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 eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Survey:North American Technographics® Consumer Deep Dive: Investigating The Customer Life Cycle (Engage Phase) Survey, Q2 2012 (US)

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in June 2012 of 4,506 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,506), there is 95% confidence that...

    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Enable Loyalty Program Success With Sound Processes

      Processes: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

      Loyalty programs promise to increase retention and satisfaction, but they often fall short of delivering results because they lack an innovative strategy to set them apart from the competition. This...

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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Case Study: SCENE Uses Customer Insights To Deliver Value To Loyalty Customers

      This report provides a case study supporting Forrester's best practices for customer intelligence professionals working to drive customer loyalty. Forrester identifies four crucial best practices for...

      • Downloads: 168
    • For Market Insights Professionals

      Charts & Figures:Demographics And Attitudes

      A Technographics® Data Essentials Document

    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Mobile Apps For Marketing

      When And How Interactive Marketers Should Build Apps For Marketing Purposes

      Mobile apps hold exciting potential for interactive marketers to reach their audiences through mobile devices in ways the mobile Web can't. But today, mobile apps receive a mixed response from...

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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:The Customer Loyalty Ecosystem

      Tools And Technology: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

      Customer loyalty is top of mind for most marketers, but with so many vendors claiming to drive explicit or implicit loyalty, it's often difficult to identify a solution that best fits marketers'...

      • Downloads: 1942
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Report:2013 Mobile Trends For eBusiness Professionals

      Landscape: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

      With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Under The Hood Of Mobile Marketing: Location-Based Marketing

      Making Marketing Content Relevant To Where People Are

      As marketers step up their mobile marketing efforts, Forrester clients are asking more and more questions about it, and one of the most important facets of the opportunity is location-based...

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      • Comments: 2
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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      Report:Cross-Channel Attribution Puts The Science In Marketing Measurement

      Executive Overview: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

      Traditional campaign measurement focuses on simple, one-sided metrics, often giving credit to the last interaction an organization had with a customer and delivering an incomplete view of marketing...

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    • For Customer Insights Professionals

      The Customer Loyalty Playbook

      Drive Smarter Customer Loyalty With Customer Intelligence

      Customer loyalty is a hot topic. Companies look to loyalty programs to enhance customer knowledge and drive customer retention, revenue, and engagement. But, while they see the potential of loyalty...

      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:2013 Mobile Trends For Marketers

        Multiyear Strategies And Larger Investments Define This Year

        With more than 1 billion smartphones in consumers' pockets at the beginning of 2013, mobile is driving a second Internet revolution that's even more profound than the first one. Mobile creates new...

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      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Report:Mobile Messaging Vendor Overview

        Making Smart Decisions To Support Your Business Needs

        This report is a mobile messaging vendor overview designed to provide a framework for narrowing the list of potential vendors that are well suited to meet the needs of your business. Rather than an...

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      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:Culture, Data, And Technology Are Key Ingredients For Measurement Success

        Strategic Plan: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

        A key piece in cross-channel attribution is developing a strategy that outlines where the organization needs to progress to achieve attribution nirvana. To be successful at cross-channel attribution,...

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      • For Sales Enablement Professionals

        Report:Provisional L2RM Process Catalog

        This provisional lead-to-revenue process catalog is a companion tool for the processes module of Forrester's lead-to-revenue playbook. Designed to jump-start your own process documentation, it...

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      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Report:US Online Retail Forecast, 2011 To 2016

        eCommerce Tops $200 Billion In 2011

        eCommerce sales continue to grow rapidly, having topped $200 billion in 2011. Forrester expects that online sales will grow from 7% of overall retail sales to close to 9% by 2016. Key drivers of this...

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      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:Just Add Collaboration: All Functions Required For Successful Implementation

        Organization: The Cross-Channel Attribution Playbook

        This report, part of the cross-channel attribution playbook, is designed to help firms plan and coordinate activities across roles and functions and to clarify task responsibilities in successfully...

        • Downloads: 159
      • For Sales Enablement Professionals

        Report:Lead-To-Revenue Management Automation Made In Europe

        Local Innovative Solutions Help Address European Needs

        Many of the international lead-to-revenue management automation vendors have not yet seriously set up shop in Europe because they consider firms in that territory to be late adopters of marketing...

        • Downloads: 207
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      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Attribution Providers, Q2 2012

        Visual IQ Surfaces At The Top Of A Relatively Immature Market

        In Forrester's 67-criteria evaluation of cross-channel attribution vendors, we found that Visual IQ led the pack because of its expertise in cross-channel attribution methodology, reporting, and...

        • Downloads: 662
        • Comments: 1
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      • For CMO Professionals

        Report:Embed The Customer Life Cycle Across Marketing

        Vision: The Customer Life-Cycle Marketing Playbook

        Today's empowered customer has the world at her fingertips — literally — through the multiple keyboards and connections to opinions all throughout her day. The challenge for today's...

        • Downloads: 445
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Mobile Marketing: Not The Same On Tablets As On Smartphones

        Effective mobile marketing begins with understanding how consumers use the two main types of mobile devices that can deliver rich marketing experiences: smartphones and tablets. This short report...

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      • For CMO Professionals

        Report:Visible Value Differentiates Brands And Drives Loyalty

        Consumers Define Which Aspects Of The Brand Experience Are Critical

        Consumers want brand experiences that match their expectations. We asked consumers which aspects of the brand experience help them differentiate between similar brands and ultimately make them loyal...

        • Downloads: 551
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:The Mobile Mind Shift Index

        Measuring And Analyzing The Shift In Consumers' Expectations

        Six years into the smartphone transition, customers are making a mobile mind shift. The shifted customer expects that any desired information or service is available on any appropriate device, in...

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      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Use The Five P's To Test Interactive Displays

        Understand The Opportunities And Challenges Before Activating

        Interactive displays offer interactive marketers the chance to enhance customer engagement outside of the home and to test budding technologies like gestural recognition and touchscreen interfaces....

        • Downloads: 236
      • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

        Report:Marketing Via Geosocial Apps: Why And How

        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...

        • Downloads: 582
      • For Customer Insights Professionals

        Report:Base Your Plan For Intelligent Loyalty On Maturity

        Strategic Plan: The Customer Loyalty Playbook

        Loyalty programs that attempt to implement a cookie-cutter strategy and ignore customer insights typically struggle and usually lack meaningful results. Organizations seeking to build a program that...

        • Downloads: 152
      • For CMO Professionals

        Report:Marketers Need To Put Money Where A Consumer's Mouth Is

        How Consumers Discover New Brands, Products, And Services

        This report, originally written for market insights professionals, includes important content for CMOs and marketing leaders looking to improve discovery of their products and services. The discover...

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