Customer Experience Strategy
A strong customer experience strategy can pay dividends to your bottom line. But orchestrating across a complex enterprise is easier said then done. Read insights on establishing and implementing a CX strategy.
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Is Your Bank Ready For What’s Next In Mobile?
Our newly published research into people’s mobile banking needs, expectations, and behaviors surfaced 10 emerging must-have features and 10 emerging differentiators in mobile banking experiences.
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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.
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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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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Enhance User Confidence In Digital Experiences To Build Trust
Customers’ task completion is a measure of success for many companies, but to create a good user experience, it is just the bare minimum. There is more to consider for creating good, fulfilling experiences. Learn key practices to enhance user trust and confidence in digital experiences.
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Using Agile For Change
So you’ve tried agile, but it didn’t deliver what you hoped for. Maybe you faced resistance from employees, or you weren’t able to increase the speed of innovation efforts, or the cost savings that you hoped for didn’t materialize. Whatever the underlying issues, you’re not alone. “Going agile” isn’t easy. Agile doesn’t deliver guaranteed results, […]
Shine A Spotlight On CX Value
The new CX leader superpower? Measurement. Download our e-book to learn what to measure to prove CX’s value and impact — so you can lead CX to success.
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Your Personas Are Outdated: It’s Time To Evolve Your Approach
Personas are foundational and seemingly simple, yet deceptively challenging. Learn what it takes to create effective ones.
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How GenAI Will Transform The Contact Center
Generative AI (genAI) holds tantalizing potential for contact centers, but turning that potential into reality will require overcoming some hurdles. How should contact center leaders get started? Senior Analyst Christina McAllister provides insight on What It Means.
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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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Budget Planning Season Is Coming. Use Forrester’s Budget Planning Guides To Cut Through Complexity.
Our Budget Planning Guides will steer you toward budgeting decisions that set you up for success in 2025. Get a preview of what to expect when the guides launch on August 1.
Grow Faster And Be More Profitable With CX Alignment
Customer-centric B2C companies with aligned CX teams see higher growth and revenue. Download our CX Alignment Toolkit to accelerate growth by engaging and aligning stakeholders.
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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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Outcome-Based Digital Experiences Drive Desired Outcomes For Both Consumers And Brands
Learn how you can gain competitive advantage through outcome-based digital ecosystems.
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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, […]
Unleash Enterprisewide CX Innovation With Design Thinking
Learn how to establish and scale a design thinking practice to solve business problems with CX.
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Promise-Keeping Is Key To Building Customer Trust
As B2B professionals, we often think that we’re aligned, but we design processes from our own internal perspectives, overlooking how this will impact the customer experience. This erodes trust.
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What Makes Journey-Centric Companies Different
Journey centricity can help companies boost their revenue, reduce costs, and build better experiences for customers and employees. What defines a journey-centric company, and what does it take to become one? Vice President and Principal Analyst Joana de Quintanilha explains on this week’s episode of What It Means.
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Announcing Forrester’s 2024 Customer-Obsessed Enterprise Award Winner In APAC
IHH Healthcare Singapore wins Forrester’s 2024 APAC Customer-Obsessed Enterprise Award, which recognizes organizations that are delivering outstanding customer experiences to accelerate business outcomes.
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