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• Report The State Of Consumers And Technology, 2020

  Increasingly Intimate Technologies Spark The Next Mind Shift

  February 2, 2021 | Anjali Lai

  Technology became a lifeline for consumers during the crises of 2020: Consumers now spend more time using more devices for more sophisticated tasks. What is the result of this intense reliance on...

• Report Anticipatory Experiences: The Challenges

  Anticipating Customers' Needs And Serving Them Proactively In Their Moments Is Extremely Difficult

  January 20, 2021 | Julie Ask

  Businesses believe they can deliver value to their customers and differentiate from their competition by anticipating customers' needs and acting on that information. Both aspects — anticipating...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Conversational AI Raised Efficacy But Not CX During The Pandemic In Asia

  January 20, 2021 | Vasupradha Srinivasan

  Most organizations see value in service automation, especially when managing a crisis. Many have also made significant investments in service automation as a way to improve efficiency and customer...

• 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 Forrester's 2020 Moments Map: How To Make Smart Digital Experience Channel Choices

  September 22, 2020 | Julie Ask, Erin Sellers

  In 2020, consumers are more connected than ever across multiple devices, platforms, and channels. However, brands lack the insight into how their customers connect with and use digital experiences,...

• Report The State Of Voice Assistants In Financial Services, 2020

  Financial Services Firms Are Experimenting With Voice Experiences But Lag Behind Other Industries On Customer Adoption

  September 3, 2020 | Aurelie L'Hostis, Peter Wannemacher, Luis Deya

  The hype surrounding voice assistants remains high, but digital teams in financial services firms should remain wary of any push to roll out voice faster than their customers want or their systems...

• 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 Best Practices: Web Chat For Investors

  What Real Investors Say About Web Chat Experiences

  May 28, 2020 | Jennifer Wise

  Investment firms aim to offer web chat experiences that meet investors' expectations and drive use of the channel. To see how they stack up, we assessed the chat feature on eight investment firms'...

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  Webinar How To Use Forrester's Moments Index To Prioritize Investments In Your Digital Experience Portfolio

  May 14, 2020 | Julie Ask, Angelina Gennis

  Brands must take a methodical, quantified approach to understand how their customers use, and prefer to use, their services on a host of devices, platforms, and channels. That analysis is the...

• Report Top Retail Tech Trailblazers To Emulate In 2020

  Continuous Improvement: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  March 3, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Retailers often look to competitors and other brands that are leading the way in digital transformation for inspiration and ideas on how to execute on top retail initiative investments. For the...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology On Digital Experiences

  How More Than 50 Emerging Technologies Will Impact Data And Experiences For Consumers

  February 24, 2020 | Julie Ask, Kjell Carlsson, PhD, Jeffrey Hammond

  Forrester interviewed more than 150 companies across industries and technology categories to understand how more than 50 technologies will evolve over the next five to 10 years and assess their...

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  Webinar Forrester Event Roundup: CES 2020 And What It Means For Your Business

  January 23, 2020 | Nigel Fenwick, Frank Gillett, Paul Miller

  CES is the premier consumer technology event on the calendar. In recent years, CES has morphed into a broad tech innovation conference with an ever-increasing number of connected products using the...

• Report Build A Brand That's Ready For Voice

  The CMO's Guide To Voice Experience

  December 30, 2019 | Dipanjan Chatterjee

  As voice becomes pervasive in brand experience, marketers must build a brand that's ready to embrace it. In our research, we tested brand interactions in six categories, five brands, and with over...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Utilities

  December 4, 2019 | Carlton A. Doty, Julie Ask, Martin Gill

  Emerging technologies will impact what is possible in the consumer utilities market — electricity, water, and gas — in terms of controlling consumption but will have less influence on direct...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Wealth Management

  December 4, 2019 | Vijay Raghavan, Oliwia Berdak, Julie Ask

  Future wealth management services will be more natural, personalized, and contextually relevant. Mobile experiences in wealth management will be fueled by emerging technologies and customer-focused...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Transportation

  December 4, 2019 | Carlton A. Doty, Martin Gill, Julie Ask

  Consumers today regularly engage with transportation-as-a-service models like Uber and Lyft via their mobile devices. As new technologies emerge, the transportation industry will be disrupted once...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Media

  December 4, 2019 | Julie Ask, James McQuivey, PhD, Martin Gill

  More than a quarter of US online adults prefer to use their smartphones to purchase digital or downloadable products. Consumers already regularly spend money on digital media like videogames on...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Insurance

  December 4, 2019 | Jeffery Williams, Ellen Carney, Oliwia Berdak

  Emerging technologies will shift the traditional insurance industry to adopt new, digital practices. The accompanying PDF provides a closer look at the impact that emerging technologies will have...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Education

  December 4, 2019 | Julie Ask, Martin Gill, James McQuivey, PhD

  Mobile has long promised to be the great equalizer in education by bringing connectivity to the billions of people who own mobile devices. Emerging technologies will scale education with immersive...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Banking

  December 4, 2019 | Peter Wannemacher, Oliwia Berdak, Julie Ask

  US consumers today complete a double-digit percentage of banking activities on their mobile devices. As mobile technologies advance, so will banking capabilities. Ultimately, consumers will feel as...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Healthcare

  December 4, 2019 | Arielle Trzcinski, Jeff Becker, Julie Ask

  Mobile devices will enable on-demand, affordable healthcare with capabilities like video conferencing, text-based services, and remote monitoring. Emerging technologies will improve healthcare...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Retail

  Visual Search Will Elevate mCommerce Revenue In Retail

  December 4, 2019 | Julie Ask, Sucharita Kodali, George Lawrie

  Mobile has transformed retail by adding proximity and immediacy to the shopping experience: Many visits to US eCommerce sites now occur via smartphones, and US consumers complete a double-digit...

• Report The CIO's Guide To Augmented, Mixed, And Virtual Reality

  Build Future-Of-Work Scenarios For Your Employees To Increase Productivity, Quality, And Employee Experience

  November 21, 2019 | J. P. Gownder

  The future of work requires CIOs and their business partners to bring all the benefits of digitalization to employees. Employees in frontline jobs — from surgeons to field service technicians to...

• Report The State Of US Consumers And Technology, 2019

  Increasingly Intimate Technologies Spark The Next Mind Shift

  November 8, 2019 | Anjali Lai

  Today's abundance of technology means that consumers idealize digital detoxes and device retreats, but our data proves that their willingness and capacity to adopt and use more technology is still...

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  Webinar The Essentials Of Voice, 2019

  September 24, 2019 | Julie Ask, Ian Jacobs, Jennifer Wise

  Firms place too much cognitive load on consumers in the context of digital experiences. Conversational interfaces offer one opportunity to lighten this load by allowing consumers to use natural...