Gerry Brown CX Research Director Read full bio @gerrybrown IDC’s annual IT Buyer Experience Survey (August 2018) turned up interesting results. 350 enterprise IT buyers in the US and Canada assessed IT vendors’ helpfulness in the buying process, especially vendor sales and marketing practices. The respondents authorized IT purchase values of […]
Gerry Brown Research Director Read full bio @gerrybrown For the last 2-3 years, the European Contact Center market has been somewhat unexciting. Dominated by a small number of traditional contact center vendors such as Genesys and Verint, technology innovation has been largely incremental rather than breakthrough.
Gerry Brown Research Director Read full bio @gerrybrown Customer journey management is a hot topic in management – particularly within the context of digital transformation and customer experience. Leading enterprises today compete on digital customer experiences. Traditional differentiation on product and price is replaced by end-to-end customer journey experiences designed to delight the customer and […]
Gerry Brown Research Director Read full bio @gerrybrown Last week IDC hosted, 22 tech industry marketing leaders at our annual CMO Advisory council dinner in London. The topics up for discussion were IDC’s latest research and thought-leadership ideas in the areas of content marketing, customer experience, and customer data management.