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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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Maximizing Financial Services CRM Value: Strategic Alignment And AI Adoption
A modern CRM is core to connecting organizational silos to drive customer and business value. Today, CRMs are integrating AI and adding intelligent agents to boost productivity and deliver personalized customer experiences at scale. This makes modern CRM an indispensable tool for financial services firms aiming to enhance customer experience, streamline operations, and drive growth. […]
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Guide Your Digital Experience Strategy With Forrester’s Digital Connections Tracker And Moments Map
We often hear comments and questions from customer experience and digital business leaders such as, “We designed and built this product, but not many people use it — and we don’t know why” or “We have a chatbot, but customers are not using it, so how can we drive engagement?”
Lead And Focus CX With Purpose During Volatility
CX, digital, and B2C leaders: Don’t let market chaos spark reactive decisions. Watch this Forrester webinar to learn how to focus on what really matters during turbulent times.
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How Well Are You Protecting Existing Customer Revenue?
We’ve introduced expanded and upgraded versions of our customer engagement aligned approach and the foundational Forrester Customer Engagement Range Of Responsibilities Model to show you how to optimize the relationship between your company and your customers.
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Qualtrics X4 Highlights: AI-Powered Research Is Expanding
What do AI-powered advancements such as Experience Agents and Qualtrics Edge mean for experience research today and in the future? Here are three takeaways from Qualtrics X4.
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Learn How To Make Every Journey Count And Unlock A Value Flywheel At CX Summit EMEA
Every customer journey can create or destroy value — both for your customers and your firm. At CX Summit EMEA, learn how to measure customer journeys and optimize their value.
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Is Customer Success Paying Enough Attention To GenAI Today?
Last week, we published two data snapshot reports from Forrester’s State Of Customer Engagement Survey, 2024. Focused on US-based respondents at B2B firms that primarily sell software, these short reports give a bit of a unique look into the more sophisticated side of customer engagement.
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How Banks Can Win At CX: Lessons From The Front Lines
Customer experience quality in banking is falling on average, but there are banking brands globally that buck this trend, outshining competitors and continuing to improve their CX performance.
Transform Journey Maps Into CX Breakthroughs
Come to CX Summit EMEA to boost customer journeys with proven frameworks. Explore value lenses, checklists, examples, and tools to drive success while balancing quick fixes with breakthrough strategies.
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Customer Success Plays A Crucial Role In Revenue Process Transformation
The Forrester Opportunity Lifecycle is a framework for transforming revenue processes to maximize value for B2B customers. As my colleague Amy Hawthorne explains, top revenue transformers: Share signals and create a common view of the customer — throughout the postsale. This is so you can achieve a true understanding of what makes customers succeed, as […]
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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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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 […]
Loyalty And Brand Growth — What’s Working For Top Brands?
Attend CX Summit on June 23–26 to learn secrets to success from American Express, Hilton, T-Mobile, Lowe's, and other brand leaders! Discover how they drive loyalty, revenue, and growth.
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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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