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 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 …
Customer Experience News 202: Innovation: What Next in CX?, Customer Experience: What’s Normal Anymore? and Technology: Human vs Machine
Innovation: Home Delivered Fuel – What Next? (3min) HBR asks, how often are we really innovating to solve customer problems? For example, when the ‘job to be done’ by customers is refuelling their car, is the …
Customer Experience News 201: The Future of Customer Personalisation, Using Your CX Toolkit in Agile and Retail Nightmare Before Christmas
Facing the Future of Customer Personalisation (5min) The promise of ‘customer journey orchestration’ is real-time, cross-channel engagement that delivers highly relevant experiences at optimal points in the path-to-purchase. Early adopter organisations are already exploring an …
Customer Experience News 199: Customer Empathy Nudges, Making Sense of the ‘Messy Middle’, Frictionless Journeys and a Fashion Fightback
Are You Using Customer Empathy Nudges? (3min) Interviewed by Bill Stakios for his new podcast Be Customer Led, Alex Allwood poses the question ‘How often are we really discussing customer needs in our daily stand-up, …