Books That Inspire Me: Holiday Reading (2min) There are 4 books in particular that helped Alex shape the narrative and inspired her thinking for her latest book, Customer Empathy: A radical intervention in customer experience …
Customer Experience News 238: CX Programs – the State of VoC, Top 10 Aussie CX Brands and IKEA & Bad Customer Behaviour
CX Programs Are Big Hat And No Cattle (3min) The headline of this good read published in Forbes caught our eye. It aptly sums up the state of VoC. Whilst CX is a priority, 76% …
Customer Experience News 237: Dirty Experience Design Secrets, Customer Deception and the Impact of Empathy
Dirty Experience Design Secrets (2-3min) A must-read from FastCompany for CX, Service Design and Experience Design folk. Alex read this article and gasped at the ‘dirty secret’ the author claims has been “…long accepted as …
Customer Experience News 236: Facebook Slammed, Customer-Led Innovation Driving Profit and Save the Date!
Profits Before People: Facebook Slammed (2min) This breaking news confirms what we have all suspected, Facebook puts ‘astronomical profits’ over people. Whistleblower Frances Haugen, recently shared thousands of pages of Facebook documents with The Wall Street …
Customer Experience News 232: CEO’s Who ‘Do’, Empathy vs Sympathy What’s the Difference and Sign of the Times
CEO’s Who ‘Do’ (2min) After a couple of weeks’ absence globetrotting the virtual stages of the world, Alex is back at her desk. This week she discusses how two client CEO’s are developing their empathy …
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 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). …
Customer Experience News 218: CX Experts Review ‘Customer Empathy’, What’s Your Customers’ Job to Be Done? and Sustaining CX Success
CX Experts Review ‘Customer Empathy’ (3min) This was quite an undertaking in time and effort from the group of CX experts who purchased, read and reviewed Alex’s book, Customer Empathy for the Limetropy CX Book …
Customer Experience News 213: Big Aussie Brands Choose Customer Centricity, Don’t Be Dazzled by the Dashboards and Is CX Worth It?
Big Aussie Brands Choose Customer Centricity (1+ min) We couldn’t resist sharing this as our lead story this week. A new report shows that Qantas, Telstra and Westpac led with customer centricity in response to …