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Customer experience management is a key competency for firms, enabling them to provide quality, end-to-end experiences for today’s channel-agnostic customers. Discover how to improve CX management across the enterprise. Learn key components of customer experience management including selecting metrics, building culture, winning investment, and more.
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Do You Use AI Moderators For Customer Research? I’d Love To Hear From You
AI is transforming how experience research is conducted — from planning to analysis — thanks to new tools like AI moderators. If you are a research vendor offering AI moderators or a researcher who has used AI-moderated interviews, I want to talk to you.
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The Forrester Wave™: Customer Experience Platforms For Healthcare, Q1 2026: The AI Race Is On, But Pace Is Uneven
The pressure to do more with less is intensifying across healthcare. Emerging technologies offer a clear path to efficiency, faster access to information, and cost reduction. But while some organizations are testing and learning, others remain stalled. Both delayed experimentation and reckless acceleration carry risk. Yet inaction leaves healthcare organizations (HCOs) at a critical juncture. […]
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Orchestrate CX Success With Forrester’s CX Vision And Strategy Research And Tools
Delivering great customer experience is a lot like putting on a concert. You can gather world‑class musicians, give each of them brilliant individual parts, and still end up with … noise. What turns noise into music is a shared score — a bold vision of what the performance should sound like — and a plan that helps every section play in sync.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Experience Research Platforms, Q1 2026
We evaluated eight top experience research platforms across 31 criteria for current offering and strategy. These criteria assess each vendor’s current capabilities and future strategy, giving buyers clear insights into where each platform excels and where it may fall short.
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Great Research Starts With A Plan: Meet The Customer Research Canvas
In the AI era, skipping research fundamentals only leads you to wrong decisions faster, with negative outcomes for both your customers and your business. We developed the Customer Research Canvas to help research professionals and practitioners execute better research.
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Customer Journey Management In 2026: From Maps To Measurable Impact
Despite years of journey mapping, results are still inconsistent, slow to scale, and hard to tie to business outcomes. Learn why that’s changing — and what leaders must do differently.
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Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Platforms, Q4 2025
The latest edition of our loyalty platform vendor evaluation, “The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Platforms, Q4 2025,” reveals how the loyalty platform market continues to evolve to meet the growing demand to profitably retain the best customers with personalization at every touchpoint, relevant engagements, and differentiated experiences.
Predictions 2026: Your Planning Starts Here
2026 will demand proof, not promises. Explore Forrester’s Predictions resources — guides, webinars, and blogs — to plan smarter, lead with trust, and stay ahead of disruption.
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Create Emotionally Positive Digital Experiences For Differentiation And Growth
To drive loyalty and differentiate in a world where customers increasingly connect via digital channels, you must create digital experiences that are not only easy and effective but also emotionally resonant. Learn why emotionally resonant experiences matter now and what makes a digital experience emotionally resonant.
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Predictions 2026: AI Gets Real For Customer Service — But It’s Not Glamorous Work
AI won’t transform customer service in 2026 — but foundational work will. Discover how the customer service space will evolve in the coming year.
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Predictions 2026: CX Teams Look To Escape The Orbit Of Dysfunction
Many CX teams are drifting dangerously close to the event horizon of metric obsession — a gravitational pull toward dashboards and KPIs that threatens to consume purpose and impact. 2026 will mark a critical decision point.
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How UCL Is Preparing Future CX Leaders For The AI Age
AI is transforming the skills that CX professionals need to succeed. Discover how University College London prepares future CX leaders for an AI-driven world with practical skills, real projects, and lifelong learning strategies.
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Today’s Leaders Must Heed AI Advice For Future Disruptors
Startup founders, investors, technologists, and operators are all working frantically to get an early jump onto the AI train. Find out why and get more of the key takeaways from the recent Startup Boston Week event.
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It’s Time To Talk About Where Your CX Function Should Sit
It's one of the most common questions from CX leaders: Where should the CX function sit? We identified multiple factors and variables that influence the best possible home for the CX function in this post.
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Improve Your CX Prioritization With Forrester’s Updated And Expanded Tools
How do you make good decisions? That question is at the heart of many conversations I’ve had with clients about CX prioritization. Choosing what to do — and what not to do — is both an art and a science, and you can apply different levels of rigor to your process to enhance your ability […]
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Introducing The Experience Research Platforms Landscape, Q3 2025
Experience research platforms help companies discover and define opportunities, test concepts and prototypes, and evaluate user and customer experiences.
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Six Gaps Hold Feedback Management And CX Measurement Programs Back
Most CX teams still fall short in getting stakeholders to act on insights, Forrester’s 2025 global survey shows. Learn about the problem areas and how to move past them.
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How To Simplify CX Tech Buying Decisions With Function-First Thinking
Learn how Forrester’s Function-First Framework helps CX leaders simplify complex technology decisions, prioritize functionality, avoid wasted investments, and align tech with strategic business goals.
Cut Through CX Tech Noise And Buy Smarter
Stop wasting money on tools you don’t need. Learn how to use Forrester’s function-first framework to align CX tech with business goals, avoid overspending, and drive real results.
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It’s Time To Talk About The ROI Of CX For Government
Over the past year, we’ve collected stories and interviewed government CX leaders and the consultancies that support government agencies because we want to help public-sector leaders connect CX with mission outcomes.
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Parting Lessons From CX Summit North America To Help You Deliver The Total Experience
As another CX Summit North America draws to a close, it’s time to get to work. Use these takeaways to help you create your action plan for transforming the experiences you offer.
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The ROI Of CX Isn’t A Fairy Tale
Yes, thoughtfully designed CX programs do have tangible revenue outcomes. Yet proving ROI can be a source of frustration for CX leaders and business executives alike.
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