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• Report IoT Transforms Supply Chain Management

  Assess Opportunities To Enhance Your Supply Chain Processes Using IoT Solutions

  December 11, 2020 | Michele Pelino, Paul Miller

  Across verticals, enterprises use a variety of internet-of-things (IoT)-enabled processes to transform their end-to-end supply chain operations. This report identifies areas where IoT solutions...

• 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 US Tech Market Outlook For 2021: After The Election

  How Politics, The Pandemic, And The Economy Will Shape Industry Tech Budgets

  December 3, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  The pandemic continues, and we'll feel its ongoing impacts throughout 2021. In this report, we provide our projections by industry for tech spending and the split of tech budgets between new...

• Report Forrester Predictions 2021: Accelerating Out Of The Crisis

  October 28, 2020 | Sharyn Leaver

  2020 shattered the status quo. In 2021, advanced organizations will adapt and use the upheaval to forge a competitive edge. Discover your organization's path to success. Read Forrester's 2021...

• Report An Illustrated Guide To Collecting Zero-Party Data

  Use Microexperiences To Quickly And Easily Collect Rich Customer Attributes

  August 20, 2020 | Stephanie Liu

  Zero-party data (ZPD), or data that a consumer proactively and intentionally shares about herself, has always been a valuable source of customer insight. B2C marketers today are building a variety...

• Report From People To Products: Services Firms Offer More Software Than You Think

  Business Process Accelerators Help Digitize Business Operations

  August 20, 2020 | Nigel Fenwick

  Technology services firms build many variations of digital solutions for clients. Some vendors retain the intellectual property (IP) associated with these solutions, making it available to a...

• Report How Ending CX Bonuses Boosted CX Scores And Profitability For Volkswagen Group Australia

  July 21, 2020 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian

  Even though paying employees for delivering good customer experience (CX) is a bad idea, many firms still do it. This report for CX professionals shows how Volkswagen Group Australia, a firm in an...

• Report Navigate The Digital Ecosystem Of Commercial Drones

  Commercial Drones Are Enabling Digital Automation In The Air

  July 20, 2020 | Charlie Dai

  Unmanned aerial vehicles — commonly called "drones" — are quickly becoming more popular for commercial uses. No longer just toys, drones are already valuable tools for surveillance, analytics,...

• Report Machine Makers And Users Fight For Control Of Machine Data

  Clarify Data Flows Before Investing In Machine-As-A-Service Business Models

  July 7, 2020 | Paul Miller

  Connected machines generate a wealth of data — data that's valuable to machine makers optimizing their machines and to machine users optimizing their businesses. It may also be useful to third...

• Report Forrester Infographic: What's All The Fuss About Digital Twin?

  June 30, 2020 | Paul Miller

  CIOs and tech leaders continue to struggle with defining and realizing the true possibilities and opportunities associated with digital twin technology. This infographic explains the core...

• Report Case Study: Haier Builds An Adaptive Enterprise

  How A Global Manufacturer Delivers Future-Focused Customer Obsession

  June 12, 2020 | Guannan Lu, Danny Mu, Frederic Giron

  Customer-obsessed firms are winning today — but applying the methods that put them in this position doesn't assure their future success. To increase their chances of success, firms must embrace an...

• Report Delight The Right Customers To Build A Successful Business

  June 9, 2020 | TJ Keitt

  Businesses often chase high overall customer experience (CX) scores. But these beacon metrics, which measure the average experience across all customers, provide limited insights to business...

• Report New Tech: Influencer Marketing Solutions, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 47 Providers

  May 11, 2020 | Ryan Skinner

  Today, most marketing organizations use influencers — often hundreds of them — to drive product awareness, brand storytelling, and sales. But managing influencers, from identification and...

• Report Three Requirements Every CPG Marketer Needs To Select A Marketing Measurement Vendor

  May 6, 2020 | Tina Moffett

  The indirect and highly competitive nature of consumer packaged goods (CPG) and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) businesses means B2C marketers in those industries face unique challenges with...

• Report US Shopper Insights And The Impact Of COVID-19

  As Of Early April 2020

  April 14, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  The past few weeks have proven to be tumultuous for retailers as US retail sales have been adversely affected by COVID-19. While March was challenged, many of the moves toward social distancing...

• Report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Smart Manufacturing, Q2 2020

  Twenty Technologies Power Manufacturing's Digital Transformation

  April 1, 2020 | Paul Miller

  Smart manufacturing is increasingly critical to manufacturers' ability to win, serve, and retain their customers. To accelerate their performance in smart manufacturing, companies are evaluating...

• Report 2020 To 2021 US Tech Budgets: The Industry Outlook

  CIOs Should Tighten Their 2020 To 2021 Tech Budgets Based On Slowing But Still Positive US Economic Growth

  March 3, 2020 | Andrew Bartels

  The US tech budget outlook for 2020 and 2021 is getting darker, but growth will still be positive with a low risk of an actual downturn. In this report, we provide our 2020 to 2021 forecasts for...

• Report Lessons In Customer Acquisition: Learn From DTC Disruptors' Awareness Strategies

  DTCs Move Customers Quickly From Discover To Buy

  February 28, 2020 | Ryan Skinner, Sarah Dawson

  Direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptor brands are growth engines, capturing the imaginations of a new generation of consumers, creating new markets, and opening the M&A wallets of much larger...

• Report The India Auto Manufacturers Customer Experience Index, 2019

  How Indian Auto Manufacturers Earn Loyalty With The Quality Of Their Experience

  January 28, 2020 | Amit Bhatia

  How well do leading auto manufacturing brands earn loyalty with the quality of their customer experience (CX)? This year, we reveal the rankings of seven auto brands that we analyzed as part of the...

• Report Spend On Marketing Performance Measurement Doubles By 2024

  Landscape: The Marketing Measurement And Insights Playbook

  January 23, 2020 | Jim Nail

  Marketing performance measurement is becoming increasingly data-driven, applying sophisticated statistical analytic approaches to link marketing to revenue. Against a background of firms embracing...

• Report The US Mass-Market Auto Manufacturers Customer Experience Index, 2019

  How US Mass-Market Auto Manufacturers Earn Loyalty With The Quality Of Their Experience

  December 20, 2019 | Michelle Yaiser, Rick Parrish

  How well do leading mass-market auto brands earn loyalty with the quality of their customer experience (CX)? This year, we reveal the complete rankings of the 15 mass-market auto brands that were...

• Report The US Luxury Auto Manufacturers Customer Experience Index, 2019

  How US Luxury Auto Manufacturers Earn Loyalty With The Quality Of Their Experience

  December 19, 2019 | Michelle Yaiser, Rick Parrish

  How well do leading luxury auto brands earn loyalty with the quality of their customer experience (CX)? This year, we reveal the complete rankings of nine luxury auto brands that were analyzed as...

• Report How Customer Experience Drives Business Growth, 2019

  December 13, 2019 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Laura Garvin Tramm

  Many customer experience (CX) pros find it hard to prove the business impact of improving CX. So Forrester built industry-specific models that show how CX improvements drive growth by increasing...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Manufacturing Firms Look Beyond Core IT For Digital Capabilities

  December 2, 2019 | Ashutosh Sharma

  In April and May of 2019, Forrester surveyed 450 leaders in various manufacturing disciplines across five countries in Asia Pacific to understand their priorities, barriers, and investments. We...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Industrial IoT Software Platforms In China, Q4 2019

  The Seven Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  November 25, 2019 | Danny Mu, Charlie Dai

  In our 26-criterion evaluation of industrial internet of things (IIoT) software platform providers in China, we identified the seven most significant ones — CASICloud, Haier COSMOPlat, Huawei,...