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• Report Digital Store Analytics Tech For The New Normal

  Performance Management: The Digital Store Playbook

  February 19, 2021 | James McCormick, Scott Compton

  A new crop of emerging technologies, and the solutions they power, will unleash a new cycle of rising expectations from buyers and employees, as well as changing behaviors and disruption. This...

• Report Research Overview: Omnichannel Requires A Buffet Of Tech Solutions

  Tools And Technology: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  February 4, 2021 | Brendan Witcher

  Today's "anywhere, anytime" commerce means that digital business leaders must race to fully modernize their commerce systems while recognizing that omnichannel is far more complex than simply...

• Report Marketers Versus Customers: Opposing Forces Erupt

  Reevaluate Your Fundamental Marketing Assumptions To Regain Customers' Faith

  January 20, 2021 | Melissa Parrish

  Marketers set out to be customer-focused with the best intentions. They build customer profiles and personalize interactions — but inadvertently create creepy and even harmful experiences. CMOs...

• Report Prioritize The Tech That Paves The Path To People-First Marketing

  Tools And Technology: The Experience-Led Marketing Playbook

  January 12, 2021 | Stephanie Liu

  CMOs and marketers are increasingly aware of their potential impact on the customer experience (CX). Nearly half of global marketing decision-makers say it's a high or critical priority. CMOs and...

• 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 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 Design For Confidence

  In Uncertain Times, Your Customers Want Certainty More Than Ever

  August 10, 2020 | Andrew Hogan, Senem Guler Biyikli

  Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, customers are battling uncertainty from all corners, needing confidence more than ever. Many companies strive for experiences that are seamless, easy, or beautiful,...

• Report The State Of Augmented Reality In Retail: 2020

  Continuous Improvement: The Digital Store Playbook

  June 9, 2020 | Julie Ask, Erin Sellers

  Since IKEA created an interactive experience with its product catalog, the quality of augmented reality (AR) experiences in retail has improved dramatically in the past 10 years. AR now supports...

• Report Best Practices: Web Chat For Investors

  What Real Investors Say About Web Chat Experiences

  May 28, 2020 | Jennifer Wise

  Investment firms aim to offer web chat experiences that meet investors' expectations and drive use of the channel. To see how they stack up, we assessed the chat feature on eight investment firms'...

• Report The Top Retail Technology Investments In 2020

  Retail And Brand Professionals Share Their Priorities For Tech-Driven Commerce Initiatives In The Coming Year

  May 11, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  In January and February 2020, we interviewed more than 60 retail and brand professionals from over 50 companies to understand which technology initiatives they are investing in this year. 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...

• Report Now Tech: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 42 RTIM Providers

  April 30, 2020 | Rusty Warner

  You can use real-time interaction management (RTIM) to orchestrate contextually relevant customer experiences, address customer expectations for mutual value exchanges with your brand, and align...

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

  DTCs Establish Credible Differentiation Rapidly With Social Proof, Design, Trials, And Email

  April 10, 2020 | Ryan Skinner, Sarah Dawson

  Direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptor brands are growth engines, capturing the imaginations (and wallets) of a new generation of consumers, often for entirely novel product or service categories....

• Report Case Study: Starbucks Accelerates Growth With Alibaba's New Retail

  How The Coffee Giant Drives Business Growth By Plugging Into The Largest Online-To-Offline Ecosystem In China

  March 23, 2020 | Xiaofeng Wang, Danny Mu

  Despite its dominance in the coffee retail segment, Starbucks struggled to serve empowered Chinese consumers efficiently and keep pace with fast-emerging local competition. The coffee chain has...

• Report The Top Trends For Health Insurers In 2020

  CRM And New Benefits Programs Catalyze Insurers' Shift From Being Reactive To Being Relevant

  March 20, 2020 | Arielle Trzcinski, Jeff Becker, Annalise Clayton

  Health insurers face an uphill battle in 2020: Uncertainty looms around single-payer healthcare, a surge of new entrants are competing for members, and legacy tech hampers innovation. How can...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Healthcare CRM Providers, Q1 2020

  The Seven Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  March 12, 2020 | Arielle Trzcinski, Kate Leggett

  In our 31-criterion evaluation of healthcare CRM providers, we identified the seven most significant ones — Creatio, Healthgrades, Microsoft, Pegasystems, Salesforce, SugarCRM, and Welltok — and...

• Report Top Retail Tech Trailblazers To Emulate In 2020

  Continuous Improvement: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  March 3, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Retailers often look to competitors and other brands that are leading the way in digital transformation for inspiration and ideas on how to execute on top retail initiative investments. For the...

• Report Now Tech: Agile Content Management Systems, Q1 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 30 Agile CMS Providers

  February 27, 2020 | Nick Barber, Mark Grannan

  You can embrace Agile content management systems (CMSes) to drive content reuse, create content faster, make your practitioners happier, and ultimately, deliver more personalized experiences. But...

• Report Forrester Infographic: Optimize Your Digital Front Door Strategy To Enhance The Care Journey

  February 26, 2020 | Arielle Trzcinski, Annalise Clayton

  Healthcare organizations (HCOs) invest heavily in the digital front door but fail to engage customers digitally. There's a disconnect between what customers want and need and what HCOs deliver,...

• Report The Forrester Government Wave™: US Federal Government Websites, Q1 2020

  Federal Websites Offer Similarly Strong Experiences And Have Room For Improvement

  February 18, 2020 | Rick Parrish, Gina Bhawalkar

  Websites are the centerpiece of the US federal customer experience (CX). To gauge how well they serve customers, we evaluated seven of the most-visited sites. This report reveals how well they...

• Report The Agile CMS Cookbook: Tales From The Test Kitchen

  Knowing Your Agile CMS Flavor Profile And Building On Proven Recipes Can Boost Adoption

  February 7, 2020 | Nick Barber, Mark Grannan

  Agile content management systems (CMS) are just over the horizon, bearing promises of content reuse, content insights, faster and more agile content operations, and flexibility across channels....

• Report Use Personalization To Drive Loyalty And Customer Obsession

  January 28, 2020 | Emily Collins

  The personalization imperative for loyalty is clear: Companies that can't meet customer expectations for relevance and value risk losing their customers to brands that can deliver. But it's hard to...

• Report The Forrester Retail Quarterly Earnings Review, Q3 2019

  Highlights From 21 Retail Q3 2019 Earnings Call Transcripts

  January 17, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Madeline Cyr

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

• Report Optimize Customer Experience With A Digital Intelligence Business Case

  Business Case: The Digital Intelligence Playbook

  January 3, 2020 | Cinny Little, James McCormick

  Today's digital analytics practices are advancing the ability to take actions on insights about customers' digital behavior. But that's not enough: Customers' expectations continue to change faster...