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• Webinar Enterprise Business Insights And Analytics: Key Findings From The Forrester Tech Tide™

  Thursday, March 11, 2021, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Eastern time (16:00-17:00 GMT) | Boris Evelson, Mike Gualtieri, Cinny Little

  Turning raw data into actionable insights is increasingly critical to firms’ ability to win, serve, and retain customers. To accelerate their journey to become insights driven, companies are...

• Report Come Together (Right Now) To Deliver The Next Best Experience

  Vision: The Customer Analytics Playbook

  February 12, 2021 | Brandon Purcell

  We're living in the age of the customer, so it's understandable that many companies are striving — and claiming — to be customer obsessed. Yet many still fall short of creating superior customer...

• Report AI 2.0: Upgrade Your Enterprise With Five Next-Generation AI Advances

  Advanced Level: Technology Practices For Insights-Driven Businesses

  February 9, 2021 | Kjell Carlsson, PhD, Brandon Purcell, Mike Gualtieri

  Just when you thought you knew what AI could and couldn't do, it quietly gets a radical upgrade. Five key advances redefine AI use cases and break the chains that have shackled enterprise AI...

• Blog Explaining Explainable AI

  December 18, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  In 2020, one message in the AI market came through loud and clear: AI’s got some explaining to do! Explainable AI (XAI) has long been a fringe discipline in the broader world of AI and machine...

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  Webinar Customer Insights Predictions 2021

  December 2, 2020 | Gene Leganza, Faith Adams, Cinny Little

  Forrester has solid data that shows that insights-driven firms outperform their peers, and our year-on-year data shows that advanced firms are widening the gap even further. Why? If 2020 has taught...

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  Webinar AI Predictions 2021

  How AI Is Entering New Territory

  November 18, 2020 | Srividya Sridharan, Mike Gualtieri, Brandon Purcell

  Early forays into AI combined with 2020’s new reality for business is catapulting AI competency further and faster. What was once considered impossible is now not only possible, but even...

• Forum Data Strategy & Insights

  Thought leadership, strategic direction, and networking opportunities needed to shape your data and analytics strategy for the coming decade.

  October 14, 2020 | Live Virtual Experience | Brandon Purcell, Noel Yuhanna, Boris Evelson

  Are you ready to turn your organization into an insights-driven enterprise? Join more than 20 Forrester analysts, industry speakers, and over 650 data and analytics practitioners for two days at...

• Report Research Overview: Customer Analytics Technologies And Services

  Tools And Technology: The Customer Analytics Playbook

  September 30, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  Customer analytics is the engine of a customer-centric, insights-driven business. To derive meaningful insights from data and take effective actions, customer insights (CI) leaders partner with...

• Blog What We Talk About When We Talk About Insights

  September 21, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  Within the data and analytics community, especially among consumers of data and analytical output, the term “insights” is as ubiquitous as complaints about data quality and hype about AI. And yet,...

• Report Gauge Your Customer Analytics Maturity

  Assessment: The Customer Analytics Playbook

  September 14, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  Customer analytics powers customer obsession by helping insights-driven businesses understand their customers and drive growth. While advanced statistical techniques form the backbone of customer...

• Report AI Aspirants: Caveat Emptor

  Tackle Third-Party Risk Head-On And Improve AI Accountability

  August 12, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  A lack of accountability in AI can result in regulatory fines, brand damage, and lost customers. This report advises business insights pros on how to improve their companies' AI accountability by...

• Blog Who Is Responsible For Responsible AI?

  August 12, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  In 2019, we predicted that there will be three high-profile, AI-related PR snafus in 2020. It’s only August, and we’ve already seen plenty of examples of AI going wrong. The ACLU sued facial...

• Blog Values, Ethics, And Algorithms, Oh My!

  May 26, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  From tech vendors to governments to industry consortia to the Vatican, it seems that every day a new entity is announcing its set of ethical AI principles. While there is some variation between...

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  Webinar Create Loyalty With A Customer-Obsessed, Not Purchase-Obsessed, Personalization Strategy

  May 6, 2020 | Emily Collins, Brandon Purcell, Rusty Warner

  Companies have a personalization problem: Despite the best of intentions, they fail to create memorable, or even useful, moments with their customers. From “buy this, do that”...

• Blog Five AI Principles To Put In Practice

  April 13, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  From tech vendors to governments to industry consortia to the Vatican, it seems that every day a new entity is announcing its set of AI principles — broad guidelines for how AI systems should be...

• Report Now Tech: Customer Analytics Technologies, Q1 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 33 Customer Analytics Providers

  March 25, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  You can use customer analytics technologies to increase customer lifetime value (CLV), drive loyalty, and improve the customer experience (CX). But to realize these benefits, you'll first have to...

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  Webinar The Best Of Times And The Worst Of Times For Customer Segmentation

  March 2, 2020 | Brandon Purcell

  Customer segmentation has long been a cornerstone of marketing campaigns, giving enterprises a way to partition their customer bases and plan interactions with them. However, in light of growing...

• Report Organizational Intangibles Will Make Or Break Your Data And Analytics Practice

  Vision: The Insights-Driven Business Playbook

  February 28, 2020 | Brandon Purcell, Srividya Sridharan, Gene Leganza

  Wondering why your insights-driven transformation is not taking off despite the right investments in technology? You're not focusing enough on the intangibles that drive this transformation...

• Report The Impact Of Emerging Technology On Digital Experiences

  How More Than 50 Emerging Technologies Will Impact Data And Experiences For Consumers

  February 24, 2020 | Julie Ask, Kjell Carlsson, PhD, Jeffrey Hammond

  Forrester interviewed more than 150 companies across industries and technology categories to understand how more than 50 technologies will evolve over the next five to 10 years and assess their...

• Report Pick A Powerful Pilot To Propagate Customer Analytics

  Business Case: The Customer Analytics Playbook

  February 5, 2020 | Brandon Purcell, Emily Miller

  While most companies understand the importance of transforming data into insights, many struggle to get their customer analytics practice off the ground. They're missing out on a huge opportunity....

• Report Advance Your Customer Analytics Maturity

  Roadmap: The Customer Analytics Playbook

  February 4, 2020 | Brandon Purcell, Emily Miller

  Customer insights (CI) pros looking to stand up or advance their enterprise customer analytics functions face many challenges. Disparate data, a lack of stakeholder support for analytics, and...

• Blog It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year For Segmentation

  December 16, 2019 | Brandon Purcell

  Well, sort of. It actually depends on what type of segmentation you’re interested in, which of course depends on what you plan to do with your segmentation. (Segmentation is not an end in...

• Report The Best Of Times And The Worst Of Times For Segmentation

  Overthrow Traditional Customer Segmentation In The Personalization Revolution

  December 10, 2019 | Brandon Purcell

  Customer segmentation has long been a cornerstone of marketing campaigns, giving enterprises a way to partition their customer bases and plan interactions with them. However, in light of growing...

• Report The State Of Customer Analytics 2019

  Landscape: The Customer Analytics Playbook

  November 5, 2019 | Brandon Purcell, Emily Miller

  In this report, we give customer insights (CI) pros key benchmarks to plan their customer analytics capability. Compared with our 2018 benchmarks, we see firms adopting more analytical techniques...

• Report Make Customer Lifetime Value Your Polaris For Long-Term Growth

  This Customer-Obsessed Metric Brightens The Path To Profitability

  September 26, 2019 | Brandon Purcell, Allison Snow

  Customer lifetime value (CLV) — isn't new, but it's gaining traction as customer insights (CI) professionals seek to maximize efficiency, demonstrate economic value, and leverage advances in data...