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Report:US Consumers Aren't Enthusiastic About Medical Tourism

In an effort to control skyrocketing health costs, some pioneering health plans and employers are testing the waters of medical tourism by paying for consumers to travel overseas for less expensive...

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Tool:Better Customer Experience Drives Millions In Revenue Benefit Across Industries

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Report:Lessons Learned From The 2011 Voice Of The Customer Award Winners

A Look Inside The VoC Practices At Adobe, Fidelity, And JetBlue

This year, Forrester recognized three winners of its annual Voice Of The Customer Awards: Adobe Systems, Fidelity Investments, and JetBlue Airways. Each firm had its own unique practices. Adobe...

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Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

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Report:Best And Worst Of Website Experience, 2011

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...

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Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2012

Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

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Report:How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience

Performance Management: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report is an update to "How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience Across The Enterprise" originally published on January 22, 2010. Chief customer experience officers (CC/EOs) need a set of...

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Report:A Market Researcher's Introduction To The Future Of Online Customer Experience

The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...

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Report:Why Your Call Center Needs User-Centered Design

How Focusing On Callers And Agents Can Drive Business Results

Today, user-centered design isn't widely used to improve call center interactions. That needs to change. When applied in the call center, the core activities of a user-centered design process —...

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Report:How Satisfied Are Consumers With Phone Experiences In 2010?

Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Phone Experiences Across 13 Industries

For many companies, the phone is a major channel through which they interact with customers. Forrester surveyed 4,653 consumers to find out how satisfied they were with the phone interactions they...

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Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2011

Improvements Can Add More Than $1 Billion In Revenue For Wireless Carriers And Hotels

Customer experience professionals must clearly articulate the business benefits of improving customer experience. Years of Forrester data confirm the strong relationship between the quality of a...

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Report:How Satisfied Are Consumers With Web Site Experiences In 2010?

Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With 87 Web Sites Across 13 Industries

Forrester recently asked US online consumers to rate their satisfaction with Web site experiences at companies they've done business with across multiple industries. When the results were tallied,...

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Report:How Companies Improved Their CXi Scores, 2012

Best Practices: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

Forrester spoke to leaders at brands whose Customer Experience Index (CXi) scores went up appreciably in 2012. Our goal was to understand what drove those customer experience improvements. The...

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Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2011

Consumers Rate The Customer Experience Across 153 Large US Brands

To assess the state of customer experience in 2011, Forrester asked more than 7,700 US consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies. Based on their responses, we calculated Customer...

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Report:How Does Social Media Contribute To Customer Experience? Let Us Count The Ways

It's Time To Document Best Practices For Social Media And Customer Experience

Social media already plays a role at each step of customers' complex journeys to discover, evaluate, buy, access, use, and get support for products and services. Customer experience professionals...

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Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2010

What A Higher Customer Experience Index Score Can Do For Revenue

To help customer experience professionals prove the business value of a better enterprise customer experience, we built simple models that show how revenue increases when a company's Customer...

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Tool:Increase In Three Loyalty Measures With A 1-Point Increase In CxPi Score

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Report:Call Center Experiences Leave Consumers On Hold For Something Better

Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Call Center Agent Interactions Across 13 Industries

Consumers report low satisfaction for conversations with call center agents. PC manufacturers, TV service providers, and Internet service providers receive the brunt of their ire. The good news? The...

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Report:The Best Of Web Site Brand Experiences 2010

Best Practices From 14 Web Site Brand Reviews Across Three Industries

In 2010, Forrester reviewed the Web site brand experience of sites in industries as diverse as automotive, hotels, and skin care. An analysis of the results across industries surfaced common...

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Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012

Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

This report outlines the business case for customer experience professionals seeking to discover the business benefits of improving customer experience in an experience-driven organization. Years of...

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Report:Case Study: Mandarin Oriental Creates A Brand-Appropriate Mobile Experience

The Hotel Group Provides Luxury Travelers With A Customized Mobile Web Site

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (MOHG) noticed that a growing percentage of its Web traffic came from mobile devices. To address a growing need, the team partnered with Siteworx to design and build a...

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Tool:Assumptions Used As Inputs For The Customer Experience Revenue Model

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Report:Case Study: Emirates Uses Customer Journey Maps To Keep The Brand On Course

Journey Mapping Enables A Diverse Global Airline To Lift Quality Of Service While Growing Rapidly

Emirates is one of the world's fastest-growing airlines and positions itself as a lifestyle brand, setting high expectations for service quality in a competitive market. As Emirates expanded rapidly,...

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Report:Europe 2010: Fixing Known Usability Problems Pays Off

Web site design case studies and consulting projects provide convincing evidence that when European companies fix known Web site usability problems — like those in Forrester's Web Site User...

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Report:How Companies Raised Their Customer Experience Index Scores, 2011

To understand how companies drive customer experience improvement, Forrester spoke to leaders at brands having Customer Experience Index (CxPi) scores that went up appreciably in 2011. We uncovered a...

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