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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.
Five Key Metrics For Tracking eBusiness Progress And Maturity
How does your eBusiness strategy stack up to your peers and competition? In this report we identify five key benchmarks for eBusiness and channel strategy professionals to help you gauge the success...
Assessment: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As retail companies evaluate their eCommerce opportunities, establishing a level set of their current strengths and weaknesses is essential. In 2008, Forrester introduced its proprietary eBusiness...
Budgets And Costs Spike For B2B And Financial Services Firms
eBusiness budgets have risen steadily since 2008. In our annual survey of eBusiness and channel strategy professionals, we find that B2B and financial services firms in particular have dramatically...

eBusiness Executives Report A Gap In Multichannel Strategy Vision And Execution
eBusiness executives have been fighting for increased investments in digital channels, and their efforts have paid off: The web channel tops their firms' channel investment priorities for 2011....
Traditional Models Are Stepping Stones To Long-Run Agile Strategies
The evolution from multichannel to agile commerce strategies has eBusiness teams scrambling. Finding the right organizational structure to accommodate the complexities of the...
To bring eBusiness strategies in line with a vision of agile commerce — where companies serve customers seamlessly across touchpoints — we find that many firms are in the midst of massive...
Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer
As eBusiness and channel strategy professionals know all too well, empowered consumers disrupt business models across every industry. Success in the age of the customer requires companies to go...
Benchmarks: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook
Like mobile measurement, mobile benchmarking is still in its infancy. Hard-to-come-by benchmarks challenge eBusiness and channel strategy professionals to understand how their investment levels...

A Further Look At Key eBusiness Skills And Functions
What is the goal of eBusiness teams? To sell goods and services. As a result, eBusiness teams have become masters in the art of sales. As teams pivot efforts to optimize interactions across digital...
eBusiness Budgets Rise Again . . . And Will Continue To Grow
eBusiness budgets rose again in 2011 and will keep rising in 2012. Why? Competition is heating up. The average eBusiness team is still maturing, and B2B firms increasingly are entering the eBusiness...

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...

eBusiness Leaders Who Struggle To Fill Open Jobs Can't Settle For Mediocrity
Unemployment plagues the US, yet eBusiness and channel strategy professionals face a counterintuitive problem — hiring. They struggle to fill customer experience, IT, and business analyst...
How eBusiness Leaders Should Approach Mobile As A Sales And Service Channel
Across the globe, the mobile channel is growing at a rapid rate. eBusiness and channel strategy leaders at B2B and B2C firms are at the forefront: 94% of eBusiness managers we surveyed are either...