Megan Burns

Principal Analyst serving Customer Experience PROFESSIONALS

Megan serves Customer Experience Professionals. She is a leading expert on customer experience management, maturity, benchmarking, governance, and ROI. She is the creator of Forrester's Customer Experience Maturity Framework and manages The Customer Experience Index, Forrester's annual benchmark of customer experience quality across more than 150 large US firms.

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. Prior to that she spent time at both Intel and IBM as a software engineer.


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.

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    Report:How Companies Improved Their Customer Experience Index Scores, 2013

    Best Practices: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

    Every year, Forrester uses the results of its Customer Experience Index benchmark to see which firms made big strides in the race for customer experience excellence. This report summarizes what we...

    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:The State Of Customer Experience Management, 2013

      Landscape: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

      Customer experience management (CEM) is top of mind for many companies as they kick off 2013. This report sheds light on the current state of CEM, using data we collected from our Customer Experience...

      • Downloads: 482
      • Comments: 2
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    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:How Disciplined Is Your Customer Experience Management?

      Assessment: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

      To succeed in today's business climate, companies must consistently deliver a good customer experience. Unfortunately, few firms have what it takes to do that because they lack systems for...

      • Downloads: 232
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    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2013

      Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

      How good is the customer experience at your company — as rated by your own recent customers? This report answers that question by providing benchmarks of the quality of customer experience for...

      • Downloads: 1286
      • Comments: 7
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    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:Executive Q&A: Customer Experience Measurement

      To measure customer experience (CX), firms need a framework that tells them not only how good their customers' experiences are but also how to improve them and what benefits to expect from doing so....

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    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:Executive Q&A: Forrester's Customer Experience Index

      To help customer experience professionals get the most from Forrester's Customer Experience Index (CXi) research, we've summarized answers to the 10 most frequently asked questions we get from...

      • Downloads: 335
    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:Don't Fix Customer Experience Problems, Prevent Them

      Vision: The Customer Experience Management Playbook

      In a recent survey of customer experience professionals, 86% said that their executives hope to differentiate in the marketplace on the basis of their customer experience. Unfortunately, most...

      • Downloads: 475
    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:Better Customer Experience Correlates To Higher Net Promoter Scores

      Credit Card Companies And Wireless Service Providers Benefit From Higher Net Promoter Scores Through Better Customer Experience

      Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a wildly popular tool for assessing customers' likelihood to recommend a company's product or service. As valuable as NPS can be, by itself, the "one number you need to...

      • Downloads: 526
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    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:Websites That Don't Support Customers Waste Millions

      Business Case: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

      This report is an update to "Web Sites That Don't Support Customers' Goals Waste Millions" originally published on February 17, 2010. To understand the effect of poor website usability, Forrester...

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    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:Executive Q&A: Customer Experience Governance

      Many firms want to differentiate on the basis of customer experience. To reach that goal, they must first define an experience that's truly differentiating and then deliver that experience...

      • Downloads: 249
    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:How Companies Improved Their CXi Scores, 2012

      Forrester spoke to leaders at brands whose Customer Experience Index (CXi) scores went up appreciably in 2012. Our goal was to understand what drove those customer experience improvements. The...

      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:Customer Experience Maturity Defined

        Vision: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        This report is an update to "Customer Experience Maturity Defined" originally published on September 12, 2011. This report gives customer experience professionals who discover the need to transform...

        • Downloads: 2434
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:Enterprise Customer Experience Transformation Consultants

        Tools And Technology: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        This report is an update to "Enterprise Customer Experience Transformation Consultants" originally published on October 21, 2010. This report provides an overview of the types of technology that...

        • Downloads: 1158
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:Manage The Customer Experience Project Portfolio

        Continuous Improvement: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        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,...

        • Downloads: 1347
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:How Four Firms Measure Customer Experience

        Performance Management: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        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...

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      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The State Of Customer Experience, 2012

        Landscape: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        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 face...

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      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2012

        Business Case: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        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. Years of...

        • Downloads: 2228
        • Comments: 2
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      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2012

        Benchmarks: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook

        This report provides benchmarks of the quality of customer experience at major companies. It should be used to help customer experience professionals set goals and optimize as they transform their...

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      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:How Rogers Communications Unified Its Approach To Customer Experience Measurement

        In just 18 short months, customer experience professionals at Rogers Communications (Canada's largest telecommunications company) developed and gained support for a new customer experience...

        • Downloads: 408
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:Model The ROI Of Customer Experience Improvement Projects: A How-To Guide

        Proving the business value of a better customer experience is a top priority for customer experience leaders. To help, we've identified a six-step process that lets even financial novices model the...

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      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:Better Customer Experience Correlates To Higher Net Promoter Scores For Banks And Retailers

        Investments in customer experience improvements are likely to drive a higher Net Promoter Score (NPS). Forrester tested the strength of the correlation between customer experience quality — as...

        • Downloads: 843
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The Business Impact Of Customer Experience, 2011

        Improvements Can Add More Than $1 Billion In Revenue For Wireless Carriers And Hotels

        Customer experience professionals must clearly articulate the business benefits of improving customer experience. Years of Forrester data confirm the strong relationship between the quality of a...

        • Downloads: 1305
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:Customer Experience Index, 2011: Health Insurance Plans

        Health Insurance Plans' Improvement Efforts Are Starting To Pay Off . . . Slowly

        Health insurance plans as an industry had the lowest average score in Forrester's Customer Experience Index, 2011. But the news isn't all bad. Companies like Tricare and Kaiser had scores in the...

        • Downloads: 744
      • 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 uncovered a...

        • Downloads: 1325
      • For Customer Experience Professionals

        Report:The State Of Customer Experience, 2011

        Companies Have Lofty Goals But Aren't Doing What It Takes To Reach Them

        To assess the state of customer experience in 2011, Forrester surveyed 118 customer experience professionals around the globe. More than two-thirds said that their firms aim to differentiate based on...

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