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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.
As health insurance plans get more complex and members' responsibility rises, insurers struggle to meet members' needs for accurate plan- and member-specific cost estimates for medical services. In...
The Business Impact Of Customer Experience
Business process professionals supporting customer-facing processes are often challenged to make the business case to their executive leaders that investing to improve the customer experience is a...

How Customer Experience Professionals Can Support Mobile Experiences
Sensor Devices Disrupt Marketing Practices
Your customers are becoming even more connected. Sensor-laden devices on our bodies, in our homes, in our cars, and virtually everywhere else are creating new opportunities and demands for marketers....

What A Higher Customer Experience Index Score Can Do For Revenue
To help customer experience professionals prove the business value of a better enterprise customer experience, we built simple models that show how revenue increases when a company's Customer...
Disruption Drives 12 Trends In Digital Insurance Agendas
There's one word that sums up what's going on in the business of insurance right now: disruption. There are four drivers behind the state that the industry is in, all of which have implications...

Over the past seven years, transformational changes have swept through Medco — propelled by the visionary duo of David B. Snow, Jr., Medco chairman and CEO, and Kenneth Klepper, Medco president...
BCBST Leverages A Proactive Approach To Support eDiscovery And Cut Costs
In addition to regulatory requirements, health plans often face significant litigation burdens. In seeking to address eDiscovery objectives, many organizations struggle with the intersection of...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2011 of 4,793 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,793), there is 95% confidence that...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in March 2012 of 4,518 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,518), there is 95% confidence that...
Call Center Satisfaction Ties To Loyalty Across 11 Industries
Call center satisfaction correlates with three loyalty metrics: consumers' willingness to repurchase, reluctance to switch, and likelihood to recommend. Call satisfaction also correlates highly with...
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...

Empowered Users, HPC, And Business Intelligence Will Drive Adoption
IaaS is undoubtedly one of your top priorities, but will you craft a plan for success? Many enterprises are headed toward a number of cloud pitfalls, such as misunderstanding the makeup, benefits,...
Creating An IA Program That Works
It has been more than five years since Forrester first published this report outlining a simple approach to information architecture, but this domain of enterprise architecture (EA) has matured...
How Leading Health Insurers Drive Change Inside And Outside Of Their Walls
The health insurance industry faces discontent from both its consumer and provider customers. With new regulations and an elevated national discourse on health reform, the time for change is now. But...
First Consider How Consumers Engage With Social Media For Health
Social media adoption is growing, but is there any value to be had for healthcare companies and their customers? In this report, Forrester looks at consumer adoption of social media for health as...

While many health plans toe-dip in the social media space by building a Facebook page or launching a Twitter feed, Blue Shield of California has taken the plunge with a more substantial initiative....

Forrester Applies Its Website Review Methodology To Seven Health Insurers' Sites
Health plans have invested a lot in their public consumer-facing websites. But have those investments yielded consumer-friendly experiences? To find out, Forrester evaluated the public websites of...
Answering Hard Questions About Business, Process, And Technology Best Practices
Business process pros at health payers work at the intersection of business and technology, bringing process methodologies, business knowledge, and technology insights to business transformation...
Health Insurance Plans' Improvement Efforts Are Starting To Pay Off . . . Slowly
Health insurance plans as an industry had the lowest average score in Forrester's Customer Experience Index, 2011. But the news isn't all bad. Companies like Tricare and Kaiser had scores in the...