customer experience management
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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: 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.
Revive Your CX Outcomes With Strategic 2025 Budget Planning
Watch our 2025 budget planning webinar to learn where to prioritize your budget allocations to reverse CX declines and bolster core competencies.
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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.
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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, […]
Overhaul Core Competencies With Your 2025 CX Budget
Download our 2025 Planning Guide for CX leaders to learn how to allocate your 2025 budget to reverse CX declines and boost quality.
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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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Can AI Help Prove CX ROI?
Perhaps the biggest challenge CX leaders have is proving the value of CX. Can AI help? Principal Analyst Pete Jacques thinks so and joins the podcast to explain how AI can help CX leaders prove ROI.
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Unlock The Power Of AIOps
The growing complexity of IT infrastructures creates a daunting task to manage and optimize systems, especially while maintaining a vital business-IT alignment. This is where AIOps and observability can deliver benefits.
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CX Leaders Are Change Leaders
At the heart of most CX roles is change leadership — urging the organization to evolve its thinking and behaviors to achieve their desired level of customer obsession. Read this post to get a preview of how Delta Dental of Virginia's CX leaders drove change and what their three major CX initiatives are today.
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Discover The Future Of Boundless Experiences At CX Summit North America 2024
Join us in June to learn how to harness the power of humans and AI to deliver differentiated experiences that drive loyalty and growth.
Explore The What, Why, & How Of GenAI For CX Pros
Download your copy of our best-practice report to get analyst answers to CX leaders’ top genAI questions. Unlock the secrets to using genAI to improve CX, journey management, and more.
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Simple Tool, Big Impact: Winning Support For CX Initiatives
Learn how to use Forrester’s CX Business Case On A Page template to structure and manage a persuasive case to gain support for your CX initiatives — complete with a template walkthrough.
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Invisible Experiences: Anticipate Customer Needs With Real-Time Interaction Management
Imagine having a butler who anticipates and serves your needs. Just as Alfred faithfully supports Batman, your personal assistant earns your trust through silent understanding. Now think of this relationship in terms of your experiences with brands. Do those experiences feel invisible and immersive? In Gotham City, Alfred ensures that Batman’s utility belt is always […]
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Consumer Spending 2024: What It Means For Your Brand
2023 was a confusing year: The consumers blew cold, and the economy blew hot. The recession-to-be didn’t materialize, and the economic outlook wasn’t half as bad as consumers would have you believe. Yet, notes from the post-pandemic blues keep wafting in the air no matter the macroeconomic drumbeat. This year, the economy is headed for […]
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