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• Report Evolve Your Culture Work Practice

  Advanced Level: Culture Practices For CX Transformation

  March 5, 2021 | Angelina Gennis

  This report about culture work — one of the six competencies of customer experience (CX) — is for CX transformation leaders whose companies: 1) follow an effective and documented process for how to...

• Report Establish Your Culture Work Practice

  Beginner Level: Culture Practices For CX Transformation

  March 5, 2021 | Angelina Gennis

  This report about culture work — one of the six competencies of customer experience (CX) — is for CX transformation leaders whose companies don't yet follow an effective and documented process for...

• Report Gauge Your CRM Maturity

  Assessment: The CRM Playbook

  March 4, 2021 | Kate Leggett

  An explosion of channels, new technologies like artificial intelligence, and demanding consumers challenges organizations to reshape the way that they target, acquire, retain, understand, and...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Retail CISO Career Paths

  March 2, 2021 | Jeff Pollard

  Seventy-nine percent of retail and consumer product companies from the Fortune 500 have a dedicated CISO with a public presence. To understand the skills, experience, and education that qualify...

• Report Intelligent Creativity Energizes Marketing Productivity

  Human Intuition Plus Machine Accuracy Ushers In An Era Of Creative Transformation

  March 1, 2021 | Jay Pattisall

  Despite an ever-expanding universe of marketing channels and complexity, the creative process has remained unchanged for nearly a century. The intuition-governed approach to creativity frequently...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Enable The Next-Generation Workforce With The Right Technologies

  Forrester's Visual Guide To Generational Technology Preferences

  February 26, 2021 | Andrew Hewitt

  Businesses preparing for the future of work must understand the changing technology preferences among four workforce generations. Each generation comes with its unique needs to ensure an optimal...

• Report The Forrester Guide To Equipping The Next-Gen Workforce

  Don't Let Age Define Your Workforce Enablement Strategy

  February 26, 2021 | Andrew Hewitt

  In this demographic overview, we analyze the four generations in the workplace: Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers. As Gen Z and Millennials increasingly represent a larger...

• Report COVID-19 Accelerated Your Digital Momentum — Don't Slow Down Now

  How To Harness Digital Momentum During And After The Pandemic

  February 25, 2021 | Michael Barnes

  The global pandemic forced many firms to shift almost overnight to only engaging customers virtually. Digital teams were thrust to the forefront of organizations' responses. The impact on digital...

• 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...