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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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Using Tmall To Sell Online In China

    Understanding The Opportunity On China's Largest B2C Website

    Taking a business online in China is intimidating. Seemingly endless red tape, a diverse online population, and differences in consumer behavior are all issues a company must carefully consider....

    • Downloads: 171
  • For CMO Professionals

    Report:How To Engage Your Omnichannel Consumer

    Brand Engagement The Consumer Way

    The report "Brand Engagement The Consumer Way," originally written for market insights professionals, highlights key behaviors that today's US online consumers exhibit when they engage with companies...

    • Downloads: 439
  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Survey:European Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012

    Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 20,778 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based on an...

    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Charts & Figures:Aisle411 And Point Inside Deliver Targeted Offers As Customers Shop

    • 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: 1940
    • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

      Survey:Latin American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey, Q3 2012 (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico)

      Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July and August 2012 of 6,008 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban areas/provinces of Argentina and top urban areas/states of Brazil and Mexico. In...

      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Survey:North American Technographics® Online Benchmark Survey (Part 2), Q3 2012 (US, Canada)

        Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in May and June 2012 of 30,978 US and 2,032 Canadian online adults ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 30,978...

        • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

          Report:The Global eCommerce Opportunity

          Landscape: The eCommerce Globalization Playbook

          Gone are the days when most brands offered just one or two international sites: Today, a global eCommerce footprint is the end goal. To reach that goal, companies are taking a strategic look at the...

          • Downloads: 358
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          Report:Why Amazon Matters Now More Than Ever

          As Amazon.com has grown aggressively in recent years, expanded into diverse businesses, and achieved profitability, its impact on the eBusiness and retail sectors is now top of mind. For many...

          • Downloads: 1600
          • Comments: 1
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        • For Security & Risk Professionals

          Report:Five Steps To Build An Effective Threat Intelligence Capability

          Tools And Technology: The Security Architecture And Operations Playbook

          Against today's mutating threat landscape and sophisticated cybercriminals, security and risk (S&R) professionals are outgunned and outmatched. The traditional strategy of waiting for an alert and...

          • Downloads: 484
          • Comments: 2
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        • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

          Report:Latin American Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017

          A Look At eCommerce Growth In Brazil, Mexico, And Argentina

          Latin American online retail markets continue to intrigue eBusiness professionals around the world. As in years past, Brazil remains the leading market in Latin America: Online shopping extends to...

          • Downloads: 560
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          Report:Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Latin America)

          ForecastView Spreadsheet

          Online retail spending by category in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and software, consumer...

          • Downloads: 7
        • For CIO Professionals

          Report:The Business Impact Of Mobile Engagement

          Business Case: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook

          Smartphones and tablets are game changers for engagement because people carry them everywhere they go. Your customers and partners and employees have perpetual access to the vast resources of the...

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        • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

          Survey:North American Technographics® Customer Life Cycle Survey, Q1 2013

          Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in February 2013 of 4,549 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,549), there is 95% confidence...

          • For Customer Experience Professionals

            Report:Best And Worst Of Website Experience, 2011

            Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

            This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...

            • Downloads: 1731
          • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

            Survey:North American Technographics® Financial Services Affluent Survey 2013

            Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in January 2013 of 1,051 affluent US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 1,051), there is 95%...

            • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

              Report:Community Speaks: A Look Into Consumers' 2012 Holiday Season Shopping Habits

              A Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report

              In recent years, we have seen a continued increase in online shopping around the holidays. Forrester's US Online Holiday Retail Forecast, 2012 again showed an increase in consumer spending; online...

              • Downloads: 6
            • For CIO Professionals

              Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2013 And 2014: Better Times Ahead

              We Forecast 6% ICT Spending Growth For Both Years

              US CIOs remain torn between their need to invest in new mobile, cloud, and smart technologies and their fear of encountering economic doldrums (or worse). Over the past two and a half years, these...

              • Downloads: 242
            • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

              Report:Must-Have eCommerce Features

              Road Map: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

              Companies often struggle with how to prioritize the countless issues that populate eCommerce to-do lists. This chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook is a prescriptive look at the industry...

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              Report:Trends 2013: US Retail eBusiness

              As US online retail continues to grow and capture shopper wallet share, online retail executives must determine the best areas on which to focus their limited resources, particularly given the number...

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            • For CIO Professionals

              Report:Perspectives On Asia's BT Journey

              Insights From Asian CIOs At Forrester's CIO Summit APAC 2012

              CIOs in Asia face an inconvenient truth: transform or be overwhelmed by the forces of change. These forces include the consumerization of IT, "everything-as-a-service," enterprise mobility, big data,...

              • Downloads: 99
            • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

              Report:Global Retail Behaviors, 2011

              A Technographics® Global Overview Report

              The Internet plays an important role in consumers' retail habits across the world. Our 2011 data shows that the majority of global online consumers already shop online — and this isn't limited...

              • Downloads: 94
            • For CIO Professionals

              Report:Move From Ideation To Innovation

              Ideation: The Innovation Playbook

              Innovation is the number-one challenge for CEOs. And CIOs are increasingly asked to help solve the challenge by supporting innovation across the enterprise with new technology. The problem is that...

              • Downloads: 840
              • Comments: 2
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            • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

              Report:Compare Your Campaigns To 70 Others

              Benchmarks: The Email Marketing Playbook

              This report helps interactive marketers benchmark their email marketing campaigns against 70 of their peers that Forrester reviewed, from the consumer goods, retail, travel, financial services,...

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            • For CMO Professionals

              Report:The Role Of Digital In The Path To Purchase

              New Digital Platforms Have To Wait Their Turn, As Traditional Stores Stay Critical

              CMOs of business-to-consumer (B2C) companies have lately called on shopper marketers to address the growing complexity of the impact of digital on in-store purchasing. Forrester recently conducted a...

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            • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

              Tool:Forrester Wave™: Point Of Service, Q2 '12

             
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