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  Webinar Foster A Fruitful Collaboration Between Design And Agile Teams

  February 24, 2021 | Karine Cardona-Smits, Jeff Lash

  Design and agile teams can build better products faster — together. But even the best-intended teams can struggle to find common ground. During this webinar, we uncover the common challenges...

• Report Research Overview: Tech Titans In Healthcare, Banking, And Retail

  A Guide To Forrester's Research On The Tech Titans

  February 23, 2021 | Alyson Clarke, Arielle Trzcinski

  The "tech titans" — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — are expanding into the healthcare, banking, and retail sectors. They will look to further reorient customer expectations as they take on...

• Report Assess The Strength Of Your Marketing And CX Alliance

  Assessment: The Experience-Led Marketing Playbook

  February 18, 2021 | Emily Collins

  The quest for customer engagement has left marketers with mountains of data, bloated martech stacks, and distraught customers. With trust, privacy, and choice now driving buying decisions,...

• 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 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 Six Government CCOs Worldwide Share Best Practices

  Chief Customer Officers Of Government Tell Their Stories Of Balancing Mission And Vision

  February 3, 2021 | Angelina Gennis

  Government organizations benefit from chief customer officers (CCOs) who connect leaders and employees to customer data, bridge silos, and democratize customer experience (CX) best practices. This...

• Report Five Key Stakeholders Will Define Retail In The 2020s

  Vision: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 27, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali, Fiona Swerdlow

  New business models and new ways of getting goods to consumers have already transformed retail. In the coming years, retailers and brands will bow to tighter scrutiny and accountability by...

• Report The Five Essential Steps To Plan Your CX Transformation

  The Strategy Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  January 25, 2021 | Harley Manning, Sam Karpinski

  Customer experience (CX) transformations are huge, complex, and expensive. That's why, as a CX transformation leader, you need to craft a plan detailing why and how you want to transform your...

• Report Reset Your Technology Foundation For Customer Engagement

  Beginner Level: Technology Practices For IT Transformation

  January 25, 2021 | Bobby Cameron, Brian Hopkins, Ted Schadler

  Companies just beginning to establish their technology priorities for the age of the customer are facing an uphill battle against legacy systems and outdated technologies as they develop their...

• Report Agile And Design Teams: Better Together

  Improve CX And EX With Great Collaboration Between Designers And Developers

  January 21, 2021 | Karine Cardona-Smits

  Companies are adopting agile frameworks and adding designers to their delivery teams to improve digital experience development efforts. But these two constituencies don't rely on the same workflow,...

• Report Establish Your Experience Research Practice

  Beginner Level: Research Practices For CX Transformation

  January 21, 2021 | Kelly Price

  This report about experience research — one of the six competencies of customer experience (CX) — is for CX transformation leaders whose companies don't yet follow an effective and documented...

• 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 Empowered Consumers Go Green

  Empowerment Drives The Sustainability Transformation

  January 19, 2021 | Anjali Lai, Salvatore Schiano

  The past 20 years has enabled consumers to buy more products from more places more cheaply, but consumers feel unfulfilled. The rapid escalation of self-centered experiences has ignored a core...

• 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 Five Ways To Ensure Deep Collaboration Between Marketing And Customer Experience

  Employ Them All To Ensure Consistently On-Brand Interactions That Drive Customer Loyalty

  December 14, 2020 | Rick Parrish

  Marketers and CX professionals are out of touch with today's business realities. While companies pursue business models that scramble traditional customer lifecycles, marketing and CX functions...

• Report Your Brand's Customer Experience Depends On Partner And Customer Understanding

  Best Practices For Qualitative And Quantitative Research With And About Partners

  December 14, 2020 | Angelina Gennis, Sam Karpinski

  B2B2C firms looking to improve the end-customer experience must first understand the current experience — not just of the customers but of the partners who deliver those experiences as well. This...

• Report How B2B2C Companies Can Invest In Their Partners And Boost Everyone's Bottom Lines

  Enable Your Partners To Maximize Efficiency And Increase Revenue

  December 14, 2020 | Angelina Gennis, Sam Karpinski

  B2B2C companies face a difficult challenge: How can they provide reliable, consistently excellent, and on-brand experiences to their end customers when they don't own all of the customer...

• 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...

• Report Forrester Predictions 2021: Accelerating Out Of The Crisis

  October 28, 2020 | Sharyn Leaver

  2020 shattered the status quo. In 2021, advanced organizations will adapt and use the upheaval to forge a competitive edge. Discover your organization's path to success. Read Forrester's 2021...

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  Webinar Vast, Fast, And Relentless: Consumers And The Future Of Buying

  October 22, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Anjali Lai

  The ways in which consumers buy products and services have been in a constant state of change over the past decade, and there are no signs of it slowing down. To survive, B2C firms must constantly...

• Report Gain A Competitive Advantage Through Enterprise Collaboration

  Executive Overview: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  September 4, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Many collaboration technology initiatives fall well short of their transformational potential. But a properly executed enterprise collaboration (EC) strategy engages employees and connects the...

• 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 Vast, Fast, And Relentless: Consumer Buying Enters A New Era

  What B2C Businesses Need To Know To Survive And Thrive In The Next Decade

  August 11, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Anjali Lai, Joe Stanhope

  It won't be news to anyone that consumers are more empowered than ever, but it's hard to pin down in precisely what ways they're empowered and how that changes the way businesses must serve them....

• 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 CX Essentials

  The Basics Of Customer Experience In Plain Language CX Pros Can Use To Explain It To Colleagues

  July 21, 2020 | David Truog

  Many business and technology leaders undermine their own companies and careers when they make decisions related to customer experience (CX). How? By basing their decisions on a wrong understanding...