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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.
Kaltura Joins Leaders Brightcove And Ooyala In A Maturing Market
Video is integral to many consumer-facing websites, not just from traditional media providers but from brands, companies, and organizations without a history of content creation. In Forrester's...
Vision: The Communications And Collaboration Infrastructure Playbook
Increasing consumerization of IT and advances in both cloud technologies and deployment models tremendously affect the enterprise not simply on how we communicate but where, when, and on what kind of...
Flexible Work And Cowork Redefine Workplace Diversity
If you haven't heard the latest office gossip, you might want to figure out why. As workers increasingly work from home, a coffee shop, a public library, the train, or one of the new coworking...


Continuous Improvement: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the continuous improvement component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, will help application development and delivery professionals (AD&D pros), CIOs, and their HR...

A quick look into the survey: This forward-looking market research study of technology information workers details device usage, bring-your-own-device prevalence, phone and Internet, PC application...
Polycom, Cisco, And LifeSize Lead, Followed By Resurgents Radvision And Teliris And Aggressive Entrants Huawei And Vidyo
In Forrester's 39-criteria evaluation of videoconferencing solution vendors, we identified the seven most significant providers in the category — Cisco, Huawei, LifeSize, Polycom, Radvision,...

Future Look: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report outlines the future outlook for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working with human resources executives on their applications and business process optimization...

Insights From The Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2012
The connected enterprise is becoming a reality. Businesses require access to the best market information regarding customer demand, supplier options, transport and logistics, and sales patterns. They...

Processes: The Human Resource Management Playbook
This report, the processes component of the human resource management (HRM) playbook, enables application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals, CIOs, and their HR business partners to...
SMB Millennials "Out-Tech" Even Their Enterprise Peers
It is well understood that the entrée of the Millennial generation into the workforce is having a profound effect on businesses' technology decision-making and utilization. What is less well...
Performance Management: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
The benefits of improved information sharing and collaboration from deploying enterprise social computing are hard to quantify. With the exception of email and audioconferencing, collaboration...
The Social Ecosystem Maturity Assessment is presented in conjunction with the research report "Benchmark The Use Of Your Social Business And Collaboration Systems," which explains more fully how CIOs...
Competitive Advantage Through Social Business
Business as we know it is changing. The next generation of market-leading organizations will digitize their enterprise model with new capabilities enabled by social technologies. But many of today's...
Executive Overview: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Business as we know it is changing. The next generation of market-leading organizations will digitize their enterprise model with new capabilities enabled by social technologies. But many of today's...

Service management and automation (SMA) is a closed-loop control system that enables the design, development, maintenance, and adoption of services that support business teams in their capabilities...
Benchmarks: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook
Social business and collaboration (SBC) takes place independently of any specific technology, tool, or service. For example, employees constantly meet to choose how to adjust plans; customers...

Trends And Tradeoffs Of Leading Microsoft Services Players
Microsoft technologies span a wide range of products and services, including enterprise applications such as Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM; desktop and collaboration applications such as Office,...
Lessons Learned From Client Reference Interviews
Deploying a video publishing platform can be as simple as a credit card transaction if you're just looking for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution with turnkey functionality. However, many...
What Enterprise Architects Need To Know About The Shift From Records Management To Information Governance
Despite two decades of electronic records management (RM) evolution, fewer than 10% of enterprises admit to high levels of confidence in their approach to the governance of digital information. The...
Key Takeaways That Can Help You Strengthen Your Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Plans
In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy barreled through the Caribbean and the eastern US, affecting almost half of the states in the US. The storm left millions without access to basic...
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Learning and talent development are closely aligned in the best talent vendor offerings. This area of human resource management (HRM) is fast-growing and innovative in its use of social, cloud, and...

Vision: The Business Applications Playbook
This report outlines the vision aspect of Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals working on business applications strategy. It summarizes the key business...

Vision: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook
A veritable flood of information coming from widespread digitization has created new opportunities and risks that business executives can't ignore. Forrester is seeing a dramatic uptick in the...