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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...
Consumers Use Mobile Phones Primarily For In-Store Product Research
Sales remain small on mobile devices, and online retailers are taking a cautious approach to investment in mobile services — for now. In this report, we discuss the size of the US mobile retail...
In this report we explore five trends that will affect the next generation of digital banking. Rising digital customer expectations, advances in technology, and continued digital disruption threats...
Forrester Evaluates The Four Largest Banks' Retail Mobile Offerings
With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they need to keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail...
How Mobile Influences Sales In The World's Largest Mobile Phone Market
China, the world's largest mobile phone market, boasts more subscribers than the US by a wide margin, with more than 1 billion mobile subscribers, 202 million of which are 3G subscribers. eBusiness...

Landscape: The Mobile Insurance Strategy Playbook
Insurance companies are rolling out a widening range of mobile insurance functionality for both consumers and agents. While there's substantial consumer interest in mobile insurance, actual use is...

The rapid growth and ubiquity of smartphones naturally means that a significant portion of Internet activity, including shopping, will migrate to this mobile device. While mobile browsing on retail...

US Mobile Payments Will Reach $90 Billion By 2017
Innovation and competitive disruption in mobile payments continued at an accelerated pace throughout 2012, but consumer adoption lagged behind the industry hype. Over the next five years, US...
Mobile will fundamentally change consumer behavior in local establishments in the decades to come. It already generates substantial web traffic for consumer-facing companies and is increasingly...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Adoption of mobile banking by individual mobile users in the EU-7 countries of France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and UK. The forecast segments the addressable market and...
The intuitive design and the standard features of tablets make it possible for digital insurance teams to create compelling customer experiences and support insurance agents in an effective and...

Vision: The Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook
This report gives eBusiness and channel strategy professionals at banks a vision for what the future of mobile banking will be and why it is critical to develop a clear mobile strategy focused on...

A Benchmarking Guide For eBusiness Professionals
Mobile technology for both hardware and software is experiencing a frenetic pace of change. What table stakes or "being in the game" means is constantly moving. eBusiness professionals have procured...

Mobile Banking Is A Major Strategic Shift, Not Just Another Channel
Most European banks have now launched their mobile offerings, and customers are steadily adopting mobile banking: 21% of European Net users with a mobile phone now use at least one form of mobile...

Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey retailers on their attitudes toward and investments in the online retail channel. This year the research specifically probes mobile and tablet...

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...
Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...
Use The Splinternet Engagement Index To Jumpstart Your Agile Commerce Strategy
This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes content relevant to eBusiness and channel strategy professionals. Here's why: The golden age of the Web is over. The...

eCommerce Tops $200 Billion In 2011
eCommerce sales continue to grow rapidly, having topped $200 billion in 2011. Forrester expects that online sales will grow from 7% of overall retail sales to close to 9% by 2016. Key drivers of this...

Mobile Devices And Interactive Displays Are Redefining The In-Store Experience For Sales Associates And Customers Alike
Retailers are ditching the term multichannel. Instead, in the era of agile commerce, they talk about delivering a "buy anywhere, fulfill anywhere" experience to their customers. In pursuit of this...

Health Insurance eBusiness Professionals Must Press On Despite Low Demand
Health insurance eBusiness professionals have entered the mobile fray. Apps and mobile sites span the administrative and the health and wellness spectrum, but US online commercially insured consumers...
Making The Business Case For Mobile Efforts At Wealth Management Firms
Mobile has become a high priority for eBusiness teams at wealth management and investment firms. In the US, the proportion of online adults who use the mobile channel to manage their investments rose...
eBusiness Professionals Should Employ These Tactics To Engage Consumers
2D bar codes have gone from an obscure topic in technology circles to a hot topic in print media and retail circles as a way to connect customers to their offerings through a mobile interface. But...

This Christmas Season eBusiness Executives Will Turn To A Wider Range Of Touchpoints Than Ever To Engage Bargain-Hungry, Web-Savvy Shoppers
Christmas 2011 will see European shoppers more connected, informed, and web-savvy than ever as they head both online and to the high street to find the perfect gift. With overall retail growth...
Spanish banks have been at the forefront of banking innovation in Europe, yet customer behavior in Spain has been slow to change. Spanish customers are more likely than customers almost anywhere in...