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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.
Assessment: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook
This report describes the best practices assessment framework that underpins Forrester's solution for application development and delivery (AD&D) executives looking to implement customer service...


Navigating the contact center technology landscape for customer service is challenging. To help business process professionals who support customer service operations make smart decisions, Forrester...
Navigating the complex contact center solution landscape continues to be challenging, particularly in light of the rapid rise of social computing, mobility, and voice of the customer initiatives...

Navigating the complex contact center solution landscape continues to be challenging, particularly in light of the rapid rise of social computing, mobility, and voice of the customer initiatives...
Ten Trends Drive Planning For Service And Support Process Transformation
Organizations of all types strive to differentiate themselves through delivering an outstanding customer experience. Customers know what good service is and demand it from each interaction they have,...
Customer service managers struggle to balance customer experience and cost: Siloed communication channels, impersonal service, and an inability to enforce company process or meet regulatory...