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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Making Informed Mobile Payment Investments In China

The increasing penetration of smartphones among mobile subscribers and booming online retail are driving the adoption of mobile payments in China. It's crucial for infrastructure and operations (I&O)...

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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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:The Future Of Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing

Vision: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's vision for communications technology and services sourcing. To ensure effective sourcing of telecommunications and mobility (T&M) services, IT sourcing and vendor...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Future Of Over-The-Top Services

As Carriers Move To Embrace OTT, Enterprises Will Benefit

Over the top (OTT), the network-agnostic delivery of digital services, marks an important shift in the delivery and consumption of information and communications technology (ICT) services. OTT breaks...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Prepare For The Connected Enterprise Now

Insights From The Forrsights Networks And Telecommunications Survey, Q1 2012

The connected enterprise is becoming a reality. Businesses require access to the best market information regarding customer demand, supplier options, transport and logistics, and sales patterns. They...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Distributed Organizations Need To Consolidate Communications Vendors

Business Value: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Forrester enterprise clients with distributed organizations are always interested in simplifying their increasingly complex communications environment. One aspect of this we often hear about is a...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Involve At Least Partial Outsourcing To Achieve A Global Communications Technology Vision

Outreach: The Telecommunications And Mobility Sourcing Playbook

Large multinational corporations (MNCs) recognize the need to define a global communications technology vision for the next three to five years to ensure competitiveness and sustainable business...

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For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

Report:A Systematic Approach To Mobile Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Mobile eBusiness Playbook

Mobile is hot, but too many executives take a backward approach to developing a mobile initiative and begin with technology decisions such as "We need an iPhone application" or "Let's do something...

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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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Auditing Your Current Communications State - Inventory Tool

This tool is meant to serve as an inventorying checklist to be used by the IT sourcing and vendor management (SVM) organization during your audit of your company's current  communications...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Corporate App Store Environments Open New Market Opportunities

Vendors Will Differentiate Mobile App Stores Through Comprehensive Offers

Corporate mobile technology for enterprise IT is increasingly complex. More employees are using personally owned smartphones and tablets at work, and firms are leveraging an array of mobile...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Cloud Strategies To Drive Telco Growth

Telcos Should Provide Wholesale Infrastructure For Cloud Services

Telcos can grow their revenue base beyond access and transport to offer a range of wholesale services that many cloud service providers (CSPs) may lack the ability or skills to build themselves....

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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 CIO Professionals

Report:The Future Of Telecom: Strategies To Move Off The Endangered Species List

Telcos are an endangered species; their traditional business model has come undone, and many operators face a downward revenue/earnings/investment spiral. The classic telco position is eroding due to...

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For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:M2M Connectivity Helps Telcos Offset Declining Traditional Services

But They Are Poorly Positioned For The Larger Value-Added Service Opportunity

Telcos face increasing pressure on traditional voice revenues and seek new revenues from services leveraging existing assets. Machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, including radio frequency...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Scorecard: Customer Journey Map Review 1.0

Assess your customer journey map by completing this scorecard.

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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...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:How To Build The Business Case For Customer Experience Improvement

The Business Impact Of Customer Experience

Business process professionals supporting customer-facing processes are often challenged to make the business case to their executive leaders that investing to improve the customer experience is a...

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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...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:Why Your Call Center Needs User-Centered Design

How Focusing On Callers And Agents Can Drive Business Results

Today, user-centered design isn't widely used to improve call center interactions. That needs to change. When applied in the call center, the core activities of a user-centered design process —...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Internet Crushes The Work/Life Boundary

An Empowered Report: It's Time To Plot The Path To A Work Anywhere Future

Broadband connections, mobile devices, and collaboration tools make employees productive from any location. Your employees know this already: Forrester's survey of more than 5,000 information workers...

• Downloads: 800

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Smart Grid IT Vendors

Utility IT Professionals Must Deploy Smart Grid IT To Enable A Smarter Grid

The smart grid market is ramping up quickly. This market will reach tens of billions of dollars in the next three years. The top three areas of investment are generation and distribution, customer...

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For Customer Experience Professionals

Report:The Customer Experience Index, 2011

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...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:How To Create A Realistic Global SLA For Managed Network Services

Use Industry Standard Metrics And Thresholds For Guidance

Sourcing and vendor management (SVM) professionals at large multinational companies (MNCs) want to ensure that global service-level agreements (SLAs) for managed network services are as strong as...

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For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Report:Checklist: Eight Questions To Answer When Defining Your Global SLA Strategy For Managed WAN Services

SVM professionals at firms with a large international business footprint always struggle with defining a right-fit global network service-level agreement (SLA) that's affordable. One indication of a...

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