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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.
Vision: The SVM Practice Playbook
Over the next years, Forrester expects IT organizations as we know them today to change dramatically, a result of a new wave of emerging technologies and a shift in the way employees use technology....

SVM Worries About Impact On Revenue Commitments And Discount Eligibility For Corporate-Liable Users — Don't!
This report answers three questions about enterprise mobile bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices: 1) what the major trends are regarding BYOD adoption; 2) how firms are managing their BYOD programs...

Economic Worries Lead Canadian CIOs To Cut Back ICT Purchases
Canada's CIOs and tech buyers are behaving as if Canada is heading for a recession — and it's not. Indeed, while the Canadian economy is growing at about the same 4% rate (at current prices) as...

Pharmaceuticals, High-Tech, Professional Services, And Education Will Lead BYOT Adoption In The Coming Years
This report examines how and why bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) varies across 20 industries. BYOT will remain a thorny issue for CIOs in every industry, geographic region, and company size over the...
The Info Worker Population Will Grow From 555 Million To 865 Million By 2016, With Growth Markets Leading The Way
Employees that use Internet-connected computing devices for work — info workers — will trample the boundary between work and personal spheres. In this report, we summarize how it came to...

From Desktop Virtualization To User Experience Management
Over the next several years, successful organizations across Asia Pacific will radically alter their approach to end user computing. Companies will continue to use desktop virtualization to simplify...
As Mobile Device Sales Surpass PCs, CIOs Will Need To Corral A Troika Of OS Leaders
The launch of Windows 8 is a major pivot point for Microsoft — and for IT leaders and the individuals they support. The new Windows 8 user experience (UX) and programming model will transform...

Strategic Plan: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
Forrester's survey data shows that 50% of firms say investing in systems to improve engagement with customers and partners is a high or critical priority. And few areas of technology are as...

ForecastView Spreadsheet
Global sales and installed base for tablet devices in 53 countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...
Benchmark: The CIO's Mobile Engagement Playbook
Are you ready to serve your mobile customers on the device of their choice? Have you anticipated what apps they need next? And for employees, which apps are most important on smartphones? How many...

As-A-Service Computing Will Shift Budgets From New Project Spending To Ongoing MOOSE Expenditures
In 2012, for most CIOs, spending to maintain and operate the organization, systems, and equipment (MOOSE) represents more than 70% of their information and communications technology (ICT) budget on a...

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...
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...
A Methodical Approach To Building Your Mobile Phone, Tablet, And Wearables Strategies
Back in 2009, Forrester created the first version of mobile POST — a methodology to help our clients create mobile strategies that align well with the mobile sophistication of their customer...
A Technographics® Global Overview Document
The global online population has more than doubled since 2005, but not all countries have reached saturated levels of online penetration. While the majority of consumers in the US, Europe, and...

Road Map: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders develop their five-year technology road map for workforce computing. This is important because into...

ForecastView Spreadsheet
Sales and installed base for tablet and eReader devices as well as book market spending. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...
But Workers Should Have The Freedom To Use Windows 8 Devices
Windows 8 is the boldest release of the OS since Windows 95. Microsoft chose to discard the Start button in favor of a new look designed to tie together the PC, tablet, and, smartphone experience....
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 4,731 US individuals ages 18 to 88. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 4,731), there is 95% confidence that...
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...

Policy And Procedures: The Workforce Enablement Playbook
This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals solving workforce computing challenges. This report is designed to help you redefine your workforce...

Apple Mac Shops Share Their Secrets For Success
Chances are that you have employees using Apple Macs at your firm today, and they're doing this without the support and guidance of the infrastructure and operations (I&O) organization. IT...
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...
When considering hosted virtual desktops (also known as virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI) as an alternative or in addition to physical PCs, it's difficult to find reliable information about the...
I&O Professionals Need The Right Policies, Technologies, And Skills To Secure Enterprise Data
Employees are rapidly embracing personal devices, consumer software, and public cloud services for work to increase personal productivity and efficiency, a trend that Forrester refers to as...