Search Results

• Blog How To Establish And Grow Your Customer Experience Function In EMEA

  February 26, 2021 | Joana de Quintanilha

  Customer experience (CX) excellence will be sorely needed in 2021. Pandemic conditions will continue to fluctuate on a local level, affecting consumer sentiment and requiring fast and accurate...

• Report The EX Transformation Workhorse: Employee Journey Mapping

  Roadmap: The Employee Experience Playbook

  February 22, 2021 | David Johnson, Joana de Quintanilha

  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 surveys can't go deep enough to...

• Blog We Need To Shift How We Think About Emotion And Journeys

  February 17, 2021 | Joana de Quintanilha

  Emotion Is The Key To Benchmarking Journeys We know customer journeys matter. We know emotion matters. It’s time to bring these two together and use journeys to design for the full scope of...

• Report Benchmark Customer Journeys To Drive Emotional Engagement

  Segment And Design Your Journeys To Strike An Optimal Ratio Of Positive To Negative Emotions To Shape Memorable Experiences

  February 16, 2021 | Joana de Quintanilha

  To know what good customer journeys look like — and to benchmark them — we need to understand how to design for emotion. This requires a shift in how we think about emotion and journeys. First, we...

• 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 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...

• Blog Segment And Benchmark Your Journeys To Drive Emotional Engagement

  October 22, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  We know customer journeys matter. We know emotion matters. But do we know what “good” looks like when it comes to customer journeys? Do we know how to design for emotion? Well, the two...

• 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...

• Blog Europe Predictions 2021: Digital Leaders Widen The Customer Experience Maturity Gap

  October 15, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  In 2020, for the first time in more than five years, we saw two financial services companies achieve an “Excellent” score in our Customer Experience Index (CX Index), which measures how...

• Report Virtual Journey Mapping For Effective Remote Collaboration In Times Of Crisis And Recovery

  Use Virtual Journey Mapping To Optimize Customer And Employee Journeys

  August 7, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  In today's pandemic environment, customers' needs are shifting: They're adopting never-before-seen behaviors and engaging more digitally. It's more crucial than ever to understand how your...

• 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 Orchestration Platforms, Q2 2020

  The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 15, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  In our 28-criterion evaluation of journey orchestration providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Alterian, BryterCX, Coveo, Engage Hub, inQuba, Kitewheel, NICE, Pointillist, Roojoom,...

• 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...

• 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...

• 

  Webinar Measure And Predict Journey Performance The New And Right Way

  April 7, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha, Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  You know customer journeys matter. But unless your company is the exception, you probably don’t know how well each journey performs. Does it deliver value to customers? Meet short-term and...

• 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...

• Forum CX Europe 2019

  Change The Game: Leading Radical CX Innovation

  November 14, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha

  First, the good news. Customer experience (CX) leaders have successfully elevated and transformed the practice of CX over the past decade. We’ve become more professional, more analytical, and...

• Report The UK Customer Experience Index, 2019

  How Brands Build Loyalty With The Quality Of Their Experience

  November 13, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha

  How well do leading brands build loyalty with the quality of their customer experience (CX)? This year, we reveal the complete rankings of all 36 brands across five industries in the UK CX Index....

• Report The France Customer Experience Index, 2019

  How Brands Build Loyalty With The Quality Of Their Experience

  November 13, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha, Karine Cardona-Smits

  How well do leading brands build loyalty with the quality of their customer experience (CX)? This year, we reveal the complete rankings of all 36 brands across four industries in the France CX...

• Report Predictions 2020: Europe

  Europe Will Deliver Regulatory Leadership Amid Uncertainty

  November 4, 2019 | Martha Bennett, Dan Bieler, Thomas Husson

  In 2020, European firms will grapple with increased volatility on both the economic and geopolitical fronts, and Germany's industrial firms, Digital China, and regulators will capitalize on the...

• Report Empirical Innovation: Prioritize Evidence Over Instinct To Innovate Successfully

  A Design Revolution Series Report

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Kelly Price, Gina Bhawalkar

  Many companies mistakenly believe that effective design is driven by instinct, not research, or that research is a "nice to have" that's too time-consuming. But instinctive design relies on...

• Report Why And How To Iterate: Deliver Value And Quality To Reveal And Meet User Needs

  A Design Revolution Series Report

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

  Iterating is key to designing well. And design often must mesh with Agile, in which iterating is also key. Why do design and Agile both use iteration? Because iterating produces insight into what...