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• Webinar The State of Chat In Retail: The Current And Future States

  Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Eastern time (19:00-20:00 GMT) | Julie Ask, Nicole Murgia, Hailey Colin

  Consumers are increasingly comfortable engaging with brands on mobile platforms, yet many chat experiences don't support modern interactions such as e-commerce. In our evaluation of 114 top brands,...

• Webinar The State Of SMB Banking, 2021

  Thursday, February 11, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. Eastern time (16:00-16:40 GMT) | Aurelie L'Hostis

  Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) remain underserved by traditional financial services providers. Many have been severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and need to build resilience to...

• Webinar Holiday 2020 Recap: Insights And Lessons

  Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Eastern time (16:00-17:00 GMT) | Fiona Swerdlow, Sucharita Kodali, Kristopher Arcand

  Join Forrester analysts Sucharita Kodali, Kristopher Arcand, and Fiona Swerdlow for a recap of the 2020 holiday season. In this webinar, we review insights about the season to inform your planning...

• 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 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 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 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 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 How To Monetize Open Finance And Platform Business Models

  Business Case: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  January 14, 2021 | Jacob Morgan

  Financial services executives have more go-to-market options available than ever before for their firm's products and services — thanks to open banking and platform business models. But how do you...

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  Webinar Wealth Management Predictions 2021

  Firms Embrace Digital To Thrive

  January 14, 2021 | Vijay Raghavan, David Hoffman

  We will remember 2020 for COVID-19: The pandemic permanently changed the ways customers seek advice and how financial advisors dispense it. As the lockdown began, consumers did not have access to a...

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  Playbook The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook For 2021

  Reinvent Your Bank Through Digital

  Digital technologies empower customers like never before, transforming their relationships with banks and their use of financial products and services. The speed with which customers embrace new...

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  Webinar Insurance Predictions 2021

  Insurers Find Opportunity Amid Chaos

  January 13, 2021 | Ellen Carney, Jeffery Williams

  We are a world in recovery heading into 2021. Insurers will need to contend with an unpredictable virus and its economic consequences, dramatic climate events, and the aftermath of a polarizing US...

• Report Gauge Your B2B E-Commerce Digital Maturity

  Assessment: The B2B E-Commerce Playbook

  January 8, 2021 | Joe Cicman

  As B2B C-suites increasingly demand that their companies accelerate their digital transformation, digital business professionals face more pressure to show progress and benchmark their maturity....

• Report Grocers And C-Stores: Check Out Cashierless Technology Decision Points And Benefits

  January 7, 2021 | Scott Compton

  This research helps retail store operations and digital transformation executives evaluate the choices related to cashierless checkout technology, including scan by customer, smart carts, and...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Understanding Today’s Chinese Investors

  January 7, 2021 | Meng Liu, Vijay Raghavan

  Wealth management firms commonly segment their clients by investable assets. But this is not enough to help these firms decide on new products and services or optimize customer engagement models....

• Report The Future Of Commerce Technology: Commerce Platforms End With An Ecosystem On FIRE

  Digital Acceleration Demands That Businesses Evolve Their Architecture To Survive

  January 5, 2021 | Emily Pfeiffer

  Commerce is no longer the core technical function within increasingly complex commerce tech stacks. As this landscape shifts, the new dual cores instead center around experience and operations....

• Report The Five Key Success Factors Of Every Digital Business

  Strategic Plan: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 4, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Successful organizations are largely driven by the right people, the right organizational structure, and an innovative idea for selling online that often reinforces brick-and-mortar stores. In the...

• 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 The Forrester Digital Experience Review™: Global Mobile Banking Apps Summary, 2020

  Benchmarks: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  December 28, 2020 | Peter Wannemacher, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Mobile apps have become the touchpoint of choice for millions of banking customers to manage their finances. With expectations rising, digital banking teams know they need to continuously iterate...

• Report Betting On Bots For Grocery E-Commerce

  What You Need To Know About Automated Microfulfillment Solutions For Grocery E-Commerce

  December 28, 2020 | Scott Compton

  Grocery store operations and digital execs are evaluating and investing in innovative, automated technology to scale to growing consumer demand for fast fulfillment options of online orders. In...

• 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: Integrated Business Planning, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 21 Integrated Business Planning Providers

  December 23, 2020 | George Lawrie

  You can use integrated business planning (IBP) to align strategic, operational, and financial plans to improve business performance, drive superior customer service from the same fixed and working...

• 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 The US Grocery Shopper — COVID-19

  US Grocery Shopper Behaviors In The New Normal

  December 22, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Madeline Cyr

  Throughout waves of shutdowns and fears that the coronavirus pandemic has resurged, one place where online adults still show up is in grocery stores. In this way, the pandemic has essentially...