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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 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 Chatbots And Virtual Assistants Can Help B2B Organizations Close The Digital Experience Gap

  Automated Conversational Engagement Meets The Modern B2B Buyer's Need For Immediacy

  December 11, 2020 | Steven Casey

  Social distancing has fast-forwarded the B2B buyer journey into an almost exclusively digital adventure. With face-to-face meetings all but impossible, buyers are seeking experiences and content...

• Report The State Of Voice Assistants In Financial Services, 2020

  Financial Services Firms Are Experimenting With Voice Experiences But Lag Behind Other Industries On Customer Adoption

  September 3, 2020 | Aurelie L'Hostis, Peter Wannemacher, Luis Deya

  The hype surrounding voice assistants remains high, but digital teams in financial services firms should remain wary of any push to roll out voice faster than their customers want or their systems...

• Report Guide: How To Craft A Mobile Notifications Strategy

  Start Creating Your Mobile Notifications Strategy With These 10 Steps

  August 7, 2020 | Julie Ask, Angelina Gennis, Andrew Hogan

  When designing mobile notifications, product owners should pursue a methodical approach that begins with the POST methodology and involves a holistic customer and user experience strategy. This...

• 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 Top Retail Tech Trailblazers To Emulate In 2020

  Continuous Improvement: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  March 3, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Retailers often look to competitors and other brands that are leading the way in digital transformation for inspiration and ideas on how to execute on top retail initiative investments. For the...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology On Digital Experiences

  How More Than 50 Emerging Technologies Will Impact Data And Experiences For Consumers

  February 24, 2020 | Julie Ask, Kjell Carlsson, PhD, Jeffrey Hammond

  Forrester interviewed more than 150 companies across industries and technology categories to understand how more than 50 technologies will evolve over the next five to 10 years and assess their...

• Report Build A Brand That's Ready For Voice

  The CMO's Guide To Voice Experience

  December 30, 2019 | Dipanjan Chatterjee

  As voice becomes pervasive in brand experience, marketers must build a brand that's ready to embrace it. In our research, we tested brand interactions in six categories, five brands, and with over...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Utilities

  December 4, 2019 | Carlton A. Doty, Julie Ask, Martin Gill

  Emerging technologies will impact what is possible in the consumer utilities market — electricity, water, and gas — in terms of controlling consumption but will have less influence on direct...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Wealth Management

  December 4, 2019 | Vijay Raghavan, Oliwia Berdak, Julie Ask

  Future wealth management services will be more natural, personalized, and contextually relevant. Mobile experiences in wealth management will be fueled by emerging technologies and customer-focused...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Transportation

  December 4, 2019 | Carlton A. Doty, Martin Gill, Julie Ask

  Consumers today regularly engage with transportation-as-a-service models like Uber and Lyft via their mobile devices. As new technologies emerge, the transportation industry will be disrupted once...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Media

  December 4, 2019 | Julie Ask, James McQuivey, PhD, Martin Gill

  More than a quarter of US online adults prefer to use their smartphones to purchase digital or downloadable products. Consumers already regularly spend money on digital media like videogames on...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Insurance

  December 4, 2019 | Jeffery Williams, Ellen Carney, Oliwia Berdak

  Emerging technologies will shift the traditional insurance industry to adopt new, digital practices. The accompanying PDF provides a closer look at the impact that emerging technologies will have...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Education

  December 4, 2019 | Julie Ask, Martin Gill, James McQuivey, PhD

  Mobile has long promised to be the great equalizer in education by bringing connectivity to the billions of people who own mobile devices. Emerging technologies will scale education with immersive...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Banking

  December 4, 2019 | Peter Wannemacher, Oliwia Berdak, Julie Ask

  US consumers today complete a double-digit percentage of banking activities on their mobile devices. As mobile technologies advance, so will banking capabilities. Ultimately, consumers will feel as...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Healthcare

  December 4, 2019 | Arielle Trzcinski, Jeff Becker, Julie Ask

  Mobile devices will enable on-demand, affordable healthcare with capabilities like video conferencing, text-based services, and remote monitoring. Emerging technologies will improve healthcare...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology In 2030 On mCommerce Experiences In Retail

  Visual Search Will Elevate mCommerce Revenue In Retail

  December 4, 2019 | Julie Ask, Sucharita Kodali, George Lawrie

  Mobile has transformed retail by adding proximity and immediacy to the shopping experience: Many visits to US eCommerce sites now occur via smartphones, and US consumers complete a double-digit...

• Report The CIO's Guide To Augmented, Mixed, And Virtual Reality

  Build Future-Of-Work Scenarios For Your Employees To Increase Productivity, Quality, And Employee Experience

  November 21, 2019 | J. P. Gownder

  The future of work requires CIOs and their business partners to bring all the benefits of digitalization to employees. Employees in frontline jobs — from surgeons to field service technicians to...

• Report The State Of US Consumers And Technology, 2019

  Increasingly Intimate Technologies Spark The Next Mind Shift

  November 8, 2019 | Anjali Lai

  Today's abundance of technology means that consumers idealize digital detoxes and device retreats, but our data proves that their willingness and capacity to adopt and use more technology is still...

• Report Forrester Infographic: The State Of Voice Assistants, 2019

  An Overview Of Consumer And Enterprise Adoption Of Conversational Interfaces

  August 28, 2019 | Julie Ask

  Conversations will evolve into a core element of digital experiences. Voice assistants have been around for years, but they primarily fetch answers to simple questions or control devices. As a...

• Report Give Your Brand A Voice — Literally

  August 12, 2019 | Dipanjan Chatterjee

  Voice is marketing's most significant paradigm shift this decade — one that has far-reaching implications for how brands engage customers and prospects. CMOs: Read this report to learn why voice...

• Report Improve The Human Condition To Drive Your Healthcare Innovation

  Opportunities Extend Beyond Pure Healthcare And Include Your Own Employees

  June 10, 2019 | James Staten

  All your innovation investments and efforts should be driven by customer experience (CX) insights. For nearly every industry, a key aspect of this is the challenges customers face in their everyday...

• Report Build A Connected Health Experience With Smart Home Devices

  A Guide To Successful Deployment And Adoption Using IoT At Home

  June 3, 2019 | Arielle Trzcinski, Frank Gillett, Annalise Clayton

  US healthcare spending is at a critical level. Approximately 90% of the nation's $3.3 trillion in annual healthcare expenditures is for chronic and mental health conditions, not routine care....

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: AI, Automation, And Robotics For Customers And Employees, Q2 2019

  18 Technologies Underpin Customer And Employee Engagement

  May 16, 2019 | J. P. Gownder, Brandon Purcell

  Customers want better experiences, and employees want to feel more empowered in their jobs. There are very few technologies that can play a significant role in both customer and employee engagement...