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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.
Addressing Consumers' Need For Immediacy And Cost Savings
European consumers continue to make use of all of the touchpoints that eBusiness professionals offer when making purchases. Click and collect serves multichannel buyers' fundamental needs by allowing...
Forrester just kicked-off our 2010 Retail Executive Survey, and we want your input. We partnered with Pricegrabber, PayPal, Commission Junction, and StoreFrontBackTalk to create a survey which looks...

Stakeholder Map: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
This report outlines the stakeholder map of the mobile eBusiness playbook, which is designed to drive value through mobile services. This report should be used by eBusiness professionals to plan and...

Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores
Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

Inhibitors Of Online Shopping Behavior In Europe
Even during the economic recession, online sales have kept growing as have online buyers: We project that 153 million Europeans will shop online in 2010. Despite this growth, 31% of online adults are...
Engaging with users via mobile is now unavoidable - no surprise there. By 2016, smartphone subscriptions in the US will likely outnumber people and in Europe, almost 70% of the population will own...
Social media is transforming the way European online buyers interact with each other and consume content. Online buyers are using social media to connect with their peers and, to a much lesser...
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Five Top Apparel Brands
Forrester evaluated the transactional websites of five European apparel retailers — Zara, H&M, Promod, Miss Sixty, and Topshop — using our Website Functionality Benchmark methodology. The...
Executive Overview: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are faced with the challenge of an ever more connected consumer. Yet only recently have they begun to set mobile strategies in place. The mobile eBusiness...

eBusiness professionals have disaster recovery plans in place to deal with nearly annual storms across the country. How many times have we heard of a snow storm November and December slamming...
Substitutes To Conventional Home Deliveries Exist
Shipping issues are one of the most common reasons for cart abandonment. Providing alternative delivery options can limit this phenomenon as consumers benefit from choice of pickup time and place and...
Best Practices: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Mobile technologies are tactics — not strategies in themselves. Too often mobile services conversations start with "let's build an app." Instead, decisions like these should only be undertaken...

Forrester has just released its US Online Retail Forecast, 2010 to 2015, and EU Online Retail Forecast, 2010 to 2015. It is clear from our forecast data that online sales in the US and EU will...
Consumers Have Embraced All Touchpoints, And So Should eBusiness Professionals
Today, European consumers face a wide range of touchpoints and have adopted a complex purchasing journey. These consumers use more than one channel to research and buy a product, and they are...
Our research tells us that people love ratings and reviews. In fact, they rely on them for a majority of purchases. However, the days of simple stars and paragraphs are long gone. The use of ratings...
I spent last week in Tokyo, Japan. Given that an increasing number of our clients are eyeing Japan’s eCommerce market, I thought it would be interesting to share some observations from my...
Developing A Mobile Channel Strategy For European Frequent Online Buyers
Thirteen million Europeans use the Internet every week to purchase products and services. These affluent consumers not only spend more time and money than other Europeans but they are also technology...
Top UK Grocers
Forrester evaluated the grocery Web sites of the four largest UK grocers — Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose — using our Web Site Functionality Benchmark methodology. The results:...
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark Methodology To The Sites Of Four US Mass Merchants
In the large-format mass merchant sector, Wal-Mart and Target have successfully implemented market-leading online retail functionality and connected consumer touchpoints to enhance their customer...

As mobile adoption increases, eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are challenged to determine how these devices integrate with their existing sales and service channels. It is imperative...

Using Personal Community Elements To Provide A Differentiated Experience
Backcountry.com, a high-end outdoor apparel retailer, was looking for a way to differentiate customer interactions in a tight competitive space. It chose to roll out a deep community-based...