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Total Experience Score, 2026: Growth Breaks When Experiences Fragment

Keith Johnston 3 days ago
The brands pulling ahead aren’t optimizing brand, customer, and employee experience in isolation — they’re aligning them into a system that drives measurable growth. Forrester’s 2026 global Total Experience Score and research show that when promise, delivery, and the people behind both move in sync, companies build strong, sustainable momentum.
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OpenAI’s Proposed IPO Opens A Trifecta Of Opportunities For It, But Don’t Lock In Just Yet

Mike Gualtieri 24 hours ago
OpenAI’s IPO move, paired with its latest manifesto, highlights a race to win consumers, automate enterprises, and advance toward AGI. For business and technology leaders, the implication is clear: Accelerate AI adoption, avoid lock-in, and focus on capabilities, not vendors, as the competitive landscape shifts.
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Your AI Bill Is A Context Problem

Frederic Giron 1 day ago
AI cost controls are solving the wrong problem. The real challenge is context debt—and until organizations manage it, spend will rise faster than value.

Your Buyers Use AI Search — Here’s How To Stay Visible

Ninety-four percent of B2B buyers now use AI in purchasing, making traditional SEO outdated. Discover how answer engine optimization (AEO) can help your content stand out in a zero-click, AI-driven world.

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Forrester’s EX Index Completes The Total Experience Picture

David Johnson 3 days ago
Most organizations manage employee, customer, and brand experience in silos, obscuring how they connect to influence business outcomes. Forrester’s new EX Index reveals how employee experience shapes brand equity, customer loyalty, and growth.
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Have We Turned The Corner On CX Quality?

Pete Jacques 3 days ago
While North America shows early signs of recovery following the last few years of decline, the picture elsewhere remains less clear. Read the main takeaways from our 2026 global Customer Experience Index rankings.
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A New Case For B2B Review Sites Has Entered The Chat

Amy Bills 3 days ago
B2B review sites have long been part of the B2B marketing toolkit. Now, review-site relationships have taken on another use case: answer engine optimization.

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Healthcare and Life Sciences: Turning AI Momentum Into Lasting Value

39 minutes ago
Healthcare and life science (HCL) firms are moving fast on AI – much faster than expected. But so are consumers. From domain-specific AI tools to enterprise-wide ambient technology integration, accelerating drug discovery, and connecting medical records and health apps for a more personalized experience – the momentum is real. The promise is also real: AI […]
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How To Build A Loyalty Team That Scales With Your Program

John Pedini 3 hours ago
Brands continue to see the value in developing deeper relationships with their customers through loyalty initiatives, but investment typically flow towards technology, rewards, and promotions with less focus on what drives differentiated experiences, personalized engagements, and emotional loyalty. This isn’t surprising given that loyalty is both an art and a science, and it’s much easier […]
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452: Redesigning The B2B Enterprise For CX Led Growth At Expereo

The CX Cast 10 hours ago
Enterprise CX transformation rarely starts with journey maps or dashboards. It starts with fixing real problems fast. In this episode of CX Cast, Angelina Gennis and Martin Gill speak with Amory Somers‑Vine, Customer Experience Director at Expereo, about leading customer‑centric change during a major B2B business model shift—from wholesale network services to enterprise partnerships. Amory […]
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Align B2B Marketing Teams To Thrive In A Buyer-Centric World

Nora Conklin 11 hours ago
In today’s fast-evolving B2B landscape, marketing and sales teams face mounting challenges as buyers become more self-directed, technology reshapes workflows, and market volatility accelerates. For B2B organizations, aligning marketing and sales has always been a critical priority — but achieving that alignment is more essential today than ever before. Teams often fall into the trap […]
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Retention-As-A-Service Is An Intriguing Idea — Here’s What It Actually Means

Shari Srebnick 1 day ago
At Gainsight’s Pulse conference last month, CEO Chuck Ganapathi shared a question he said every customer-facing leader is hearing from their board: How do I use AI to drive higher retention? That framing was intentional, and it wasn’t set up to be a product announcement; it was a positioning statement for the company. And it set the stage for everything that followed. The company introduced a brand-new focus at […]
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Customer Success And Customer Experience: The Difference Is More Than Semantic

Shari Srebnick 1 day ago
Customer success (CS) and customer experience (CX) are often discussed interchangeably, and for good reason. Both exist to improve customer outcomes, and both play essential roles across the customer lifecycle — but they are not interchangeable. Much like a paramedic and an ER physician, CS and CX contribute at different moments and with different tools […]
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How Fable 5 And Mythos 5 Change AI Security, Data Retention, And Vendor Risk

Jeff Pollard 1 day ago
Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is the most 2026 product launch you’ll read this year. The same model can find nation-state zero days, design novel drug candidates, and play FireRed on a Gameboy Advance with nothing but screenshots. And for the gaming fans out there, yes, we got Fable 5 before Fable 4. These […]
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Announcing Forrester’s Top Cybersecurity Threats For 2026

Jitin Shabadu 1 day ago
AI innovation is moving at an unprecedented rate, and geopolitical tensions show no signs of easing. Forrester identifies these factors as two primary forces reshaping the threat landscape, placing additional strain on CISOs who are already stretched thin managing increasingly complex security programs. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing are early signals of how […]
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Build The Human Foundations Before You Scale AI

Martin Gill 1 day ago
CX Summit EMEA explored the real AI opportunity: building trust, strengthening foundations, and reimagining experiences — not just making them more efficient.
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The CLM Market Has A Messaging Problem, Not A Capability Problem

Alla Valente 2 days ago
If you’ve ever tried to meet someone “at Ray’s Pizzeria” in Manhattan, you already understand the contract lifecycle management (CLM) market. “Original Ray’s.” “Famous Ray’s.” “World Famous Original Ray’s.” Same name, similar awning, very different experience. That’s CLM right now: Vendors sound alike, but they’re not built alike. Diverse Functionality, Copy-Paste Claims Every vendor is […]
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Reimagining Client Experience Through AI-Powered Product Innovation

Andrew McCauley 2 days ago
Generative AI has moved beyond hype to fundamentally reshape how work gets done. See how Forrester is applying AI to its own business — embedding trusted insights into everyday workflows to help clients make faster, better decisions with confidence.
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What Matters Most For Banks Buying Enterprise Fraud Management Solutions In APAC, 2026

Meng Liu 2 days ago
Real-time fraud decisioning is now table stakes for enterprise fraud management (EFM) in Asia Pacific. The harder challenge is finding an EFM solution that can keep pace with each organization’s operating model, regulatory obligations, and market-specific complexity. How organizational profiles affect banks’ EFM solution choice In our latest report, Buyers’ Guide For Enterprise Fraud Management […]

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Digital Commerce Has Moved On — Many Retail Websites Have Not

Emily Pfeiffer 3 days ago
Our new report, Death Of The Retail Website As We Know It (Agentic Commerce Transforms Retail Strategy), takes you deeper into our findings. Forrester clients: Register for our webinar on June 30 or watch the replay!   Retail websites are being sidelined by something that is more conversational and better aligned to how people want […]
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Autonomous Malware Is No Longer Theoretical: AI Worm Proof Of Concept Created In A Lab

Jitin Shabadu 3 days ago
On June 2, 2026, security researchers published a paper about the creation of an AI worm. The headline is as subtle as a fire alarm: This lab experiment of a worm is no longer just code that blindly crawls across your environment; it leverages AI models and can now reason, execute, and learn in complete […]
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Highlights From UserTesting’s Crafted 2026: Build Fast, Build Right

Senem Guler Biyikli 3 days ago
On May 28, we joined the research community at UserTesting’s Crafted event in Seattle. The energy was palpable, with passionate researchers and designers eager to evolve their craft responsibly and effectively in the age of AI. A clear takeaway of the event was that building fast doesn’t matter if you’re not building the right thing. As AI makes creation easier, decisions […]
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Agentic Software Development Takes The Lead: From Code Assistants To Orchestrated SDLC Agents

Diego Lo Giudice 3 days ago
So far in 2026, software development has already crossed a clear threshold. GenAI is no longer just helping developers to write code faster; it is reshaping how software is planned, built, tested, and delivered. Forrester’s recent report on The State Of Agentic Software Development, 2026 shows that TuringBots are now becoming agentic, not just AI […]
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Money20/20 Europe 2026: Intelligent Finance Takes Shape

Aurelie L'Hostis 3 days ago
Money20/20 Europe 2026 reveals how agentic AI, programmable money, and trust are reshaping finance into an intelligent, AI‑driven ecosystem.
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Forrester’s 2026 BX Index™ Rankings: North American Brands Make Gains; Europe And Asia Are More Constrained

Dipanjan Chatterjee 3 days ago
Forrester’s 2026 Brand Experience Index reveals where brand perception is strengthening and where it’s stalling. Read about the high-level shifts across regions and industries this year.
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What AI Really Means For Design (No, You Shouldn’t Fire Your Designers)

Gina Bhawalkar 3 days ago
Learn how AI is transforming — not replacing — human-centered design, accelerating workflows, and helping teams deliver better customer experiences.
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Developer Relations Is Not (Just) Marketing

Andrew Cornwall 6 days ago
If you’ve got a product that’s aimed at developers but consider developer relations as solely a marketing function, you’re making a mistake. You might find: Competitors appear to have insights that your marketing team misses. Your products lack key features compared to others on the market while you spend time building things that your metrics […]
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