Forrester Podcasts

Forrester podcasts provide a unique opportunity to hear directly from the analysts who work with clients to tackle their most pressing business and IT challenges. Subscribe to the What It Means podcast to hear interviews on topics such as enterprise technology, marketing, EX, and more. And check out the CX Cast to hear a weekly conversation about customer experience best practices and strategies.

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What It Means: A Forrester Podcast

What It Means is currently on hiatus. In the meantime, we’re re‑airing some of the most popular episodes from our archive — conversations with Forrester analysts that explore key trends and challenges shaping how business and technology leaders make decisions and stay customer obsessed. We hope you enjoy these classic conversations.

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Are You A Better Manager Than A Bot?

What It Means May 21, 2026
This is a recently recorded classic that asked a question many leaders are now living with. As AI tools become part of day-to-day management, this conversation clarifies where AI can help and where human judgment still makes the difference. We hope you enjoy this episode.
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Put Employees At The Center Of Your AI Strategy

What It Means May 7, 2026
This episode was recorded previously, but it has aged exceptionally well. As AI becomes embedded in everyday work, the reminder that success depends on people, not just technology, is even more important now than when we first recorded it. We hope you enjoy this episode.
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Get Your AI Aligned

What It Means April 23, 2026
This is a classic episode recorded earlier in our AI journey, but its core idea has only grown more relevant. As organizations move from experimenting with AI to running it at scale, the need to align AI by design has become a business imperative. We hope you enjoy this episode.
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How Can B2B Marketers Adapt To Changing Search Behaviors?

What It Means April 9, 2026
We recorded this episode earlier, but its insights have only sharpened with time. As AI reshapes how buyers discover information and conversations continue at Forrester’s B2B Summit event, this episode offers timely perspective on what marketers must rethink. We hope you enjoy this episode.

The CX Cast

Research-based guidance on how to manage customer experience (CX) at any organization — an imperative that Forrester has been researching for over 20 years. Each week, Forrester analysts discuss key findings from their latest research on CX; analyze relevant topics in the news; or chat with CX professionals about how they’ve overcome prevalent challenges managing CX in their organizations.

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463: Distrust In The Age Of AI

The CX Cast 4 days ago
In this episode, Martin Gill and Angelina Gennis welcome Enza Iannopollo — VP, principal analyst — to discuss new research on trust, responsible AI, and what businesses must do to earn customer confidence. Drawing on fresh European consumer data, they explore why distrust has become the default response to AI and how organizations can build experiences that customers are willing to trust. The conversation introduces four distinct consumer groups, from AI distrusters to embracers, and explains how different customers evaluate AI-enabled experiences. The discussion also examines the foundations of responsible AI, including transparency, accountability, fairness, privacy, security, reliability, and human oversight.
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462: Use Cases For AI In Experience Research

The CX Cast August 27, 2026
AI moderators promise to make qualitative research faster and more scalable, but where do they fit in the research process? Senem Biyikli joins Martin Gill and Angelina Gennis to explain how AI-moderated interviews work, when they deliver value, and why human researchers remain essential. The discussion covers practical use cases, implementation guidance, participant trust, and the future of AI-powered customer research.
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461: Practitioner Stories: How Michelle Samuel Built Momentum in Her First Year at Nationwide

The CX Cast August 20, 2026
Many organizations collect customer feedback. Far fewer consistently turn it into action and measurable business results. Angelina Gennis speaks with Michelle Samuel, Chief Customer Officer at Nationwide, about building a customer-driven operating model inside a 100-year-old mutual company. Michelle shares how her first 90 days focused on listening, alignment, and capability assessment, and how those […]
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460: CX Cast Replay – How Fujitsu Europe Scaled CX Transformation

The CX Cast August 13, 2026
This week on the CX Cast we dig into our archives to bring you an episode that’s stood the test of time. Fujitsu is a global B2B technology and services company, and Europe is its largest region outside of Japan. To double down on customer centricity, Fujitsu Europe focused on four success factors: Blending CX […]