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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 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 Assess Your Digital Experience Delivery Maturity

  Assessment: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

  December 31, 2020 | Nick Barber, Joe Cicman

  Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals should assess their maturity in delivering customer-obsessed digital experience (DX) initiatives. But how? Forrester's self-assessment...

• Report Implement Essential Change Management Practices To Improve Digital Experience Delivery

  Continuous Improvement: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

  December 29, 2020 | Joe Cicman, Caleb Ewald

  So, you've finished your first major digital experience delivery project: You've launched the app, modernized the website, and integrated your digital experience technologies. Now you must create a...

• Report US Grocery: Digital Best Practices

  December 22, 2020 | Scott Compton, Angelina Gennis

  As e-commerce grocery orders surge, online grocers must cultivate lifetime value and loyalty from new customers. We expect North American grocery retail sales to grow 7.6% in 2020 and increase...

• 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...

• Report Debunking Three Services Sourcing Myths

  How To Align Your Sourcing Strategies To The Future Of Services

  December 16, 2020 | Duncan Jones

  The old plan-build-run models of services are giving way to a new services paradigm where transformation is continuous and multidimensional. To derive competitive advantage from it, CIOs need...

• Report Research Overview: Personalization

  A Guide To Our Personalization-Related Research

  December 11, 2020 | Rusty Warner, David Novitzky

  B2C marketers strive to deliver relevant, personalized customer experiences. But heightened customer expectations, conflicting business goals, overlapping technologies, and execution challenges...

• Report How To Reinvent Small Business Lending

  SMB Lending Transformation Requires A Reset Of Technology, Processes, And Culture

  December 10, 2020 | Zhi-Ying Barry

  COVID-19 is challenging how business lenders operate at every part of the lending value chain. To address these challenges, some lenders have begun to digitize parts of the origination and...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Chinese Lenders Must Learn From Digital Lenders To Stay Relevant

  December 9, 2020 | Meng Liu, Arnav Gupta

  Recent Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics® data reveals that digital lenders have gained significant mindshare among Chinese borrowers and often delighted customers with their service...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Banks Should Engage High-Energy Consumers With Hybrid Experiences

  December 2, 2020 | Xiaofeng Wang

  Consumer energy is the underlying emotional force that drives consumer desire, readiness, and ability to increase engagement with brands. High-energy consumers are strategic for banks in Singapore,...

• Report Forrester Predictions 2021: Accelerating Out Of The Crisis

  October 28, 2020 | Sharyn Leaver

  2020 shattered the status quo. In 2021, advanced organizations will adapt and use the upheaval to forge a competitive edge. Discover your organization's path to success. Read Forrester's 2021...

• Report Must-Have E-Commerce Features

  Roadmap: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  October 28, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Digital business professionals often grapple with prioritizing the countless issues that populate e-commerce to-do lists. This report takes a prescriptive look at industry standards as well as the...

• Report COVID-19 Is Forcing Lenders To Transform

  Accelerate Small Business Lending Digital Transformation To Drive Growth And Demonstrate Leadership

  August 26, 2020 | Zhi-Ying Barry

  COVID-19 has exacerbated the liquidity challenge that small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) globally face. Many incumbent lenders have been forced to transform their systems and processes to help...

• Report Research Overview: Online Marketplaces

  A Guide To Buying, Selling, And Creating Market Leverage Via Everyone's Favorite Digital Platform Business Model

  August 17, 2020 | Allen Bonde, Caleb Ewald

  Online marketplaces aren't a new idea. Yet over the past few years, they have (re)emerged as a preferred channel for consumers, small businesses, and a growing number of enterprise buyers. For...

• 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 Digital Experience Is Part Of Your Job

  Monitoring Pros Must Help Deliver Great DX With A Strong Digital Experience Monitoring Strategy

  August 3, 2020 | Rich Lane

  Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is key to understanding how digital users are interacting with your services. Business users own the digital experience (DX) strategy, but they're beholden to...

• Report Q&A: How Digital Small Business Lenders Are Disrupting Finance In India

  Disruptive Firms Have The Potential To Upend The Traditional Lending Business

  July 28, 2020 | Arnav Gupta

  Traditional lenders lend money to existing customers or profitable businesses. But Indian startups are using digital technology to improve business lending by offering quick loans to micro, small,...

• Report Mobile Advertising Trends To Watch

  Take Steps To Prepare Your Strategies Today

  July 20, 2020 | Collin Colburn

  Mobile has drastically changed modern marketing. Mobile is the consumer's primary and preferred device. And marketers are moving spend to mobile in droves. Read this report to understand how mobile...

• Report On-Premises ERP: Should You Love It Or List It?

  Roadmap: The Digital Operations Platforms Playbook

  July 17, 2020 | Duncan Jones

  Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals face an urgent dilemma: whether to replace aging, on-premises business applications or retain them for a few more years. Digital...

• Report The New, Unstable Normal: How COVID-19 Will Change Business And Technology Forever

  July 14, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Laura Koetzle, Martin Gill

  The pandemic has already forced firms and policymakers to do things that were previously considered impossible. This is just the beginning. Given its gravity, the effects of COVID-19 — along with...

• Report The Digital Asset Management Cookbook

  Assemble The Ingredients To Choose And Scale An Enterprise DAM

  June 26, 2020 | Nick Barber

  As brands grapple with an explosion of content to feed their digital channels, they increasingly turn to digital asset management (DAM) systems to manage their rich media. Once the domain primarily...

• Report The Pandemic Recession Demands A Digital Response

  To Adapt And Grow, Businesses Must Get Lean, Go All In On Ecosystems, And Embrace Agile At Scale

  June 25, 2020 | Ted Schadler

  Digital transformation was never optional. But most firms treated it that way, applying digital technology in dribs and drabs — until COVID-19 shuttered economies and forever altered the patterns...

• Report How The COVID-19 Crisis Is Impacting Consumer Behaviors In Italy

  Italian Consumers Are Asking Firms To Start Their Digital Transformation Right Now

  June 22, 2020 | Enza Iannopollo

  After several weeks of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked Italian online adults how they feel about the virus and the economy as well as how their behavior is changing in response to...

• Report The UK In The Pandemic: How Consumers And Businesses Are Changing

  As The Pandemic Drives A Lasting Shift In UK Consumers' Behaviors And Values, Firms Must Respond In Kind

  June 17, 2020 | Michelle Beeson

  Our new survey, the Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics® COVID-19 Survey (Wave 1), studied 1,117 UK online adults to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. This report synthetizes the...