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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 Data Center And Colocation Market Trends, 2021

  January 20, 2021 | Abhijit Sunil

  The colocation and data center industry has been undergoing rapid shifts in both the vendor landscape and the ways that customers consume services. This report identifies five major themes we'll...

• 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 US Online Grocery Snapshot: Q1 2021

  IRI Data Shows How The Pandemic Has Shaped Online Grocery

  January 20, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Digital business retail pros generally agree that the pandemic has driven rapid growth in online grocery sales. Data from IRI confirms that shift — but it's still unclear how much of that behavior...

• 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 Use Popular Third-Party Messaging Platforms For Customer Service

  How To Borrow Moments To Serve Your Customers Where They Already Are

  January 20, 2021 | Julie Ask, Ian Jacobs

  Customer service organizations are adapting to increasingly social and connected consumers seeking service in their preferred channel. Consumers have embraced platforms like Apple Business Chat...

• Report The Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Growth And Competitive Differentiation

  Vision: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

  January 19, 2021 | Enza Iannopollo, Heidi Shey

  From data breaches that corrupt business performance and reputation, to privacy violations that hurt consumers, to unwarranted workplace surveillance that diminishes employee trust and experience,...

• Report Customer Service Shines Through The Crisis

  How Top Firms In Asia Pacific Differentiated With Customer Service For Better Customer Experiences

  January 19, 2021 | Amit Bhatia, Vasupradha Srinivasan

  As businesses coped with a string of crises in 2020, customer service was a crucial part of the response; sometimes, it was the only point of contact for customers in trouble. We interviewed three...

• Report A Strategic Guide For Controlling And Securing Your Data

  Forrester's Data Security Control Framework

  January 19, 2021 | Heidi Shey

  In organizations that are complex or that have huge amounts of data, security, risk, and privacy pros often don't know where to start. A Zero Trust approach where data security is a key pillar is...

• 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 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 How To Integrate Threat Intelligence Into Your Security Program

  Reducing Risk And Uncertainty To Your Organization With Threat Intelligence

  January 15, 2021 | Brian Kime

  An effective security architecture requires insights into your organization's threat landscape, but many S&R professionals are disappointed in the results of their threat intelligence efforts. This...

• Report Your Business Is Only As Fast As Your Data

  Executive Overview: The Data Management Playbook

  January 15, 2021 | Michele Goetz

  What you know — and how well you use that knowledge — fuels your competitiveness and growth. To keep up with empowered customers and nimble competitors, you must change how your firm provisions and...

• Report Transform The Contact Center For Customer Service Excellence

  Executive Overview: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  January 15, 2021 | Kate Leggett

  Customer service is at a tipping point. Customers contact enterprises more often and via more channels; they shift between channels seamlessly and even use multiple channels simultaneously....

• 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...

• Report The State Of Environmental Sustainability In The Fortune Global 200

  Climate Action As A Risk Management And Growth Strategy Takes Center Stage

  January 15, 2021 | Stephanie Balaouras, Salvatore Schiano

  In 2020, firms had to adapt to a series of risk events — COVID-19, megawildfires, a devastating hurricane season — engendered or magnified by climate change. Leading Fortune Global 200 firms have...

• Report A Post-Truth Climate Is Shaping Gen Z's Consumer Behaviors

  Now More Than Ever, The Next-Generation Consumer Expects Brands To Be Real, Be Respectful, And Represent

  January 14, 2021 | Mike Proulx

  Step aside, Millennials. CMOs have their sights set on the next generation of consumers and for good reason. Gen Z (born in or after 1997) is likely to form the majority of US consumers in just...

• Report How To Monetize Open Finance And Platform Business Models

  Business Case: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  January 14, 2021 | Jacob Morgan

  Financial services executives have more go-to-market options available than ever before for their firm's products and services — thanks to open banking and platform business models. But how do you...

• Report The State Of Cybersecurity In Indonesia

  Indonesian Security Leaders Will Accelerate Their Security Transformation In 2021

  January 14, 2021 | Jinan Budge, Achim Granzen

  Adaptiveness and CX improvements are key business priorities for firms in Indonesia in 2021, and cybersecurity will be crucial to safeguarding these priorities. Indonesia is in the early stages of...

• Report China Tech Market Outlook, 2021 To 2022

  China Is Building Technology Engines To Accelerate Out Of The Crisis In 2021

  January 14, 2021 | Charlie Dai

  The Chinese government has revised its national strategy in the face of the global pandemic and economic crisis. To accelerate this process, more organizations will implement future-fit...

• 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 How To Manage The Human Risk In Cybersecurity

  Continuous Improvement: The S&R Practice Playbook

  January 13, 2021 | Jinan Budge

  Traditional approaches to security communication are limited to perfunctory one-off training sessions that fail to take customers, regulators, and other external stakeholders into account and...

• Report Optimize Your Human Risk Management Practices To Differentiate

  Advanced Level: People Practices For Cybersecurity And Privacy

  January 13, 2021 | Jinan Budge

  Firms at the advanced stage of cybersecurity and privacy maturity have likely built a positive reputation for responsible data use and enjoy strong employee morale. This report — the last of three...

• Report Establish Your Human Risk Management For Cybersecurity And Privacy Excellence

  Beginner Level: People Practices For Cybersecurity And Privacy

  January 13, 2021 | Jinan Budge

  If you're just starting your journey to cybersecurity and privacy maturity, you're not alone. If CIOs, chief information security officers (CISOs), and chief privacy officers (CPOs) establish...