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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.
Slower Than Expected 2011 Spending Portends 6.6% Growth In 2012
The US tech market posted weaker growth in 2011 than we expected; the outlook for 2012 is for more of the same, with business and government purchases of IT goods and services growing by 6.8% to 6.6%...

Benchmarking Web Sites Using Forrester's Online Video Product Scorecard
Over the past year, our video strategy series has presented the business case goals and best practices for adding video to your Web site. In this report, we demonstrate how our online video product...

Location-Based Social Networking, Though Stagnant Now, Is Poised To Grow
Geosocial applications — also known as location-based social networks — hold potential for interactive marketers: They can help increase in-store visits, your brand's visibility, and...
Growing pressure to quickly control mobile communication environments and capture immediate cost management means that telecom expense management (TEM) strategies often sacrifice long-term...
In just 18 short months, customer experience professionals at Rogers Communications (Canada's largest telecommunications company) developed and gained support for a new customer experience...
This document highlights the dynamics of the IT market in the African country of Uganda, discusses the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides a systematic analysis of key IT...

Individual Country Dynamics Drive Growth And Industry Maturity
Different factors will drive the growth of the IT services and outsourcing industries in Australia, China, and India. In Australia, as-a-service offerings, mobile application development, and mobile...

What changes in emergency notification tactics do you foresee? More specifically, it seems as if SMS messaging and email will replace telephone voice-to-voice communications. Will SMS messaging and...
How are retailers and other companies getting their telecom service provider to help prevent telephone cramming?
Forrester Evaluates Mobile Banking At The Four Largest UK Banks
With customer expectations rising and substantial business at stake, digital banking strategy teams know they must keep improving their mobile services. This is one of three reports that detail the...
Understanding The Cloud Computing Opportunities In Africa
After years of stagnant enterprise spending on information and communications technology (ICT), Africa is gearing up for a new period of growth. As political stability across the continent gradually...

Credit Card Companies And Wireless Service Providers Benefit From Higher Net Promoter Scores Through Better Customer Experience
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a wildly popular tool for assessing customers' likelihood to recommend a company's product or service. As valuable as NPS can be, by itself, the "one number you need to...

This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of the telecom service providers that offer data center services in Singapore focusing on AT&T, SingTel, Verizon, Tata Communications,...
Forrester conducted a 20-minute phone survey fielded in April and May 2010 of 3,000 Hispanic US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 3,000),...
Build FMC Into Your Unified Communications Sourcing Strategy
The key benefits of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) are simple to understand: a) avoid duplicating costs for voice infrastructure by taking away desk phones for employees who aren't using them anyway,...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Company spending on interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's spending is further broken into the various components of interactive marketing: display, paid search, SEO,...
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....