Customer Journey Management
Customer journeys are more than maps or CX deliverables. They provide a shared view of customer goals, business outcomes, and operational realities. Explore Forrester’s insights on journey mapping, journey management, and journey measurement to embed customer context into decisions and drive meaningful change across the organization.
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Journey Mapping Essentials: Five Lessons Every CX Leader Should Learn
Journey mapping is one of the most popular yet one of the most misunderstood and misused tools in CX. Creating maps is the easy part. Creating change is where most organizations struggle. Over the past five weeks, the CX Cast revisited five episodes that explore journey mapping from different angles, from running effective mapping exercises […]
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Are You Prioritizing The Right Customer Journey Improvements?
Many CX leaders risk investing where it doesn’t earn loyalty because traditional prioritization of journey drivers ignores that customers don’t stay loyal because you’re doing well; rather, they stay loyal when you are doing better than competitors in the things that matter. This blog is part of a series on how customer journeys drive loyalty […]
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Is Journey Completion Enough To Drive Loyalty?
You might assume that customers completing a journey equals success. But our data shows that’s not true. When customers complete their journey but are uncertain whether what they did worked, it undermines loyalty. This blog is part of a series on how customer journeys drive loyalty (scroll to the end for all resources). Customers’ Uncertainty […]
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Does The Peak-End Rule Apply To Customer Journeys?
Yes. Customers whose journeys end on a high and customers whose journeys include a positive surprise are more loyal. This blog is part of a series on how customer journeys drive loyalty (scroll to the end for all resources). Our Data Confirms The Peak-End Rule For Customer Journeys The peak-end rule states that people judge […]
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Do You Improve What Matters To Loyalty In Customer Journeys?
Probably not. Loyalty is shaped by a handful of journey dynamics that most CX teams neither measure nor actively manage. This blog is part of a series on how customer journeys drive loyalty (scroll to the end for all resources). Five Journey Practices That Strengthen Customer Loyalty To identify what drives loyalty, we examined 29 […]
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What Drives Journey Emotions? Introducing Forrester’s Journey Benchmarking Series
Customers can achieve the goal of their journey and still feel uncertain, frustrated, or less loyal afterward. Forrester launched an annual journey benchmarking study to understand what makes journeys so valuable to customers that they reward the brand with their positive emotions and loyalty. The study examines what drives customer perceptions of value across different […]
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Your Journey Surveys Overestimate NPS
Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) results from post-journey surveys most likely overstate customer loyalty, because most surveys include only customers who complete their journey and surveys are sent before customers know whether what they did worked. NPS Differs Vastly Depending On Goal Achievement And Confidence In Forrester’s annual journey benchmarking study, we found that goal achievement made a big difference in […]
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It’s Time To Elevate Journeys Into Decision Systems
You already have journey maps. That’s not the problem. Last week, in a portfolio discussion, a team reviewed a backlog of work that was worth millions. What was missing? A clear view of which customer journeys they were improving — or breaking. When CX teams position journeys as tools or CX deliverables, they circulate journey insights […]
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Customer Journey Management In 2026: From Maps To Measurable Impact
Despite years of journey mapping, results are still inconsistent, slow to scale, and hard to tie to business outcomes. Learn why that’s changing — and what leaders must do differently.
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CX Cast Roundup, August 2025: Journey Innovation In Action
In August’s episodes of the Forrester CX Cast, we focused on how customer experience (CX) leaders can evolve their CX strategies by sparking innovation, scaling journey management, and aligning marketing with CX.