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Kate serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. She is a leading expert on customer service strategies. Her research focuses on helping organizations establish and validate customer service strategies, prioritize and focus customer service projects, facilitate customer service vendor selection, and plan for project success.
Kate has extensive industry experience, with more than 10 years of leadership at customer service software companies, where she held senior product marketing and product management roles. She is also a published author on customer service trends and best practices.
Kate earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Tablet applications offer a new way for customers to interact with brands, providing sustained engagement and bridging the capability-mobility gap between websites and smartphone applications. In the...
This is the reviewer's guide for Forrester's IVR User Experience Review 8.0 scorecard.
Customer Experience Professionals Share Plans For Design Tools, Budgets, And Staffing
During the past few years, Forrester has seen tremendous momentum for digital design projects as digital touchpoints proliferate. And the trend held true this year, too: A recent survey of...


Tablet sales are booming, and while applications (apps) are all the rage, consumers are still spending more time using browsers on their tablets than they are using apps. That makes sense because...
Tailor Apps For The iPad's Unique Form Factor And User Behaviors
The iPad's popularity has caused customer experience professionals to take a hard look at providing relevant experiences for yet another device. Because of the iPad's unique form factor and use...
Forrester Applies Its Web-Phone User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top US Firms
Forrester applied its Web-Phone User Experience Review methodology to the experiences at four large PC laptop manufacturers: Apple, Dell, HP, and Toshiba. The results: Apple came out ahead, but the...
Focus On Hiring, Training, Incentives, and Metrics
Call centers offer companies daily opportunities to create meaningful connections with customers. When this happens, businesses increase customer loyalty and generate incremental revenue. But...
Forrester's IVR User Experience Review uncovers flaws that prevent users from accomplishing key goals in interactive voice response (IVR) systems. This document provides answers to some of the common...

Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...
Forrester evaluated the interaction and system capabilities of the iPad for accessing content via its web browser and applications (apps). Both experiences offer somewhat-limited input capabilities...