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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 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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  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 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™: 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 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 US Grocery: Digital Best Practices

  December 22, 2020 | Scott Compton, Angelina Gennis

  As e-commerce grocery orders surge, online grocers must cultivate lifetime value and loyalty from new customers. We expect North American grocery retail sales to grow 7.6% in 2020 and increase...

• Report Learn From — Don't Fear — The Tech Titans To Prepare For The Future Of Banking

  December 17, 2020 | Alyson Clarke

  The tech titans — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — have been dabbling in financial services for years, and they continue to push into many aspects of banking and payments. This report looks at...

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  Webinar Digital Business Predictions 2021

  December 16, 2020 | Ted Schadler, Nigel Fenwick, Liz Herbert

  2020 was a year that no company will ever forget. The pandemic changed everything. Companies that had laid the foundations of cloud, agility, and strategic partnerships were ready to respond with...

• 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...

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  Webinar Buy Now, Pay Later: Understanding The Latest Hot Topic In Retail Payments

  December 15, 2020 | Lily Varon, Nicole Murgia

  Within the past few years, the deferred payments market — a broad category covering installments, "buy now, pay later," Pay in 4, point-of-sale financing, and alternative lending — has...

• Report Case Study: SBI Card Transformed Digital Customer Service With Targeted Automation

  December 14, 2020 | Vasupradha Srinivasan, Arnav Gupta

  Leading Indian credit card and financial services provider SBI Card transformed its end customer experience (CX) with targeted AI and automation initiatives. SBI Card put together a mix of...

• Report New Tech: Deferred Payment Providers, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 29 Providers

  December 11, 2020 | Lily Varon

  Deferred payment solutions — a broad category covering installments; "buy now, pay later"; "pay in four"; point-of-sale financing; and alternative lending — promise merchants a boost in conversion...

• Report How To Reinvent Small Business Lending

  SMB Lending Transformation Requires A Reset Of Technology, Processes, And Culture

  December 10, 2020 | Zhi-Ying Barry

  COVID-19 is challenging how business lenders operate at every part of the lending value chain. To address these challenges, some lenders have begun to digitize parts of the origination and...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Chinese Lenders Must Learn From Digital Lenders To Stay Relevant

  December 9, 2020 | Meng Liu, Arnav Gupta

  Recent Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics® data reveals that digital lenders have gained significant mindshare among Chinese borrowers and often delighted customers with their service...