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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.
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They Will Grow Twice As Fast As The Enterprise Application Market
Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change....

This report summarizes the 28-page Forrester report "Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement." By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. However,...


Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact
Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...
SVM Worries About Impact On Revenue Commitments And Discount Eligibility For Corporate-Liable Users — Don't!
This report answers three questions about enterprise mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices: 1) what the major trends are regarding BYOD adoption; 2) how firms are managing their BYOD programs...

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Performance Management: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for developing effective metrics to measure the performance of your workforce computing initiatives. Identifying and implementing a comprehensive, relevant...
Sensors, Machine-To-Machine, Analytics, And Collaboration Help CIOs Solve Business Problems
It is no surprise that CIOs have shown keen interest in cloud computing, since its variations can help reduce IT's capital and operating costs and speed up delivery of projects. But many CIOs are...

These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...
Strategic Plan: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
Forrester's survey data shows that 50% of firms say investing in systems to improve engagement with customers and partners is a high or critical priority. And few areas of technology are as...

Landscape: The Customer Analytics Playbook
The analytics conversation is now front and center for marketers, thanks to the real estate that big data enjoys in mainstream media. As a result of this buzz, customer analytics practitioners who...
IT Services Vendors Need To Focus More On Their Innovation Capabilities
Delivery center site visits (CSVs) have been a great sales tool for IT services vendors over the past decade. However, these CSVs are currently undergoing a transformation, driven by new client...

Customer experience — its relationship to loyalty and satisfaction and the likelihood that it will lead to future business — is now a well-established discipline. However, measuring...

Vendors Move Toward Mature Service Offerings
While many offices look modern, unplanned and unmanaged use of printers, fax machines, copiers, and scanners leads to significant waste. Managed print services (MPS) are designed to help a business...

How Customer Intelligence Can Unify Audience Intelligence Across Channels To Enable Advanced Advertising
Marketers constantly seek ways to design addressable marketing programs that reduce media waste and create targeting efficiencies: Direct marketers turn to marketing databases to inform audience...

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...
Business Case: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's guidance for developing a business case to justify a BYOD program to support your workforce computing strategy. Supporting the growing number and increasing diversity...
Continuous Improvement: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
How effective is your information strategy? You can't answer that question without a comprehensive assessment process and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting mechanism that specifically targets...
Rethinking Data Discovery And Classification For Data Security
Defining data via data discovery and classification is an often overlooked, yet critical, component of data security and control. Security and risk (S&R) pros can't expect to adequately protect data...

Policy And Procedures: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals solving workforce computing challenges. This report is designed to help you redefine your workforce...

The maturity and sophistication of existing data warehousing (DW) implementations across the Asia Pacific (AP) region has been variable, to say the least. If the hype around big data is to be...

I&O Professionals Need The Right Policies, Technologies, And Skills To Secure Enterprise Data
Employees are rapidly embracing personal devices, consumer software, and public cloud services for work to increase personal productivity and efficiency, a trend that Forrester refers to as...
Providers Driving Workplace Services In EMEA
Workplace services are rapidly evolving far beyond their origins in desktop and desk-side management toward a post-desktop future in which end users' consumer-derived expectations dominate the...

Insights From Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2011
This research, based on a multi-regional survey of almost 10,000 information workers, provides insight into a growing trend that will increasingly affect the policies and budgets of CIOs and their...
