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Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies For 2025: Automation Evolves, Robots Rise, And Synthetic Data Steps Forward

Brian Hopkins May 6, 2025
Emerging technology isn’t just speeding up — it’s splintering into newer, riskier, and more powerful directions. Learn three noteworthy changes to this year’s top 10 emerging technologies list and one foundational truth that hasn’t changed in this preview of our upcoming webinar and new report.

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404: No More Excuses: Practice Customer Obsession The Right Way

The CX Cast 4 days ago
All those reasons why customer obsession is too hard don’t matter. Customer experience wins business. VP, Principal Analyst Shar VanBoskirk explains how customer obsession is not just a goal, but a continuous practice that can lead to significant improvements in customer experience and business efficiency. She shares real world examples, challenges in measuring customer obsession, and […]
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Leading Through Volatility: Consumer Marketing, CX, And Digital Expert Panel

Ready to tackle market volatility, changing customer expectations, and rapid digital disruption? Watch our on-demand webinar to learn how to stay resilient, put customers first, and boost loyalty — even in challenging times.

Win Over Complex Buying Groups With Adaptive Programs

B2B buying groups are more complex than ever. Discover how to align priorities, drive consensus, and boost marketing’s impact with adaptive programs. Watch the webinar replay for buyer insights based on research.

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Leading Through Volatility: Technology Expert Panel

Lead your tech teams through turbulent times with confidence and precision. Watch this webinar to explore risk management strategies and adaptive change techniques designed for those ready to push back against chaos and thrive where others falter.
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403: Where Should Your CX Function Sit?

The CX Cast May 6, 2025
Does a CX team’s position in the organization affect its influence? Principal Analyst Judy Weader shares insights from recent survey data and qualitative research, revealing that there isn't a one-size-fits-all answer. The placement of CX teams varies widely across different companies and industries, but organizational dynamics go beyond the org chart. The burden is on the CX leader to drive influence and flex with the nonlinear nature of CX maturity. Judy offers a decision-making framework to help organizations determine the best placement for their CX functions, emphasizing the role of executive sponsorship and the necessity for CX leaders to be proactive in their roles.
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402: Develop Your CX Leadership

The CX Cast April 29, 2025
You don’t just manage, you lead. Managing the details of CX – execution, measurement, strategy – is crucial, but for you to truly succeed, you must lead your people to become customer-obsessed, empowered workers who understand and care about your customer’s outcomes.
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Leading Through Volatility: Security And Risk Expert Panel

Master security risk management during volatility. Watch this webinar to explore the actions you can take to regain security control.
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Leading Through Volatility: B2B Marketing, Sales, And Product Expert Panel

Shifting buyer behaviors, global turbulence, and tech disruptions are changing go-to-market strategies. Watch this webinar to learn how to focus on stable markets, reduce costs, and adapt to customer needs. See how smart planning can help your marketing team thrive in uncertain times.

Prove CX ROI And Gain Executive Buy-In

Struggling to make execs see the value of CX? Download our guide and ROI calculator to craft a winning business case and secure funding for your CX initiatives.

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401: How To Drive Growth By Aligning Your Brand Promise With CX

The CX Cast April 22, 2025
Why should CX professionals care about brand experience (BX)? Forrester VP, Principal Analysts Dipanjan Chatterjee and Thomas Husson join the podcast to discuss the challenges organizations face in delivering a total experience and shed light on how BX can help drive growth.
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400: The CX Culture Change Blueprint

The CX Cast April 15, 2025
CX transformation requires leaders to determine the specific employee behaviors that drive customer loyalty and shape the conditions that enable them to activate the entire workforce to demonstrate customer focus. In this episode, Angelina introduces a blueprint consisting of three key steps: 1) describing current and ideal culture; 2) assessing the current culture; and 3) leading culture change.
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Everyone Is Talking About Leaving MQLs, But Is Anyone Actually Doing It?

Watch and learn how Palo Alto Networks, Siemens and Zendesk made the move – including their experience aligning teams to drive adoption and creating a pilot that led to measurable improvements in key performance metrics. 
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399: Build Your EX-To-CX Strategy Now

The CX Cast April 8, 2025
Employee feedback is part of a virtuous cycle of improving customer experience (CX) through employee empowerment and enablement that builds customer trust. But if you’re not building your CX strategy using this loop, you’re in a reactive cycle of EX-blind customer focus instead. Breaking the cycle begins with an effective employee listening strategy, followed by accountability at the leadership level to ensure that employee voice leads to appropriate action. Forrester Principal Analyst David Brodeur-Johnson joins us to discuss.
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Unveiling The Top 10 Emerging Technologies Of 2025

Get an early look at the top 10 emerging technologies for 2025, hear common use cases for each, and learn how (and when) these advancements will produce real benefits.

Is Your Security Ready For Today’s Volatility?

Economic turmoil, cyberattacks, and rising regulations demand strong security leadership. Watch our webinar for tips on reducing risk, cutting costs, and leading through change.

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398: Advanced Analytics Will Transform Your CX Practice

The CX Cast April 1, 2025
Most CX teams are too reliant on feedback (survey) data, leading to limited insights and even misinformed action. Forrester senior analyst Rich Saunders joins us to make the case for advanced analytics. He outlines the path forward – even for those intimidated by advanced analytics.
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397: Generative AI: Lessons Learned

The CX Cast March 25, 2025
How should CX professionals use generative AI? Forrester VP, Principal Analyst Martha Bennett joins for a follow-up discussion to chat about the evolution and current state of genAI, busting myths and addressing real-world CX applications. 
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396: Guerilla CX

The CX Cast March 18, 2025
Guerilla CX is “swift, creative, and often low-cost tactics that make the most of rightsized data and foster experimentation and learning to create memorable moments that act as a catalyst for CX and EX transformation.” VP, Principal Analyst Joana de Quintanilha returns to explain why guerilla CX tactics need to be in every CX practitioner’s back pocket, as well as how deploying these tactics might lead to big impact on CX and internal customer-focused culture.
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395: Practitioner Stories: Embracing Journey Centricity At Nissan

The CX Cast March 11, 2025
Since 2018, Nissan has been on a path to transform its legacy systems and operating model to make customer journeys the center of value creation and create a best-in-class integrated customer journey. Jivesh Juneja, Customer Journey Director at Nissan, joins the CX Cast to discuss Nissan’s journey from embracing customer journey mapping to scaling out journey management and adopting a journey-centric operating model.
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Measure What Matters: Your Guide To CX Success

Learn from our analysts as they unveil the CX metrics framework, a tool to build effective measurement strategies that drive tangible results.

Scale Your AI Strategy To Maximize ROI

Unlock the blueprint for AI success. Discover how to align strategy, prioritize impactful use cases, and close the talent gap — everything you need to expedite ROI and achieve tangible success through AI.

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394: Getting Stakeholder Buy-In For Customer Research Pt. 2 

The CX Cast March 4, 2025
Forrester identifies the firms that are helping businesses diagnose customer problems, develop a plan to solve those issues, and build the infrastructure needed to execute a CX transformation. That effort is led by Principal Analyst Judy Weader, who joins us to unpack her recent evaluation of the CX strategy consulting services market.
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393: How To Pick A CX Strategy Consulting Partner

The CX Cast February 25, 2025
In her recent evaluation of CX strategy consulting services providers, Forrester Principal Analyst Judy Weader identified the most significant ones and researched, analyzed, and scored them. Judy joins us to unpick the CX strategy consulting services market.
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392: Evaluating Customer Feedback Management Platforms

The CX Cast February 18, 2025
In this episode of the CX Cast, Forrester Senior Analyst Colleen Fazio shares the findings of her report,  The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management Solutions, Q4 2024. We talk about the importance of vendor services to help CX leaders leverage increasingly complex platforms, how to think about your organizational readiness, and the promise of GenAI.
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