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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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Is Your Postsale CS Strategy Setting Customers Up To Succeed?
Every time you turn around, it looks like someone is taking a shot at customer success (CS). Whether at last year’s SaaStr or elsewhere, more voices have been calling for new approaches to CS — ones that transform CS from cost center to tool for growth. While it’s still early to plan a funeral, CS […]
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Great Digital Banking Experiences Create A Data-For-Value Flywheel
Driving engagement is top of mind for most digital banking leaders. Forrester’s research reveals the immense value — for both customers and banks — of useful, convenient digital banking experiences. The right mobile banking offerings, for example, can unlock new value for a customer and differentiate a bank’s brand. And our broader customer experience research […]
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Gain the confidence to redefine your customers' total experience at CX Summit North America with keynotes, expert sessions, and workshops. Register by March 10 to save $1,100!
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School’s In Session — Five Lessons Learned From The Forrester Wave™: Customer Experience Strategy Consulting Services, Q4 2024
Get the five key lessons learned about customer experience strategy consulting services in this preview of our new Wave report.
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It’s Not You, It’s Me — And Other Findings From The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management Solutions, Q4 2024
At the risk of dating myself, I’m a proud member of Gen X. So, perhaps I can be forgiven for channeling Jerry Maguire and George Constanza when I think about the key takeaways from the latest Forrester Wave™ evaluation of customer feedback management (CFM) solutions. My conversations with the customer references for the nine vendors […]
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Slash The Hidden Costs Of Your Customer Surveys
Nearly all CX measurement and VoC efforts use customer surveys. But your surveys are costlier than you think. Obvious costs include the budget for a tech vendor you use to send and analyze surveys or incentives for customers.
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Get Ready For GenAI Chatbots: The State Of Conversational AI
Talk about change! As we approach the two-year anniversary of the announcement of OpenAI’s launch of GPT-3.5, conversational AI has been reinvented to incorporate generative AI (genAI) to take advantage of the many ways that this technology can make self-service applications smarter. Previously, the conversational AI tools used to create chatbots and intelligent virtual agents […]
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What To Do With The New Customer Experience Management Standards
In recognition of CX Day 2024, Bain & Company, in collaboration with Kantar and Qualtrics, released a new set of global standards for customer experience teams. Will they help CX teams resolve their challenges?
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Holiday Shopping Has Started — So Has Our Research To Help!
Get an early read on UK and US consumers' thinking about 2024 end of year holiday shopping - and watch for more research and holiday prep advice in the coming weeks.
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Look Around: You’re Missing A Big Benefit Of Customer Obsession
When successful customers share their experience with your company, they support your brand, reach, and reputation. To ensure that those successful customers are ready, willing, and able to provide references and success stories to support your brand, invest in strategic customer advocacy.
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Fairy-Tale Data: The Comforting Fiction That Undercuts Your CX Efforts
Chances are that your organization is lying to itself about the quality of the customer experience (CX) it provides. It's time to stop paying heed to data that enables this.
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2025 Budget Planning Guides: Customer Experience
Watch the on-demand replay to dive into the latest data-driven guidance for CX leaders on how to strategically allocate budget for 2025.
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Customer Experience Leaders Are In Dire Straits — Invest To Overhaul Core CX Competencies
Getting customer experience back on track will require doubling down on what matters most to customers. Explore a few of our recommendations for 2025.
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What’s Behind The Decline In CX?
Customer experience (CX) quality in the US has dropped for three consecutive years and sits at an all-time low. What’s behind the decline, and how can brands turn things around? VP and Principal Analyst David Truog and Principal Analyst Pete Jacques weigh in on this week’s What It Means.
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Q&A With Keith Fletcher, International Customer Experience Manager At E.ON
Following his recent appearance on stage at Forrester’s CX Summit EMEA, Keith Fletcher, international customer experience manager at E.ON, answers more audience questions on using customer journeys to fuel sustainable growth.
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How To Frame Your Customer Journey Mapping With A Clear Purpose
Learn how to uplevel your journey mapping by targeting key moments, interactions, and areas of improvement so that you can better align your efforts with customer needs and expectations.
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US Health Insurer CX Quality Plummets To A Five-Year Low
There’s just no way to sugarcoat this: US health insurer Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) ratings for 2024 have landed with a resounding thud. This is the second time since 2021 that the industry average rating had a statistically significant decline — and it’s easy to see why: Ten brands scored their lowest ratings in […]
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Customer Experience Quality In The US Falls To An All-Time Low
US consumers' perceptions of CX quality are now at their lowest point since the inception of the Forrester Customer Experience Index (CX Index™). Read a few of the key findings from our recent report.
Nominate Your CX Trailblazing For A Forrester Award
Showcase your customer obsession for all to see. Submit your nomination for Forrester’s Customer-Obsessed Enterprise and Leadership Awards. Winners earn event exposure, recognition, and bragging rights!
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Forrester’s AI Webinar Series: Navigate The Choppy And Exciting Waters Of Enterprise AI
AI is having — and will continue to have — a profound impact on how data scientists, software engineers, and other job functions perform their roles. Get tips on how to define, build, and implement your enterprise AI strategy with the help of Forrester's AI Advantage client webinar series.
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Announcing The Customer Experience Strategy Consulting Services Landscape, Q2 2024
Nearly 60% of customer experience (CX) decision-makers say that improving CX is the top priority for their organization’s executives, but that doesn’t mean they have to — or choose to — go it alone. In The Customer Experience Strategy Consulting Services Landscape, Q2 2024, Forrester identified 31 firms that are helping businesses diagnose customer problems, […]
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Introducing The Customer Experience Platforms For Healthcare Landscape, Q2 2024
Healthcare consumers’ expectations for easier, faster, retail-like experiences are not fading away. It is no longer enough to offer a digital front door alone — healthcare organizations must intercept consumers and customers as they navigate an increasingly complex and diverse healthcare ecosystem.
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