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• 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 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 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 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 Expectations And Experiences: The Impact Of Your Customers' Expectations On CX Quality

  May 26, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha, Victoria McRitchie

  Achieving excellent customer experience (CX) requires exceeding expectations — Forrester's Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) data proves it — but most brands are merely meeting expectations or...

• Report Digital CX And Design Trends, 2020

  May 20, 2020 | Andrew Hogan, Gina Bhawalkar, Jennifer Wise

  Eight trends in 2020 are shaping how experience design (XD) professionals and their companies should improve their customers' experiences with digital touchpoints, from apps to websites to Alexa...

• Report CX Professionals Must Collaborate With Customer Service Leaders

  Why Collaboration Is Critical To Achieve A State-Of-The-Art VoC Program And CX Success

  May 8, 2020 | Faith Adams

  The difference between customer experience and customer service is confusing to many firms. This leads to a lack of clarity over the true ownership of CX and blurred lines between CX professionals...

• Report Why CX: Proof That Investing In Experience Improves Revenue, Cost, And Risk

  Use Data From More Than 20 Companies To Make A Measurable And Meaningful Business Case For CX

  May 5, 2020 | Judy Weader, Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Customer experience (CX) can be a critical differentiator and transformation catalyst, but its effects are limited when those leading the CX charge can't make a measurable and meaningful case for...

• Report Interactive Tool: Determine Your Company's Strategy For Values-Based Customers

  Win Customers Who Consider Firms' Moral, Political, And Social Values When Making Buying Decisions

  April 10, 2020 | Rick Parrish

  Brands' moral, social, and political values are now a core issue for most consumers and employees. Unfortunately, companies lack a systematic values strategy, leading to high-profile flubs. Our new...

• 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: UK Bank Virgin Money Transformed CX And Improved Business Outcomes

  Virgin Money Used A Merger As An Opportunity To Align Its Culture On Customer Experience

  April 7, 2020 | Judy Weader

  Virgin Money found a way to save money, build customer centricity, and align the organization around the North Star of customer experience (CX). CX professionals should read this case study to...

• 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...

• Report Get Accessibility Right: Recruit People With Disabilities Into The Design Process

  March 6, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Companies faced over 2,200 lawsuits in 2019 for failing to make their digital properties accessible, so it's no wonder firms are prioritizing accessibility. But it's about more than legal risk —...

• 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 The Dark Pattern Trap: How To Prevent Decisions That Help Short-Term KPIs But Hurt Loyalty

  February 26, 2020 | Andrew Hogan

  Many companies drive growth by manipulating customers — breaking no laws but breaking trust. While these design decisions can boost revenues in the short term, they frustrate customers, demoralize...

• Report Forrester's Top Customer Experience Research Findings Of 2019

  February 21, 2020 | Rick Parrish, Gina Bhawalkar, Angelina Gennis

  Forrester's customer experience (CX) research team published more than 100 reports in 2019. In this review, we pull our most important CX findings — across a range of topics — out of those reports...

• 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 The Forrester Government Wave™: US Federal Government Websites, Q1 2020

  Federal Websites Offer Similarly Strong Experiences And Have Room For Improvement

  February 18, 2020 | Rick Parrish, Gina Bhawalkar

  Websites are the centerpiece of the US federal customer experience (CX). To gauge how well they serve customers, we evaluated seven of the most-visited sites. This report reveals how well they...