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eBusiness, Channel & Product Management Professionals And Groundswell

In GROUNDSWELL: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, two of Forrester's top analysts, show businesses how to turn the power of connected customers to their own advantage.

As eBusiness celebrates more than a decade of solid growth, eBusiness, Channel & Product Management professionals find themselves at a crossroads. No longer able to chalk up double-digit growth numbers, eBusiness groups must increase sales with existing customers by firming up loyalty and engagement. Forrester will help you explore social media technologies and strategies that engage and excite customers.

Forrester provides data on consumer trends and best practices for managing channels and partners across a variety of industries. We guide the eBusiness executive in prioritizing channel strategies and technology initiatives — insights that help this professional develop a road map for Web and cross-channel success.

Forrester's research for eBusiness, Channel, & Product Management professionals helps you:

  • Optimize sales and service in response to changing consumer behavior.
  • Coordinate the interaction of multiple channels.
  • Measure and improve performance using technology and industry best practices.

We offer a wide range of services for eBusiness, Channel & Product Management Professionals interested in Social Computing. Below you will find an overview:


Research

We help guide your decisions and actions by giving savvy companies a technology-fueled advantage. We consistently identify and help you exploit important new technologies and their impact on business — and give you the confidence to act.
Please click here for access to relevant research documents related to the Groundswell.


Data

Forrester’s Consumer Technographics™ helps you understand the impact of changing consumer behavior and allows us to deliver consumer and business market intelligence based on a deep understanding of market demand.


Consulting

To customize a company’s approach to adopting social technology, we offer consulting packages based on the POST method outlined in Groundswell and help you develop the most effective social technology strategy for your organization:

  • People. Forrester will create profiles of your target customers leveraging Forrester’s Social Technographics® data.
  • Objectives. Forrester will assist you in defining what business goals you want to accomplish.
  • Strategy. Forrester will help you identify a social technology strategy for how you will accomplish your goals and change your relationship with customers.
  • Technology. Forrester will recommend the most appropriate technology including detailed examples and best practices in and outside your industry.

Please click here to learn more about our consulting offerings.

Community

  • Forums
    Forrester Forums are two- to three-day conferences geared towards executives in Marketing & Strategy roles. Industry leaders and Forrester analysts provide in-depth analysis and winning strategies through keynote speeches, dedicated track sessions, and one-on-one meetings with attendees.
  • Workshops
    Forrester’s Workshops equip you with a skill set that will help you meet your job challenges. These one- or two-day Events are developed and led by Forrester analysts and draw on their research to bring you best practices and analytical insights to help you succeed.
  • Teleconferences
    Occurring daily, our interactive, hour-long Teleconferences include a Web presentation by an analyst on a selected topic followed by an open forum for questions and discussion. Teleconferences keep you up-to-date with technology and market changes, inform you about our hottest research, and allow you to engage in real-time Q&A sessions with Forrester analysts. Replays of Teleconferences are posted to the Forrester Web site within a week of their original air date and are archived and available for download.

Forrester Leadership Boards

Membership in Forrester Leadership Boards is open to a select group of executives from leading companies worldwide. The Boards stimulate business success and fresh thinking through a unique combination of peer networking and Forrester’s forward-looking analysis and professional guidance. Participation in the programs accelerates and improves decision-making and provides increased departmental and personal effectiveness in driving the success of your company.
The eBusiness Council focuses on providing senior-level business executives the insight they need to compete and succeed in today’s continually evolving online world. Through a combination of member-to-member sharing of best practices and access to Forrester’s proprietary research and analyst community, Council members are able to craft more effective strategies and tactics for solving specific business problems related to their online business. Based on this gained insight, members can increase customer retention, generate higher sales, and stay ahead of the competition.


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