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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.
Voice of the customer (VoC) programs require structure and follow-through to be effective at driving customer experience (CX) improvements. CX pros need to know how good their programs are, how they...

I found a reference to some 2009 research by Forrester that says that people will abandon a website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load a page. Do you know if this has been updated?
Customer experience professionals had already told us that they were planning many large digital design projects in 2011. This time around, we asked Forrester's Customer Experience Peer Research...
Few firms want to invest in improving phone self-service. But consumers use automated phone systems regularly and are deeply dissatisfied with what they experience. Our research uncovered four...
Forrester Applies Its Web-Phone User Experience Review Methodology To Four Top US Firms
Forrester applied its Web-Phone User Experience Review methodology to the experiences at four large PC laptop manufacturers: Apple, Dell, HP, and Toshiba. The results: Apple came out ahead, but the...
This document provides guidance on how to score an application experience against the 20 questions in Forrester's Application User Experience Review and is intended to be used in conjunction with the...
Customer Experience Professionals Share Plans For Design Tools, Budgets, And Staffing
During the past few years, Forrester has seen tremendous momentum for digital design projects as digital touchpoints proliferate. And the trend held true this year, too: A recent survey of...

It’s that time of year again. We’re already in the midst of planning our annual Customer Experience Forum, and now we’re gearing up to collect and evaluate nominations for our Voice...
The nomination period has officially closed for the new Forrester Outside In Awards for customer experience excellence. The companies nominating themselves have done their hard work, and now...
Since 1999, Forrester has used its Website User Experience Review methodology to evaluate the user experience of 1,500 websites spanning business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B)...

We are pleased to announce that the nomination period has opened for a new Forrester award program: The Outside In Awards! Forrester’s Outside In Awards are inspired by our recent book on...
Good news for those of you requesting extensions: We heard you, and we're extending the deadline for Forrester's Voice Of The Customer Award submissions to Friday, April 6th at 5:00 p.m. ET....
This is the reviewer's guide for Forrester's IVR User Experience Review 8.0 scorecard.
There’s no question that executive support can make or break a voice of the customer (VoC) program. With an executive (or several) onboard, VoC teams can get the funding and tools that they...
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Customer experience professionals depend on surveys for their voice of the customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) measurement programs. But with so many surveys coming at each individual...