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 Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

    Report:Making Informed Mobile Payment Investments In China

    The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...

    • Downloads: 80
  • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

    Client Inquiry:How Many WAN Service Providers Should Be Utilized?

    At smaller sites outside North America, is it a best practice to use one, a few, or several WAN service providers?

    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012

      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...

      • Downloads: 2276
      • Comments: 2
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    • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

      Charts & Figures:Comparing Mobile Proximity Payment Solutions From The Enterprise Perspective

    • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

      Report:Distributed Organizations Need To Consolidate Communications Vendors

      Business Value: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

      Forrester enterprise clients with distributed organizations are always interested in simplifying their increasingly complex communications environment. One aspect of this we often hear about is a...

      • Downloads: 227
    • 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 Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2013

        Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        Years of Forrester data confirm the strong relationship between the quality of a firm's customer experience (CX) and loyalty. We built three simple models to estimate the impact customer experience...

        • Downloads: 222
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      • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

        Report:Corporate App Store Environments Open New Market Opportunities

        Vendors Will Differentiate Mobile App Stores Through Comprehensive Offers

        Corporate mobile technology for enterprise IT is increasingly complex. More employees are using personally owned smartphones and tablets at work, and firms are leveraging an array of mobile...

        • Downloads: 654
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      • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

        Report:Auditing Your Current Communications State - Inventory Tool

        This tool is meant to serve as an inventorying checklist to be used by the IT sourcing and vendor management (SVM) organization during your audit of your company's current  communications...

        • Downloads: 25
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2012

        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...

        • Downloads: 2825
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      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

        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...

        • Downloads: 1429
        • Comments: 7
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      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Report:A Systematic Approach To Mobile Strategy

        Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

        Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...

        • Downloads: 4236
      • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

        Survey:European Technographics® Consumer Technology Online Survey Q4 2012

        Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in August and September 2012 of 13,518 European individuals ages 16 to 92. For results based on a randomly chosen sample of this size (N = 13,518), there...

        • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

          Report:The Future Of Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

          Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

          This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

          • Downloads: 397
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        • For CIO Professionals

          Report:The Future Of Over-The-Top Services

          As Carriers Move To Embrace OTT, Enterprises Will Benefit

          Over the top (OTT), the network-agnostic delivery of digital services, marks an important shift in the delivery and consumption of information and communications technology (ICT) services. OTT breaks...

          • Downloads: 511
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        • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

          Survey:Latin American Technographics® Online Survey, Q4 2011 (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina)

          Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in November 2011 of 5,998 individuals ages 16 to 75 in top urban cities/states of Mexico and Brazil and top urban cities/provinces of Argentina. In...

          • For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

            Report:Cloud Strategies To Drive Telco Growth

            Telcos Should Provide Wholesale Infrastructure For Cloud Services

            Telcos can grow their revenue base beyond access and transport to offer a range of wholesale services that many cloud service providers (CSPs) may lack the ability or skills to build themselves....

            • Downloads: 1019
            • Comments: 1
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          • For CIO Professionals

            Report:Prepare For The Connected Enterprise Now

            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...

            • Downloads: 735
            • Comments: 2
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          • For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

            Report:Involve At Least Partial Outsourcing To Achieve A Global Communications Technology Vision

            Outreach: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

            Large multinational corporations (MNCs) recognize the need to define a global communications technology vision for the next three to five years to ensure competitiveness and sustainable business...

            • Downloads: 232
           
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