
Alyson Clarke
Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
Principal Analyst at Forrester Research specializing in financial services digital innovation and transformation. #fintech
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Predictions 2025: Banks Must Innovate To Reverse The Double Whammy Of Declining CX And Profitability
Oct 23, 2024 |
forrester.com | Alyson Clarke |Indranil Bandyopadhyay |Vijay Raghavan
Banks need to get ready for a major challenge in 2025: a simultaneous decline in customer experience (CX) and worsening profitability. But fear not, because there is a solution to this double whammy: innovation. After a turbulent 2023 marked by three bank failures, we saw more stability in 2024, if not exorbitant returns.
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Oct 7, 2024 |
forrester.com | Max Ball |Pete Jacques |Alyson Clarke
Talk about change!!! As we approach the two-year anniversary of the announcement of OpenAI’s launch of GPT 3.5, conversational AI has been reinvented to incorporate generative AI (genAI) to take advantage of the many ways this technology can make self-service applications smarter.
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Oct 6, 2024 |
forrester.com | Xiaofeng Wang |Leslie Joseph |Alyson Clarke
As an analyst closely observing the martech landscape, I’ve seen CDPs become indispensable for marketers in APAC. My latest report, “The State Of Customer Data Platforms In Asia Pacific, 2024,” found:The popularity of CDP continues to grow in APAC. Rising consumer awareness around data privacy and tighter regulations are pushing marketers to invest in first-party data. Yet, customer data concerns still pose challenges.
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Oct 4, 2024 |
forrester.com | Matthew Selheimer |Eric Zines |Alyson Clarke
In the competitive B2B landscape, above-average growth is a common ambition, yet many businesses fail to achieve this objective. According to Forrester’s State Of Customer Obsession Survey, 2024, 83% of B2B decision-makers set meeting commercial growth targets as a top priority. However, only 24% are outpacing their industry’s average growth. The underlying issue? A misalignment in growth strategies that are too often aspirational, internally focused, and not attuned to customer needs.
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Oct 4, 2024 |
forrester.com | Stephanie Liu |Noel Yuhanna |Alyson Clarke
AI agents are getting a lot of buzz. They featured in Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2024, bagged the keynote spot at Salesforce’s conference, and have allegedly triggered an arms race between OpenAI and big tech companies. What, exactly, are AI agents? Forrester defines AI agents as:General AI systems trained to act invisibly on behalf of an enterprise or individual, performing tasks, making decisions, and interacting with data or other systems autonomously.
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