Ask The Analysts — The Forrester Wave™: Marketing Measurement And Optimization Solutions, Q1 2022

Accelerate innovation with deeper insights about why IoT security is important, when it will likely pay off, and how others are using it; we feature the latest expert insights, practical tips, and key steps you and your team can take with this rapidly evolving technology. IoT security can potentially safeguard connected devices, protect sensitive data, and ensure system integrity over a short- to mid-term horizon. Join this session to learn more about how this technology will mature and steps you can take to maximize your investment in it.Key takeaways: Learn about emerging threats in IoT environments.Understand best practices for securing IoT devices.Explore case studies on successful IoT security implementations.Target audience level: all levels

Brian Hopkins

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Paddy Harrington

 

Accelerate innovation with deeper insights about why generative AI (genAI) for language is important, when it will likely pay off, and how others are using it; we feature the latest expert insights, practical tips, and key steps you and your team can take with this rapidly evolving technology. GenAI for language can potentially enhance content creation, automate translations, and improve communication processes over a short- to mid-term horizon. Join this session to learn more about how this technology will mature and steps you can take to maximize your investment in it.Key takeaways: Learn about the advancements in language-based AI.Understand its application in content creation and communication.Explore successful implementation examples.Target audience level: all levels

Brian Hopkins

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Rowan Curran

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Mike Gualtieri

 

B2B revenue leaders are challenged with the conundrum of delivering crucial sales training to their team: Training both amplifies their reps’ competencies and yet draws precious time away from customer-facing activities. Often delivered at an inopportune time, leveraging unpopular modalities, and lacking adult learning best practices, sales training remains ineffective unless delivered as part of a comprehensive and permanent sales talent lifecycle management strategy. In this webinar, we highlight the “what, when, how, and who” behind optimal everboarding for your quota-bearing individual contributors.Key takeaways: Learn the best (and worst) learning modalities for your B2B sales reps.Understand how to time learning delivery so it's sticky.Discover how to engage your first-line sales managers to amplify ongoing sales learning and development.Target audience level: intermediate

Peter Ostrow

 

CRM is a critical piece of technology infrastructure that underpins a firm’s ability to deliver next-generation financial services. It connects organizational silos to drive customer and business value. CRMs are integrating AI and adding intelligent agents to boost productivity and deliver personalized customer experiences at scale. This makes CRM an indispensable tool for financial services firms aiming to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive growth.Despite the benefits, we often hear that financial services firms struggle to justify the investment in CRM modernization, and firms that have done so say that they’re struggling to extract value. This makes it more important than ever to choose the right vendor. But the financial services CRM market is bifurcating, making vendor choice even harder.Key takeaways: Understand the financial services CRM market, key vendors, and common financial services use cases.Learn how AI (predictive, generative, and agentic) is transforming CRM and what it means for financial services firms.Uncover the mistakes that are leading to the underutilization of CRM by financial services firms.Identify the key considerations that should inform financial services firms’ CRM purchasing decision.Target audience level: intermediate and advanced

Alyson Clarke

 

B2C business leaders in the US are hungry for business growth in the double digits again. Yet today’s volatile markets and consumer purchase decisions are impacting this growth more than ever. The future of commerce requires a more distributed, dynamic, and intelligent approach.Key takeaways: Understand the factors and dynamics impacting B2C purchase behaviors in the US.Learn about common challenges that B2C business leaders face in creating commerce moments that drive business growth.Dive deep into three different strategies for commerce growth — distributed, dynamic, and intelligent.Discover what you can do as a business leader to embark on the strategies that make sense for your business.Target audience level: intermediate

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Chuck Gahun

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Kelsey Chickering

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Joe Cicman

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Emily Pfeiffer

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Stephanie Liu

 

In volatile times, marketing, customer experience, and digital leaders in consumer-facing businesses can’t let shifting winds and heavy currents push their business off course. Instead, these business leaders must keep a cool head, resist knee-jerk reactions, and fine-tune strategies precisely and creatively to adapt to only the meaningful and substantial changes in the market and business environment.Key takeaways: Recommit to - and invest in - growing customer obsession maturity across the organization.Reaffirm your brand, customers, and priorities to then take bold, not rash, steps: implementing “always on” scenario planning, staying creative, and communicating brilliantly.Master change management to keep your team energized and focused on delivering quality customer experiences.Ratchet up management of the risks in your control.Target audience level: beginner and intermediate

DH

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Fiona Swerdlow

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Emily Collins

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David Hoffman

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Rick Parrish

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Katy Tynan