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After Retail Banking, Now Banks Must Transform Their Corporate Banking
Digital transformation is coming to corporate banking. Corporate banking today is antiquated due to its highly customized and complex product offerings; lack of challengers to drive innovation; and strong barriers to switching for clients. Enterprise clients have lived with a subpar experience for far too long. Now these clients are starting to demand change. They […]
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Why Citi’s $500M Mistake Is Really A Design Debt Interest Payment
Bad user interface design cost Citi $500M in a painful example of how poor UX affects business results. It’s rarely as dramatic as a single $500M incident — at most companies, poor UX causes a steady drumbeat of avoidable mistakes that cost time and money.
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Predictions 2021: CX Leader Webinar
CX will be at the forefront of 2021's greatest challenges. Discover the keys to success.
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New Research: State Of Design Teams — We Need Your Help!
To give you insights on the state of experience design (XD)/user experience (UX) teams, my colleagues and I, who cover design and UX, run an annual survey. In our most recent one, 61% of respondents reported that their design team impacts strategic decisions, for example. And I’m excited to share that our 2020 State Of […]
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Insights-Driven Business Process Outsourcing, Q4 2020
Buyer demand for greater value from insights and technology such as RPA, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics are forcing both classical BPO and omnichannel BPO vendors to retool themselves into insights-driven BPO's.
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UK Banks’ Mobile Apps Have Stalled In Terms Of Functionality
Mobile apps have become the main touchpoint of banking relationships for millions of people and the starting point for many financial decisions and activities. Forrester data shows that 53% of UK online adults have done their banking on a mobile website or app in the past month. And mobile experiences impact business results: A good […]
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European Banks Must Deliver Better User Experience On Their Mobile Apps
Mobile apps have become the main touchpoint of banking relationships for millions of people and the starting point for many financial decisions and activities. Forrester data shows that 52% of Italian and 42% of French online adults have done their banking on a mobile website or app in the past month. And mobile experiences impact […]
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Design For Change: Uncertainty Can Lead To Positive Outcomes
2020 is a year of change. Change affected all of us in similar ways, but our ability to adapt to change varied. Discover how to design process and principles for change and resilience.
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Explore our blog posts, videos, guides, and other resources to understand the dynamics that will shape 2021.
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What Do Your Customers Want For The Holidays? Confidence
Now’s the time to make sure your customers understand whether they’ve found the right product on your site or app, know when they’ll receive their item in time, and know how to easily return the item if it isn’t quite right.
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Introducing Our Inaugural Forrester New Wave™ Evaluation On End-User Experience Management
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Predictions 2021: Trust, Safety, And Inclusion Will Be At The Core Of Customer Experience
In 2021, the pandemic will affect customer experiences and the CX profession even more than it has in 2020, especially in terms of trust, safety, and inclusion. Get a preview of our customer experience predictions for 2021.
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Three Tips for Using Design Thinking in Product Management Activities
Product managers must integrate design thinking into their product commercialization and lifecycle process to foster a customer-focused approach for offerings. Otherwise they risk being too internally focused and out of touch with the market segments they serve. Sam Somashekar shares the top three tips to help integrate design thinking principles into product management activities to ensure commercial success of your products.
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Vast, Fast, And Relentless: The Future Of How People Buy
The way people buy products and services has been evolving rapidly, and the fast and furious pace is only accelerating — sinking some companies while creating immense opportunity for others, new and old. Discover the four forces that will define the next era of consumer buying.
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Still Considering Mobile Experience As A Reduced Web Experience? Wake Up!
As we're reviewing mobile banking apps for our upcoming European Digital Experience Review™ research, there's a noticeable gap between leaders and laggards on both user experience and functionalities offered in-app. The main reason that keeps laggards behind resides in their mobile experience strategy — or, rather, the lack of it.
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Forrester Reviews And Scores US Mobile Banking Apps: What We Learned
For over a decade, Forrester has conducted an annual review of banks’ mobile apps. My colleague Gina Bhawalkar and I recently published our most recent research, in which we evaluated and scored the mobile banking experiences on more than a dozen banking brands’ apps across the US and Canada. In the US, we looked at […]
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Get Smart On CX Teams: An Interview With DoorDash
Anastasia Zdoroviak is senior manager of customer experience (CX) at food delivery technology company DoorDash. We spoke about how the CX team identifies and designs for different user types to orchestrate a seamless customer experience.
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“All Right, You Made Your Point. Now What Do We Do About It?”
On Wednesday, July 15, we’re inviting executives from all companies — large and small, B2B, and B2C — to participate in our inaugural CX Reality Day and test out the real experiences that their brand delivers to customers.
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Like Night And Day: Twitter’s And Apple’s Contrasting Moves On Accessibility
The two companies' recent actions highlight the difference between placing accessibility front and center versus treating it as an afterthought.
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Apple Takes An Inspiring Stand On UX, Privacy, And Diversity At WWDC 2020
Apple revealed major announcements for the new iOS 14 system during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2020. What is coming to the iPhone demonstrates a deep understanding of our behavior and use of our devices in mobility. It also makes a clear statement on privacy and diversity principles. UX Is All About Use In Context […]
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The COVID-19 Crisis Sets The Direction For Europe’s Job Market
The COVID-19 crisis on its own won't fundamentally change the workplace. Yet by accelerating trends such as remote work, workspace virtualization, and automation, the pandemic is transforming the European job market.
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Smart Audio: What Tech Innovations In Sound Will Fuel New Experiences?
Audio experiences are getting an upgrade. We’re used to great audio for music, videos, and calls. Now, many of us talk to virtual assistants on our smartphone and increasingly on smart speakers (clients, see “Forrester Infographic: The State Of Voice Assistants, 2019“). Tech companies are using improved microphones, computing, and artificial intelligence to create conversational […]
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