Introducing Forrester’s Guide To Employee Experience Technology
Employee experience (EX) is top of mind for today’s companies. As we detailed in our report “Why EX? Why Now?” investments in EX yield both tangible and intangible business results such as reduced...
View ArticleIn The Era Of Shutdowns, Federal Agencies Can Reinvent Citizen (And Employee)...
Never let a serious crisis go to waste! Senior government executives would be wise to listen to Winston Churchill’s wisdom! We’re living in the era of shutdowns, when funding disruption is the norm. To...
View ArticlePrepare For Blockchain’s Impact On The Telecommunications Sector
Blockchain offers telcos opportunities for new business, improved compliance, and efficient operations.
View ArticleSmall Business Banking Has Been Disrupted (And There’s No Going Back)
Bankers around the world are rightly worried about the threats posed by digital disruptors getting in between them and their retail banking customers. But Forrester’s newest research reveals that...
View ArticleHow To Build A VoC Program In Healthcare
There is a customer experience (CX) imperative taking over in healthcare. To drive success, healthcare organizations (HCOs) must be able to understand how good — or bad — experiences are and where to...
View ArticleThe Use Of Behavioral Science Has Moved Beyond Marketing
Marketers have been using behavioral economics to understand and exploit the irrationality of consumers long before the golden age of advertising. By employing simple marketing tactics such as “buy...
View ArticleFORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
A Road Map To Lose Your Technology Mandate CIOs have historically run technology innovation efforts, but that may be changing. We find CEOs understand that the future of their business depends on...
View ArticleBig Fish Eat Little Fish As Portfolio Players Gobble Up SAO
Security has long been hampered by a deluge of data, manual processes, and vendor sprawl. Technology has evolved to address the first two of these, but expense in depth continues as new functionality...
View ArticleCalling CEOs: Your Software Teams Need You — Now
Our research indicates that software delivery success depends on the CEO’s active leadership of strategy, culture, and metrics. That’s right: CEOs, not just CIOs. This video explains what CEOs should...
View ArticleIf mCommerce Isn’t Mini eCommerce, What Is It?
mCommerce today is often characterized as online purchases made on a smartphone or mobile payments (e.g., Apple Pay or Google Pay). As our colleague James McQuivey would say, that is simply doing old...
View ArticleDTC Startups Signal An Age Of Experimentation
As we gear up for Forrester’s Consumer Marketing 2019 Forum, I’m chipping away at a rather large research undertaking that quantifies why direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups deliver value to consumers...
View ArticleEmbrace Specialist Tools To Drive Sustainable Innovation
Successful tools and tech support broad and fluctuating levels of participation in innovation, both inside and outside the organization.
View ArticleDigital Out-Of-Home Advertising: Not Your Grandmother’s Roadside Billboards
(Dave Novitzky contributed to this blog) It’s January, snowy, unbearably cold, and to make matters worse, a Monday. You’re trying to make it to the weekend so you don’t need to go outside . . . until...
View ArticleModern (B2B) Love: Deepen Customer Relationships With Post-Sale Engagement...
Ah yes, anyone suffering from a chocolate hangover? Or an excess of corny romanticism? Let’s face it, we all love “love” — but with Valentine’s Day a week behind us, the last thing you probably want...
View ArticleShopping For AI Talent? Beware Of Unicorns
At the dawn of big data, data scientists were the unicorn of the hour. Talk to any one of these rarities, and they would say there were only about 100 of them in the world. When executives woke up to...
View ArticleHow Ping An Insurance Embraced Digital To Rewrite Its Business
As my colleague Ted Schadler stated (and I agree), digital transformation is in a sorry state. The term “digital transformation” has been constantly mentioned over the past few years, even becoming...
View ArticleInnovation Platforms — Not Software-Only
Every enterprise should be using an innovation platform to help track, drive, and evaluate its innovation efforts. However, do not limit this effort to an innovation management software solution. As...
View ArticleForrester’s Top Customer Experience Research Findings Of 2018
Forrester’s customer experience (CX) research team published more than 100 reports in 2018. I just released a report that pulls together our most important CX findings from those publications and...
View ArticleJust Published — The Forrester Retail Wave™: US Mobile Apps, Q1 2019
Today’s Retail Apps Meet mCommerce Purpose But Fail To Inspire Omnichannel Shopping (Brendan Miller and Madeline King) The Forrester Industry Wave™ evaluates digital experiences of firms; they...
View ArticleFORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
Are We Running Out Of Ideas? As the pace of disruption accelerates, there is an increasingly important focus being put on innovation. Now along comes some work published in the MIT Technology Review...
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