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• Report The ROI Of CX Transformation

  The Business Case Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Sam Karpinski

  Customer experience (CX) transformation efforts bring benefits like increased customer retention and greater cross-sell opportunity. To get those benefits, CX leaders need to invest in areas like...

• Report How To Turn Process From A Hindrance Into A Help

  Beginner Level: Process Practices For IT Transformation

  January 22, 2021 | Margo Visitacion, Christopher Condo

  Technology leaders must establish customer-focused processes that maximize value delivered. Standing in their way are outdated organizational models, disconnected technology platforms, and legacy...

• Report Build A Dynamic Digital Banking Roadmap

  Roadmap: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Peter Wannemacher

  Digital business leaders at banks must have both a vision of the future and a strategic plan for getting there. But moving from vision to action is never easy. Banks need a roadmap that lays out...

• Report The Five CRM Trends In 2021 That Will Shape Engagement, Relationships, And Revenue

  Vision: The CRM Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Kate Leggett

  In the age of the customer, customer experience (CX) is the only source of competitive differentiation. CRM has the power to transform customer relationships, but firms have only started to tap its...

• Report Create An Omnichannel Advertising Strategy Centered On Customer Experience

  Executive Overview: The Omnichannel Advertising Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Joanna O'Connell

  B2C marketers need to embrace omnichannel advertising strategies to orchestrate connected experiences that drive better results. How? By adopting a customer-obsessed planning and buying approach...

• Report Research Overview: Cloud Technology And Services

  Tools And Technology: The Cloud Computing Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Lauren Nelson, Bill Martorelli, Tracy Woo

  Cloud offers technology leaders a fundamentally new approach to how the organization builds, deploys, and manages software and infrastructure. To help their organizations succeed, infrastructure...

• Report The New Economics Of On-Premises Infrastructure

  Business Case: The Infrastructure Transformation Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Naveen Chhabra

  While public cloud storage isn't a panacea due to concerns about privacy, security, governance, availability, and unpredictable costs, its operating expenditure (opex) cost model is attractive....

• Report Gear Up For Experience Design

  Tools And Technology: The User Experience Playbook

  January 21, 2021 | David Truog

  Companies investing in better user experience (UX) need tools for experience design (XD) but face a complex provider landscape spanning 19 categories of digital services and products. These tools...

• Report Agile And Design Teams: Better Together

  Improve CX And EX With Great Collaboration Between Designers And Developers

  January 21, 2021 | Karine Cardona-Smits

  Companies are adopting agile frameworks and adding designers to their delivery teams to improve digital experience development efforts. But these two constituencies don't rely on the same workflow,...

• 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 Evolve Your Experience Research Practice

  Advanced 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 experience research leaders who have scaled up their practice, so their companies: 1) follow...

• Report Scale Your Experience Research Practice

  Intermediate 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 experience research leaders who have established a solid practice, so their companies...

• Report Best Practices In Indian Mobile Payment Apps

  January 21, 2021 | Arnav Gupta

  In 2019, Forrester conducted a Forrester Wave™ evaluation of Indian payment apps, assessing the functionality and user experience (UX) of the top Indian payment app providers. However, these apps...

• Report Marketers Versus Customers: Opposing Forces Erupt

  Reevaluate Your Fundamental Marketing Assumptions To Regain Customers' Faith

  January 20, 2021 | Melissa Parrish

  Marketers set out to be customer-focused with the best intentions. They build customer profiles and personalize interactions — but inadvertently create creepy and even harmful experiences. CMOs...

• Report Data Center And Colocation Market Trends, 2021

  January 20, 2021 | Abhijit Sunil

  The colocation and data center industry has been undergoing rapid shifts in both the vendor landscape and the ways that customers consume services. This report identifies five major themes we'll...

• 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 US Online Grocery Snapshot: Q1 2021

  IRI Data Shows How The Pandemic Has Shaped Online Grocery

  January 20, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Digital business retail pros generally agree that the pandemic has driven rapid growth in online grocery sales. Data from IRI confirms that shift — but it's still unclear how much of that behavior...

• 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 Use Popular Third-Party Messaging Platforms For Customer Service

  How To Borrow Moments To Serve Your Customers Where They Already Are

  January 20, 2021 | Julie Ask, Ian Jacobs

  Customer service organizations are adapting to increasingly social and connected consumers seeking service in their preferred channel. Consumers have embraced platforms like Apple Business Chat...

• Report The Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Growth And Competitive Differentiation

  Vision: The Data Security And Privacy Playbook

  January 19, 2021 | Enza Iannopollo, Heidi Shey

  From data breaches that corrupt business performance and reputation, to privacy violations that hurt consumers, to unwarranted workplace surveillance that diminishes employee trust and experience,...

• 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 A Strategic Guide For Controlling And Securing Your Data

  Forrester's Data Security Control Framework

  January 19, 2021 | Heidi Shey

  In organizations that are complex or that have huge amounts of data, security, risk, and privacy pros often don't know where to start. A Zero Trust approach where data security is a key pillar is...

• 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...