Megan Burns

Principal Analyst serving Customer Experience PROFESSIONALS

Megan serves Customer Experience Professionals. She is a leading expert on measuring customer experience, benchmarking a company's ability to deliver great customer experience, estimating the ROI of a customer experience improvements, and getting executives to actively participate in the customer experience transformation. She manages Forrester's Customer Experience Index, an annual benchmark of the customer experiences delivered by more than 150 large US firms. In addition to these primary areas of study, Megan's secondary coverage includes best practices for customer experience governance and creating customer-centric cultures.

As an accomplished public speaker, Megan is a frequent presenter at industry events such as Forrester's Customer Experience Forum and the NetPromoter Conference. She has been quoted in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Internet Retailer, and B2B Magazine.


Previous Work Experience

Before joining Forrester, Megan spent more than six years defining online customer experiences for B2C and B2B websites at AT&T. That work included eCommerce, online customer service, and online marketing sites. She spent time at Intel and IBM before joining AT&T, and covered Web analytics and online customer experience during her first three years at Forrester before shifting to focus on enterprise customer experience transformations.


Education

Megan holds a master's degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where she specialized in user and business requirements. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Megan Burns's Research

  • For Customer Experience Professionals

    Report: Manage The Customer Experience Project Portfolio

    This report is an update to "Managing The Customer Experience Project Portfolio" originally published on February 12, 2010. When transforming their firms into experience-driven organizations, cu...

    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report: How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience

      This report is an update to "How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience Across The Enterprise" originally published on January 22, 2010. Chief customer experience officers (CC/EOs) need a set of...

      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report: The State Of Customer Experience, 2012

        Because customer experience is a fairly new business discipline, many customer experience professionals aren't sure what to focus on, how to structure their programs, or how the challenges they ...

        • For Customer Experience Professionals

          Report: The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012

          This report outlines the business case for customer experience professionals seeking to discover the business benefits of improving customer experience in an experience-driven organization. Year...

          • For Customer Experience Professionals

            Report: The Customer Experience Index, 2012

            To assess the state of customer experience in 2012, Forrester asked more than 7,600 US consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies. Based on their responses, we calculated Cus...

            • For Customer Experience Professionals

              Report: Enterprise Customer Experience Transformation Consultants

              Forrester scanned the market for companies offering enterprise customer experience transformation services and found two types of providers: management consultants and boutiques. All of the 15 v...

              • For Customer Experience Professionals

                Report: Case Study: Cardinal Health's Grassroots Customer Experience Evangelism Reaches The C-Suite

                For the last four years Cardinal Health has been on a journey toward Experience-Based Differentiation. At many firms, that journey starts at the highest levels of the organization, but at Cardin...

                • For Customer Experience Professionals

                  Report: How Companies Raised Their Customer Experience Index Scores, 2011

                  To understand how companies drive customer experience improvement, Forrester spoke to leaders at brands having Customer Experience Index (CxPi) scores that went up appreciably in 2011. We uncove...

                  • For Customer Experience Professionals

                    Report: Omniture Delivers Powerful Web Analytics For Large Enterprises

                    Omniture delivers a powerful Web analytics tool that can be tailored to meet almost any need, coupled with an experienced professional services team and the industry's most robust education prog...

                    • For Customer Experience Professionals

                      Report: Map User Goals To Business Objectives

                      Customer experience professionals spend much of their time thinking about how to help users accomplish their goals online. But it's equally important for them to think about how user success or ...

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                      Megan Burns's Planned Reports

                      Jun 2012

                      Report: How Companies Raised Their Customer Experience Index Scores, 2012

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