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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.
Performance Management: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
This report is an update to "How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience Across The Enterprise" originally published on January 22, 2010. Chief customer experience officers (CC/EOs) need a set of...

Best Practices: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
Forrester spoke to leaders at brands whose Customer Experience Index (CXi) scores went up appreciably in 2012. Our goal was to understand what drove those customer experience improvements. The...

Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With 87 Web Sites Across 13 Industries
Forrester recently asked US online consumers to rate their satisfaction with Web site experiences at companies they've done business with across multiple industries. When the results were tallied,...

Improvements Can Add More Than $1 Billion In Revenue For Wireless Carriers And Hotels
Customer experience professionals must clearly articulate the business benefits of improving customer experience. Years of Forrester data confirm the strong relationship between the quality of a...
Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Phone Experiences Across 13 Industries
For many companies, the phone is a major channel through which they interact with customers. Forrester surveyed 4,653 consumers to find out how satisfied they were with the phone interactions they...
Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

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...
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...
Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook
How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

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...

To understand how companies drive customer experience improvement, Forrester spoke to leaders at brands having Customer Experience Index (CxPi) scores that went up appreciably in 2011. We uncovered a...