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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.
This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the IT services market in APeJ in 2011. The research is based on interviews with key MNCs and local vendors in the Asia Pacific IT...
Employees' Choices And Dollars Dictate The Rise Of Android And Apple Devices
More than half of US information workers pay for their smartphones and monthly plans, and three-quarters pick the smartphone they want rather than accept IT's choice. What does consumerization's...
Ten Trends Drive Planning For Service And Support Process Transformation
Organizations of all types strive to differentiate themselves through delivering an outstanding customer experience. Customers know what good service is and demand it from each interaction they have,...

Assessment: The CIO's The Mobile Engagement Playbook
Skype And Others Will Benefit From Apple's New iPhone 4 Hardware
Creating a successful strategy for consumer video telephony has eluded everyone bar Skype. Even the telecommunications industry itself has failed with this particular communications product:...
An Empowered Report: Understanding The Mobile Behavior Of Your Target Audience
The first step in building or refining a mobile strategy is understanding the mobile behaviors of your target audience. Mobile Technographics offers consumer product strategists a means of obtaining...
An Improving Mobility Infrastructure And Ecosystem, Combined With Business And Workforce Demand, Is Fueling Growth
The enterprise mobility market presents a huge opportunity for tech vendors in India, especially for telcos and systems integrators (SIs). Mobility is among the top priorities for business...

The Convenience Quotient Of Mobile Services: A Facebook Case Study
Although a majority of consumers still prefer the traditional PC to a mobile phone when performing any task related to eBusiness, our research shows that mobile penetration continues to rise....
Forrester's Definitions For Tech Product Categories, Industries, And Geographies
Forrester is expanding the breadth and depth of data that we provide to vendor strategists on the size and growth trends of the market for information and communications technology (ICT) solutions....
Forrester's 2011 Tech Industry Predictions
In this report, we highlight macro trends and specific predictions that indicate the directions of growth and disruption for the technology industry in 2011.
Assessment Framework: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
Workforce computing (WC) spend consumes approximately one-quarter of IT hardware budgets in 2012. Yet IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders struggle to answer "How are we doing?" and "What...
Choosing An Approach To Meet Your Objectives Cost-Effectively
The browser-based mobile Web experience is more important than ever, with dramatic growth in the usage of the mobile Internet — especially from smartphones — in the past 24 months. In...
How do you leverage a treasure trove of end customer data when it suddenly comes available? Sybron Dental, a dental supplies company, faced this scenario when it struck a deal with its distributors...
Focus Quickly Shifts From Managing Mobile Devices To Managing Apps And Data
The managed mobile environment services market is about to go through a fundamental change. Currently, traditional providers focus on managing the device and its security. Moving forward, Forrester...
Strategy Deep Dive: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
Mobile devices are everywhere: at work, in the hands of your customers, and with employees. Security and risk (S&R) professionals need to provide users with secure and seamless mobile access to...

Insights From The Forrester IT Infrastructure & Operations Council
Every six months, Forrester fields a survey to members of its IT Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) Council to ascertain their top priorities for the following six months. Forrester's I&O Council...
More BYOD, More Devices, More Mobility, More Apple
Have we hit peak bring-your-own-device (BYOD)? Which apps are most important on smartphones? How many employees are interested in Windows tablets? Do employees use mobile devices for work more at...

CRM application adoption data cuts taken from Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010.
Nail The Basics To Quickly Expose The Value Of The Channel
In the US, adoption of mobile financial services is rising: 11% of US online adults are now mobile bankers and 7% of those with investment accounts are mobile investors, although just 3% of online...
Future Look: The Mobile Security And Operations Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's future look for mobile security and operations. We designed this report to help security and risk (S&R) and infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives understand...

Product Strategists Need Discipline In Developing For The Device Splinternet
The Splinternet, Forrester's term for the proliferation of platforms and devices, has a new addition: Apple's iPad. Even though the iPad's current install base pales in comparison to other platforms,...
An Empowered Report: Sourcing Can Do More To Adapt To Changes In Business Technology
A major shift in the technology marketplace is moving technology purchasing power away from centralized IT departments and into the hands of individual employees. This shift, which is driven by rapid...