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• Report Create An Omnichannel Advertising Strategy Centered On Customer Experience

  Executive Overview: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Joanna O'Connell

  B2C marketers need to embrace omnichannel advertising strategies to orchestrate connected experiences that drive better results. How? By adopting a customer-obsessed planning and buying approach...

• 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...

• Report Implement Effective Customer Service Metrics

  Benchmarks: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  January 15, 2021 | Ian Jacobs, Kate Leggett

  Customer service leaders can easily become distracted by the sheer volume of metrics available for tracking operational activities and may fail to deliver on key business goals. To keep customer...

• Report Five Practices To Succeed With Your Retail E-Commerce Strategy

  Processes: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 15, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Retail e-commerce has well over two decades of experience under its belt, so digital retail businesses at all maturity stages have a fairly established set of best practices to follow. This report...

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  Playbook The Marketing Measurement And Insights Playbook For 2021

  Embrace A Unified Marketing Measurement Standard

  Marketers must shift their attitude toward measurement from passively reviewing post-campaign reports to proactively analyzing results and optimizing future marketing and business plans. To do...

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• Report Research Overview: Personalization

  A Guide To Our Personalization-Related Research

  December 11, 2020 | Rusty Warner, David Novitzky

  B2C marketers strive to deliver relevant, personalized customer experiences. But heightened customer expectations, conflicting business goals, overlapping technologies, and execution challenges...

• 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'...

• Forum Technology & Innovation Global

  Adapt To Win

  November 4, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Liz Herbert, Matthew Guarini, Brian Hopkins

  In today’s business environment, change is constant. Technology, customer expectations, workforce issues, and economic factors are continually evolving. To thrive in this environment,...

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  Webinar Where The Grocery Industry Goes Next: Marketing And E-Commerce (Part 2 of 2)

  October 23, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Sucharita Kodali, Xiaofeng Wang

  Forrester’s analysts present a series of overviews, panels, and discussions on the solutions, tactics, and technologies shaping the grocery industry, both in stores and online. This webinar...

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  Webinar Where The Grocery Industry Goes Next: Digital Transformation And Store Operations (Part 1 of 2)

  October 23, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Sucharita Kodali, Emily Pfeiffer

  Forrester’s analysts present a series of overviews, panels, and discussions on the solutions, tactics, and technologies shaping the grocery industry, both in stores and online. This webinar...

• 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 What's Hot And What's Not In Wealth Management Tech For 2020

  October 14, 2020 | Vijay Raghavan

  In the highly competitive world of wealth management, financial services must invest in tech initiatives that will differentiate them, drive revenue growth, and keep their customers and financial...

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  Webinar Applying The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Contact Center Vendors, Q3 2020

  September 15, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Want an agile contact center? Then shift to contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) where more integrated software suites operated as a service allow for more rapid changes to customer experiences,...

• 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 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...

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  Playbook The Enterprise Marketing Technology Playbook For 2021

  Enable Moments-Based Marketing With Enterprise Martech

  Customer data and marketing technology (martech) are now essential to every marketing function. Yet B2C marketing professionals responsible for their firm's martech strategy often miss the...

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• 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 The 3D Connected Consumer In 2020

  The Combination Of Devices, Platforms, And Channels Redefines How Connected Consumers Are

  July 22, 2020 | Julie Ask, Erin Sellers

  Historically, internet speed and device type have defined how connected consumers are. But this representation is too simplistic today. Three dimensions — devices, platforms, and channels — now...

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  Webinar Retail's Omnichannel Acceleration: Mastering Commerce And Fulfillment In Times Of Crisis And Beyond

  July 7, 2020 | Brendan Witcher, Nicole Murgia

  Today's customers expect a consistent and connected experience across shopping touchpoints. As consumer behavior continues to shift as a result of the pandemic, a seamless omnichannel experience is...

• Report Mastering The Art Of Omnichannel Retailing

  Executive Overview: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  June 19, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Digital business leaders know that many customers use a variety of digital and physical touchpoints as they move along the path to purchase. This complexity creates challenges for retailers as they...

• Report Your Strategic Plan Is The Linchpin For Omnichannel Success

  Strategic Plan: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  June 2, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Organizations today must have a comprehensive strategic plan that aligns their internal teams with a single vision for omnichannel excellence. However, because omnichannel commerce continues to...

• Report The Top Retail Technology Investments In 2020

  Retail And Brand Professionals Share Their Priorities For Tech-Driven Commerce Initiatives In The Coming Year

  May 11, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  In January and February 2020, we interviewed more than 60 retail and brand professionals from over 50 companies to understand which technology initiatives they are investing in this year. This...

• 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...

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  Webinar Crawl, Walk, Run Your Way To Omnichannel Advertising Acumen

  April 23, 2020 | Joanna O'Connell, Jim Nail

  Advertising efforts born out of a disconnected multichannel approach are coming at the cost of business performance and consumer experience alike. Omnichannel advertising, however, is not a...

• Report Design Your Digital Store Blueprint For Customer Impact

  Roadmap: The Digital Store Playbook

  April 17, 2020 | Michelle Beeson

  The store is changing rapidly as new technologies appear, older technologies evolve, and others become mainstream, including click-and-collect and mobile point of service (mPOS). The problem for...