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• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Prioritize The Tech That Paves The Path To People-First Marketing

  Tools And Technology: Experience-Led Marketing Playbook

  January 12, 2021 | Stephanie Liu

  CMOs and marketers are increasingly aware of their potential impact on the customer experience (CX). Nearly half of global marketing decision-makers say it's a high or critical priority. CMOs and...

• Report Now Tech: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q1 2021

  Forrester's Overview Of 36 B2B Marketing Data Providers

  January 11, 2021 | Steven Casey

  You can use B2B marketing data providers to create personalized and timely account-centric engagement, improve customer marketing, and achieve true customer obsession. But to realize these...

• Report Research Overview: Emotion

  A Guide To Our Emotion-Related Research

  January 11, 2021 | Jim Nail, Sarah Dawson

  Emotion is the foundation of consumer decisions, but organizations often prioritize hard data over the challenge of understanding emotions. New scientific insights as well as new measuring tools...

• Report Agile Software Leadership Drives Customer-Obsessed Company Success

  Executive Overview: The Agile Software Leadership Playbook

  January 8, 2021 | Chris Gardner, Margo Visitacion

  More than ever before, companies are under pressure to deliver continuous value to their customers, and agile delivery practices have become part of the mainstream as a result. But it's becoming...

• Report The Best Tech Leaders Develop And Unleash Creative People

  Advanced Level: People Practices For IT Transformation

  January 8, 2021 | Gordon Barnett

  CIOs attaining an intermediate maturity level in their IT transformation efforts may operate well; however, their organizations often lack the culture, talent, and structure it takes to be a market...

• Report How To Scale Your Design Organization

  Roadmap: The User Experience Playbook

  January 7, 2021 | Gina Bhawalkar

  The surge in demand for experience design (XD) requires that you answer a hard question as a design leader: How can your XD organization scale up? This report explains how, based on best practices...

• Report Rethink Metrics To Gain DX Traction

  Performance Management: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

  January 4, 2021 | Joe Cicman, Caleb Ewald

  Traditional, centralized application development and delivery (AD&D) teams often measure only two things: time and budget. Without the right metrics, AD&D doesn't have clarity about digital...

• Report Build An Outside-In Contact Center Roadmap

  Roadmap: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  December 31, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  In most industries, a large percentage of customer contacts need support from contact center agents. Developing a solid contact center roadmap in the context of a broader customer experience (CX)...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Brand Communication And Action Drive Perception For Indian Banks

  December 30, 2020 | Amit Bhatia

  Apart from spawning a health crisis in 2020, the pandemic inevitably also created an economic one, pushing financial institutions into the spotlight. Like their global peers, banks in India strove...

• Report The Forrester Digital Experience Review™: US Investing Websites, Q4 2020

  Fidelity Leads With A Breadth Of Functionality, While TD Ameritrade Delivers A Strong User Experience

  December 29, 2020 | Vijay Raghavan, David Truog

  Investment firms' websites have become hubs for their clients' investing activities and financial planning decisions. To gauge the ease and effectiveness of the experiences these websites offer, we...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Financial Well-Being Is The Key To Loyalty For Chinese Banks

  December 28, 2020 | Meng Liu, Arnav Gupta

  Customer loyalty and retention have traditionally been a challenge for incumbent banks. Recent Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics data reveals the reasons behind customer churn and the...

• Report Now Tech: Digital Supply Chain Control Tower Solutions, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 17 Digital Supply Chain Control Tower Solution Providers

  December 23, 2020 | George Lawrie

  You can use control towers to orchestrate demand forecasts, open new routes to market, and deliver differentiating customer experiences such as subscription fulfillment. But to realize these...

• Report The State Of Digital Transformation In Japan

  Firms Are Accelerating Their Transformation With The Help Of Service Providers

  December 23, 2020 | Achim Granzen, Frederic Giron

  The "2025 digital cliff" is rapidly approaching, and some Japanese firms are accelerating their digital transformation efforts companywide. These firms harness digital assets and ecosystems to...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Indian Banks Need To Foster Customers’ Financial Well-Being

  December 18, 2020 | Arnav Gupta

  Indian consumers are stressed about their finances — a situation exacerbated by the pandemic. They're anxious about their financial situation and need help managing their money effectively to...

• Report Singapore Banking Customers Prefer Hybrid Experiences

  Delight Customers With The Best Of Both Worlds: Digital And Physical

  December 18, 2020 | Tom Mouhsian

  Our annual CX Index and financial services studies offer fresh perspectives on what customers like, trust and prefer. In this report, we focus on customer experiences that take place in both...

• Report To Win And Retain Consumers During The Pandemic, Start With Empathy

  Demonstrate Empathy By Designing For Unique Customer Risk Profiles

  December 17, 2020 | Anjali Lai, Martin Gill

  Within the COVID-19 crisis are the seeds of transformation: The boldest leaders will not only adapt their businesses; they will use insights to get closer to their consumers and understand their...