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• Report The EX Transformation Workhorse: Employee Journey Mapping

  Roadmap: The Employee Experience Playbook

  February 22, 2021 | David Johnson, Joana de Quintanilha

  Your understanding of the employee experience (EX) at your firm will remain hazy as long as you rely on annual snapshots of employee engagement. Why? Because surveys can't go deep enough to...

• Report Firms With Advanced Marketing Teams Grow Faster And Focus On People

  Landscape: The Experience-Led Marketing Playbook

  February 22, 2021 | Mary Pilecki

  Using data from the Forrester Analytics Business Technographics® Marketing Survey, 2020, which assessed the marketing innovation maturity of firms around the world, this report offers CMOs insights...

• Report Geopolitical Disruption Demands Local Trust

  CMOs At Global Brands Must Pivot To Truly Multilocal Operations

  February 11, 2021 | Thomas Husson

  Even before COVID-19, significant economic, political, and tech trends were fragmenting the global order. The pandemic's economic and social crises and associated geopolitical shifts will drive...

• Report Business Resiliency Is The Bulwark To A World Defined By Systemic Risk And Chaos

  Resiliency Ensures Continuity And The Ability To Pivot To New Opportunities During A Crisis

  February 8, 2021 | Amy DeMartine, Alla Valente, Naveen Chhabra

  In times of crisis or sudden risk events, business resiliency practices ensure the uninterrupted delivery of customer products and services, keep employees safe and productive, and minimize the...

• Report Focus On Process, Technology, And Collaboration To Enhance Employee Enablement

  Intermediate Level: The CX Transformation Playbook

  February 5, 2021 | TJ Keitt

  Most companies have started down the path of creating employee experiences that enable good customer experience (CX) delivery. Few, though, have moved beyond small troubleshooting efforts to more...

• Report The Five Factors That Supercharge CX Enablement

  Advanced Level: Enablement Practices For CX Transformation

  February 5, 2021 | TJ Keitt

  To create truly differentiated customer experiences, businesses must first create employee experiences that simplify customer experience (CX) delivery. CX transformation leaders must help their...

• Report Five Steps To Enable Customer Experience Delivery

  Beginner Level: Enablement Practices For CX Transformation

  February 5, 2021 | TJ Keitt, Angelina Gennis, Samuel Stern

  Companies depend on their employees to deliver high-quality customer experience (CX). And employees depend on companies to provide tools and design processes that enable them to effectively serve...

• Report Top Lessons For EX From The CX Playbook

  CX Programs Have Been There, Done That, And Their Lessons Can Speed EX Maturity

  January 29, 2021 | Amit Bhatia, David Johnson

  While the fields of employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX) have many differences, they're fundamentally similar: Both relate to improving human experiences to produce better people...

• Report Choose The Optimal Type Of AR Program To Drive Your Firm's Business Results

  Business Case: The Industry Analyst Relations Playbook

  January 26, 2021 | Kevin Lucas

  Analyst relations (AR) novices think that there's a one-size-fits-all AR program that they can copy. For example, if they're short on money, staff, and knowledge, churning out a briefing program to...

• 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 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 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 Technologists — And The Business — Must Execute At The Speed Of DevOps

  Intermediate Level: People Practices For IT Transformation

  January 8, 2021 | Gordon Barnett

  Intermediate organizations have the customer experience (CX) basics well in hand. They've broken down silos, institutionalized customer- and employee-centricity, and built a foundation of agile...

• 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 The State Of Network Security, 2020 To 2021

  Benchmarks: The Zero Trust Security Playbook

  January 7, 2021 | David Holmes, Heidi Shey

  This data-driven report outlines budgeting and spending, security group responsibilities, network security technology, and services adoption in North American and European organizations for 2020 to...

• 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 Expand Your Ecosystem To Set Your Tech Organization On A Path To Excellence

  Beginner Level: People Practices For IT Transformation

  December 28, 2020 | Gordon Barnett

  Technology leaders evolve their organizations and people in phases. Many CIOs and IT organizations are in the early stages of this evolution as their firms begin to develop and deliver great...

• Report Operationalize Your Return-To-Work Strategy: Mitigate Privacy Risk

  A Return-To-Work Series Report

  December 16, 2020 | Enza Iannopollo

  As local government organizations begin to lift shelter-in-place orders, businesses are finalizing plans to reopen workspaces. But many business leaders remain unsure if the safeguards they...

• 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 Develop Five Processes To Drive Ongoing ECM Program Success

  Processes: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  October 26, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  Program governance, information governance, implementation, continuous improvement, and support services are the primary processes that help firms design a sustainable enterprise content management...

• Report The Path To Customer Obsession Is Paved With Enterprise Collaboration

  Vision: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  October 20, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  To create and deliver profitable customer experiences (CX), businesses rely on ecosystems that bring together networks of employees, partners, and customers. Keeping these disparate groups engaged...

• Report Service Desk 2020: It's All About Employee Experience

  Reliable, Accessible Services Fuel Innovation And Satisfaction

  October 6, 2020 | Charles Betz, Andrew Hewitt

  Although new technologies emerge every day, employees can't do their best work because they can't find the services they need, and when they do, bureaucracy causes unacceptable delays. In an era of...

• Report Invest In Fresh Skills As ECM Shifts To Modern Content Platforms

  Organization: The Enterprise Content Management Playbook

  September 11, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon

  As enterprise content management (ECM) investments shift to content services and cloud deployment models, the composition of the program team will change. Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals...

• Report Research Overview: Modern Technology Operations

  Landscape: The Modern Technology Operations Playbook

  August 3, 2020 | Andrew Hewitt, Will McKeon-White, Charles Betz

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals want to evolve their organizations to be more flexible and responsive in the face of digital transformation and disruption. DevOps, Agile,...