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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Trends 2013: North American Insurance eBusiness And Channel Strategy

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Mobile Engagement Demands Process Transformation

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...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Fitness Wearables — Many Products, Few Customers

Product Strategists Must Broaden Wearables' Appeal Beyond Fitness

Wearable devices are part of the next wave of growth and innovation in personal computing, a phenomenon we call "smart body, smart world." Wearables could target any use case, from gaming to...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:The State Of Mobile Insurance In 2013

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...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Digital Health Management Needs A Makeover To Broaden Its Consumer Appeal

Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report

Tracking and managing personal health information — with technology or without — is not a mainstream consumer activity today. There are multiple reasons for this: Consumers lack...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Industry Contexts And Constraints Diversify Approaches To Bring-Your-Own-Technology

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years

This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2012 To 2017 (US)

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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,...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:The Importance Of True International Marketing Content

Tech vendors are likely underperforming in international markets because their central marketing teams do not successfully integrate inputs from their field marketing colleagues about local market...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Combine Social And Mobile To Build B2B Customer Relationships

How B2B Interactive Marketers Can Drive Engagement, Not Just Leads

B2B interactive marketers today are tasked with more than just building lead pipelines — they must also work alongside sales teams to build deeper customer relationships. Increasingly, B2B...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Mobile Healthcare's Slow Adoption Curve

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...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:US Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2011 To 2016

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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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Forrester Research Interactive Marketing Forecast By Industry, 2011 To 2016 (US)

ForecastView Spreadsheet

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.

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:2011 Social Technographics® For Business Technology Buyers

Technology Marketers Must Prepare For The Coming Storm

Data from Forrester's Q1 2011 US and European B2B Social Technographics® Online Survey For Business Technology Buyers indicates that both social media habits and the role social media is playing...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2011 Integration Survey, Part One: Solution Deployments

ESBs Are The Most Popular Choice

Enterprise service buses (ESBs), comprehensive integration solutions (CISes), and integration appliances offer a range of overlapping features to meet integration challenges. Forrester recently...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Mobile Channel Strategy: An Overview

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...

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For CMO Professionals

Report:Bigger B2B Marketing Budgets Come With Great Expectations

Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation

After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:Mobile Is Not Just Another Channel

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...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Investing In Tech Marketing, 2011

Introducing The Forrester Marketing Flywheel For Assessing Budget Allocations

The tech industry is returning to expansion mode, and tech marketers must gear up to drive profitable revenue growth for their companies. However, unlike previous generations of tech industry growth,...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Case Study: RehabCare Extends Its Healthcare Offering Using iOS Devices

An Empowered Report

RehabCare has implemented a deeply integrated strategy using iOS devices, like the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, that has changed the way it delivers care to its patients. Its offering required...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The State Of Health Plans' Mobile Product Strategies

How Health Plans Are Tackling Mobile — And How They Risk Missing The Mark

Consumer product strategists at health plans are beginning to develop and launch mobile solutions in earnest. These product strategists commonly develop mobile products to help control costs, provide...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Mobile And Social Gain Ground In Wellness And Disease Management

Consumers Report On Program Availability, Usage, And Relevance

Forrester surveyed US online nonelderly commercially insured consumers to find out how open they are to using health management programs offered by their health plan or employer and in which channels...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Health Plan Customer Experience Professionals' Introduction To Making Proactive Chat Work

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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The State Of B2B Integration

Most Enterprises Plan Imminent B2B Upgrades To Address Key Issues

Forrester surveyed 300 senior IT managers in North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regarding the state of their business-to-business (B2B) integration infrastructure and plans for future...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Seven Trends Customer Experience Professionals In Healthcare Can't Afford To Ignore

How New Technologies Will Transform Digital Healthcare Experiences

On the eve of a new decade, many elements of the US healthcare system are still twisting in the winds of healthcare reform. But the writing on the customer experience wall is clear: Consumers'...

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