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Can AI Help Prove CX ROI?
Perhaps the biggest challenge CX leaders have is proving the value of CX. Can AI help? Principal Analyst Pete Jacques thinks so and joins the podcast to explain how AI can help CX leaders prove ROI.
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CX, Customer Success, And Marketing Together At B2B Summit
It’s time B2B organizations get our full attention! VP, Research Director Dave Frankland gives a survey of the research that will be showcased at Forrester’s B2B Summit, diving into insights shared on orchestrating comprehensive buyer and customer experiences.
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Mainframe Myth Busting
If you think mainframes are dying or dead, this is the podcast episode for you. Senior Analyst Brent Ellis shares new data and insights on the current state and future of mainframes.
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349: CX Capability-Building And Activity-Tracking
CX teams can take many paths to grow their capabilities and influence. Figuring out where to start and what’s most important can be paralyzing. Senior Analysts Su Doyle and AJ Joplin developed tools to help clients reconnect with their purpose as CX teams and plan a path forward. Featuring: Su Doyle, Sr Analyst AJ Joplin, […]
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Why It’s Time To Transform Your B2B Revenue Process
Many B2B companies’ revenue processes lack a key ingredient: customer value. Without it, efforts to grow will ultimately falter. This week on What It Means, Principal Analysts Amy Hawthorne and Rick Bradberry discuss how companies can begin transforming their revenue processes to better serve customers.
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348: Design For Empathy
Demonstrating empathy in digital experiences helps brands build trust and loyalty, yet many brands struggle to reflect customer understanding in the experiences they create and miss out on opportunities to make customers feel heard and understood. Forrester Analyst Senem Biyikli and Principal Analyst Gina Bhawalkar offer best practices to design for empathy. Featuring: Gina Bhawalkar, […]
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Are You A Better Manager Than A Bot?
After years of underinvestment in management training, the era of AI brings an intriguing question: Can human managers be replaced by AI? Vice President and Principal Analyst Katy Tynan joins the podcast to provide her perspective.
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347: How To Prioritize Customer Journeys
You’ve identified dozens of journeys and hundreds of moments of truth that matter to your customers. But where do you start your journey mapping, journey measurement and journey improvement actions? How do you prioritize where you will drive the most impact? Forrester VP and Principal Analysts Maxie Schmidt and Joana de Quintanilha join us to […]
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How Marketers Can Take GenAI From Pilot Projects To Proficiency
As the hype surrounding generative AI yields to pragmatism, how can marketers take their genAI efforts from experimentation to excellence? VP and Principal Analyst Jay Pattisall and Principal Analyst Lisa Gately share advice on this week’s episode of What It Means.
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346: Journey Centricity At E.ON: Part 2
In our second episode showcasing E.ON’s journey toward customer centricity, we talk to Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Joana de Quintanilha and Keith Fletcher, International Customer Experience Manager at E.ON, to examine the inner workings of journeys at E.ON.
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Managing Well In A Hybrid-Work World
Hybrid work is now the norm for many office jobs, but management styles haven’t quite caught up, says Senior Analyst Angelina Gennis. On this week’s podcast episode, she explains what it means to manage well in a post-pandemic work world.
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345: Journey Centricity At E.ON: Part 1
Since 2008, E.ON has been on a path to use journeys, not processes, as the building blocks for sustainable growth. Its customer journeys are key to giving over 47 million customers access to a sustainable supply of electricity and heat, with the aim of becoming climate neutral by 2040. Effectively leading a journey-centric transformation requires pulling six operational levers — structure, culture, talent, metrics, processes, and technology — in concert. In today’s episode, we talk to Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Joana de Quintanilha and Keith Fletcher, International Customer Experience Manager at E.ON, about E.ON's journey with journey centricity.
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What Human And Technical Skills Will Matter Most To B2B Marketers?
What skills and competencies will B2B marketers need most to succeed in the future? In this episode, Principal Analyst Naomi Marr and VP and Principal Analyst Katy Tynan discuss what’s driving the need for new technical and human skills and how to close the gap.
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344: Scale Your CX Measurement Program
Most large organizations operate across lines of business, products, segments, brands, and/or countries. CX leaders who want to scale their CX measurement program across such an organization must balance the need for efficient and consistent CX measurement with an appropriate level of autonomy for organizational units. VP and Principal Analyst Maxie Schmidt answers common questions on scaling measurement management programs, illustrated through case studies.
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Will Digital Agencies Disappear?
As all marketing becomes digital marketing, the need for specialized digital agencies will shrink. What’s in store for the agency landscape, agency jobs, and the marketers who work with agencies? VP and Principal Analyst Jay Pattisall weighs in on this week’s podcast episode.
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343: Demystifying Generative AI
What do CX pros need to know about the promises and perils of generative AI? Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Martha Bennett explains the statistical complexity in layman’s terms and offers recent CX examples to illustrate the new paradigm.
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What Motivates B2B Customers To Become Advocates?
Customer advocacy initiatives often leave a key question unanswered: How do customers benefit? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Principal Analysts Laura Ramos and Amy Bills explain how B2B companies can get more value from customer advocacy by understanding what motivates customers to participate.
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The Trust Advantage For B2B Firms
Trust is paramount in high-stakes B2B buying relationships. How can B2B companies build and maintain trust among buyers? VP and Principal Analyst Ian Bruce explains on this episode of What It Means.
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342: What CX Leaders Need To Know About RevOps
Revenue operations teams and CX teams have overlapping interests when it comes to understanding the customer and improving the buying experience. Principal Analyst Anthony McPartlin gives us an initial overview of RevOps, revealing some exciting opportunities for both functions to be stronger together.
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Is Too Much Tech Overburdening Clinicians?
How is the growing disconnect between tech leaders and clinicians contributing to burnout? Find out as Senior Analyst Shannon Germain Farraher explores the current and future state of technology in clinical settings.
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