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• Report Gauge Your Digital Store Maturity

  Assessment: The Digital Store Playbook

  January 29, 2021 | Emily Pfeiffer, Madeline Cyr

  Digital business leaders who are driving digital store transformation initiatives need a clear plan for how technology will transform the store. Plus, they need the skills to influence others in...

• Report Five Key Stakeholders Will Define Retail In The 2020s

  Vision: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 27, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali, Fiona Swerdlow

  New business models and new ways of getting goods to consumers have already transformed retail. In the coming years, retailers and brands will bow to tighter scrutiny and accountability by...

• 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 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 It's Time For Retail Stores To Open Their Doors To The Digital Org

  Organization: The Digital Store Playbook

  August 28, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  In the age of the customer — and especially in the midst of a pandemic — channel-specific strategies, tactics, and organizational structures become irrelevant and (worse) potentially crippling. To...

• Report Research Overview: Online Marketplaces

  A Guide To Buying, Selling, And Creating Market Leverage Via Everyone's Favorite Digital Platform Business Model

  August 17, 2020 | Allen Bonde, Caleb Ewald

  Online marketplaces aren't a new idea. Yet over the past few years, they have (re)emerged as a preferred channel for consumers, small businesses, and a growing number of enterprise buyers. For...

• Report The Art And Science Of Retail eCommerce

  Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  July 6, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Retail eCommerce sales continue to climb, and digital business executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they're not missing either opportunities for direct online sales or ways that...

• Report One Customer, One Organization, One P&L

  Organization: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  May 19, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  In the age of the customer, channel-specific strategies, tactics, and organizational structures become irrelevant. Why? Customers expect seamless and connected journeys. Companies must therefore...

• Report Construct The Business Case For Digital Store Transformation

  Business Case: The Digital Store Playbook

  May 1, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Retailers today are transforming their physical stores from places to shop to digital centers of engagement. Myriad technology solutions support this transition, including automated checkout,...

• Report The State Of Retailing Online 2020: Marketing, Omnichannel, And Mobile

  Landscape: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  April 21, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Forrester surveyed online retailers in its annual "The State Of Retailing Online" study in partnership with the National Retail Federation (NRF). Overall retail continues to grow, including online...

• Report Design Your Digital Store Blueprint For Customer Impact

  Roadmap: The Digital Store Playbook

  April 17, 2020 | Michelle Beeson

  The store is changing rapidly as new technologies appear, older technologies evolve, and others become mainstream, including click-and-collect and mobile point of service (mPOS). The problem for...

• Report Computer Vision Supports Retailers' Digital Transformation

  How Four Retailers In China Deliver Business And Customer Value With AI

  March 27, 2020 | Guannan Lu, Charlie Dai

  Retailers must digitally transform to catch up with fast-changing customer expectations and fend off increasingly aggressive digital competitors. As part of these transformation efforts, retailers...

• Report The Future Of The Digital Store

  Vision: The Digital Store Playbook

  March 19, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow

  Today's empowered customers use multiple digital devices to engage with brands and retailers on their own terms while shopping in-store. At the same time, new technologies are transforming retail...

• Report The Visionary's Guide To Digital Store Planning

  Strategic Plan: The Digital Store Playbook

  March 5, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow

  A successful strategic plan hinges on a strong vision for the digital store. Digital business leaders driving digital store transformation initiatives need a clear plan for how technology will...

• Report Revamping Shopping Malls By Balancing Technology With Experience

  Singapore's Take On The Future Of Shopping Malls

  October 16, 2019 | Xiaofeng Wang

  Offline retail still takes the lion's share of overall retail spending; this is particularly true for the island city-state of Singapore, with its abundance of shopping malls. This report analyzes...

• Report The State Of Retailing Online 2019: Omnichannel, Marketing, And Personalization

  Benchmarks: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  March 25, 2019 | Sucharita Kodali

  Forrester conducts the annual "The State Of Retailing Online" study by the National Retail Federation (NRF). This research summarizes attitudes and investments that retailers and digital business...