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Understanding Information Worker Smartphone Usage
Emerging Smartphone Use By Information Workers Opens Doors For Vendors
November 20, 2009 , 17 pages
by Michele Pelino
Understanding how information workers use smartphones and applications enables marketing executives across the mobile value chain to successfully develop products and services to address the needs of these workers. Currently, 13% of information workers use smartphones for work at least weekly, and we expect this segment to grow significantly as more employees work away from their desk or telecommute. Many information workers purchase and use smartphones that are not approved or supported by the IT department, creating security concerns for IT professionals. Information workers are going beyond vanilla email, calendar, and personal information management (PIM) applications, tapping into mobile application stores or operator portals to try out instant messaging, productivity apps, and location-based services. To take advantage of the fast-growing number of information workers relying on smartphones, business application categories must be clearly identified on mobile app store sites. Device manufacturers and mobile operators must ensure smartphone features and functionality address both personal and professional user needs.

Member Registration Plagues Health Plan Sites
Interviews Of 17 Health Plans Uncover The Need For Email Addresses
November 20, 2009 , 5 pages
by Elizabeth Boehm
The Web is becoming a bigger part of health plans' member service and member communication strategies, but health plans struggle to drive adoption. Forrester recently interviewed customer experience professionals responsible for member service Web sites at 17 health plans and learned that registration levels and measurement approaches vary widely — even as security practices converge. To improve the value of their online efforts, health plan customer experience professionals should analyze administrative and medical savings from online members and capture email addresses during the enrollment process.

Case Study: The UK's Channel 4 Decodes Customer Engagement
How To Measure Engagement To Drive Business Results
November 20, 2009 , 6 pages
by Julie M. Katz
Despite Forrester's four-part engagement definition, many Customer Intelligence professionals struggle to find the best way to measure engagement. When Channel 4 (C4), a media outlet in the UK, shifted its teen programming from TV to online, it needed a concrete way to demonstrate the impact of its new approach. Traditional measures, such as reach, didn't tell a complete story, so C4 turned to iCrossing, an interactive agency, which created a framework that merged traditional and novel measurement tactics. The advantage of measuring engagement? C4 can now easily modify marketing and product development and continually learn about its audience. Additionally, its approach to measuring engagement is adaptable, which allows C4 to incorporate engagement measurement into a variety of projects.

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