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• For Customer Experience Professionals

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  Report Improving CX Through Business Discipline Drives Growth

  The Vision Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  June 19, 2017 | 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...

• For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

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  Report The Digital Business Imperative

  February 15, 2017 | Ted Schadler, Nigel Fenwick

  Customers' power in the marketplace continues to ramp up, so eBusiness leaders still need to transform digital customer experiences, including marketing, sales, and channels. The ability to align...

• For Customer Experience Professionals

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  Report How Emerging Technology Is Changing CX

  Continuous Improvement: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

  January 24, 2017 | Kelly Price, Tony Costa

  New technologies offer opportunities to connect with customers by designing more appealing experiences. But if those experiences aren't rooted in customer centricity, they won't win hearts and...

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  Report Getting To Yes: Five Strategies To Earn Cooperation From CX Ecosystem Stakeholders

  Performance Management: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

  January 18, 2017 | Rick Parrish

  With customer experience (CX) competition intensifying, businesses must look beyond mere cosmetic CX makeovers. To solve the root causes of CX problems and create truly differentiated experiences,...

• For Customer Experience Professionals

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  Report Drive Differentiation With Your Ecosystem

  Executive Overview: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

  January 13, 2017 | Rick Parrish, Dylan Czarnecki

  To deliver truly standout experiences, companies must align a complex interdependent ecosystem of customers, employees, partners, and operating environments. Forrester calls this the "customer...

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  Report Reinvent Customer Experience

  Road Map: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

  December 20, 2016 | Rick Parrish

  A whopping 70% of customer experience (CX) pros say that their firm's goal is to be a CX leader in their industry or across all industries. Despite that, only 1% of companies succeed in delivering...

• For Customer Experience Professionals

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  Report The Customer Experience Ecosystem Redefined

  Vision: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

  November 29, 2016 | Rick Parrish, Dylan Czarnecki

  Customer experience (CX) competition is intensifying, and fundamental flaws in ambitious companies' CX ecosystems are thwarting their efforts to differentiate. To help CX professionals better...

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  Report Where Customer Experience Management Technology Can And Can't Help You Govern CX

  Tools And Technology: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

  November 11, 2016 | TJ Keitt

  Customer experience (CX) professionals are bombarded with technology that will supposedly let them manage their customers' experience. But do these solutions actually support the customer...

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  Report How Companies Master Their Customer Experience Ecosystems

  Benchmarks: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

  May 11, 2016 | TJ Keitt

  The key to an excellent customer experience (CX) is a well-coordinated customer experience ecosystem. However, the complexity of this network of employees, partners, and customers makes...

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  Report How To Spur Collaboration Across Your Customer Experience Ecosystem

  April 11, 2016 | TJ Keitt

  Customer experience (CX) ecosystems thrive on information-fueled collaborations. But the volume of data and the number of people involved in these interactions create barriers to effective...

• For Customer Experience Professionals

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  Report Transforming Customer Experience Requires A Service Provider Ecosystem

  Processes: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

  March 11, 2016 | TJ Keitt, Liz Herbert

  To lead in customer experience (CX), businesses need to operate in new ways to respond to customers' demands and competitive pressures. New technologies, such as mobile devices and cloud services,...

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  Report A Step-By-Step Guide To Mapping Your Customer Experience Ecosystem

  Assessment: The Customer Experience Ecosystem Playbook

  January 29, 2016 | Rick Parrish

  Customer experience (CX) initiatives often falter because companies don't know what the actual CX is and the complex dynamics behind it. To find the underlying causes of problems and plan for...

• For Customer Experience Professionals

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  Report Brief: IBM's New Tools For CX Ecosystem Management

  The IBM Watson Portfolio Aims To Help CX Professionals Master Their Operating Environment

  December 16, 2015 | TJ Keitt

  In October 2015, IBM held its Insight conference in Las Vegas. Most customer experience (CX) professionals didn't pay attention — but they should have. IBM showed how its emerging data assets and...

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  Report How To Move Your Company's Line Of Visibility

  Give Customers Greater Control Of Their Experiences By Exposing — And Hiding — The Right Elements Of Your Ecosystem

  July 7, 2015 | Joana van den Brink-Quintanilha

  Companies that excel at customer experience make deliberate and intentional decisions about where to place the line of visibility — the conceptual divide in a customer experience ecosystem that...

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  Report CX Pros Are Blind To The Line Of Visibility

  Prevent Avoidable Customer Experience Mistakes By Rethinking Your Ecosystem's Line Of Visibility

  March 6, 2015 | Tony Costa, Samuel Stern

  Most companies don't understand all of the complex interdependencies that shape their customer experience outcomes. As a result, many customer experience (CX) pros and the experiences they are...

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  Report How To Map Your Customer Experience Ecosystem

  January 5, 2015 | Rick Parrish

  Customer interactions are shaped by a complex set of interdependencies that Forrester calls the customer experience ecosystem. In order to make significant and long-lasting customer experience...

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  Report Empower Your Employees To Renovate Your Customer Experience Ecosystem

  Tap Workers' Knowledge Of Ecosystem Constituencies To Create New Value

  November 18, 2014 | TJ Keitt

  Building healthy customer experience (CX) ecosystems is challenging because CX executives often don't view customer experience holistically. Fortunately, there are employees in the workplace that...

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  Report Case Study: Health Leads Builds A New Customer Experience Ecosystem

  Health Leads Marries Customer And Resource Databases With Social Technologies To Address Patients' Socioeconomic Issues

  July 2, 2014 | TJ Keitt

  Health Leads is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that seeks to improve healthcare for low-income communities. To this end, Health Leads deploys 1,000 college student Advocates to help patients in...

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  Report Want A Healthy Customer Experience Ecosystem? Free Your Workers

  Why Simplified Access To Information Is Essential For An Adaptive Customer-Centered Enterprise

  May 23, 2014 | TJ Keitt

  A customer experience ecosystem is the product of interactions between a business' employees, partners, and customers. An emerging class of information worker -- employees who use a computer at...

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  Report Tools For Mastering The Customer Experience Ecosystem

  April 9, 2013 | Jonathan Browne

  To make meaningful customer experience improvements, organizations need to align their customer experience ecosystems. That requires understanding customers' deep needs, viewing interactions from...

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  Report The Customer Experience Ecosystem

  February 28, 2013 | Kerry Bodine

  Even companies that make customer experience a strategic priority struggle to implement major long-lasting improvements. That's because they fail to connect behind-the-scenes activities to customer...

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  Report Marketers Need To Embrace The Customer Experience Ecosystem

  July 1, 2011 | Luca S. Paderni

  While marketers spend most of their efforts and resources on top-of-mind channels like the Web or TV, two-thirds of consumers report lackluster interactions with brands, leading to low levels of...