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• Report Improving CX Through Business Discipline Drives Growth

  The Vision Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  January 25, 2021 | Harley Manning, Rick Parrish

  As power shifts from businesses to customers, more firms respond by transforming their customer experience (CX) in an effort to retain or gain market share. That's a rational response because CX...

• Report The Five Essential Steps To Plan Your CX Transformation

  The Strategy Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  January 25, 2021 | Harley Manning, Sam Karpinski

  Customer experience (CX) transformations are huge, complex, and expensive. That's why, as a CX transformation leader, you need to craft a plan detailing why and how you want to transform your...

• Report The ROI Of CX Transformation

  The Business Case Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  January 22, 2021 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Sam Karpinski

  Customer experience (CX) transformation efforts bring benefits like increased customer retention and greater cross-sell opportunity. To get those benefits, CX leaders need to invest in areas like...

• Report Why And How To Master Experience Design

  Executive Overview: The User Experience Playbook

  January 21, 2021 | David Truog

  As customers gravitate to digital more than ever, companies are prioritizing user experience (UX). Why this response? Because experience quality can make or break a business, and the range from bad...

• Report Establish Your Experience Research Practice

  Beginner 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 CX transformation leaders whose companies don't yet follow an effective and documented...

• 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...

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  Playbook The User Experience Playbook For 2021

  Why And How To Master Experience Design

  As customers gravitate to digital more than ever, companies are prioritizing user experience (UX). Why this response? Because experience quality can make or break a business, and the range from bad...

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• Report The Design Revolution

  Vision: The User Experience Playbook

  December 11, 2020 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  Companies are prioritizing design because of seismic shifts in the dynamics of value, experiences, and power that are making user experience (UX) matter more than ever. But many firms undermine...

• Report The ROI Of Design Thinking: Part 2, How To Calculate

  Find Your Organization's ROI Using Forrester's Total Economic Impact Methodology

  July 15, 2020 | Benjamin Brown, Sam Karpinski

  In part 1 of this two-part series on the ROI of design thinking, Forrester found that three-quarters of projects can return double their investment (or more) in design thinking — with a median...

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  Webinar A Beginner's Guide To Culture Practices For CX Transformation

  June 2, 2020 | Angelina Gennis

  Just starting out on a customer experience (CX) transformation? Follow the five key steps Forrester has seen successful cultures take to become more customer-centric. Key takeaways: Explore how...

• Report Digital CX And Design Trends, 2020

  May 20, 2020 | Andrew Hogan, Gina Bhawalkar, Jennifer Wise

  Eight trends in 2020 are shaping how experience design (XD) professionals and their companies should improve their customers' experiences with digital touchpoints, from apps to websites to Alexa...

• Forum CX Sydney

  The Time Is Now: Lead With Experience

  April 30, 2020 | Virtual Event | Michael Barnes

  CX and marketing exist to win, serve, and retain customers. But silos and miscommunication keep this power duo from reaching their full potential. For this reason, we’ve made collaboration...

• Report The Renaissance Of Branch Banking In Asia Pacific

  Let CX And EX Drive Branch Transformation

  April 27, 2020 | Tom Mouhsian

  Digital self-service and transaction automation have led banks to close branches. But many customers still depend on branch staff for financial consultations and support, shifting the key drivers...

• Report Fix Business Processes To Improve Customer Experiences

  April 24, 2020 | TJ Keitt, Rob Koplowitz

  The key to improving customer experience (CX) is improving the processes that support customer journeys. But CX teams often lack any real expertise in business process management. So how can those...

• Report The State Of CX Management Maturity, 2019

  The Benchmark Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  April 17, 2020 | Rick Parrish

  Even a track record of providing high-quality customer experience (CX) is no guarantee of future CX success. Organizations that want to provide great customer experience reliably for years to come...

• Report Six Ways You Should Use The Federal Stimulus To Drive Customer Obsession

  April 9, 2020 | Rick Parrish, TJ Keitt, J. P. Gownder

  The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act features nearly $1 trillion in benefits to businesses. How will your company use its share? In this report, we detail six ways that...

• Report Video: How To Find Your Value-For-Customer Sweet Spot

  Use This Exercise To Find The Differentiating Blend Of Value Dimensions That Matches Your Target Customers' Needs

  March 30, 2020 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Shar VanBoskirk, Su Doyle

  Even if you think about "value for customer" the right way, you must still find the sweet spot in which you uniquely help your most important target customers create value. To help you do that,...

• Report Design Your Customer Success Program To Drive Value For Your Business

  February 5, 2020 | TJ Keitt

  Robust customer success management (CSM) programs require significant investments in people, business process improvements, and supporting technologies. But how do you fund this effort? The answer...

• Report Research Overview: The Design Revolution

  A Customer Experience Guide To Advancing Your Design Maturity, Overcoming Myths About Design, And Staffing For Good Design

  October 17, 2019 | David Truog, Gina Bhawalkar, Karine Cardona-Smits

  This document is a short overview of the "Design Revolution" series with links to the documents it contains. The series lays out for experience design (XD) professionals and their colleagues the...

• Report A Good Customer Experience Requires Workers To Be Digitally Enabled

  The Tools Workers Use To Serve Customers Must Be Factored Into Experience Design

  October 3, 2019 | TJ Keitt

  Business leaders often overlook a critical component of good customer experience (CX): properly enabled employees. As a result, businesses haphazardly deploy technology to their workforces with...

• Report Five Steps To Enable Customer Experience Delivery

  Beginner Level: Enablement Practices For CX Transformation

  September 25, 2019 | 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 CX NYC 2019 Day Two Highlights: Humanizing Radical CX Innovation

  Top Takeaways About Employee Experience, Moments That Matter, And Differentiating With Privacy

  August 15, 2019 | Harley Manning

  Customer expectations continue to rise faster than companies are making customer experience (CX) improvements. At this year's CX NYC Forum, analysts and practitioners shared new ways for CX pros to...

• Report Tips For Scaling Your Design Thinking Practice

  July 30, 2019 | Ryan Hart

  Design thinking practitioners still struggle to garner and maintain support for their methodology. This report offers proven methods for overcoming common obstacles that customer experience (CX)...

• Report High-Impact Research: The Ingredients For An Effective UX And Design Research Practice

  July 17, 2019 | Kelly Price

  To get beyond stagnating customer experience (CX) quality, companies need to modernize how they do customer research — using it to guide better tactical and strategic decisions across the firm. But...