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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: Contact Center Solutions For Customer Service, Q2 2013

Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

Locking in customer loyalty via deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead. But navigating the...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Design A Social Intelligence Function

Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions requires the right combination of a clear objective, business planning, technology, and, most importantly, people to do the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The Four Social Marketing Tools You Need

Tools And Technology: The Social Marketing Playbook

Marketers spend billions of dollars on social media every year, and they're increasingly turning to technology vendors to support their social programs. But for many marketers, the social technology...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TechRadar™ For AD&D Pros: The Extended CRM Technology Ecosystem, Q1 2013

Landscape: The CRM Playbook

Locking in customer loyalty through deeper engagement and differentiated experiences will continue to be critical priorities for organizations in all sectors in the decade ahead, but navigating the...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:2013 Planning Brief: Listen To Customers, Engage With Influencers

How To Build A B2B Influencer Engagement Initiative

As you plan your 2013 social marketing initiatives, one area for you to focus on is influencer identification and engagement. B2B social marketers have begun to move beyond reactive responses to...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Road To Social Business Transformation Starts With A Burning Platform

Road Map: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

Social business technology can transform the way employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and ideas. But even...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Uncovering The Value Of Social Intelligence For B2B Companies

Business-to-business (B2B) companies that do not already have a social media strategy or a listening platform are at risk of being left behind. While social media and business-to-consumer (B2C)...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Social Marketing Spending In 2011

Benchmarks: The Social Marketing Playbook

Despite the tremendous hype and even some pockets of success, our most recent social media benchmarking survey shows that social marketing is still at an early stage. In fact, most interactive...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Assess Your Co-Creation Readiness

Assessment: The Open Innovation Playbook

Product strategy professionals increasingly recognize the value of social co-creation engagements to involve the customer directly in the product development process and how this fits into the...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The State Of Social Intelligence, 2012

Benchmarks: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Forrester recently polled 108 listening platform customers to learn about the evolution in companies' social intelligence practices. We reviewed their vendor partnerships, the ways they use listening...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Defining Social Intelligence

Vision: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Listening platforms power marketers by analyzing their brands, products, and customers across social media channels. But although listening platforms make managing social data possible, marketers...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Listening Metrics That Matter

As social media becomes more prevalent, the data it creates becomes a critical research and insight-generation activity. Businesses turn to listening platforms to harvest the rich trove of consumer...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Evaluate And Evolve Social Intelligence

Assessment: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Over the past four years, Forrester has outlined why firms must monitor social media. But although most companies understand the importance of tracking conversations happening online, few actually...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Social Intelligence Market Is Immature

Landscape: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Over the years, we've evaluated the tools that marketers use to monitor, measure, and learn from online conversations. These listening platforms capture social media to help users analyze data and...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Keys To A Social Intelligence Command Center

Continuous Improvement: The Social Intelligence Playbook

If you represent a large consumer brand, consider a social intelligence command center — a dedicated resource for listening to the groundswell. A command center like this can improve your...

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For Sales Enablement Professionals

Report:European Tech Marketing Continues To Be Different

This is a deep-dive data update to last year's report, "European Tech Marketing Is Different: Here's How," based on Forrester's Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments Survey. Most of the...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Enterprise Listening Platform Landscape

Tools And Technology: The Social Intelligence Playbook

With the incessant growth of social networks, more and more businesses turn to listening platforms — technology and services vendors that help companies manage, learn from, and measure social...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Listening Platforms, Q2 2012

How Nine Vendors Stack Up In A Constantly Changing Market

In Forrester's 64-criteria evaluation of enterprise listening platforms vendors, we found that Radian6 and Visible Technologies lead the pack because of their variably functional dashboards and...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Organize For Social Intelligence

Organization: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Finding and acting on insights gleaned from online and social discussions is a tricky practice. It takes the right combination of clarity of objective, business planning, technology, and, most...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:The Total Cost Of Listening

Business Case: The Social Intelligence Playbook

Listening platforms are hot and marketers are keen to use consumer conversations to inform marketing and business strategy. But as more businesses adopt listening platforms, the question that comes...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:A Systematic Approach to Open Innovation Strategy

Strategic Plan: The Open Innovation Playbook

Despite the fact that economists, consultants, and business experts have been advocating for open innovation for more than a decade, product strategists indicate that most firms continue to struggle...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:The New Year Of Social Marketing

2012 Investment In Social Media And Communities Remains Strong

Tech marketers may not be forthcoming about their organizations' New Year's resolutions, but Forrester's Q4 2011 B2B Marketing Organizations And Investments (MOI) Survey provides strong indicators...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Co-Creation In 2012

How Vendors Will Drive Co-Creation Uptake By Product Strategists

Co-creation will become a pillar of product innovation by 2015. Although the market remains relatively immature, we have witnessed growing awareness of co-creation from our clients across a wide...

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For Marketing Leadership Professionals

Report:Use Social Intelligence To Improve Email Marketing Success

Although social media gives interactive marketers the opportunity to gather more data than ever about customers, few marketers use this data to improve the performance of their email marketing...

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For Customer Insights Professionals

Report:Where To Get Help With Customer Influence

Identifying and tapping customer influence remains a popular topic for Customer Intelligence professionals. But with all of the interest, most see influence as a nebulous concept. Some of the...

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