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Kerry is a vice president and principal analyst in Forrester's customer experience research practice and the coauthor of Forrester's book, Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business. Kerry leads Forrester's research on customer experience design and innovation. She taps into her past work as both a design practitioner and leader to help Forrester clients develop empathy for customer needs and co-create experiences that truly matter — for their customers, for their employees, and for their business. She’s also the creative force behind the customer experience ecosystem, a framework that helps companies diagnose and fix customer problems at their roots.
Kerry's research, analysis, and opinions appear frequently on sites like Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, USA Today, and Advertising Age. She also contributes a regular column to Touchpoint, the journal published by the Service Design Network. An accomplished and frequently requested speaker, Kerry has keynoted major conferences on customer experience, design, and marketing around the globe.
In previous roles, Kerry has led consumer research teams; guided the design of websites, mobile apps, and branded social networks; designed interfaces for robots and wearable devices; and, in 1995, developed a social shopping prototype for AT&T Bell Labs. She has also completed stints as both a management consultant and an advertising executive.
Kerry holds a master's degree in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree in cognitive science and psychology from Indiana University.
Avenue A | Razorfish, Critical Mass, Organic, and R/GA Lead The Pack
Forrester evaluated the Web design capabilities of leading interactive marketing agencies across 18 criteria. Our analysis identifies Avenue A | Razorfish, Critical Mass, Organic, and R/GA as Leaders...
We asked 15 of the largest interactive marketing agencies in North America to tell us which emerging technologies will have the greatest impact on the future of their design practices. Agencies named...
Organic, one of North America's top digital marketing agencies, knows that exceptional experiences are grounded in a deep understanding of customers. But the firm doesn't just pay lip service to this...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Fry specializes in helping clients sell online, far more so than any other agency in our rankings. Depth of experience with transactional Web sites shows in reference work that scored well with...
Over the past two years, WHITTMANHART has staked out a national presence by expanding to nine offices that stretch from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles. The agency's reference Web sites delivered...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Best known as a business consulting and technology services firm, Sapient has extended its interactive marketing practice through the 2006 acquisition of Planning Group International, the largest...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
With its headquarters in Atlanta and a recently opened office in Chicago, Macquarium is more of a regional player than most other agencies in our rankings. However, the firm's roster of clients does...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Avenue A | Razorfish continues to offer a soup-to-nuts Web marketing solution that includes designing and building high-quality sites as well as driving users to sites with marketing programs. This...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Over the past two years, Molecular has grown from a regional player headquartered in Boston and focused on building Web sites to a national player that can also deliver interactive marketing services...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Organic's vision to be "the go-to agency for empathy-based experience design" is well within its reach. Rigorous user research tactics, empathy-building exercises, and standout persona application...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
imc2 has an approach to business that sets it apart from the herd. Privately held and organically grown, the firm seeks to differentiate itself through its strategy practice and the deep consumer...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Digitas seeks to differentiate itself based on strong practices in rich media design and multichannel marketing campaigns. Because of its heritage as a traditional direct marketing agency and its...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Headquartered in New York with offices in seven other North American cities, Tribal DDB is the interactive arm of advertising agency DDB Worldwide. Not surprisingly given its parentage, the firm has...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Based in Canada, Critical Mass typically takes a hub-and-spoke approach to projects, concentrating design and development expertise in Toronto, Calgary, and Chicago while co-locating project...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
With a strategy that embraces visual arts and technology, R/GA has remained close to its roots as a graphic animation firm in the '70s. However, its innovative programs for exploring and delivering...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
Arc Worldwide has a relatively small North American presence. But its geographic reach, comprising Chicago headquarters plus four additional offices in Atlanta, Detroit, San Francisco, and Toronto,...
VML is a diversified marketing and advertising agency based in Kansas City. The firm's substantial Web design practice is focused on enterprises with a portfolio of brands, like those for clients...
The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q2 2007
A 20-year veteran of the interactive industry, IconNicholson's single-office model concentrates all North American talent in its New York headquarters. The firm has a track record of innovative...