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• Report Marketers Versus Customers: Opposing Forces Erupt

  Reevaluate Your Fundamental Marketing Assumptions To Regain Customers' Faith

  January 20, 2021 | Melissa Parrish

  Marketers set out to be customer-focused with the best intentions. They build customer profiles and personalize interactions — but inadvertently create creepy and even harmful experiences. CMOs...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Contact Center Technologies For Customer Service, Q1 2021

  Twenty Technologies Underpin Customer Service

  January 19, 2021 | Kate Leggett, Ian Jacobs, Art Schoeller

  Customer service is increasingly critical to firms' ability to win, serve, and retain their customers. To accelerate their performance in customer service, companies are evaluating and adopting a...

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  Webinar Listen Up: Use Podcasts To Engage Customers And Reach New Audiences

  January 19, 2021 | Collin Colburn, Sarah Dawson

  For marketers looking to connect with customers in new and trendy channels, podcasts may be a natural choice. But podcasts are a unique channel, and they require specific consideration before...

• Report Now Tech: Virtual Healthcare Platforms, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 28 Virtual Healthcare Platform Providers

  January 14, 2021 | Arielle Trzcinski

  Healthcare organizations (HCOs) can use virtual care (VC) to increase the capacity of existing clinical teams, improve clinical outcomes and lower medical spend for patients and members, and defend...

• Report Research Overview: Emotion

  A Guide To Our Emotion-Related Research

  January 11, 2021 | Jim Nail, Sarah Dawson

  Emotion is the foundation of consumer decisions, but organizations often prioritize hard data over the challenge of understanding emotions. New scientific insights as well as new measuring tools...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Financial Well-Being Is The Key To Loyalty For Chinese Banks

  December 28, 2020 | Meng Liu, Arnav Gupta

  Customer loyalty and retention have traditionally been a challenge for incumbent banks. Recent Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics data reveals the reasons behind customer churn and the...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Indian Banks Need To Foster Customers’ Financial Well-Being

  December 18, 2020 | Arnav Gupta

  Indian consumers are stressed about their finances — a situation exacerbated by the pandemic. They're anxious about their financial situation and need help managing their money effectively to...

• Report Research Overview: Financial Well-Being

  A Guide To Our Financial Well-Being-Related Research

  December 15, 2020 | Aurelie L'Hostis

  Sustainable finance has become an imperative. Promoting customers' financial well-being is a great opportunity for financial services firms to drive customer engagement, create new value, and...

• Report Chatbots And Virtual Assistants Can Help B2B Organizations Close The Digital Experience Gap

  Automated Conversational Engagement Meets The Modern B2B Buyer's Need For Immediacy

  December 11, 2020 | Steven Casey

  Social distancing has fast-forwarded the B2B buyer journey into an almost exclusively digital adventure. With face-to-face meetings all but impossible, buyers are seeking experiences and content...

• 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 Retailers: Optimize Your Post-Purchase Experience To Delight And Win Customers

  November 19, 2020 | Emily Pfeiffer, Brandon Shaik

  Retailers and brands often miss the opportunity to create excellent experiences for their customers even after capturing an order. Unlike with regular marketing emails, customers are much more...

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  Webinar Key Lessons To Perfect Your Sales Enablement Strategy

  Based On The Forrester Wave™: Sales Content Solutions, Q3 2020

  October 29, 2020 | Laura Ramos

  As marketers and sellers rely more on digital means to meet buyers’ changing expectations and to engage at a pandemic-induced distance, your ability to prep sellers to be more effective in...

• 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 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...

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  Webinar Transitioning In-Person Events To Virtual: A Closer Look At The Technology Landscape

  September 16, 2020 | Laura Ramos, Meredith Cain

  The coronavirus pandemic is causing businesses to cancel or postpone all in-person gatherings. For marketers and sellers who rely on events such as user conferences or roadshows to generate demand...

• Forum Summit Asia Pacific

  The must-attend event for B2B & B2C marketing and CX leaders

  September 1, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Frederic Giron

  The combined power of Forrester and SiriusDecisions has unleashed a new energy into the products and services available to both the B2B and B2C community. By harnessing this energy, we are bringing...

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  Webinar How To Ask Customers To Share Data: A Guide To Zero-Party Data

  August 26, 2020 | Stephanie Liu

  All marketers want to deliver personalized content and experiences, but the reality is they often use stale or inaccurate data to make decisions about what customers want. Privacy regulations and...

• 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 Guide: How To Craft A Mobile Notifications Strategy

  Start Creating Your Mobile Notifications Strategy With These 10 Steps

  August 7, 2020 | Julie Ask, Angelina Gennis, Andrew Hogan

  When designing mobile notifications, product owners should pursue a methodical approach that begins with the POST methodology and involves a holistic customer and user experience strategy. This...

• 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 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...

• 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...

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  Webinar Case Study: How Customer-Centered Messaging Boosted PTC's Conversion Rates

  June 10, 2020 | Laura Ramos

  Business buyers are getting very efficient at self-education: Before buying from a sales rep, 67% prefer to research online alone and not talk to a seller at all. To catch buyers’ attention...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Specialized Insights Service Providers, Q2 2020

  The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 8, 2020 | Jennifer Belissent, PhD

  In our 18-criterion evaluation of insights service providers, we identified the 13 most significant ones — Alibaba Cloud, BearingPoint, EPAM, Fractal Analytics, HCL, LTI, NEC, SAP, Telefónica,...