What It Means: A Forrester Podcast
What It Means is currently on hiatus. In the meantime, we’re re‑airing some of the most popular episodes from our archive — conversations with Forrester analysts that explore key trends and challenges shaping how business and technology leaders make decisions and stay customer obsessed. We hope you enjoy these classic conversations.
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Get Your AI Aligned
This is a classic episode recorded earlier in our AI journey, but its core idea has only grown more relevant. As organizations move from experimenting with AI to running it at scale, the need to align AI by design has become a business imperative. We hope you enjoy this episode.
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How Can B2B Marketers Adapt To Changing Search Behaviors?
We recorded this episode earlier, but its insights have only sharpened with time. As AI reshapes how buyers discover information and conversations continue at Forrester’s B2B Summit event, this episode offers timely perspective on what marketers must rethink. We hope you enjoy this episode.
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Product Experts Gain New Clout Among B2B Buyers
This is a classic episode that feels even more relevant today. As B2B leaders prepare for the Forrester B2B Summit, its focus on expertise and credibility speaks directly to how trust is earned in today’s buying environment. We hope you enjoy this episode.
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Taming B2B Buying Mayhem
This episode is quickly becoming a classic for B2B leaders. As we head into the Forrester B2B Summit, its perspective on buying networks and modern buying complexity is still essential listening for anyone focused on growth. We hope you enjoy this episode.
The CX Cast
Research-based guidance on how to manage customer experience (CX) at any organization — an imperative that Forrester has been researching for over 20 years. Each week, Forrester analysts discuss key findings from their latest research on CX; analyze relevant topics in the news; or chat with CX professionals about how they’ve overcome prevalent challenges managing CX in their organizations.
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Reboot Journey Measurement To Prove Value
Many CX teams say they are journey‑led. Fewer can prove the value of those journeys. In this episode, Angelina Gennis and Martin Gill speak with Maxie Schmidt, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester, about how to reboot journey measurement so it drives decisions, rather than populates dashboards. We examine how to move beyond end‑of‑journey surveys […]
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445: How CX Leaders Build Resilience In A Volatile World
Uncertainty is no longer an exception. It is the operating environment. In this episode of CX Cast, Angelina Gennis and Martin Gill unpack why volatility, geopolitical risk, and rapid change are overwhelming CX teams, and explore what resilient leaders do differently. We connect macro‑level uncertainty to practical leadership choices CX executives must make now, and […]
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444: Practitioner Stories: Curbing Coordination Tax At Ridepanda
Growth makes coordination of customer problems harder – whatever your product. If your product is physical, the journey is daily, and customers are forming new habits, the “coordination tax” can erode both customer and employee experiences. In this episode, CX Cast co-host Angelina Gennis speaks with Cassidy Grace, CX Manager at Ridepanda about what it […]
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443: Communicating CX: Start With A Better Question
What if CX leaders could stop guessing what stakeholders want and instead ask a single structured prompt: “If you knew __ about customers, what would you do?” In this episode, we dig into the benefits of asking this question with Senior Analyst Colleen Fazio.