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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.

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Interactive marketing spending segmented by industries. Each industry's IM spending is further broken into the various components of IM: display, paid search, SEO, email, and mobile advertising.

The types of devices people use to connect to the Web are proliferating. Portable devices are rapidly getting more powerful, and as a result, the tradeoff between mobility and capability is...
How eBusiness Executives Can Create Unique Offerings For Portable Devices
eBusiness professionals often start mobile initiatives by thinking, "How do I scale down my PC-based web experience and leverage my existing infrastructure?" This approach is pragmatic in that it is...
How eBusiness Leaders Should Approach Mobile As A Sales And Service Channel
Across the globe, the mobile channel is growing at a rapid rate. eBusiness and channel strategy leaders at B2B and B2C firms are at the forefront: 94% of eBusiness managers we surveyed are either...
Five Pragmatic Practices To Improve EA Value Throughout The M&A Process
A new wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is happening, and contrary to previous M&A periods in which IT was only tactically involved, organizations now draw IT into their plans for cost savings...
eBusiness Execs Must Evolve Channel Strategies To Embrace Market Changes
Multichannel commerce is being reborn. Traditional ways of describing multichannel commerce no longer work because customers don't interact with companies from a "channel" perspective. Customers now...
Welcome To The Era Of Agile Commerce
Traditional ways of describing multichannel commerce no longer work, because customers don't interact with companies from a channel perspective. Customers now use a rapidly evolving set of devices as...
Forrester forecasts interactive marketing spend to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%. But not all industries will invest in interactive at the same pace. Financial services will spend the...
In Touch Significantly Increases Efficiencies In KLM's Multicountry Research
In 2008, Dutch airline KLM worked with Communispace to launch its first market research online community (MROC) — called In touch — to better understand the Elite members of its Flying...

Three Firms Achieve Tangible Results
Companies depend on innovation to sprint out of the current economic doldrums and to return to profitability and growth. Innovation is a discipline with established best practices, needed skill sets,...
An Empowered Report
Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Chase Card Services (Chase) won a 2010 Forrester Groundswell Award in the B2C Embracing category, and for good reason. These two companies hired a private...