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What eBusiness Teams Need To Know About The Future Of Multitouchpoint Web Design
The splinternet has created a headache for eBusiness leaders who must now support optimized commerce experiences across an increasingly complex landscape of web-enabled touchpoints. Maintaining...
Benchmarks: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "Best And Worst Of Website User Experience, 2011" originally published on November 18, 2011. This report outlines how customer experience professionals can benchmark...
Mobile eCommerce revenues across Europe will rise from €1.7 billion in 2011 to €19.2 billion in 2017, reaching 6.8% of total web sales. Simple, easy to merchandise categories such as...
How And Where To Tap Into China's Hypersocial Online Population
Chinese online adults are among the most socially active we survey anywhere in the world — so if you're aiming to reach Chinese audiences you'd be wise to invest in social media. But this...
Enjoyment is one of the best possible outcomes of any customer experience. But the majority of firms can barely design a useful, usable experience, much less a pleasurable one. Recent advances in the...
Best Practices: The Experience-Driven Organization Playbook
Forrester spoke to leaders at brands whose Customer Experience Index (CXi) scores went up appreciably in 2012. Our goal was to understand what drove those customer experience improvements. The...
Assessment: The Social Marketing Playbook
Customers and employees are becoming increasingly empowered by social technologies, dramatically changing the way they communicate and collaborate. To succeed in this new world, companies must make...
Organization: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How Are Digital Customer Experience Teams Structured?" originally published on September 30, 2011. To understand how digital customer experience teams are changing to...
Landscape: The Social Marketing Playbook
Social media has gone global: The large majority of online adults in North America, Europe, metro Asia, and Latin America use social media regularly. For marketers, the question is no longer whether...
Road Map: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How To Build An Implementation Road Map For Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on August 11, 2011. In a world of proliferating digital...
Best Practices: The Social Marketing Playbook
After years of aimlessly chasing fans, it's time marketers start driving real business results from Facebook. This requires building a Facebook page that has a clear focus and offers value to...
Strategic Plan: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "How To Develop Your Digital Customer Experience Strategy" originally published on July 13, 2011. Companies need a digital customer experience strategy to ensure that they...
Vision: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Companies have historically failed to meet the needs of their customers in individual channels. As customers increasingly engage with multiple channels in pursuit of a single goal, companies need to...
Executive Overview: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
Today's multichannel customers demand better experiences than they get from firms that design underperforming one-off touchpoints. Faced with an expanding ecosystem of legacy websites, mobile sites,...
Assessment: The Open Innovation Playbook
Product strategy professionals increasingly recognize the value of social co-creation engagements to involve the customer directly in the product development process and how this fits into the...
Tools And Technology: The Open Innovation Playbook
Co-creation will become a key business tool for product strategy professionals as they strive to incorporate it into their open innovation strategiesin order to develop better products, services, and...
Benchmarks: The Open Innovation Playbook
Co-creation is a key pillar of corporate open innovation initiatives. In Q1 2011, Forrester surveyed 212 product strategy professionals about whether and how social media assets within their...
Executive Overview: The Customer Service Playbook
Customers increasingly demand experiences that include self-service options, real-time responses, mobile capabilities, and social interactions. But customer service executives face the constant...
The right customer interactions, implemented the right way, don't just happen. Instead, they must be actively designed. This requires learning — and then sticking to — the steps in a...
Technographics® UK Mobile Behavioral Tracking Study, Q4 2011
Mobile usage has exploded. To develop effective mobile strategies and succeed in this new customer-obsessed mobile world, companies must understand how consumers are using their mobile phones. While...
Road Map: The Open Innovation Playbook
Co-creation is a key open innovation tool because it helps product strategy professionals create products that meet customers' needs. In order to pursue co-creation, product strategists must have a...
Landscape: The Open Innovation Playbook
According to our most recent survey of product strategy professionals, 62% of all companies are not using social media to interact directly with their customers in order to influence product...
Performance Management: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "What Are The Right Web Customer Experience Success Metrics?" originally published on July 20, 2011. Good website customer experience metrics fulfill two purposes:...
Business Case: The Digital Customer Experience Improvement Playbook
This report is an update to "Web Sites That Don't Support Customers' Goals Waste Millions" originally published on February 17, 2010. To understand the effect of poor website usability, Forrester...
Strategic Plan: The Social Marketing Playbook
We're several years into the social marketing boom, but still many executives are going about social strategy backward: picking technologies like Facebook or Twitter first instead of focusing on what...