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• Webinar Foster A Fruitful Collaboration Between Design And Agile Teams

  Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Eastern time (15:00-16:00 GMT) | Karine Cardona-Smits

  Design and agile teams can build better products faster — together. But even the best-intended teams can struggle to find common ground. During this webinar, we uncover the common challenges...

• Report Agile And Design Teams: Better Together

  Improve CX And EX With Great Collaboration Between Designers And Developers

  January 21, 2021 | Karine Cardona-Smits

  Companies are adopting agile frameworks and adding designers to their delivery teams to improve digital experience development efforts. But these two constituencies don't rely on the same workflow,...

• Report Establish Your Experience Research Practice

  Beginner Level: Research Practices For CX Transformation

  January 21, 2021 | Kelly Price

  This report about experience research — one of the six competencies of customer experience (CX) — is for CX transformation leaders whose companies don't yet follow an effective and documented...

• Report Marketers Versus Customers: Opposing Forces Erupt

  Reevaluate Your Fundamental Marketing Assumptions To Regain Customers' Faith

  January 20, 2021 | Melissa Parrish

  Marketers set out to be customer-focused with the best intentions. They build customer profiles and personalize interactions — but inadvertently create creepy and even harmful experiences. CMOs...

• Report Empowered Consumers Go Green

  Empowerment Drives The Sustainability Transformation

  January 19, 2021 | Anjali Lai, Salvatore Schiano

  The past 20 years has enabled consumers to buy more products from more places more cheaply, but consumers feel unfulfilled. The rapid escalation of self-centered experiences has ignored a core...

• Report The Future Of The Empowered Consumer In The US

  The Past Decade Of Consumer Evolution Shows That Consumers Want New Choices, More Immersive Experiences, And Greater Purpose

  December 15, 2020 | Anjali Lai

  People rebound from crises by discovering and flexing their muscles of empowerment. For over 20 years, we've used hundreds of thousands of global consumer surveys to measure the drivers and...

• Report Five Ways To Ensure Deep Collaboration Between Marketing And Customer Experience

  Employ Them All To Ensure Consistently On-Brand Interactions That Drive Customer Loyalty

  December 14, 2020 | Rick Parrish

  Marketers and CX professionals are out of touch with today's business realities. While companies pursue business models that scramble traditional customer lifecycles, marketing and CX functions...

• Report Your Brand's Customer Experience Depends On Partner And Customer Understanding

  Best Practices For Qualitative And Quantitative Research With And About Partners

  December 14, 2020 | Angelina Gennis, Sam Karpinski

  B2B2C firms looking to improve the end-customer experience must first understand the current experience — not just of the customers but of the partners who deliver those experiences as well. This...

• Report How B2B2C Companies Can Invest In Their Partners And Boost Everyone's Bottom Lines

  Enable Your Partners To Maximize Efficiency And Increase Revenue

  December 14, 2020 | Angelina Gennis, Sam Karpinski

  B2B2C companies face a difficult challenge: How can they provide reliable, consistently excellent, and on-brand experiences to their end customers when they don't own all of the customer...

• Report Case Study: Nissan Transforms CX And EX Through Seven Customer Journeys

  How Nissan Embraced A Journey-Centric Operating Model To Deliver Customer Value And Business Growth

  December 10, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  Since 2018, Nissan has been on a path to transform its legacy systems and operating model to create a best-in-class integrated customer journey in order to grow its customer base, reduce costs, and...

• Report Forrester Predictions 2021: Accelerating Out Of The Crisis

  October 28, 2020 | Sharyn Leaver

  2020 shattered the status quo. In 2021, advanced organizations will adapt and use the upheaval to forge a competitive edge. Discover your organization's path to success. Read Forrester's 2021...

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  Webinar Vast, Fast, And Relentless: Consumers And The Future Of Buying

  October 22, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Anjali Lai

  The ways in which consumers buy products and services have been in a constant state of change over the past decade, and there are no signs of it slowing down. To survive, B2C firms must constantly...

• Report Gain A Competitive Advantage Through Enterprise Collaboration

  Executive Overview: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  September 4, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Many collaboration technology initiatives fall well short of their transformational potential. But a properly executed enterprise collaboration (EC) strategy engages employees and connects the...

• Forum Summit Asia Pacific

  The must-attend event for B2B & B2C marketing and CX leaders

  September 1, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Frederic Giron

  The combined power of Forrester and SiriusDecisions has unleashed a new energy into the products and services available to both the B2B and B2C community. By harnessing this energy, we are bringing...

• Report Vast, Fast, And Relentless: Consumer Buying Enters A New Era

  What B2C Businesses Need To Know To Survive And Thrive In The Next Decade

  August 11, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Anjali Lai, Joe Stanhope

  It won't be news to anyone that consumers are more empowered than ever, but it's hard to pin down in precisely what ways they're empowered and how that changes the way businesses must serve them....

• Report How Ending CX Bonuses Boosted CX Scores And Profitability For Volkswagen Group Australia

  July 21, 2020 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Even though paying employees for delivering good customer experience (CX) is a bad idea, many firms still do it. This report for CX professionals shows how Volkswagen Group Australia, a firm in an...

• Report CX Essentials

  The Basics Of Customer Experience In Plain Language CX Pros Can Use To Explain It To Colleagues

  July 21, 2020 | David Truog

  Many business and technology leaders undermine their own companies and careers when they make decisions related to customer experience (CX). How? By basing their decisions on a wrong understanding...

• Report Enterprises Must Have One VoC Program, Not Many

  Why Enabling A Cross-Channel View Is Critical To CX Transformation

  July 13, 2020 | Faith Adams

  As customers cross multiple channels and lines of business while engaging with a brand, the ability to visualize and understand their journeys often eludes companies. This happens when companies...

• Report So You've Journey Mapped. Now What?

  Three Ways To Use A Completed Journey Map As A Transformation Tool

  July 6, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha, Sam Karpinski

  Journey maps can be incredibly effective tools for driving a customer experience (CX) transformation, yet many CX professionals struggle with using them to create change. This report outlines some...

• Report Seven Best Practices For Using Video Feedback In Your VoC Program

  June 22, 2020 | Faith Adams

  VoC programs continue to encounter challenges when it comes to engaging stakeholders and driving action. Despite having access to many potentially helpful capabilities in their technology...

• Report Twenty-Five Ways Governments Innovated To Support Their Customers During The Pandemic

  Public-Sector Organizations Cook Up New Ways To Work With And Support Individuals And Businesses

  June 19, 2020 | Judy Weader, Rick Parrish

  Experience improvement should happen all the time — even more so when a pandemic makes business as usual impossible. Across the globe, governments at all levels are rethinking how they can support...

• Report Delight The Right Customers To Build A Successful Business

  June 9, 2020 | TJ Keitt

  Businesses often chase high overall customer experience (CX) scores. But these beacon metrics, which measure the average experience across all customers, provide limited insights to business...

• Report The Cloud CX Value Map

  Use The CX Value Map To Measure Cloud Success Across Your Organization

  June 3, 2020 | Dave Bartoletti, Will McKeon-White

  As enterprises expand their cloud usage, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are increasingly cloud intermediaries and must become better "vendors" of services for their internal...

• Report Journey Centricity: Learn From The Leaders

  How To Get The Balance Right Between Your Firm's Operational Levers For Transformation

  June 1, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  Customer-obsessed leaders across industries are transforming their firms toward journey centricity. Why? Because journeys are their customers' lived realities, which are rarely the same as the...

• Report A Framework For Helping Customers In Crisis

  How 26 Firms In Asia Pacific Created New Standard Operating Practices For Business As Unusual

  June 1, 2020 | Amit Bhatia, Judy Weader, Rick Parrish

  Crisis reveals character. Right now, businesses are showing their character as they respond to unprecedented change in near real time. As governments order whole sectors to shut down, customer...