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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.
Consumers Rate The Customer Experience Across 153 Large US Brands
To assess the state of customer experience in 2011, Forrester asked more than 7,700 US consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies. Based on their responses, we calculated Customer...
Road Map: The Cloud Computing Playbook
Early in 2011, Forrester made a series of predictions about the future of cloud computing for that year. With 2012 now upon us, it's time to evaluate last year's predictions and introduce new...

Service Providers Offer New Models To Address Emerging Buyer Needs For Cloud
Forrester recently interviewed leading services providers around their offerings built for XaaS technologies (i.e., software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and testing-as-a-service). We also...

Processes: The Business Architecture Playbook
Business architecture (BA) is the practice through which an organization adds analytical rigor to the planning and decision-making surrounding change. Whether changes are driven by competitive...

Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

Today's organizations face aggressive cost-cutting and efficiency pressures that drive businesses to consider cloud sourcing solutions. While the many properties of cloud services, such as...
Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
This report outlines the business case for customer experience professionals seeking to discover the business benefits of improving customer experience in an experience-driven organization. Years of...

Health plans are looking for new ways to connect with consumers, including via social media. But plans worry about consumer engagement levels with these new platforms. Forrester asked consumers about...
A Blueprint On How To Transform People, Process, And Technology Elements To Proactively Address Increasingly Complex Markets
In 2010, Sanofi, a large multinational in the healthcare market, embarked on a business transformation in response to increasing market complexity. Similar market complexities are affecting most...

What Customer Experience Professionals At Other Firms Can Learn
Health insurers need to improve customer experience to gain customers' trust and boost engagement. While most insurers focus on self-service in isolation, Regence BlueCross BlueShield decided to...
This document provides a comprehensive background of the dynamics in the public sector market in Turkey. This analysis will allow vendor strategists to address market opportunities in Turkey more...

This document highlights the dynamics of the IT market in the African country of Kenya, discusses the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides a systematic analysis of key IT...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in August 2011 of 37,350 US and Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 37,350), there is...
This document provides an overview of cloud computing end user adoption trends in Japan for vendor strategists. The report is based on findings from a cloud computing survey targeting Japanese...
How Biometrics Enable Smart Computing Solutions
Biometrics is already a growing market today in a variety of applications. Smart Computing will help to fuel biometrics growth as smart applications call for a greater level of security and...
What Security Professionals Need To Know Today About Smart City Initiatives
With the promise of improved citizen services and more efficient use of scarce resources, the smart city trend is picking up momentum across the globe. A "smart city" integrates technology with...
This document highlights the dynamics of the IT market in the African country of Ethiopia, discusses the economic conditions prevailing in the country, and provides a systematic analysis of key IT...

Could you direct me to any reports on healthcare institutes of quality/excellence and sites of service for procedures that will allow members to experience a lower cost through steerage to particular...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2010 of 7,728 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 7,728), there is 95% confidence...
Online healthcare marketing is a big opportunity; while interactive spending will grow rapidly over the next four years, the overall industry remains conservative in spend and innovation. Digital...

This document provides an overview of cloud computing in Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) for vendor strategists. Survey data was gathered from over 470 interviews with CIOs, IT managers, and top...
Use The Forrester Marketing Flywheel To Assess Budget Allocation
After several years of making cuts, B2B marketing leaders have larger budgets in 2011, but they come with a catch: more scrutiny and greater expectations for results. Budgeting is no longer an annual...