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• Report How To Monetize Open Finance And Platform Business Models

  Business Case: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  January 14, 2021 | Jacob Morgan

  Financial services executives have more go-to-market options available than ever before for their firm's products and services — thanks to open banking and platform business models. But how do you...

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  Webinar Wealth Management Predictions 2021

  Firms Embrace Digital To Thrive

  January 14, 2021 | Vijay Raghavan, David Hoffman

  We will remember 2020 for COVID-19: The pandemic permanently changed the ways customers seek advice and how financial advisors dispense it. As the lockdown began, consumers did not have access to a...

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  Webinar Insurance Predictions 2021

  Insurers Find Opportunity Amid Chaos

  January 13, 2021 | Ellen Carney, Jeffery Williams

  We are a world in recovery heading into 2021. Insurers will need to contend with an unpredictable virus and its economic consequences, dramatic climate events, and the aftermath of a polarizing US...

• Report The Future Of Commerce Technology: Commerce Platforms End With An Ecosystem On FIRE

  Digital Acceleration Demands That Businesses Evolve Their Architecture To Survive

  January 5, 2021 | Emily Pfeiffer

  Commerce is no longer the core technical function within increasingly complex commerce tech stacks. As this landscape shifts, the new dual cores instead center around experience and operations....

• Report The Five Key Success Factors Of Every Digital Business

  Strategic Plan: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 4, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Successful organizations are largely driven by the right people, the right organizational structure, and an innovative idea for selling online that often reinforces brick-and-mortar stores. In the...

• Report Now Tech: Digital Supply Chain Control Tower Solutions, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 17 Digital Supply Chain Control Tower Solution Providers

  December 23, 2020 | George Lawrie

  You can use control towers to orchestrate demand forecasts, open new routes to market, and deliver differentiating customer experiences such as subscription fulfillment. But to realize these...

• Report Learn From — Don't Fear — The Tech Titans To Prepare For The Future Of Banking

  December 17, 2020 | Alyson Clarke

  The tech titans — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — have been dabbling in financial services for years, and they continue to push into many aspects of banking and payments. This report looks at...

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  Webinar Digital Business Predictions 2021

  December 16, 2020 | Ted Schadler, Nigel Fenwick, Liz Herbert

  2020 was a year that no company will ever forget. The pandemic changed everything. Companies that had laid the foundations of cloud, agility, and strategic partnerships were ready to respond with...

• Report How To Reinvent Small Business Lending

  SMB Lending Transformation Requires A Reset Of Technology, Processes, And Culture

  December 10, 2020 | Zhi-Ying Barry

  COVID-19 is challenging how business lenders operate at every part of the lending value chain. To address these challenges, some lenders have begun to digitize parts of the origination and...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Chinese Lenders Must Learn From Digital Lenders To Stay Relevant

  December 9, 2020 | Meng Liu, Arnav Gupta

  Recent Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics® data reveals that digital lenders have gained significant mindshare among Chinese borrowers and often delighted customers with their service...

• Report Building The Business Case For Omnichannel Commerce

  Business Case: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  December 7, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Digital business professionals must build effective omnichannel business cases to minimize the risk of launching initiatives that: 1) lack critical internal support; 2) fail to meet customers'...

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  Webinar How Brands And Manufacturers Thrive In The Age Of Marketplaces: Blocking And Tackling (Part 2 of 2)

  October 23, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Emily Pfeiffer, Brendan Witcher

  Brands and manufacturers that typically sell through wholesale channels are facing seismic shifts due to the transparency around goods online and the growing prevalence of e-commerce marketplaces...

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  Webinar How Brands And Manufacturers Thrive In The Age Of Marketplaces: Strategic Issues (Part 1 of 2)

  October 23, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Michael O'Grady, Joanna O'Connell

  Brands and manufacturers that typically sell through wholesale channels are facing seismic shifts due to the transparency around goods online and the growing prevalence of e-commerce marketplaces...

• Report The Omnichannel Maturity Assessment

  Assessment: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  October 19, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Supporting an omnichannel fulfillment program is table stakes in retail today — and particularly in light of pandemic or other market shift conditions. Organizations need to assess their...

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  Webinar Industry Lens: Tech Titans In Banking

  September 25, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Alyson Clarke

  Join Forrester principal analyst Alyson Clarke for the second in our three-part "Industry Lens: Tech Titans" webinar series. Episode 2 focuses on how tech titans such as Apple, Google, and others...

• Report The State Of Open Banking In Japan

  Japanese Banks Need To Clarify Their Role In An Open Banking Future

  September 24, 2020 | Meng Liu

  Japan is adopting an organic approach to open banking. Although it's not mandatory, leading Japanese banks and financial technology (fintech) firms have started experimenting with APIs to build...

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  Webinar Industry Lens: Tech Titans In Healthcare

  September 11, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Jeff Becker

  Join Forrester healthcare expert and senior analyst Jeff Becker for the first in our three-part "Industry Lens: Tech Titans" webinar series. Episode 1 focuses on how tech titans such as Apple,...

• Report It's Time For Retail Stores To Open Their Doors To The Digital Org

  Organization: The Digital Store Playbook

  August 28, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  In the age of the customer — and especially in the midst of a pandemic — channel-specific strategies, tactics, and organizational structures become irrelevant and (worse) potentially crippling. To...

• Report COVID-19 Is Forcing Lenders To Transform

  Accelerate Small Business Lending Digital Transformation To Drive Growth And Demonstrate Leadership

  August 26, 2020 | Zhi-Ying Barry

  COVID-19 has exacerbated the liquidity challenge that small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) globally face. Many incumbent lenders have been forced to transform their systems and processes to help...

• Report Research Overview: Online Marketplaces

  A Guide To Buying, Selling, And Creating Market Leverage Via Everyone's Favorite Digital Platform Business Model

  August 17, 2020 | Allen Bonde, Caleb Ewald

  Online marketplaces aren't a new idea. Yet over the past few years, they have (re)emerged as a preferred channel for consumers, small businesses, and a growing number of enterprise buyers. For...

• Report Retailers: Assess Your Digital Business Maturity

  Assessment: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  August 14, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow

  To evaluate their eCommerce opportunities, digital business retail professionals must conduct a level set of current strengths and weaknesses. This framework plots your organizational maturity to...

• Report The Future Of Banking Is Built On Trust

  Vision: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  July 29, 2020 | Jacob Morgan, Alyson Clarke

  The economics of the next decade will challenge banks. COVID-19 has shifted the focus but will not dominate the future narrative. Leading banks are pivoting and rebooting their strategy —...

• Report Q&A: How Digital Small Business Lenders Are Disrupting Finance In India

  Disruptive Firms Have The Potential To Upend The Traditional Lending Business

  July 28, 2020 | Arnav Gupta

  Traditional lenders lend money to existing customers or profitable businesses. But Indian startups are using digital technology to improve business lending by offering quick loans to micro, small,...

• Report The Art And Science Of Retail eCommerce

  Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  July 6, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Retail eCommerce sales continue to climb, and digital business executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they're not missing either opportunities for direct online sales or ways that...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Digital Product Development Services, Q2 2020

  The 12 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 25, 2020 | Nigel Fenwick

  In our 29-criterion evaluation of digital product development services providers, we identified the 12 most significant ones — Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bresslergroup, Cognizant, EPAM, frog,...