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Responsible Design
Delighted customers or PR nightmare? The difference can boil down to responsible design. Before your company ends up in an IRL episode of “Black Mirror,” listen to this podcast about responsible design featuring Principal Analyst Gina Bhawalkar.
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Growth Strategy In Action: Apple Plants New Seeds
Two months ago, I announced Forrester’s revenue growth framework. We reviewed academic research, evaluated practitioner models, spoke with CMOs, and studied best practices among companies to distill a framework to help our clients develop a structured approach to growing revenue. I’ve applied this lens to Apple’s latest earnings release to analyze the company’s growth strategy. […]
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Planning Guides 2024: Customer Experience
Explore 2024 insights for investing in CX strategy to drive action, value, and revenue.
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US CX Quality Falls For An Unprecedented Second Consecutive Year
US brands struggled to deliver effective customer experiences in 2023, but some succeeded. Discover the US Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) 2023 results.
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For B2C Companies, Alignment = Profit
Aligning customer experience, marketing, and digital functions around customer needs fuels growth for B2C companies. VP and Group Director Melissa Parrish explains how to build and rev a B2C customer-obsessed growth engine.
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Low Measurement Maturity Remains A Challenge For CX Leaders
How effective are customer experience (CX) measurement programs? To answer this question, we fielded our 2022 State Of VoC And CX Measurement Practices Survey among CX professionals responsible for measurement or voice of the customer (VoC) at their organization. You will find the detailed results in our report, The State Of CX Measurement Practices, 2022 […]
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Revealing The Finalists For Forrester’s Customer-Obsessed Enterprise Award — APAC
We’re excited to announce the finalists for the inaugural Customer-Obsessed Enterprise Award for APAC. Each finalist impressed us with their clear CX visions, sophisticated measurement architectures, and ability to align their organisations.
Where Are CX Leaders Targeting Their 2024 Spend?
Download our 2024 Planning Guide for Customer Experience Leaders to see where AI investments deliver the greatest gains — and three redundant priorities to pull back on.
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Finalists Announced For The Customer-Obsessed Enterprise Award — EMEA
The hard work of customer obsession deserves recognition. Discover the finalists for the inaugural Customer-Obsessed Enterprise Award — EMEA.
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Companies Have Agnosia About Experiences
We found that agnosia quite nicely describes what is happening with companies’ efforts around experience. Their inability to identify you as the same individual after having repeatedly interacted with them as a customer and user and employee over a period of time, might cause you to question your sanity when interacting with them.
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You Asked, We Answered: Questions From Our 2023 CX Predictions Webinar
We were thrilled with the response to our 2023 CX Predictions webinar. Here, we answer audience questions on common CX topics.
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It’s Awards Season For Customer Obsession — Nominations Wanted
Submit your nominations for Forrester's inaugural Customer Obsession Awards. These awards will recognize leading organizations and executives who put customers at the center of everything — and, in the process, accelerate growth, customer loyalty, and employee engagement.
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CX Teams Face Diverging Fates In 2023
The alarm bells are sounding: CX organizations are in trouble. One in five will find themselves on the chopping block in 2023 as the economy weakens, CX performance slips, and proof of ROI remains elusive. But there’s good news, too. One in 10 CX organizations will be stronger than ever at the end of 2023, explains VP, Research Director Rick Parrish. Find out how in this episode of What It Means.
Steer Your CX Budget With Our 2024 Benchmark Data
Join Forrester analysts for a LIVE webinar on Aug. 24 to explore 2024 insights for investing in CX strategy to drive action, value, and revenue.
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Emotional Quality Of Experiences: The 2022 CX Index Bright Spot
Recently Forrester released the US Customer Experience Index Rankings for 2022 and one prominent message was the fall of CX quality across industries (see Figure 1). However, it also revealed a bright spot - the emotional quality of customer experiences remains consistent. According to the Average US CX Index, 60% of customers expressed they had emotionally positive experiences compared with 62% in 2021 and 60% in 2020.
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Join Us At CX North America To Keep Your Business Out In Front
At CX North America on June 7-9, we’re going to help customer experience professionals, B2C marketers, and digital business leaders embrace new risks, develop bold customer strategies, and execute faster than you ever thought possible.
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Three Tips For Staffing Your CX Team
We share our top tips for customer experience leaders who need to staff up the CX team at their organization.
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Let’s Discover The State Of Customer Obsession In Government
Government organizations that want to improve the services, benefits, products, and experiences that they provide to customers must focus relentlessly on customers’ needs. This means putting customers at the center of strategy, leadership behaviors, and everyday operations — an approach that Forrester calls customer obsession. Most government organizations want to be more customer obsessed. But […]
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“Predictive” Marks A New Era In Customer Experience Management
Forrester has launched a new feature in its FeedbackNow platform that lets brands move into the predictive era of customer experience. Learn more here.
Avoid Choosing The Wrong CX Beacon Metric
Attend our May 17 webinar to learn how to use a four-step process to evaluate and choose a CX beacon metric aligned with business and financial goals.
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Winning Executive Support To Establish, Fund, And Scale CX
Discover the critical elements of a CX function that wins executive buy-in and is able to successfully get funding and scale up.
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It’s Time For CX Governance To Grow Up
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 […]
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It Takes Hard Data And Soft Power To Ensure CX Success
CX leaders must organize stakeholders enterprise-wide – often without direct authority over the people, process, and technology they need to influence. But how? Get a preview of the CX North America 2021 keynote.
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