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• Report The Best Tech Leaders Develop And Unleash Creative People

  Advanced Level: People Practices For IT Transformation

  January 8, 2021 | Gordon Barnett

  CIOs attaining an intermediate maturity level in their IT transformation efforts may operate well; however, their organizations often lack the culture, talent, and structure it takes to be a market...

• Report How To Scale Your Design Organization

  Roadmap: The User Experience Playbook

  January 7, 2021 | Gina Bhawalkar

  The surge in demand for experience design (XD) requires that you answer a hard question as a design leader: How can your XD organization scale up? This report explains how, based on best practices...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Brand Communication And Action Drive Perception For Indian Banks

  December 30, 2020 | Amit Bhatia

  Apart from spawning a health crisis in 2020, the pandemic inevitably also created an economic one, pushing financial institutions into the spotlight. Like their global peers, banks in India strove...

• Report Singapore Banking Customers Prefer Hybrid Experiences

  Delight Customers With The Best Of Both Worlds: Digital And Physical

  December 18, 2020 | Tom Mouhsian

  Our annual CX Index and financial services studies offer fresh perspectives on what customers like, trust and prefer. In this report, we focus on customer experiences that take place in both...

• Report Ingredients Of Great Design: Conquer Six Myths

  Principles: The User Experience Playbook

  December 15, 2020 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Many companies striving to get better at designing experiences won't. Why? Because they fall for widespread myths about what design is, who should be involved in it, and how to do it well. For...

• 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 Research Overview: Personalization

  A Guide To Our Personalization-Related Research

  December 11, 2020 | Rusty Warner, David Novitzky

  B2C marketers strive to deliver relevant, personalized customer experiences. But heightened customer expectations, conflicting business goals, overlapping technologies, and execution challenges...

• Report The Design Revolution

  Vision: The User Experience Playbook

  December 11, 2020 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Companies are prioritizing design because of seismic shifts in the dynamics of value, experiences, and power that are making user experience (UX) matter more than ever. But many firms undermine...

• 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 Make Social Media Bigger Than Marketing

  Executive Overview: The Social Marketing Playbook

  November 25, 2020 | Jessica Liu

  B2C marketers know that social marketing works but can't articulate how. That's because too many of them launched social programs without a clear strategy. Mastering social media requires more than...

• Report The Future Of Enterprise Marketing Technology

  Vision: The Enterprise Marketing Technology Playbook

  November 25, 2020 | Joe Stanhope, Rusty Warner

  Enterprise B2C marketers have invested heavily in marketing technology (martech) to deliver contextually relevant customer engagement. But to stay ahead of the curve, firms need to rethink their...

• 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...

• Report Innovate Successfully: Future-State Journey Mapping

  October 20, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar, Joana de Quintanilha, Jennifer Wise

  Companies pursue innovation to succeed but often miss the mark because their efforts aren't rooted in customer understanding and don't deliver value. Customer experience (CX) pros can help, using a...

• Report How To Make Sense Of Martech Mayhem

  A Reference Guide To Help Assemble Your Martech Ecosystem

  October 19, 2020 | Rusty Warner

  B2C marketers must integrate enterprise marketing technology (martech) components from multiple vendors to assemble their own unique ecosystems. Working with enterprise marketing software suite...

• Report A Three-Step Approach To Jump-Starting CX Transformation In Government

  Government Organizations Are Making Inroads But Have A Long Journey Ahead

  August 25, 2020 | Riccardo Pasto

  High-quality customer experience (CX) drives mission success. When government CX improves, customers engage, trust, and forgive; government operations run more smoothly and cost less; and people's...

• Report An Illustrated Guide To Collecting Zero-Party Data

  Use Microexperiences To Quickly And Easily Collect Rich Customer Attributes

  August 20, 2020 | Stephanie Liu

  Zero-party data (ZPD), or data that a consumer proactively and intentionally shares about herself, has always been a valuable source of customer insight. B2C marketers today are building a variety...

• Report Define Your Social Media Maturity To Advance Your Social Marketing

  Assessment: The Social Marketing Playbook

  August 14, 2020 | Jessica Liu

  B2C marketers can't get more from their social marketing investments without first understanding where they are now in their overall social media maturity. Read this report to learn about the...

• 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 Q&A: Defining "Customer" At B2B2C Companies

  Insights From A CX North America Panel Discussion

  August 11, 2020 | Judy Weader, Sam Karpinski

  B2B2C companies deliver value to multiple types of customers (including partners — the first "B" — and end consumers), which can make it difficult for them to know the types of customers on which...

• Report Design For Confidence

  In Uncertain Times, Your Customers Want Certainty More Than Ever

  August 10, 2020 | Andrew Hogan, Senem Guler Biyikli

  Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, customers are battling uncertainty from all corners, needing confidence more than ever. Many companies strive for experiences that are seamless, easy, or beautiful,...

• Report Marketers: Rate Your Customer Privacy Proficiency

  Assessment: The Customer Trust And Privacy Playbook

  July 28, 2020 | Fatemeh Khatibloo

  For better or worse, many modern marketing tactics represent an enormous privacy and security risk to your organization. That means B2C marketers need to develop privacy awareness, build privacy...

• Report Q&A: What Marketers Need To Know About Social Media Consumer Segmentation

  Social User Data Allows Marketers To Build Novel Segments For Uniquely Relevant Insights

  July 22, 2020 | Ryan Skinner

  Social media data, in the form of profiles, connections, likes, shares, and posts, can be the raw material for remarkably relevant marketing. The data serves as a map to consumers' preferences,...

• Report Customer Engagement During A Pandemic: Best Practices Illustrated

  Use Our Customer Engagement Checklist To Vet Your Campaign

  July 21, 2020 | Amit Bhatia

  Plummeting sales in the wake of COVID-19 has made relentless customer engagement the new black. As brands flood customers with pandemic-related messages, their quality and relevance can quickly...