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• Report Prioritize The Tech That Paves The Path To People-First Marketing

  Tools And Technology: Experience-Led Marketing Playbook

  January 12, 2021 | Stephanie Liu

  CMOs and marketers are increasingly aware of their potential impact on the customer experience (CX). Nearly half of global marketing decision-makers say it's a high or critical priority. CMOs and...

• Report Now Tech: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 36 B2B Marketing Data Providers

  January 11, 2021 | Steven Casey

  You can use B2B marketing data providers to create personalized and timely account-centric engagement, improve customer marketing, and achieve true customer obsession. But to realize these...

• 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 Agile Software Leadership Drives Customer-Obsessed Company Success

  Executive Overview: The Agile Software Leadership Playbook

  January 8, 2021 | Chris Gardner, Margo Visitacion

  More than ever before, companies are under pressure to deliver continuous value to their customers, and agile delivery practices have become part of the mainstream as a result. But it's becoming...

• 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 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 The Future Of The Empowered Consumer In The US

  The Past Decade Of Consumer Evolution Shows That Consumers Want New Choices, More Immersive Experiences, And Greater Purpose

  December 15, 2020 | Anjali Lai

  People rebound from crises by discovering and flexing their muscles of empowerment. For over 20 years, we've used hundreds of thousands of global consumer surveys to measure the drivers 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...

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  Webinar CMO Predictions 2021

  What The Best CMOs Will Do In 2021

  December 8, 2020 | Shar VanBoskirk

  Brace yourself. 2021 will be a rocky follower to roaring 2020. Expect another year of reduced media expenditures, scanty teams, lean tech and agency partner networks, and the continued vacancy of...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Banks Should Engage High-Energy Consumers With Hybrid Experiences

  December 2, 2020 | Xiaofeng Wang

  Consumer energy is the underlying emotional force that drives consumer desire, readiness, and ability to increase engagement with brands. High-energy consumers are strategic for banks in Singapore,...

• 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...

• 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 Forrester Infographic: The State Of Better And Best Practices In B2B Marketing

  Landscape: The B2B Marketing Playbook

  July 28, 2020 | Lori Wizdo, Meredith Cain

  Marketers at high-growth B2B companies demonstrate similar strategies and tactics that set them apart from their peers at companies with average or subpar performance. While there is no "paint by...

• Report How Ending CX Bonuses Boosted CX Scores And Profitability For Volkswagen Group Australia

  July 21, 2020 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Even though paying employees for delivering good customer experience (CX) is a bad idea, many firms still do it. This report for CX professionals shows how Volkswagen Group Australia, a firm in an...

• Report B2C Marketers, Use Reference Models To Accelerate Your Martech Strategy

  Reference Models Provide A Common Language To Help Optimize Martech Investments

  July 20, 2020 | Rusty Warner, Gordon Barnett

  Successfully enabling a customer-obsessed strategy is dependent on well-coordinated marketing technology (martech) investments championed by both marketing and technology executives. To succeed,...

• Report EA Professionals, Use Reference Models To Accelerate Your Martech Strategy

  Reference Models Provide A Common Language To Help Optimize Martech Investments

  July 20, 2020 | Gordon Barnett, Rusty Warner

  Successfully enabling a customer-obsessed strategy is dependent on a well-coordinated technology strategy championed by both business and technology executives. To succeed, outcome-driven...

• 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 Microsegmentation Yields Contextual Customer Experiences That Convert

  Strategic Plan: The B2B Marketing Playbook

  June 30, 2020 | Lori Wizdo

  Segmentation is the bedrock of B2B marketing campaigns. Marketers use segmentation to partition their databases and plan interactions with key audiences. But B2B marketers must rethink segmentation...

• 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 Building A Customer-Obsessed IAM Team

  Organization: The Identity And Access Management Playbook

  June 3, 2020 | Andras Cser, Sean Ryan

  For security and risk (S&R) leaders building a comprehensive customer identity and access management (CIAM) strategy for their digital business, this report provides job descriptions and an...

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  Webinar A Beginner's Guide To Culture Practices For CX Transformation

  June 2, 2020 | Angelina Gennis

  Just starting out on a customer experience (CX) transformation? Follow the five key steps Forrester has seen successful cultures take to become more customer-centric. Key takeaways: Explore how...

• 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...

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  Webinar Create Loyalty With A Customer-Obsessed, Not Purchase-Obsessed, Personalization Strategy

  May 6, 2020 | Emily Collins, Brandon Purcell, Rusty Warner

  Companies have a personalization problem: Despite the best of intentions, they fail to create memorable, or even useful, moments with their customers. From “buy this, do that”...

• Report What B2B Buyers Crave

  Modern B2B Buyers Expect To Be Treated As Partners, Not Targets

  May 4, 2020 | Steven Casey, Lori Wizdo

  The evolving environmental factors driving fundamental changes in B2B buyers' behavior have reached an inflection point — and now pose an existential threat to all organizations. It's more than a...

• Forum CX Sydney

  The Time Is Now: Lead With Experience

  April 30, 2020 | Virtual Event | Michael Barnes

  CX and marketing exist to win, serve, and retain customers. But silos and miscommunication keep this power duo from reaching their full potential. For this reason, we’ve made collaboration...