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2025: The Digital Banking Landscape Is Poised For Another Transformative Year

Aurelie L'Hostis 19 hours ago
Leading banks are leveraging mature and emerging technologies, customer insights, and data to enhance customer experience, increase customer engagement, and drive business growth.
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Upgrade Your Sales Game: Three Key Takeaways From Forrester’s Review Of 13 North American Investing Sales Websites

Sohm Gough 21 hours ago
Get three key takeaways from Forrester’s recent review of North American investing sales websites in this preview of a new report.
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The 2025 NRF Innovators: 50 Tech Solutions Solving Retail Problems

Sucharita Kodali 5 days ago
Which technologies made the list of 2025 NRF Innovators and what sets them apart? Find out this in this preview of a new report created in partnership with the National Retail Federation Innovation Advisory Committee.
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Key Insights From The Forrester Wave™: Experience Optimization Solutions, Q4 2024

Chiara De Gasperin 5 days ago
Adding or improving digital experience is a top priority for organizations looking to improve their customer experience. Learn how experience optimization solutions can help do this by ingesting and analyzing data to generate insights and deliver personalized digital experiences.
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Look For These Five Brand And Customer Experience Themes At CES 2025

Dipanjan Chatterjee January 2, 2025
CES 2025 will be defined by five brand and customer experience themes ranging from brands searching for salience to companies finding realistic and pragmatic applications for AI-fueled experiences. Find out what to expect at CES 2025 in this preview.
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Encore Presentation: How Should Business And Tech Leaders Spend In 2025?

What It Means January 2, 2025
Business and tech leaders expect (slightly) bigger budgets this year. How should they use them? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Group Research Directors Stephanie Balaouras, Keith Johnston, and Srividya Sridharan dive into Forrester’s Budget Planning Guides’ recommendations for tech, marketing and sales, and customer experience (CX) leaders.
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Prédictions 2025

Thomas Husson December 17, 2024
Chaque année, depuis maintenant une vingtaine d’année, je partage une synthèse des prévisions que Forrester anticipe pour l’année qui vient. Début 2024, j’avais partagé une dizaine de prévisions ici sur ce même blog et ma collègue Sharyn Leaver – Chief Research Officer @Forrester – a analysé la pertinence de nos prévisions en revenant de manière […]

Jan. 16: B2C Marketing & CX Predictions Webinar

Join our analysts for a live webinar to explore the impact of our 2025 predictions on your B2C marketing and CX strategy — from customer growth and privacy to loyalty and tech stacks.

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Build The Right Chatbot Business Case

Max Ball December 12, 2024
Most companies make the wrong business case for their chatbot. Here’s how to make the right one.
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Capitalize On A CRM Strategy That Leverages Top Emerging Technologies

Kate Leggett December 5, 2024
Close to 70% of organizations plan to increase their CRM investments over the next year. Learn more about the the impact emerging technologies are having on CRM performance and adoption across three benefit horizons.
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The Automation Paradox Strikes Again: Lessons From Woolworths “Amazon Era” Productivity Play

Riccardo Pasto December 5, 2024
Recent worker strikes at Woolworths’ distribution centers in Australia have reignited concerns over the use of AI-powered productivity systems in the workplace.
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Is Your Bank Ready For What’s Next In Mobile?

Peter Wannemacher December 4, 2024
Our newly published research into people’s mobile banking needs, expectations, and behaviors surfaced 10 emerging must-have features and 10 emerging differentiators in mobile banking experiences.
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Customer Marketers: Be Ambitious But Not Careless

Amy Bills December 2, 2024
A whopping 86% of customer marketers say their team has too many competing priorities. Get three tips on how to prioritize without creating unnecessary friction with other functions.

How Will 2025 B2C Trends Shape Your Strategy?

Prepare for the future with our 2025 predictions for B2C marketing and CX leaders. Learn how to refine your strategies for AI, tech stacks, loyalty programs, frontline agents, TikTok, and more.

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CX Isn’t A “Project”: Lessons from Forrester’s 2024 Customer Obsession Awards EMEA

Maxie Schmidt November 29, 2024
Projects end, but placing customers at the center of your business' strategy, operations, and leadership requires continuous commitment. The winners of this year's Customer Obsession Awards for EMEA provide some valuable takeaways.
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School’s In Session — Five Lessons Learned From The Forrester Wave™: Customer Experience Strategy Consulting Services, Q4 2024

Judy Weader November 26, 2024
Get the five key lessons learned about customer experience strategy consulting services in this preview of our new Wave report.
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How To Reconcile Your Key CX Metrics: rNPS vs. tNPS

Pete Jacques November 21, 2024
Are you prepared to explain to your leaders and business partners why the organization’s relationship metric is lower than transactional NPS scores? Get insight on how to communicate the value of each in this blog.
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Choose A Cross-Channel Marketing Hub That Amplifies Your Customer Obsession Strategy

Rusty Warner November 18, 2024
An effective cross-channel marketing hub (CCMH) can position marketing as an indispensable component of an organization’s customer-obsessed growth engine. Think of your CCMH as much more than a campaign management platform. Instead, leverage it for next-gen customer engagement based on compelling, contextually relevant experiences. Forrester defines a CCMH as: Enterprise marketing technology that supports customer data management, […]
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It’s Not You, It’s Me — And Other Findings From The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management Solutions, Q4 2024

Colleen Fazio November 18, 2024
At the risk of dating myself, I’m a proud member of Gen X. So, perhaps I can be forgiven for channeling Jerry Maguire and George Constanza when I think about the key takeaways from the latest Forrester Wave™ evaluation of customer feedback management (CFM) solutions. My conversations with the customer references for the nine vendors […]

Revive Your CX Outcomes With Strategic 2025 Budget Planning

Watch our 2025 budget planning webinar to learn where to prioritize your budget allocations to reverse CX declines and bolster core competencies.

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Bring The Voice Of People With Disabilities Into Your VoC Program

Gina Bhawalkar November 14, 2024
Most organizations lack one of the most critical elements of an accessibility program: direct feedback from people with disabilities. If you’re leading accessibility work, learn the benefits of collaborating with with your organization’s voice-of-the-customer (VoC) team.
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Better Your Brand Measurement With These Best-In-Class Providers

Dipanjan Chatterjee November 12, 2024
If you’re looking to implement a new program or fine-tune your existing brand measurement, we have both bad news and good news for you. Learn what it is and how Forrester's new landscape can help.
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Fueling The Consumer’s Healthcare Journey — Focusing On Ease And Individualized Care Will Accelerate Trust

Shannon Germain Farraher November 8, 2024
Opaque experiences and complex jargon have eroded consumer confidence and incentivized some to leave brands behind. Consumers will choose healthcare organizations that emphasize their needs and that increasingly gather and rely on their feedback to deliver value.
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