Forrester Futurology Episode I: Trends For 2016 And Beyond

Building effective cross-functional relationships can be the difference between a successful customer experience (CX) transformation and one that struggles. Join us as we walk through a new series of tools that CX pros can use to collaborate with stakeholders.Key takeaways: Identify key influencers around the organization to collaborate with.Lear how tp align CX value with the organizational outcomes your influencers care about.Explore how to build an approach plan to engage influencers to amplify and accelerate CX impact in the organization.Target audience level: all levels

Su Doyle

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Angelina Gennis

 

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

 

Your B2B customers expect personalized interactions on their terms and timelines. Outdated marketing, sales, and postsale processes have failed to meet their changing expectations, resulting in poor experiences that make it harder to retain accounts and grow them further. Postsale teams, and customer success specifically, are uniquely positioned to engage customers and help them achieve meaningful results, but only if you elevate their role in transforming revenue processes that create more durable growth.Key takeaways: Learn why customers are the key to stable, long-term growth.Understand the role of postsale engagement teams in transforming revenue processes.Explore how top teams guide customers through four distinct postsale stages of the Opportunity Lifecycle framework.Target audience level: intermediate

Laura Ramos

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Terry Flaherty

 

Anyone who sells software or digital goods online and wants to grow through globalization will at least consider a third-party Merchant Of Record model. Merchant of Record (MOR) solutions have existed for decades, but the industry has made headlines recently with some notable departures: Digital River, a former heavyweight in the market, is closing up shop, and a relative newcomer in the category, Lemon Squeezy, was acquired by payments heavyweight Stripe, which, per its founder, will “scale Merchant Of Record selling in a big way.”In this webinar, Forrester analyst Lily Varon is joined by a panel of CEOs from three major players in the MOR solution space: David Nachman, CEO of FastSpring; Jimmy Fitzgerald, CEO of Paddle; and Wendi Sturgis, Board Advisor and Former CEO of Cleverbridge. Key takeaways: Understand what is really going on with the Merchant Of Record market right now.Learn how to avoid common pitfalls of MOR selling.Discover the best ways for digital leaders to prepare for the future of MOR selling.Target audience level: all levels

Lily Varon