a survey of more than 4,500 US consumers and their level of satisfaction with Web, phone, and in-person interactions across 12 different...
US Consumers Rate Firms' Web, Phone, And In-Person Interactions
How well do experiences meet the needs of customers? Not very well. A survey of more than 4,500 US consumers shows a low level of satisfaction with Web, phone, and in-person interactions across 12...
Healthcare Marketers Have An Uphill Battle Ahead Of Them
According to Forrester's North American Technographics® Healthcare Online Survey, Q2 2008, 39% of non-elderly commercially insured adults in the US now own a health spending account. This...
What does the average uninsured person in the US look like? Are there differences among this population? Is there a real market opportunity for healthcare eBusiness managers hoping to gain individual...
The Demographic Profiles And Attitudes Of US Individual Purchasers Of Health
Who's purchasing individual insurance? And why? To answer these and other questions, we looked at Forrester's North American Technographics® Healthcare Online Survey, Q2 2008. We found that...
2009 Will Be A Time Of Uncertainty And Transition In The Healthcare Industry
A recession is hitting US consumers hard as the financial crisis continues to send ripples across US and global economies. Most US industries are feeling the effects —banks, retailers, auto...
Highlights From A Panel At Forrester's Marketing Forum 2008
At Forrester's Marketing Forum, we held a session with three pairs of agencies and clients that have used personas very effectively. When QVC and Critical Mass redesigned the QVC Web site to create a...
Forrester Exposes Glaring Lack Of Loyalty In A Highly Price-Sensitive Market
Individual consumers seeking health coverage are increasingly going online to find it, but today, many health insurers' Web sites are ill-prepared to turn these visitors into profitable members....
This Forecast Overview organizes Forrester's vast body of forecasts relevant to professionals in eBusiness, Channel & Product Management. This document lists all the existing relevant US and European...
Like it or not, Social Computing is coming to the life sciences industry. If you don't believe us, check out the YouTube video of a purported Eli Lilly sales rep dishing ZYPREXA's side effects or...
Most Consumers Still Buy Offline And Ignore Drug Advertisements
Despite the fact that U.S. consumers are shopping for everything from music to clothing online, prescription medications just don't make it to their online shopping lists. Doctors remain the most...
Results Of Our First eBusiness, Channel And Product Management Survey
Forrester recently surveyed 107 current clients and prospects within our eBusiness, channel and product management research panel to examine 2007 online budgets and priorities. Our panelists include...
More Advanced Online Activities Correlate To Increased Online Spending
As the Web matures, firms from health plans to brokerages are opening up eBusiness channels that introduce consumers to more and more complex online transactions that go far beyond simple book...