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• For Customer Experience Professionals

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  Report Gauge Your CX Management Maturity

  The Assessment Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  June 19, 2017 | Rick Parrish

  Customer experience (CX) transformations don't happen by accident. They require a methodical approach that ensures thousands of people can work together to consistently produce the right...

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  Report The Five Essential Steps To Plan Your CX Transformation

  The Strategy Report In The CX Transformation Playbook

  June 19, 2017 | Harley Manning

  Customer experience (CX) transformations are huge, complex, and expensive. That's why, as a CX transformation leader, you need to craft a plan detailing why and how you want to transform your...

• For Customer Experience Professionals

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  Report Customer Empathy: Three Essential Strategies For Cultivating It In Your Organization

  April 26, 2017 | Tony Costa

  To deliver great customer experiences, companies need high levels of customer empathy. Without it, CX efforts risk becoming self-serving and disconnected from customer needs, expectations, and...

• For Security & Risk Professionals

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  Report Improve Physical Security And Customer Experience

  S&R Pros Must Develop Five Essential Capabilities In 2017

  March 9, 2017 | Merritt Maxim

  Every customer interaction plays a vital role in shaping that customer's confidence in your brand. While many businesses have heavily invested in optimizing the digital customer experience (CX),...

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  Report Embrace Customer Diversity And Inclusion For Business Growth

  Global Leaders Are Embracing Diversity And Designing Inclusive Experiences To Improve Customer Outcomes

  January 25, 2017 | Tom Champion

  Diversity is no longer merely about compliance and talent management. Trailblazing companies and government agencies are designing experiences for their marginalized customers to win in new...

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  Report Bridge The Gap From CX Strategy To Digital CX

  Road Map: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

  January 23, 2017 | Andrew Hogan

  Even a well-defined customer experience (CX) strategy is no guarantee that your CX ambitions, digital or otherwise, will ever see the light of day. And translating that CX strategy into digital CX...

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  Report Drive Revenue With Great Customer Experience, 2017

  January 18, 2017 | Maxie Schmidt-Subramanian, Dylan Czarnecki

  Many customer experience (CX) pros find it hard to show the connection between improving CX and growing revenue. That's why Forrester built models that demonstrate how CX improvements drive revenue...

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  Report CX Pros: Strategies For Your First 90 Days On The Job

  Adopt A Two-Phase Program For Success

  January 17, 2017 | Amit Bhatia

  Customer experience (CX) roles are still fairly new to many organizations. Many professionals coming into these positions are new to the role too. In both cases, this creates challenges for CX pros...

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  Report How To Build The Right CX Strategy

  Strategic Plan: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook

  January 10, 2017 | Deanna Laufer

  Unless you have a well-defined customer experience (CX) strategy, your CX will be haphazard at best and fail to deliver sustainable benefits. This report tells CX professionals how to develop a...

• For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

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  Report Your Digital Experience Technology Strategy Starts With A Customer Journey Map

  Strategic Plan: The Digital Experience Delivery Playbook

  December 20, 2016 | Ted Schadler

  As firms like Rewe Group and Schneider Electric have learned, digital experience strategy shapes the technology you need — an investment that can take five years and cost between $20 million and...

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  Report Customer Experience Takes Center Stage In The Future Of Retail

  Forward-Looking Retailers Reshape The Chinese Market With Online-To-Offline Strategies And Lifestyle Shopping

  December 16, 2016 | Riccardo Pasto

  Mobile commerce and online-to-offline (O2O) strategies are driving consumer spending and making China the new frontier of innovative retail strategies. Instead of wiping out brick-and-mortar...

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  Report Brief: What CX Pros Can Learn From Pokémon Go

  Anticipatory CX Meets Augmented Reality In This Worldwide Smash Hit

  October 17, 2016 | Ryan Hart, James L. McQuivey

  The Pokémon Go phenomenon has washed across the globe like a tsunami, and while the pace at which it is subsiding is as rapid as its inundation, it leaves valuable customer experience (CX) lessons...

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  Report Brief: When To Rethink Even A Successful CX Strategy

  October 12, 2016 | Deanna Laufer

  Most organizations treat customer experience strategic planning as an annual or biannual event triggered by the calendar. Not so for customer-obsessed organizations: Their planning efforts are...

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  Report Executive Q&A: Top 10 Customer Experience Strategy Questions Answered

  September 2, 2016 | Deanna Laufer

  Most firms aspire to be the customer experience (CX) leader in their industry or even a leader across all industries. To achieve this weighty goal, they'll need (among other things) a shared...

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  Report A Picture's Worth 1,000 CX Strategy Slides

  The Right Way To Illustrate Your Customer Experience Vision To Achieve Clarity And Buy-In

  May 5, 2016 | Deanna Laufer

  Firms build great customer experiences on solid strategies that people sharing a common vision execute. But most companies will find that their employees and executives lack a shared understanding...

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  Report Anchor Your CX Strategy In Customer Understanding

  November 24, 2015 | Deanna Laufer

  Great customer experiences stem from a company's deep understanding of its customers' motivations, goals, and behavior. This understanding is fundamental to breaking the cycle of asking and...

• For CMO Professionals

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  Report The Forrester Wave™: Digital Experience Service Providers, Q4 2015

  Digital Customer Experience Strategy And Design Capabilities Are Key Differentiators For CMOs

  November 4, 2015 | Sarah Sikowitz, Anjali Yakkundi

  In Forrester's 31 criteria evaluation of digital experience service providers, we identified the 11 most significant services providers in the category — Accenture Interactive, Deloitte Digital,...

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  Report Executive Q&A: Success Secrets From Senior Customer Experience Executives

  How CX Leaders Address Issues Like Organizational Structure, Measurement, And Corporate Buy-In

  May 6, 2015 | Samuel Stern

  At Forrester, we spend most of our day thinking about the challenges that customer experience (CX) professionals face. Some of these challenges are evergreen, like who in the organization is...

• For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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  Report Great CX Strategies Need EA Insight

  EA Pros Must Influence And Shape Actionable CX Strategy

  April 30, 2015 | Gordon Barnett

  A recent Forrester survey of customer experience (CX) professionals found that only 15% of CX initiatives are very or extremely effective. In many cases, there was little or no collaboration...

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  Report Mobilize Your Customer Experience Strategy

  February 13, 2015 | Deanna Laufer

  Great customer experiences are built on solid strategies executed by people sharing a common vision. But if they look closely, most companies will find that their employees don't have a shared...

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  Report Case Study: Best Western Great Britain Wins Validation For Customer Experience Strategy

  July 9, 2014 | Deanna Laufer

  In 2010, Best Western International in Great Britain was a midmarket brand struggling to stand out in a sea of budget hotels and prove its value to customers. Partnering with customer experience...

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  Report Five Tools To Close Customer Experience Strategy Gaps

  June 9, 2014 | Paul Hagen

  In today's age of the customer, firms need to build customer experience into the overall company strategy — rather than bolting it on as an afterthought. To align employees and partners, customer...

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  Report Customer Experience Strategy: Build It In; Don't Bolt It On

  May 20, 2014 | Paul Hagen

  It's the age of the customer, where a shift in competitive forces makes old approaches to strategy obsolete. To adapt, firms need to build customer experience into the overall company strategy —...

• For CMO Professionals

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  Report How To Build Your Brand Through Customer Experience

  May 6, 2014 | Tracy Stokes

  Forrester's consumer research confirms the strong relationship between the quality of a brand's customer experience and loyalty measures like willingness to consider the brand for repeat purchase...

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  Report Case Study: Rogers Communications Pilots A New Customer Experience Strategy

  August 9, 2013 | John Dalton, Amelia Sizemore

  In 2011, the customer experience team at Rogers Communications, Canada's largest telecommunications carrier, was beating its collective head against a wall — how could it operationalize its newly...