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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.
Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs
CIOs are responsible for the technology tools and services that make employees productive and successful at work. Too often, the CIO organization must make decisions about devices, software licenses,...
Business Leaders Must Lead Big Data Initiatives To Derive Value
As consumers use multiple touchpoints to obtain information, exchange reviews, and purchase products and services, organizations are struggling to better integrate systems and leverage social...

Flexible Work And Cowork Redefine Workplace Diversity
If you haven't heard the latest office gossip, you might want to figure out why. As workers increasingly work from home, a coffee shop, a public library, the train, or one of the new coworking...


Vendor Strategists Must Overhaul Business Units And Products Aimed At Information Workers
Execs plotting new information and communications technology (ICT) products and services face changing information worker behaviors driven by five innovations that empower users to provision and use...
Changes Will Accelerate Over The Next 24 Months
The IT services industry is in the middle of a fundamental transformation of who it sells to, what services it sells, and how it delivers those services. Upstart vendors specializing in new...

Understanding Who Chooses And Who Pays For Devices That Span Business And Personal Tasks
The spreading bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has created a more complex landscape of tech buying. But traditional divisions between consumer tech purchases and business tech purchases still...
A quick look into the survey: This forward-looking market research study of technology information workers details device usage, bring-your-own-device prevalence, phone and Internet, PC application...
CIOs Must Plan Now For New Systems Of Engagement
By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped SAP...

Forrester's Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2011, was fielded to 9,912 technology end users located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia,...
Assessment: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
CIOs, as the leaders driving technology strategy, must develop a mobile engagement strategy that embraces the needs of customers, partners, and employees. Don't get bogged down in the minute details...
Many Workers Use Multiple Devices And Spend Their Own Money For Work Tech
The rise of mobile devices and broadband Internet access at home are driving new behaviors by information workers. Our surveys of almost 10,000 global information workers and 2,300 IT hardware...

Emerging Opportunities And Imperatives For An IT Industry In Transformation
Rather than quietly maturing into middle age as it enters its seventh decade, the information and communications technology (ICT) industry is continuing to evolve rapidly. The ICT landscape is roiled...
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...

Forrester's Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q2 2012, was fielded to 4,982 information workers located in Canada, France, Germany, the UK, and the US from SMB and enterprise companies with 20 or...
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...

Business Leaders Must Focus On People, Technologies, And Facilities Management
With two-thirds of the North American and European workforce reporting that they work outside a corporate office at least occasionally during a month, it's imperative that business leaders initiate...
The Five Top-Of-Mind Streams And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's first 19-criteria evaluation of activities streams vendors, Forrester identified the five significant players — Neudesic Pulse, Salesforce Chatter, Socialcast by VMware...

Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

Aligning Strategies With Key Government Priorities Is The Key To Success
The Indian public sector is an extremely difficult market for IT vendors due to its extended business cycles and high levels of diversity, hypercompetition, bureaucracy, and procurement complexity....

Prepare For The Implications Of Over-The-Top Communications
Telecom carriers' core revenue base, voice and messaging, is under attack from the over-the-top (OTT) business model. Given the financial importance of voice and messaging revenues for carriers, they...

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years
This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...
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,...

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps
As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...
