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• Report Evolve Your Experience Research Practice

  Advanced 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 experience research leaders who have scaled up their practice, so their companies: 1) follow...

• Report Scale Your Experience Research Practice

  Intermediate 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 experience research leaders who have established a solid practice, so their companies...

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  Webinar The New, Unstable Normal Roundtable: How COVID-19 Will Change Business And Technology Forever

  Europe-Friendly Start Time

  October 28, 2020 | Laura Koetzle, Martin Gill, Martha Bennett

  The lasting impact of COVID-19 and the high likelihood of future pandemics will usher in five macro shifts that will fundamentally change business and technology: 1) Customer expectations will...

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  Webinar The Future Of Jobs In Europe

  September 21, 2020 | Dan Bieler

  2020 is a pivotal moment for Europe, with greater economic uncertainty, rapid technology change, and a pandemic disrupting existing working environments. The European job market will become even...

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  Webinar The New, Unstable Normal Roundtable: How COVID-19 Will Change Business And Technology Forever

  August 18, 2020 | Anjali Lai, Sucharita Kodali, Melissa Parrish

  The lasting impact of COVID-19 and the high likelihood of future pandemics will usher in five macro shifts that will fundamentally change business and technology: 1) Customer expectations will...

• Report The ROI Of Design Thinking: Part 2, How To Calculate

  Find Your Organization's ROI Using Forrester's Total Economic Impact Methodology

  July 15, 2020 | Benjamin Brown, Sam Karpinski

  In part 1 of this two-part series on the ROI of design thinking, Forrester found that three-quarters of projects can return double their investment (or more) in design thinking — with a median...

• 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 The Forrester Wave™: Journey Mapping Platforms, Q2 2020

  The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 15, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  In our 26-criterion evaluation of journey mapping providers, we identified the eight most significant ones — CustomersFirst Now, cx/omni, Decooda International, More than Metrics, MURAL, Strativity...

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  Webinar A Beginner's Guide To Culture Practices For CX Transformation

  June 2, 2020 | Angelina Gennis

  Just starting out on a customer experience (CX) transformation? Follow the five key steps Forrester has seen successful cultures take to become more customer-centric. Key takeaways: Explore how...

• Forum CX Sydney

  The Time Is Now: Lead With Experience

  April 30, 2020 | Virtual Event | Michael Barnes

  CX and marketing exist to win, serve, and retain customers. But silos and miscommunication keep this power duo from reaching their full potential. For this reason, we’ve made collaboration...

• Report Six Ways You Should Use The Federal Stimulus To Drive Customer Obsession

  April 9, 2020 | Rick Parrish, TJ Keitt, J. P. Gownder

  The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act features nearly $1 trillion in benefits to businesses. How will your company use its share? In this report, we detail six ways that...

• Report Case Study: Navy Federal Credit Union's Great Employee Experience Drives Great CX

  The Success Secrets Behind The Leading Company In Forrester's Customer Experience Index

  March 17, 2020 | Keith Johnston, Nick Monroe

  Being a repeat leader in Forrester's Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) makes you a company that others want to learn from and emulate. So how does Navy Federal Credit Union — the world's...

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  Webinar Take A Systematic Approach To Values-Based Consumers And Employees

  March 11, 2020 | Rick Parrish

  A company's approach to moral, social, and political values increasingly matters to its success. Both consumers and employees are looking for alignment between a business's values and their own...

• Report The Innovation Engine: Unleash Your Employees' Potential To Innovate

  February 26, 2020 | Jennifer Wise

  Companies strive to innovate, but their attempts often fizzle. Two root causes of this failure are: 1) a lack of organizational buy-in for the innovation function and 2) a company culture that puts...

• Report CX Teams In 2019: What They Do, Where They Report, And Their Size And Budget

  February 20, 2020 | Angelina Gennis

  In May and June 2019, Forrester fielded a survey to customer experience (CX) professionals across the globe. We received hundreds of completed responses detailing what CX professionals are...

• Report How US Companies Improved Their CX Index Scores

  February 20, 2020 | Harley Manning, Sam Karpinski, William Willsea

  As customer expectations have continued to climb, overall Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) scores have continued to stagnate. In the run-up to 2019, a few companies outpaced the pack and made...

• Report Modern Employee Experience Practices Are Table Stakes For The Customer-Obsessed Firm

  Executive Overview: The Employee Experience Playbook

  November 15, 2019 | Keith Johnston, Nick Monroe

  The time has come for businesses to retire ineffective employee experience (EX) practices and develop EX programs that attract, retain, and cultivate the modern worker. This playbook helps...

• Report The EX Transformation Workhorse: Employee Journey Mapping

  Roadmap: The Employee Experience Playbook

  November 1, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha, Samuel Stern

  Your understanding of the employee experience (EX) at your firm will remain hazy as long as you rely on annual snapshots of employee engagement. Why? Because insights from these surveys are stale...

• Report Who Should Design: Blend Democratization, Expertise, And Representativeness

  A Design Revolution Series Report

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Some companies believe design success is a matter of training employees in design thinking. Others entrust designing only to professional designers. Both approaches are wrong. Firms need both...

• Report Research Overview: The Design Revolution

  A Customer Experience Guide To Advancing Your Design Maturity, Overcoming Myths About Design, And Staffing For Good Design

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  This document is a short overview of the "Design Revolution" series with links to the documents it contains. The series lays out for experience design (XD) professionals and their colleagues the...

• Report Five Steps To Enable Customer Experience Delivery

  Beginner Level: Enablement Practices For CX Transformation

  September 25, 2019 | TJ Keitt, Angelina Gennis, Samuel Stern

  Companies depend on their employees to deliver high-quality customer experience (CX). And employees depend on companies to provide tools and design processes that enable them to effectively serve...

• Report EX Measurement Best Practices: New Data Sources, New Insights, And More Accountability

  How To Continuously Shape A PEAK Employee Experience

  September 3, 2019 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Samuel Stern

  Most companies devote so much of their limited employee experience (EX) measurement resources to surveying employees that they overlook other sources of insights and fail to act on the insights to...

• Report CX NYC 2019 Day Two Highlights: Humanizing Radical CX Innovation

  Top Takeaways About Employee Experience, Moments That Matter, And Differentiating With Privacy

  August 15, 2019 | Harley Manning

  Customer expectations continue to rise faster than companies are making customer experience (CX) improvements. At this year's CX NYC Forum, analysts and practitioners shared new ways for CX pros to...

• Report The Definitive Guide To Forrester's Journey Mapping Research

  A Guide To Our 25 Leading Journey Mapping Reports

  August 2, 2019 | Angelina Gennis, Joana de Quintanilha, TJ Keitt

  Forrester has written more than 50 reports for customer experience (CX) pros on customer journey maps, which are fundamental tools for understanding and improving CX. Whether you are familiarizing...

• Report Case Study: The CX Transformation Success Secrets Of Crowe

  How One B2B Firm Uses Exceptional Client Experience To Fuel Business Growth

  May 22, 2019 | Samuel Stern, Angelina Gennis

  Many companies try to transform their customer experience (CX), but few succeed. B2B public accounting, consulting, and technology firm Crowe has defied the odds and successfully transformed its...