Customer Journey Mapping: Going Deep (3-4min) In Alex’s first opinion piece for 2021 she takes a deep-dive into customer journey mapping. Alex argues that even with the availability of sophisticated tech and tools, many CX …
Customer Experience News 211: Welcome Back!, Mission Possible, Confusing Employees with Customers & Brand Advertising; From Preservation to Perseverance
Welcome Back! It’s our first edition for 2021 and whilst we continue with ‘business-un-usual’, it’s great to hear renewed energy and optimism in conversations with other CX folk. The new year brings a growing interest …
Customer Experience News 210: CX Leadership, CX Trends for 2021 and Joe Pine on the Evolution of Experience
CX Leadership – Until We Meet Again (3min) What a year! Looking ahead Alex asks, “… will the positive momentum turn into a movement that’s sustained or will we simply slip back into our internalised …
Customer Experience News 209: Closing the In-Moment Feedback Gap, Bold Experience Management Moves for 2021 & Customer-Centric Transformation
5 Ways to Close the In-Moment Feedback Gap (3min) Last week Alex posted this question on her LinkedIn profile, ‘When a customer makes a discrete complaint in an informal way, such as directly to a …
Customer Experience News 208: Best CX & EX Books 2020-2021, Using Personas to Make CX Sticky and Fake Customer Reviews
Best CX & EX Books 2020-2021 (5min) Alex Allwood’s little yellow book, Customer Empathy: A Radical Intervention in Customer Experience Management and Design, has made the list of best Customer & Employee Experience Design Books for …
Customer Experience News 207: Forrester’s CX Predictions for 2021, CX Tech Saves the Day and Why Empathy is Good for Business
Forrester’s CX Predictions for 2021 (1min) A quick look at some of the key customer experience take outs from Forrester’s ‘Predictions 2021’ research. Notably, the flow-on effects of the pandemic will continue to have significant …
Customer Experience News 206: Collaboration: CX Leaders Adopt the ‘No Silo Rule’, Empathetic Leadership Empowering Employees and 7 Deadly Sins of CX Transformation
Collaboration: CX Leaders Adopt the ‘No Silo Rule’ (1min) Both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, have followed the ‘no silo rule’. As Musk wrote to Tesla employees, “We obviously can’t compete with the big car …
Customer Experience News 205: VW Launches the World’s Smallest Showroom, Customer-Led Innovation, and Sense-Making, Digital Ecosystems & AI
Tech: The Smallest Showroom in the World (3-30min) VW steps into the experience economy – leading the way with the launch of their new Augmented Reality (AR)-powered showroom which enables shoppers to try a VW …
Customer Experience News 204: Podcast: CX Strategy & Customer Empathy, Customer Advocacy: Who Do You Trust? & CX Management: Protecting CX Budgets
Podcast: CX Strategy & Customer Empathy (57min) This week I talked with Head of Customer Experience at Freddie Mac, Bill Staikos, on his new-ish Podcast, Be Customer Led. We discussed CX strategy, governance, and the importance of …
Customer Experience News 203: Culture: Lego & GSK on Customer Centricity, Loyalty: A New World of Customer Loyalty? and Supply Chain: Speed & Flexibility the Key
Culture: Lego & GSK Talk Customer Centricity (2min) Who owns customer centricity? CMO’s from Lego and GSK discuss how customer centricity is informing agile and responsive organisational behaviour, how they are moving from products to brand …