Kate Leggett

Principal Analyst serving Application Development & Delivery PROFESSIONALS

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.

Previous Work Experience

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.


Education

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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  • Past 18 months
  • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

    Client Inquiry:What Are Best Practices For Scorecard Development?

    We are trying to develop a comprehensive executive-level scorecard for our administration area or operations/service areas, not IT. We are looking for best practices to help us develop the format or...

    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:Smart Process Applications Fill A Big Business Gap

      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....

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      Report:Mobile Is The New Face Of Engagement: An Executive Summary

      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,...

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    • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

      Charts & Figures:Base Key Performance Indicators On A Comprehensive Performance Management Process

    • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

      The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

      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...

      • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

        Report:Determine The Right Practices For Your Organization's BYOD Stipends

        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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      • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

        Client Inquiry:What Are Typical DBA Salary Ranges, And How Large Are The Talent Pools For The Various RDBMS Types?

        We'd like an analyst to speak to the following two questions: 1) What are the typical salary ranges for each of the following database administrator (DBA) positions: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and...

        • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

          Report:Develop Your Workforce Computing Balanced Scorecard

          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...

          • Downloads: 122
        • For CIO Professionals

          Report:Smart Computing Connects CIOs With The Business

          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...

          • Downloads: 711
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        • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

          Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

          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...

          • Downloads: 172
        • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

          Report:Build Your Workforce Computing Strategic Plan

          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...

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        • For Customer Insights Professionals

          Report:The Consumerization Of Customer Analytics

          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...

          • Downloads: 237
        • For CIO Professionals

          Report:Getting The Most Out Of Client Site Visits

          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...

          • Downloads: 157
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        • For CIO Professionals

          Report:Measure Workforce Experience Through Engagement, Productivity, And Customer Impact

          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...

          • Downloads: 89
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        • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

          Report:The Forrester Wave™: Managed Print Services, Q2 2012

          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...

          • Downloads: 548
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        • For Customer Insights Professionals

          Report:It's Time To Bridge The Audience Data Management Divide

          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...

          • Downloads: 524
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        • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

          Report:Information Strategies Move Center Stage

          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...

          • Downloads: 110
        • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

          Report:Building The Business Case For A Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) Program

          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...

          • Downloads: 772
        • For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

          Report:Create KPIs That Show The Effectiveness Of Your Information Strategy

          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...

          • Downloads: 240
        • For Security & Risk Professionals

          Report:Strategy Deep Dive: Define Your Data

          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...

          • Downloads: 185
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        • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

          Report:Redefine Your Workforce Computing Policy To Empower Employees

          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...

          • Downloads: 427
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        • For CIO Professionals

          Report:Big Data Adoption Trends In Asia Pacific: 2013 To 2014

          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...

          • Downloads: 342
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        • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

          Report:Managing Information Security In BYOT Environments In Asia Pacific

          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...

          • Downloads: 94
        • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

          Tool:Forrester Wave™: BI Services, Q4 '12 Strategy Evaluation

        • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

          Report:The Forrester Wave™: EMEA Workplace Services, Q2 2013

          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...

          • Downloads: 82
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        • For CIO Professionals

          Report:Charting The Rising Tide Of Bring-Your-Own Technology

          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...

          • Downloads: 865
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