voice of the customer (VOC)
Done well, voice of the customer (VOC) programs enable organizations to better meet their customers’ needs and deliver more rewarding experiences. Yet, too often, companies falter in the effort. Read Forrester’s insights on driving action and deriving value through VOC programs.
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Low Survey Response Rates: Are You Asking The Wrong Question?
Learn the right questions to ask and the right tactics to employ to improve customer survey response rates.
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How To Reconcile Your Key CX Metrics: rNPS vs. tNPS
Are you prepared to explain to your leaders and business partners why the organization’s relationship metric is lower than transactional NPS scores? Get insight on how to communicate the value of each in this blog.
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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 […]
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Bring The Voice Of People With Disabilities Into Your VoC Program
Most organizations lack one of the most critical elements of an accessibility program: direct feedback from people with disabilities. If you’re leading accessibility work, learn the benefits of collaborating with with your organization’s voice-of-the-customer (VoC) team.
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Not Talking About A Revolution: GenAI Is An Evolution For Customer Feedback Management
You’d be forgiven if you assumed tools like ChatGPT will quickly replace the need for customer feedback management solutions. Indeed, large language models excel at summarizing unstructured text like customer feedback collected in survey verbatims and customer service calls. In reality, customer experience (CX) pros need to temper their expectations. The risks and effort required […]
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367: The State of CX Measurement
Every year, Forrester conducts a global survey of voice-of-the-customer (VoC) and customer experience (CX) measurement practices. Leaders of CX measurement programs are reporting improvements in 2024 compared to 2023. Forrester VP, Principal Analyst Maxie Schmidt explains why there are persistent gaps in what CX measurement programs can do compared to current maturity.
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Overall Canada Customer Experience Quality Drops To A Historic Low
Scores for Canadian companies are at their lowest point since Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) began. Read a few of the key findings from our Canada rankings report.
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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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To Spark Innovation, Make The D In DEI About Disability, Too
People with disabilities are innately resourceful and can serve as the cornerstone of innovation at financial institutions. Learn four ways many firms miss out on this opportunity for innovation and inclusivity.
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Many Surveys, Small Impact: Forrester’s 2023 State Of VoC And CX Measurement Practices Survey
Forrester’s 2023 State Of VoC And CX Measurement Practices Survey results are in. They reveal some continued trends — and some interesting shifts.
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2023 Canada Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) Rankings: Industries Lose Gains Made In 2022
Forrester just published The Canada Net Promoter Rankings, 2023 report, which includes the Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) and industry rank for 100 brands across nine industries. We asked over 39,000 Canadian consumers in our annual Customer Experience Benchmark Survey about their likelihood to recommend brands that they interacted with in the past 12 months, using the standard NPS […]
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How To Capitalize On Conversational Search
As generative AI becomes more deeply integrated into search engine results pages (SERPs), conversational search will grow. Learn what the change means for marketers.
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Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) US Benchmarks, 2023: Fewer Brands Show Improvement
New analyses from Forrester’s 2023 Customer Experience Benchmark Study reveals that subdued customer advocacy continued in 2023, as fewer brands have significant improvements and more brands have significant drops in Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) compared to 2022.
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What Do Tadpoles And VoC Programs Have In Common?
I spend my days talking to clients about how to collect and use customer feedback to improve CX and drive business results. At night, I’m working toward my informal PhD in biology — courtesy of my two young sons who love to share their encyclopedic knowledge about bugs, insects, snakes, and all things creepy crawly. […]
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The 2023 CICS Forrester Wave™ Is Live, And Competition Is Fierce
Our first-time evaluation of this dynamic market, The Forrester Wave™: Conversation Intelligence For Customer Service, Q3 2023, is now live! We looked at the top 11 vendors in this market today and evaluated them across 32 criteria. Forrester defines conversation intelligence for customer service (CICS) as: Software solutions that analyze speech and text conversations between […]
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Are You Prepared to Include CX Metrics In Earnings Calls?
If you're considering sharing your CX performance during an earnings calls, here's how to do it right.
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The Economic Apocalypse Won’t Stop The Demand For Security Skills
European CISOs are facing headwinds in geopolitics and workforce retention. Making wise decisions is crucial in such turbulent times, which puts additional pressures on security pros. In our analysis of Forrester’s Security Survey results, we found that: While tech layoffs dominate the headlines, cybersecurity hiring remains strong. In 2022, Twitter, Meta, and Amazon were at […]
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The Right Way To Set CX Metrics Goals
CX pros need help effectively setting goals for the CX metrics that they produce. New Forrester research helps them implement a quantitative approach and avoid common pitfalls in the process.
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Supercharge Customer-Needs Discovery To Drive Customer-Obsessed Growth
Now more than ever, product managers must deeply understand their customers. With digital transformation efforts rampant, competitors coming online faster, and customer experience expectations rising, the standard practice of customer-needs discovery can’t keep up with this fast pace of change. In addition, customer demands are evolving rapidly — if you blink, you may miss them […]
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