Who Will Serve Me? (3-4min) In this week’s Quickbite, Alex examines the practice of Customer Experience through the lens of her 80-year-old dad who has become all but invisible to his bank, telco and utilities …
Customer Experience News 229: 4 Customer Journey Strategies, McDonald’s First-Ever CCO and Citizen Engagement
HBR: 4 Customer Journey Strategies (4-5min) The authors of this HBR article conducted a comprehensive study of customer preference and report simplicity across the customer journey as a top priority for consumers in boosting value …
Customer Experience News 228: Digital Customer Journeys, Post-Pandemic Momentum & LEGO Innovates with AI
Digital Customer Journeys the Japanese Way (2min) A great Forbes article on how Lexus has adapted its digital CX. Starting with deep customer understanding through mapping the end-to-end customer journey, the company identified key communication …
Customer Experience News 227: Top 10 CX Books, Evolving CXO Role and Best-in-Class Customer Experience
‘Customer Empathy’ Makes Top 10 CX Books (1min) A nice little win this week for Alex Allwood! Alex’s latest book, Customer Empathy, has made it onto Lumoa’s list of Top 10 Must-Read CX Books. Check …
Customer Experience News 226: Atlassian Pivots on Performance Reviews, Communicating Price Hikes to Customers and Unravelling the Complexity of Customer Innovation
Atlassian Pivots on Performance Reviews (2min) We’re loving this! Atlassian is implementing a new system designed to better evaluate employee performance. The new strategy focuses on how well employees are living organisational values rather than …
Customer Experience News 225: Customer Empathy Mapping, Customer-Based Valuation and Lego on Customer Centricity
Using Customer Empathy Mapping (2min) It’s been a few weeks since Alex last shared her CX thinking here, and it’s been worth the wait! In this article, she deep dives into how to connect and …
Customer Experience News 224: Google’s Murky Customer Workarounds, Digitising an 80-Year-Old Brand & Stealing Customer-Centric Secrets
Google’s Murky Customer Workarounds (3min) If it’s free then you are the product, writes the author of this NY Times article. Google has long profited from scraping user data, but in line with shifting customer …
Customer Experience News 223: Post-Covid Consumers, Customer Sentiment vs Emotion and CX the Tesla Way
The Post-Covid Consumer (3min) A great article written for CNBC by Wharton professor of marketing and psychology Deborah Small. During and post-Covid consumers have been exploring product and service alternatives in new ways. Small says, …
Customer Experience News 222: Post-Pandemic Customer Journeys, Making the CX Business Case and Human-Centred Design
Designing Post-Pandemic Customer Journeys (3min) This HBR article discusses the critical factors that define post-pandemic (post-2020) customer journeys and determine whether your organisation’s performance will be grounded or grow in the post-pandemic economy. The recommendations …
Customer Experience News 221: Customer Data: Mining for Gold, CX in 7 Steps and Closing the Empathy Gap
Customer Data: Mining for Gold (3-4min) In this article for HBR, three AI heavyweights outline the primary problem in measuring CX. They propose a solution using unstructured data and applied, linguistics-based natural language processing (NLP). …