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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.
This highlight deck provides an overview of PC adoption among US Hispanic consumers from Forrester's Hispanic Technographics Consumer Technology Phone Survey, Q4 2009 (US).
Vision: The Emerging Touchpoints For Marketing Playbook
Emerging technologies — from smart objects and wearables to behind-the-scenes taxonomy tools — radically change how your customers think, act, and relate to others. Marketers who try to...


From 2008 to 2010, 26.3 million more US online leisure travelers began using social media. Members of the group that travel eBusiness professionals need to pay attention to for their social commerce...
Consumers Report On Program Availability, Usage, And Relevance
Forrester surveyed US online nonelderly commercially insured consumers to find out how open they are to using health management programs offered by their health plan or employer and in which channels...
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Websites Of Five Australian Consumer Electronics Retailers
Consumer electronics retailers in Australia face many challenges, but online retail is booming despite the relatively modest feature set provided by most Australian sites. To dig deeper, Forrester...
The Convenience Quotient Of Mobile Services: A Facebook Case Study
Although a majority of consumers still prefer the traditional PC to a mobile phone when performing any task related to eBusiness, our research shows that mobile penetration continues to rise....
An Empowered Report: Employees Are Customer Experience Pros' Best Weapon
Employees have a wealth of insight about both customers and internal operations. Many also have the influence to quickly improve customer experience at the ground level through frontline interactions...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2011 of 4,767 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,767), there is 95% confidence...
An Empowered Report: 2D Bar Codes: Learn Why There's No Urgency
2D bar codes have captured the attention of eBusiness professionals in many industries who are looking to bridge the gap between online and offline media. The stakes are high. Those who execute well...
Younger Consumers Prefer Online Chat, Websites, And Email
Now more than ever, clients are using new channels to communicate with their financial advisors. Younger clients show a strong preference for communicating with advisors through digital channels like...

More Innovation Is Needed, But Fundamental Connectivity Remains A Valuable Service
Product strategists in various industries tend to dismiss telcos' role in service innovation, focusing instead on disruptors such as Google and Apple. It is true that new entrants and over-the-top...
Forrester evaluated the interaction and system capabilities of the iPad for accessing content via its web browser and applications (apps). Both experiences offer somewhat-limited input capabilities...
ForecastView Spreadsheet
Worldwide Online Population Forecast estimates the number of individuals with online access and includes total population and Internet penetration by region and country. Includes historical data...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2011 of 5,998 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban cities/states of Mexico and Brazil and top urban cities/provinces of Argentina. In...