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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 things in new ways – not doing new things.” We define mobile as any device with a cellular connection. Could be a […]

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 and innovation are often only available through startup vendors and standalone best-of-breed vendors. Too often, startups are product features, not standalone companies. […]

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 technology they don’t have or that hasn’t been invented yet. They recognize a need to spend at least part of their firm’s time […]

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 now, pay later,” inflated value pricing, or decoy alternatives, marketers have been able to effectively steer or, in some cases, manipulate customers to buy products or […]

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 focus improvement efforts. Watch the video below to understand the role voice of the customer (VoC) programs play to effectively drive CX improvements. […]

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 recruiting costs, lower attrition, higher employee work performance, and increased discretionary effort. The question still remains, though: What elements should businesses focus […]

California is taking the lead in the US on privacy regulation with the adoption of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Security and privacy professionals whose companies have consumers in California must get their implementation plans together now. Those that believe that CCPA is not their problem must think again: This is likely to be […]

The two days of demo sessions are now over, so I wanted to share with you my thoughts on the three themes that dominated FinovateEurope 2019. (Apologies for the plane landing at the end. I’m reporting directly from the venue at Tobacco Dock in East London, close to the City Airport, which has its hazards . […]

2019 is shaping up to be a challenging year. The market may slow, but the pace of disruption won’t. Now isn’t the time to throw in the towel on digital transformation and CX. Instead, build a solid foundation and get ready to come out strong in 2020. Featuring: Carrie Johnson, Chief Research Officer, Keith Johnston, VP, Research Director, Matthew Guarini, VP, Research Director, Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst, J. P. […]

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Lessons From Toy Land: Digital Strategy Beats Digital Marketing Mattel and Hasbro announced earnings this week. Both saw sales decline from the collapse of Toys”R”Us. But Mattel’s sales declined only 5% while Hasbro’s declined 13%, and Wall Street applauded the difference. Why? Because Mattel has been aggressively pursuing a digital products and channels strategy, extending […]

Digital Disruptions Complicate Digital Intelligence Needs Digital intelligence (DI) — the practice of understanding and optimizing digital customer engagements — has been around for as long as the internet itself. But it has not remained stagnant. The practices and technologies needed to support DI have continued to be revolutionized by the digital disruption. And the number of […]

Automation and AI increasingly handle routine tasks. Customer service agents already focus on escalations and exceptions. They need a powerful workspace to empower them to understand their customer, their journey, and their context. They also need to be armed with the right knowledge and data to help solve hard problems. They need to be focused on […]

Now that Apple supports the progressive web app (PWA) standards that Google pioneered, it’s time to join organizations such as eBay, Financial Times, Flipkart, Starbucks, and West Elm in the movement to build progressive web apps that combine the discoverability and reach of the web with the experience and engagement of an app. As a […]

Back in August of last year, I asked for good examples of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality, and mixed reality (MR), all together known as extended reality. Unsurprisingly, I saw plenty of examples of the type my original post complained about: visually stunning but almost entirely useless for anything other than showing off. Then there […]