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• 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 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 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 Research Overview: Financial Well-Being

  A Guide To Our Financial Well-Being-Related Research

  December 15, 2020 | Aurelie L'Hostis

  Sustainable finance has become an imperative. Promoting customers' financial well-being is a great opportunity for financial services firms to drive customer engagement, create new value, and...

• Report Five Ways To Ensure Deep Collaboration Between Marketing And Customer Experience

  Employ Them All To Ensure Consistently On-Brand Interactions That Drive Customer Loyalty

  December 14, 2020 | Rick Parrish

  Marketers and CX professionals are out of touch with today's business realities. While companies pursue business models that scramble traditional customer lifecycles, marketing and CX functions...

• Report Chatbots And Virtual Assistants Can Help B2B Organizations Close The Digital Experience Gap

  Automated Conversational Engagement Meets The Modern B2B Buyer's Need For Immediacy

  December 11, 2020 | Steven Casey

  Social distancing has fast-forwarded the B2B buyer journey into an almost exclusively digital adventure. With face-to-face meetings all but impossible, buyers are seeking experiences and content...

• Report Research Overview: Personalization

  A Guide To Our Personalization-Related Research

  December 11, 2020 | Rusty Warner, David Novitzky

  B2C marketers strive to deliver relevant, personalized customer experiences. But heightened customer expectations, conflicting business goals, overlapping technologies, and execution challenges...

• Report Case Study: Nissan Transforms CX And EX Through Seven Customer Journeys

  How Nissan Embraced A Journey-Centric Operating Model To Deliver Customer Value And Business Growth

  December 10, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  Since 2018, Nissan has been on a path to transform its legacy systems and operating model to create a best-in-class integrated customer journey in order to grow its customer base, reduce costs, and...

• Report The Future Of Enterprise Marketing Technology

  Vision: The Enterprise Marketing Technology Playbook

  November 25, 2020 | Joe Stanhope, Rusty Warner

  Enterprise B2C marketers have invested heavily in marketing technology (martech) to deliver contextually relevant customer engagement. But to stay ahead of the curve, firms need to rethink their...

• Report Must-Have E-Commerce Features

  Roadmap: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  October 28, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Digital business professionals often grapple with prioritizing the countless issues that populate e-commerce to-do lists. This report takes a prescriptive look at industry standards as well as the...

• Report Innovate Successfully: Future-State Journey Mapping

  October 20, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar, Joana de Quintanilha, Jennifer Wise

  Companies pursue innovation to succeed but often miss the mark because their efforts aren't rooted in customer understanding and don't deliver value. Customer experience (CX) pros can help, using a...

• Report How To Make Sense Of Martech Mayhem

  A Reference Guide To Help Assemble Your Martech Ecosystem

  October 19, 2020 | Rusty Warner

  B2C marketers must integrate enterprise marketing technology (martech) components from multiple vendors to assemble their own unique ecosystems. Working with enterprise marketing software suite...

• Report The Forrester Retail Quarterly Earnings Review, Q1 2020

  Highlights From 24 Retail Q1 2020 Earnings Call Transcripts

  August 18, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Madeline Cyr

  As consumers demand more than ever from the retail experience, retailers and brands are investing to rethink and reinvent those experiences. The Forrester Retail Quarterly Earnings Review...

• Report Virtual Journey Mapping For Effective Remote Collaboration In Times Of Crisis And Recovery

  Use Virtual Journey Mapping To Optimize Customer And Employee Journeys

  August 7, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  In today's pandemic environment, customers' needs are shifting: They're adopting never-before-seen behaviors and engaging more digitally. It's more crucial than ever to understand how your...

• Report The Democratization Of B2B Sales

  Talent Wins Games, But Teamwork And Intelligence Win Championships

  August 3, 2020 | Mary Shea, PhD

  As pre-COVID and COVID-accelerated trends come together, industries, business models, and sales strategies will be disrupted. B2B sales leaders who seize the moment will abandon traditional seller...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Martech For B2C Marketers, Q3 2020

  Tools And Technology: The Enterprise Marketing Technology Playbook

  July 30, 2020 | Mary Pilecki, David Novitzky, Jessica Liu

  Marketing technology (martech) is critical to a firm's ability to plan, execute, and measure its marketing efforts. This Forrester Tech Tide™ report presents an analysis of the maturity and...

• Report The Future Of Banking Is Built On Trust

  Vision: The Digital Banking Strategy Playbook

  July 29, 2020 | Jacob Morgan, Alyson Clarke

  The economics of the next decade will challenge banks. COVID-19 has shifted the focus but will not dominate the future narrative. Leading banks are pivoting and rebooting their strategy —...

• Report So You've Journey Mapped. Now What?

  Three Ways To Use A Completed Journey Map As A Transformation Tool

  July 6, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha, Sam Karpinski

  Journey maps can be incredibly effective tools for driving a customer experience (CX) transformation, yet many CX professionals struggle with using them to create change. This report outlines some...

• Report Microsegmentation Yields Contextual Customer Experiences That Convert

  Strategic Plan: The B2B Marketing Playbook

  June 30, 2020 | Lori Wizdo

  Segmentation is the bedrock of B2B marketing campaigns. Marketers use segmentation to partition their databases and plan interactions with key audiences. But B2B marketers must rethink segmentation...

• Report Measuring Design's Impact: Establish, Extend, And Elevate Your Approach

  A Design Impact Series Report

  June 24, 2020 | Gina Bhawalkar

  Adopting design measurement best practices helps experience design (XD) teams achieve benefits ranging from getting UX improvements prioritized to earning the opportunity to influence strategic...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Journey Orchestration Platforms, Q2 2020

  The 11 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 15, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  In our 28-criterion evaluation of journey orchestration providers, we identified the 11 most significant ones — Alterian, BryterCX, Coveo, Engage Hub, inQuba, Kitewheel, NICE, Pointillist, Roojoom,...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Journey Mapping Platforms, Q2 2020

  The Eight Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  June 15, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  In our 26-criterion evaluation of journey mapping providers, we identified the eight most significant ones — CustomersFirst Now, cx/omni, Decooda International, More than Metrics, MURAL, Strativity...

• Report Journey Centricity: Learn From The Leaders

  How To Get The Balance Right Between Your Firm's Operational Levers For Transformation

  June 1, 2020 | Joana de Quintanilha

  Customer-obsessed leaders across industries are transforming their firms toward journey centricity. Why? Because journeys are their customers' lived realities, which are rarely the same as the...

• Report How To Evolve Your Mobile App

  Make Smart Investment Choices Based On Your Customer's Goals And Needs

  May 22, 2020 | Julie Ask, Andrew Hogan, Kelly Price

  When applied to mobile apps, the definition of great is a constantly moving target because both what technologies can do and what consumers expect of experiences are evolving quickly. Use this...

• Report The Forrester Retail Quarterly Earnings Review, Q4 2019

  Highlights From 25 Retail Q4 2019 Earnings Call Transcripts

  May 7, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Madeline Cyr

  As today's empowered consumers demand more than ever before of the retail experience, leading retailers and brands are investing to rethink and reinvent their customers' cross-touchpoint...