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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.
Business Case: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
Business-to-business (B2B) companies know they can generate revenue and save money by migrating their offline customers online. The question is, how much and under what circumstances? Forrester...

Processes: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
As B2B organizations embark on an eCommerce path, there are many features, functions, and interfaces from which to choose to maximize their business opportunity. Separating the wheat from the chaff...

Strategic Plan: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
Building a world-class B2B eCommerce business is a process. It takes time, and it costs money. But whatever process you follow to build your B2B eCommerce business, you will find five key issues...

Executive Overview: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
Although some eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are very mature in their understanding and execution of business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce, most organizations are still in the early...

Assessment: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
Because very little third-party benchmarking data exists for B2B eCommerce sites, B2B eCommerce professionals can't easily determine industry best practices or effectively compare themselves to...

A Joint Study With Channel Intelligence Examines Best Practices Regarding Online Conversion
To better understand how manufacturers can increase the ultimate conversion rate on leads they send to online retailer websites, Forrester teamed up with Channel Intelligence to analyze the patterns...
Traffic Has Increased And The Channel's Matured, But Proving Incrementality Remains A Challenge
Customers are flocking to affiliate deal sites that offer promotional coupons and offer codes. The slowdown in the economy, advances in technology, and a more favorable consumer mindset toward...
Check-Ins Alone . . . No. But When Combined With Compelling Offers . . . Yes.
Although currently used by only 5% of US online adults who own cell phones, services that allow consumers to "check in" on their mobile phones at retail locations are used by 11% of US online...
Road Map: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
Science fiction writer William Gibson once said: "The future has already arrived; it's just not evenly distributed yet." Such is the case with B2B eCommerce. Whereas some B2B enterprises have been...

Continuous Improvement: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
B2B eCommerce organizations too often fixate on the vision and objectives associated with a plan to the exclusion of thinking through the critical details of the execution. In fact, most B2B...

Landscape: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
Customer-facing front-end business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce is poised to reach $559 billion in US sales by the end of 2013. A part of the B2B eCommerce playbook, this report outlines the landscape...

Organization: The B2B eCommerce Playbook
Conventional wisdom has it that building an effective business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce organization today consists of modeling an operation after successful business-to-consumer (B2C) eCommerce...
