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Recently, I attended Rosenfeld Media’s Enterprise Experience conference as an input to research I’m conducting about enterprise user experience (UX). My three top takeaways about how to improve UX for employees: Use Sense-Making To Bring Order To Chaos Tatyana Mamut, Nextdoor’s chief product officer, captured a widespread sentiment at the event about the importance of […]

As the saying goes, if we waste now, we might want it later and regret the waste. Well, it’s even worse than that in the global food system. We waste now, and we want it at the same time. One of the paradoxes around food is that we have both too much and too little […]

Based on the many press inquiries we’ve received at Forrester, the industry is keen on predicting Facebook, Inc.’s immediate demise. (Note: Facebook, Inc. is inclusive of the Facebook app, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and its other apps, services, and hardware. We simplify and call it “Facebook” for the purposes of our research.) But not so fast. […]

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptors are storming onto the scene and growing at a rapid clip, proving that the improbable can become reality overnight: Few expected that buying mattresses out of a box or discovering personal eyewear styles from the comforts of home would become commonplace consumer behaviors, let alone business model blueprints with skyrocketing valuations. DTC […]

Welcome to this episode of FORR in 3. In this video, Amanda LeClair and I discuss whether digital maturity matters, based on our survey of almost 800 enterprises in North America and Europe. (Spoiler alert: It does matter.) For example, unlike digital beginners, which often pursue initiatives in an uncoordinated way, advanced firms treat technology […]

Business leaders in the financial services (FS) industry are used to tracking success with measures that reflect shareholder, investor and market regulator values like return on equity, net profit, assets under management and capital adequacy ratio. This is the ‘money story’. However, most don’t always know how these important measures are affected by customer experience (CX) and customer engagement, or the ‘customer story’.

As you heard from us at last month’s Digital Transformation & Innovation 2019 Forum, all your innovation investments and efforts should be focused on addressing customer experience needs and challenges. For nearly every industry, a key aspect of this is proactively addressing any health issues or risks your customers face or may encounter in the […]

Woohoo! We just published “The Forrester New Wave™: B2B Customer Data Platforms, Q2 2019” report, which profiles the 13 most significant vendors in this market: Arm Treasure Data, BlueVenn, CaliberMind, Celebrus, Dun & Bradstreet, Evergage, FirstHive, Lattice Engines, Leadspace, Lytics, Radius Intelligence, Tealium, and Zylotech. Based on our comprehensive criteria, Forrester’s take is that Lattice […]

Virtual care is about to hit a major tipping point — in 2020, investments in virtual care are expected to outpace those in traditional care delivery. While the virtual care market continues to mature, healthcare organizations (HCOs) must develop an enterprisewide strategy to support comprehensive virtual care deployment. We identified three key observations that should […]

Yesterday, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) announced its intent to acquire Lattice Engines. Both of us have covered these companies from a number of different perspectives, and we agree that the move makes sense for two primary reasons. First, adding advanced analytics and data management capabilities from Lattice accelerates D&B’s evolution into a comprehensive data platform […]

Enterprises have heard their employees’ calls for increased flexibility, and now more than 25% of US information workers work from home at least weekly. But with subpar technology solutions and little face-to-face interaction, home or remote workers end up frustrated and out of the loop. Video provides a platform to engage, train, and communicate effectively […]

Healthcare organizations (HCOs), once cloud laggards, are embracing public and private cloud services to address a wide range of business problems. A recent survey revealed that 76 percent of HCOs anticipate using public cloud services within the year, putting public cloud vendors on pace to be the most popular cloud services providers in healthcare. Why? […]

The Dark Web Is Nothing Fancy; It’s Really Just A Different Series Of Protocols Commonly when surfing the web, Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the cryptographic protocol that provides confidentiality for your communication with the server. The green lock on your URL bar is an assurance, but not a guarantee, that you’re communicating confidentially with […]

CX4Gov starts with a simple premise: Put people, and their experiences, first. Regardless of your agency’s mission, it’s people (your employees) that get things done and people (your customers) that you serve.

I’m excited to share that our evaluation of data management platforms — “The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2019” — is now live. In our 34-criterion evaluation, we identified the top seven DMP vendors — The ADEX, Adobe, Lotame, Neustar, Nielsen, Oracle, and Salesforce — and racked and stacked them on current offering, strategy, […]

Digital leaders tell us that they often struggle to find the right people with the right skills, and competition for elite talent is fierce. As their firms become more advanced in their digital journeys — embracing new technology and evolving their business models — the skills and talent they need to execute on that become […]

Maybe I’ve been in the software world for too long. Or maybe I’m a product of my earlier years. You might remember the old Russian proverb, “Doveryai, no proveryai,” which President Reagan made famous in the context of nuclear disarmament. Translated: “Trust, but verify.” Either way, I’m curious about a lot of things, question everything, […]

A few days ago, I delivered a Forrester webinar on external data: why you need it, how best to find it, and how to effectively buy it. Take a look at the replay: WEBINAR: Think You’re Doing Data Sourcing Right? Think Again The premise of the research (and the webinar) is as follows: Decision makers […]

(Jeremy Vale and Paolo Santamaria contributed to this post.) This month’s Insights Beat focuses on the latest research in our insights-driven playbook; showcases multiple data, analytics, and machine-learning vendor evaluations; and shines a light on B2B analytics techniques. Is Your Data Strategy Lacking? Time To Sound The Alarm In order to compete in the age of […]