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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.
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.
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.
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...

Consumers Rate The Customer Experience Across 153 Large US Brands
To assess the state of customer experience in 2011, Forrester asked more than 7,700 US consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies. Based on their responses, we calculated Customer...
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...

What A Higher Customer Experience Index Score Can Do For Revenue
To help customer experience professionals prove the business value of a better enterprise customer experience, we built simple models that show how revenue increases when a company's Customer...
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...

Customer Experience Teams Need To Build A Strong Internal Brand
Centralized customer experience organizations play an important role in a company's journey to Experience-Based Differentiation. Forrester examined the inner-workings of several such teams and found...
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...
Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With 87 Web Sites Across 13 Industries
Forrester recently asked US online consumers to rate their satisfaction with Web site experiences at companies they've done business with across multiple industries. When the results were tallied,...
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,...
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...
Consumers Rate Their Satisfaction With Phone Experiences Across 13 Industries
For many companies, the phone is a major channel through which they interact with customers. Forrester surveyed 4,653 consumers to find out how satisfied they were with the phone interactions they...
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...

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...