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• Report Establish Your Experience Design Practice

  Beginner Level: Design Practices For CX Transformation

  April 16, 2021 | Gina Bhawalkar, Andrew Hogan

  This report about experience design (XD) — 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 The Design Industry, 2021

  March 18, 2021 | Andrew Hogan

  This report estimates the size of the global design industry in 2021. The industry is in the middle of a surge in interest and activity from both buyers and providers of design technology and...

• Report Bridge The Gap Between Current- And Future-State Journeys

  Use Gap Analysis To Bring Future-State Journeys To Fruition

  March 8, 2021 | Kelly Price

  Many customer experience (CX) professionals struggle to deliver on future-state journeys because of obstacles ranging from paralyzing complexity to unforeseen internal barriers. Where to start?...

• Report Why And How To Master Experience Design

  Executive Overview: The User Experience Playbook

  January 21, 2021 | David Truog

  As customers gravitate to digital more than ever, companies are prioritizing user experience (UX). Why this response? Because experience quality can make or break a business, and the range from bad...

• 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 Ingredients Of Great Design: Conquer Six Myths

  Principles: The User Experience Playbook

  December 15, 2020 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Many companies striving to get better at designing experiences won't. Why? Because they fall for widespread myths about what design is, who should be involved in it, and how to do it well. For...

• 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 The Design Revolution

  Vision: The User Experience Playbook

  December 11, 2020 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Companies are prioritizing design because of seismic shifts in the dynamics of value, experiences, and power that are making user experience (UX) matter more than ever. But many firms undermine...

• Report Design For Confidence

  In Uncertain Times, Your Customers Want Certainty More Than Ever

  August 10, 2020 | Andrew Hogan, Senem Guler Biyikli

  Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, customers are battling uncertainty from all corners, needing confidence more than ever. Many companies strive for experiences that are seamless, easy, or beautiful,...

• 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...

• Report Seven Best Practices For Using Video Feedback In Your VoC Program

  June 22, 2020 | Faith Adams

  VoC programs continue to encounter challenges when it comes to engaging stakeholders and driving action. Despite having access to many potentially helpful capabilities in their technology...

• Report Delight The Right Customers To Build A Successful Business

  June 9, 2020 | TJ Keitt

  Businesses often chase high overall customer experience (CX) scores. But these beacon metrics, which measure the average experience across all customers, provide limited insights to business...

• Report A Framework For Helping Customers In Crisis

  How 26 Firms In Asia Pacific Created New Standard Operating Practices For Business As Unusual

  June 1, 2020 | Amit Bhatia, Judy Weader, Rick Parrish

  Crisis reveals character. Right now, businesses are showing their character as they respond to unprecedented change in near real time. As governments order whole sectors to shut down, customer...

• 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'...

• Report Expectations And Experiences: The Impact Of Your Customers' Expectations On CX Quality

  May 26, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha, Victoria McRitchie

  Achieving excellent customer experience (CX) requires exceeding expectations — Forrester's Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) data proves it — but most brands are merely meeting expectations or...

• Report The Renaissance Of Branch Banking In Asia Pacific

  Let CX And EX Drive Branch Transformation

  April 27, 2020 | Tom Mouhsian

  Digital self-service and transaction automation have led banks to close branches. But many customers still depend on branch staff for financial consultations and support, shifting the key drivers...

• Report How 29 Companies Adjusted Policies To Help Customers During The COVID-19 Outbreak

  Creating New Standard Operating Practices For Business As Unusual

  April 21, 2020 | Judy Weader, Rick Parrish

  Crisis reveals character. Right now, businesses are showing their character as they respond to unprecedented change in near real time. As governments order whole sectors to shut down, customer...

• Report Video: How To Find Your Value-For-Customer Sweet Spot

  Use This Exercise To Find The Differentiating Blend Of Value Dimensions That Matches Your Target Customers' Needs

  March 30, 2020 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Shar VanBoskirk, Su Doyle

  Even if you think about "value for customer" the right way, you must still find the sweet spot in which you uniquely help your most important target customers create value. To help you do that,...

• Report Humanize Feedback To Drive VoC Engagement And Action

  How Embracing Other Forms Of Feedback Solves Challenges And Innovates Your VoC Program

  December 3, 2019 | Faith Adams

  Companies continue to invest in VoC technologies but don't make the most of these investments by adopting capabilities that improve and innovate their VoC programs. These programs struggle with...

• Report The Journey Measurement Framework Applied In B2C And B2B

  A Journey Measurement Series Report

  November 18, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha, Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  To build a journey measurement framework, customer experience (CX) pros must define in-journey signals and end-of-journey success metrics. This report provides two illustrations of these — for a...

• Report Demystifying Financial KPIs For Telecom CX Professionals

  October 22, 2019 | Tom Mouhsian

  Customer experience (CX) professionals in the telecommunications sector must connect CX measures to core financial performance in order to establish the financial impact of their CX initiatives....

• Report Empirical Innovation: Prioritize Evidence Over Instinct To Innovate Successfully

  A Design Revolution Series Report

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Kelly Price, Gina Bhawalkar

  Many companies mistakenly believe that effective design is driven by instinct, not research, or that research is a "nice to have" that's too time-consuming. But instinctive design relies on...

• Report Why And How To Iterate: Deliver Value And Quality To Reveal And Meet User Needs

  A Design Revolution Series Report

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Iterating is key to designing well. And design often must mesh with Agile, in which iterating is also key. Why do design and Agile both use iteration? Because iterating produces insight into what...

• Report Research Overview: The Design Revolution

  A Customer Experience Guide To Advancing Your Design Maturity, Overcoming Myths About Design, And Staffing For Good Design

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  This document is a short overview of the "Design Revolution" series with links to the documents it contains. The series lays out for experience design (XD) professionals and their colleagues the...

• Report Hardwire Customer Experience To Telco Financial Performance

  CX Pros At Telecommunications Providers Must Connect Metrics To Money

  October 7, 2019 | Tom Mouhsian

  Telco business leaders are used to tracking success via key performance indicators like return on invested capital and average revenue per user but don't always know how customer experience (CX)...