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• Report How To Establish A CX Measurement Program

  Beginner Level: Measurement Practices For CX Transformation

  February 25, 2021 | Faith Adams, Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Customer experience (CX) transformation requires companies to quantify experience quality and its link to the organization's overall metrics. To do this, CX leaders must establish robust...

• Report Elevate And Scale Your CX Measurement Program

  Intermediate Level: Measurement Practices For CX Transformation

  February 25, 2021 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Once customer experience (CX) pros have established a program for measuring CX in one area of their organization, they are ready to move the measurement program to the intermediate level. This...

• Report Three Imperatives For Advanced CX Measurement Programs

  Advanced Level: Measurement Practices For CX Transformation

  February 24, 2021 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Once customer experience (CX) transformation leaders have evolved and scaled their CX measurement program, they need to further advance its effectiveness and efficiency. This report lays out three...

• Report Level Up Your CX Prioritization By Thinking In Multiple Dimensions

  Intermediate Level: Prioritization Practices For CX Transformation

  February 8, 2021 | Judy Weader

  Reaching an intermediate state of customer experience (CX) prioritization maturity requires increasing the sophistication of the modeling process. This report provides an updated intermediate-level...

• Report The ROI Of CX Transformation

  The Business Case Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Sam Karpinski

  Customer experience (CX) transformation efforts bring benefits like increased customer retention and greater cross-sell opportunity. To get those benefits, CX leaders need to invest in areas like...

• 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 Measuring Design's Impact: Establish, Extend, And Elevate Your Approach

  A Design Impact Series Report

  June 24, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Adopting design measurement best practices helps experience design (XD) teams achieve benefits ranging from getting UX improvements prioritized to earning the opportunity to influence strategic...

• Report The Business Impact Of Design: Five Best Practices For Measuring It

  Business Case: The User Experience Playbook

  May 14, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Experience design (XD) professionals struggle to measure and communicate the impact of their work. And that's a missed opportunity for them, because by mastering design measurement, they can reap...

• 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 The State Of CX Management Maturity, 2019

  The Benchmark Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  April 17, 2020 | Rick Parrish

  Even a track record of providing high-quality customer experience (CX) is no guarantee of future CX success. Organizations that want to provide great customer experience reliably for years to come...

• 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 Get Design Thinking Right: The Obstacles You'll Face And Six Tactics To Overcome Them

  April 8, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar, Sam Karpinski

  Despite the proven success of design thinking done right, many executives are reluctant to invest in it. To find out why, we surveyed and interviewed design thinking practitioners and found that...

• 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 Forrester Infographic: The ROI Of Design Thinking

  Costs, Benefits, And Where They Come From

  November 20, 2019 | Benjamin Brown, Ryan Hart

  As practitioners struggle to quantify and articulate the business impact of design thinking, organizations are challenged with scaling and funding design thinking in a meaningful way. The purpose...

• Report The Journey Measurement Framework Applied In B2C And B2B

  A Journey Measurement Series Report

  November 18, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha, Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  To build a journey measurement framework, customer experience (CX) pros must define in-journey signals and end-of-journey success metrics. This report provides two illustrations of these — for a...

• Report The Top 10 NPS Questions Answered

  What CX Professionals Should Know About Net Promoter Score

  November 7, 2019 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Since its introduction in 2003, Net Promoter has become one of the most widely used metrics for companies that want to improve the experiences they deliver to their customers in order to improve...

• Report Predictions 2020: Customer Experience

  Economics Will Drive Major CX Decisions But Not Always For The Best

  October 31, 2019 | Harley Manning, Andrew Hogan, Rick Parrish

  Improving customer experience (CX) is a superior way for companies to grow revenue and increase profits. In 2020, CX professionals who can prove the ROI of what they do face a strong job outlook,...

• 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 How To Choose The Right CX Beacon Metric

  Use Our 13-Criterion Tool To Determine Whether NPS, Satisfaction, Or Another KPI Should Be Your Organization's Top-Level CX Metric

  August 29, 2019 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Firms need a customer experience (CX) beacon metric to measure the overall success of their CX efforts, rally employees behind CX as a priority, and build a CX measurement architecture. But CX...

• Report The Journey Measurement Framework: Assess And Predict Journey Performance

  A Journey Measurement Series Report

  August 22, 2019 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Joana de Quintanilha

  Most customer experience (CX) pros struggle to assess whether journeys are successful for the customer and the company. The solution: Evolve from traditional measurement to journey measurement....

• 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 Tips For Scaling Your Design Thinking Practice

  July 30, 2019 | Ryan Hart

  Design thinking practitioners still struggle to garner and maintain support for their methodology. This report offers proven methods for overcoming common obstacles that customer experience (CX)...

• Report Q&A: Customer Effort Metrics — CX Pros Must Measure More Than "How Much"

  July 29, 2019 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Customer experience (CX) professionals who want to measure customer effort often fail to consider important aspects of this challenge. This report answers five big questions CX pros should ask...

• Report The ROI Of Design Thinking: Part 1, Overview

  Design Thinking Delivers Real Business Value

  May 16, 2019 | Ryan Hart, Benjamin Brown

  Despite the growing acceptance and practice of design thinking across nearly every industry, practitioners struggle to quantify and articulate its benefits. As a result, companies are challenged...