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• 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 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 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 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 Innovate Successfully: Future-State Journey Mapping

  October 20, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar, Joana de Quintanilha, Jennifer Wise

  Companies pursue innovation to succeed but often miss the mark because their efforts aren't rooted in customer understanding and don't deliver value. Customer experience (CX) pros can help, using a...

• Report So You've Journey Mapped. Now What?

  Three Ways To Use A Completed Journey Map As A Transformation Tool

  July 6, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha, Sam Karpinski

  Journey maps can be incredibly effective tools for driving a customer experience (CX) transformation, yet many CX professionals struggle with using them to create change. This report outlines some...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Journey Orchestration Platforms, Q2 2020

  The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 15, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  In our 28-criterion evaluation of journey orchestration providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Alterian, BryterCX, Coveo, Engage Hub, inQuba, Kitewheel, NICE, Pointillist, Roojoom,...

• Report Journey Centricity: Learn From The Leaders

  How To Get The Balance Right Between Your Firm's Operational Levers For Transformation

  June 1, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  Customer-obsessed leaders across industries are transforming their firms toward journey centricity. Why? Because journeys are their customers' lived realities, which are rarely the same as the...

• 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 Digital CX And Design Trends, 2020

  May 20, 2020 | Andrew Hogan, Gina Bhawalkar, Jennifer Wise

  Eight trends in 2020 are shaping how experience design (XD) professionals and their companies should improve their customers' experiences with digital touchpoints, from apps to websites to Alexa...

• 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 The UK Customer Experience Index, 2019

  How Brands Build Loyalty With The Quality Of Their Experience

  November 13, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha

  How well do leading brands build loyalty with the quality of their customer experience (CX)? This year, we reveal the complete rankings of all 36 brands across five industries in the UK CX Index....

• Report The France Customer Experience Index, 2019

  How Brands Build Loyalty With The Quality Of Their Experience

  November 13, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha, Karine Cardona-Smits

  How well do leading brands build loyalty with the quality of their customer experience (CX)? This year, we reveal the complete rankings of all 36 brands across four industries in the France CX...

• 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 The Journey Measurement Framework: Assess And Predict Journey Performance

  A Journey Measurement Series Report

  August 22, 2019 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Joana de Quintanilha

  Most customer experience (CX) pros struggle to assess whether journeys are successful for the customer and the company. The solution: Evolve from traditional measurement to journey measurement....

• Report The Adaptive Thinker: Flex Between Divergent And Convergent Thinking To Win

  August 15, 2019 | Joana de Quintanilha

  Every business runs on thinking, mostly in two modes: divergent and convergent. Yet individuals and organizations tend to favor one mode over the other when they shouldn't — or misapply them. This...

• Report The Definitive Guide To Forrester's Journey Mapping Research

  A Guide To Our 25 Leading Journey Mapping Reports

  August 2, 2019 | Angelina Gennis, Joana de Quintanilha, TJ Keitt

  Forrester has written more than 50 reports for customer experience (CX) pros on customer journey maps, which are fundamental tools for understanding and improving CX. Whether you are familiarizing...

• Report Digital CX Trends, 2019

  Digital CX And Human-Centered Experience Design Align — At Last

  April 22, 2019 | Andrew Hogan, Gina Bhawalkar, Kelly Price

  Digital CX is changing: As it encompasses more capabilities like voice, connected devices, and notifications, customer experience (CX) pros and their companies can no longer take a...