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Sharyn serves CIOs. She leads Forrester's research into IT leadership, with a focus on the emerging world of business technology (BT). Sharyn delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises identify best practices and identify vendors and technologies that help drive business success. Her current research agenda includes enterprise application strategies as well as IT planning processes and technologies. She also maintains a research interest in business process management (BPM); RFID; and other emerging technologies in consumer-driven and manufacturing industries such as life sciences, healthcare, and consumer products. In addition, Sharyn was a key contributor to the development of the Forrester Wave™ methodology to help clients accurately assess key vendors in a given technology-focused market.
Before joining Forrester, Sharyn spent several years as a consultant and project manager for Clarkston Consulting, a full-service professional services firm. She was responsible for the delivery of vendor selection and implementation projects involving SAP and other ERP applications, integration technology, and enterprise portals.
Sharyn holds a B.S. in computer information systems technology from Purdue University.
Building A Customer-Centric Culture
Changing from a product-centric company to a customer-centric company requires a cultural transformation. This is no small task. That's because transformation involves changing the beliefs and...

Continuous Improvement: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Firms that seek to differentiate based on customer experience must transform the way their companies operate. Customer experience professionals have the tools required to guide this transformation,...

Adopt An Outside-In Approach To Shift The CRM Mindset
Well-intentioned customer relationship management (CRM) efforts that focus on internal processes and objectives have largely failed to serve the most important stakeholder: the customer. Customer...

A customer-centric culture is a system of shared values and behaviors that focus employee activity on improving the customer experience. Customer experience leaders have three tools they can use to...

Increasingly, companies appoint a chief customer officer (CCO) to lead the company in orchestrating a differentiated customer experience. But these senior executives must often navigate uncharted...
Business-to-business (B2B) firms have largely ignored customer experience — and it shows. Three separate studies that Forrester Research conducted over the past year indicate that B2B customers...

Strategic Plan: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
This report is an update to "Innovative Customer Experience Strategies" originally published on August 22, 2011. It outlines the strategic plan for customer experience professionals planning to...

Decision-makers at firms with low Customer Experience Index (CxPi) scores are more likely to say that they have insufficient budgets and lack executive support as well as less likely to say that they...
Firms struggle when their customer experience strategy lacks critical details and fails to provide clear direction. The result: inconsistent execution and wasted effort. To orchestrate a consistent...

Forrester studied more than 100 executives in charge of enterprisewide customer experience to create a composite profile that includes their titles, tenure in the job, backgrounds, and where they...
Wayne Peacock was appointed USAA's executive vice president, member experience, in January 2010. Forrester interviewed Wayne as part of an ongoing series to understand the role of a new type of...
Roei Ganzarski was appointed as the chief customer officer for Boeing's training and flight services in March 2007. Forrester interviewed Roei as part of an ongoing series to understand the role of a...
You identify three different types of CCO authority models: advisory, matrixed, and operational. Could you give more detail on the specific types of decisions that the CCO will have the authority to...
Strategic Plan: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook
Most companies lack a customer experience strategy. As a result, their leaders struggle with decisions about funding and prioritizing projects meant to improve customer experience at the enterprise...