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Introducing Forrester’s Brand Experience Index — Drive Growth With Both Brand And Customer Experience

Dipanjan Chatterjee January 16, 2025
Enhancing brand and customer experience in tandem has a multiplicative revenue impact. Learn about our new approach for measuring and analyzing the two — and how it can point you toward avenues for growth.
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AI Agents Vs. Agentic AI: Definitions And Use Cases

What It Means 2 days ago
What’s the difference between AI agents and agentic AI? In this episode VP and Principal Analyst Craig Le Clair and Senior Analyst Christina McAllister discuss the nuances of the two and use cases for both.
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Global Technology Spending In 2025 Will Reach $4.9 Trillion With Robust 5.6% Growth

Michael O'Grady 4 days ago
Forrester’s latest global technology market forecast shows robust growth of 5.6% in 2025 driving the market to $4.9 trillion. Learn what’s generating this growth and how to plan for the year ahead.

Gain B2B Marketing Insights At Forrester’s Phoenix Summit!

Do more, see more, and learn more at B2B Summit North America, with new hands-on opportunities to connect with analysts, new research, and new frameworks to manage buyer chaos and align go-to-market teams.

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The Total Experience Awaits At Forrester’s CX Summit 2025

Rick Parrish 4 days ago
Imagine a future where bold brand strategies seamlessly blend with real-world journeys to captivate and delight customers. Explore the tools to create that future at CX Summit North America, the premier gathering of CX, marketing, and digital professionals.
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Will AI Take Your B2B Marketing Job?

Ian Bruce February 7, 2025
Our recent survey of marketing leaders point toward a nuanced reality. Yet it is abundantly clear that AI will change white collar professions.
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How Coach-Like Managers Build Better Teams

What It Means February 6, 2025
What distinguishes a manager from a coach-like leader? This week, Principal Analyst Betsy Summers and VP and Principal Analyst Peter Ostrow explore the evolving role of managers and how adopting coaching behaviors can empower teams for long-term success. They also preview their session on the topic at Forrester’s upcoming B2B Summit North America.

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How Advanced Analytics Can Transform Your CX Practice

Rich Saunders 18 hours ago
Advanced Analytics: The Future Of CX Despite the recent challenges in overall experience quality seen in Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) benchmarks, customer experience (CX) remains a priority for many organizations. Unfortunately, these organizations have struggled to realize tangible benefits from their CX programs. In new research, we discuss key challenges CX programs face […]
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Should Your Organization Adopt An Internal Product Team Approach?

Tony Plec 23 hours ago
Pet adoption is often a high point for many people when creating memories. Do you remember the excitement of bringing home your first pet? The joy of a new furry family member, however, comes with responsibility and preparation. You likely spent hours researching breeds, finding veterinarians, debating names, and preparing your home. Well, adopting an […]

2025 Tech Predictions: Your Must-Have Guide

From AI’s impact to cloud evolution and smarter workflows for the SDLC and AIOps, 2025 is set to be a big year for tech. Download our Predictions guide to see if you’re on track to make the most of these changes.

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Balanced Benefits Give Loyalty Programs A Competitive Advantage

John Pedini 1 day ago
Maximize loyalty program effectiveness with a balanced mix of transactional benefits that offer monetary value and nontransactional benefits that spark more emotional connections.
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AI Product Managers: The Role Of The Future Or Another Tool In Your Toolkit?

Lisa Singer 1 day ago
In the early days of the internet, job opportunities for “internet product managers” began to appear as companies recognized their need for this new technology. As the internet evolved, other roles such as “web product manager” or “digital product manager” became common. While these roles to some extent still exist, having internet experience is now […]
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Why The “AI Agent As Coworker” Narrative Is The Future

Seth Marrs 2 days ago
AI agents have a promising future as innovative coworkers, and their presence is already being felt despite the inflated hype and current limitations.
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The “AI Agent As Coworker” Narrative Is Nonsense

Anthony McPartlin 2 days ago
In this two-part blog series, Principal Analysts Anthony McPartlin and Seth Marrs debate the idea of AI agents as coworkers. Here, Anthony takes a skeptical perspective, while in his blog, Seth (ever the optimist) makes his case for a more positive view of AI agents. An ad campaign has been running on bus shelters across […]
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Be Swift, Be Accurate, Be Empathetic: Three Pillars For Crisis Communications

Karen Tran 2 days ago
The 2024 CrowdStrike software incident reinforced the importance of three key pillars for crisis communications. While CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz issued a specific, fact-based statement within hours of learning that there was a major outage caused by a bad software update, he faced criticism for not immediately offering an apology. Crises are never convenient and […]

Ready For 2025? Discover Key B2B Marketing And Sales Predictions!

Check out our 2025 predictions for B2B CMOs and CSOs! Discover the groundbreaking shifts in AI, product-led growth, buying groups, and digital sales headed your way.

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Voices From The Field: Best Practices In Filtering Sales Communications

Peter Ostrow 2 days ago
This week, Forrester published Introducing The B2B Sales Communications Rules Engine. This new model is designed to help revenue enablement teams better filter all the incoming requests, demands, and downright “noise” that well-meaning colleagues aim at sales and other customer-facing personas. Most sales-adjacent functions such as portfolio marketing and revenue operations, as well as supporting […]
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Is Your Postsale CS Strategy Setting Customers Up To Succeed?

Laura Ramos 2 days ago
Every time you turn around, it looks like someone is taking a shot at customer success (CS). Whether at last year’s SaaStr or elsewhere, more voices have been calling for new approaches to CS — ones that transform CS from cost center to tool for growth. While it’s still early to plan a funeral, CS […]
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Unlocking Go-To-Market Momentum Through Strategic Campaign Alignment

Rani Salehi 2 days ago
Learn how using an integrated campaign framework delivers greater efficiency and impact. And get a preview of how Workday used the Forrester Campaign Framework to improve and accelerate business outcomes.
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The Essential Role Of Process In Executing Your B2B Strategy

Cristina De Martini 3 days ago
Process is not merely a conduit for efficiency; it’s the backbone for converting strategy into results. Without a robust process in place, reaching your goals becomes almost impossible. Learn a four-step method to turning process into a powerful execution tool.
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Go Beyond The MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation To The True Cost Of Alert Volumes

Allie Mellen 3 days ago
MITRE released its latest Enterprise MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations in December of 2024. At that time, we published a blog with a quick overview of the results. Today, we’re excited to announce that we have released three new pieces of research about this round of evaluations.

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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Advertisers Look For Super Growth In Super Bowl LIX

Eric Epstein 3 days ago
Fly, Eagles, fly! I normally prefer competitive Super Bowl games, but this Eagles fan was perfectly happy with a massacre this year. And also — there were ads!
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Episode 391: Practitioner Stories: Creating A CX Change Factory At E&

The CX Cast 3 days ago
In this episode of the CX Cast, Chris Lipman, Chief Customer Officer at E&, returns to discuss the innovative approach E& takes toward CX improvement through their “CX Change Factory.” We discuss:   How does E& identify and prioritize CX issues for resolution?  What role does the “CX Change Factory” play in improving E&’s CX?  […]
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If Process Is So Important, Why Isn’t Process Prioritized?

Laura Cross 4 days ago
In today’s unstable market driven by shifting buyer expectations and AI disruption, strong processes are an organization’s lifeline, ensuring predictability, consistency, and scalability, yet many organizations overlook their importance. Investing in process improvement isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s essential. It boosts innovation, creates competitive differentiation, improves efficiency, cuts waste, and makes an organization agile.
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A Developer At An I&O Vendor Conference

Christopher Condo 4 days ago
Get a detailed look at the capabilities of Dynatrace's new Observability for Developers direct from the Dynatrace Perform event.
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DeepSeek Is Resetting The Bar For AI Infrastructure

Alvin Nguyen 4 days ago
The infrastructure needed for inferencing with DeepSeek's R1 open-source AI model is far less than what its competitors use. Learn six ways this could benefit your organization's AI plans.
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US Tech Spending Defies The Economic Slowdown To Hit $2.7 Trillion In 2025

Michael O'Grady 4 days ago
Despite persistent inflation and a cooling labor market, US tech spending is forecast to grow by 6.1% in the US in 2025 to reach a staggering $2.7 trillion. Find out what’s driving this growth and what tech leaders can expect in 2025.
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Deepfakes Are Here: Here’s What To Do

Merritt Maxim 4 days ago
In the last two years, growing concerns around the proliferation of and advances in deepfakes has raised concerns around their potential to impede adoption of facial and voice biometrics.
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Assessment Is Anyone’s Guess: Proving GOAT Status Requires Validation

Erik Nost 4 days ago
As spectators tuned in to Super Bowl LIX to indulge in American culture rife with consumerism, T. Swift, and rap feuds, the buzz was less around the game and more on determining who is pro football’s GOAT (greatest of all time).
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