Judy Weader

If there’s a hair’s breadth between keeping pace and treading water, the US health insurance industry is balancing right on it. In our latest report, The US Health Insurers Customer Experience Index Rankings, 2023, we reviewed and dissected the latest Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) data for the industry — and became keenly aware of […]

NOAA achieved a CX transformation in two years that usually takes five. Learn how partnering with Forrester accelerated NOAA’s successful CX transformation.

In 2022, Forrester’s data showed that nearly one in five customer experience (CX) professionals said that their program doesn’t have a defined process to prioritize its work. That’s a mind-bogglingly high number of people — and organizations — that are making decisions based on gut feeling, the loudest voice, the highest-paid person’s opinion, or maybe […]

In this interview with the NOAA’s Tony Wilhelm, discover how a partnership with Forrester allowed NOAA to fast-track a CX transformation to better serve vulnerable communities.

The White House’s budget proposal for fiscal-year 2024 includes more than $500 million in customer-experience (CX)-related investments to continue progress on the administration’s robust CX goals. Predictably, this hasn’t made headlines: It’s just .007% of the total $6.9 trillion budget proposal and doesn’t excite fiery debates like higher-profile requests do. It’s a strong investment, however, […]

We were thrilled with the response to our 2023 CX Predictions webinar. Here, we answer audience questions on common CX topics.

We were thrilled with the response to our 2023 CX Predictions webinar. Here, we answer audience questions on common CX topics.

When we set out to do a Digital Experience Review™ of US and Canada government websites, my colleagues and I started by checking to see which sites were most heavily used and how they’re accessed. I can’t rightly say when the balance tipped in favor of mobile access over desktop, but we’re here now — […]

How can CX leaders gain funding? Develop executive empathy: Determine stakeholder priorities, connect CX to these existing priorities, and communicate the value of CX.

We share our top tips for customer experience leaders who need to staff up the CX team at their organization.

When we talk with healthcare firms about customer experience, they often ask about best practices from within their peer group, unsure that anyone outside healthcare can really understand the unique complexities of their industry. Yesterday’s announcement that Press Ganey plans to acquire customer feedback management (CFM) vendor Forsta signals that more vendors are interested in […]

Yesterday evening, Qualtrics announced that it’s acquiring Clarabridge in an all-stock deal worth $1.125 billion. This is a great move for Qualtrics. In one swoop, it has secured the best-in-class analytics capabilities that will define the future of voice-of-the-customer programs as firms decrease their reliance on surveys and focus instead on understanding customers based on […]

We’ve just published some new research that talks about better paths to address the key challenges that doomed previous approaches to customer experience (CX) governance. We found that, when CX leaders think about setting up CX governance, they should: Align to the corporate culture. Creating a separate CX governance structure in an organization that already […]

For the first time in the history of Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™), every health insurer tracked in the study earned a rating of “OK.” Although this sounds more worthy of one-handed applause than a standing ovation, it marks steady upward progress for an industry where more than two-thirds of brands landed in the […]

June: a time when flowers bloom, kids count the days until summer vacation, and businesses everywhere turn their logos into little Pride flags. “Rainbow capitalism” is becoming more common, but as it spreads wider, it becomes more obvious when a firm’s commitment to the LGBTQ+ community barely runs skin deep. In 2019, LGBTQ+ groups pushed […]

In my earlier posts about customer experience (CX) prioritization, focusing on Forrester’s beginner-level and intermediate-level models, I covered the use of criteria around customer impact, business impact, and (when you get to intermediate) feasibility as a means of determining which CX-related projects you should pursue or put to the side. Moving up to advanced mode […]

In my last blog post about customer experience (CX) prioritization, I talked about the importance of balancing customer impact with business impact when making decisions about which projects to pursue. Beginning CX prioritization uses a simple but effective four-box model. As CX prioritization moves up the maturity curve, it gets more complex by adding more […]