Customers Driving Disruption (2-3min) In this interview for Harvard Business School, marketing professor Thales Teixeira discusses her new book which argues that successful disruptors are identifying and serving emerging customer needs faster …
CX Insight – The Joyless Shopping Experience
Today, as customers, we expect both high-tech and high-touch experiences that make us feel good. As a practitioner in customer experience management I have high expectations of shopping experiences and, …
Customer Experience News 133: Customer Care, CXM, Culture & Survey Fatigue
CX Insight – Going Beyond Caring for Customers (1min) Alex Allwood shares her CX insight on why great customer experience requires an attitude of caring ‘about’ rather than ‘for’ your customers. What is …
CX Insight – Going Beyond Caring For Customers
Maybe I’m too close to my CX work or maybe I’ve just been spoiled by my current provider. In my world, delivering great experiences is more than caring for customers, …
Customer Experience News 132: 2019 CX Transformation, Measurement & Marketing
CX Transformation Trumps Quick Wins (2min) Alex Allwood argues that a focus on short term quick wins is the enemy of customer experience transformation and lists her ‘less of this, more of that’ practices for getting …
‘Less of This, More of That’ Getting CX Transformation Right in 2019
Article first published in CustomerThink, February 1, 2019 ‘Short-termism’ has become the enemy of CX transformation. We have developed a preoccupation with what is happening now, quick wins, next month’s …
Customer Experience News 131: Organisations of the Future, NPS & Business Leaders Survey
The ‘Organisation of the Future’ is Already Here (4min) A common theme at the recent 2018 Global Peter Drucker Forum was the rise of large scale, ‘post-bureaucratic’ organisations and how they have successfully adapted to …
Customer Experience News 130: Humanising CX Feedback, Contagious Kindness & Top 10 Business Books
Customer-Centric Hack: Humanising CX Feedback (2min) In this week’s post Alex Allwood looks at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of online customer experience feedback surveys and argues for a more …
Customer-Centric Hack: Humanising Customer Experience Feedback
I don’t know about you, but it seems that I am inundated with requests for customer experience feedback using online NPS and CSat surveys. This week alone I’ve received three …
Customer Experience News 129: Emotional Connection, Which Journey to Map & CCO to CEO
5 Ways to Forge an Emotional Connection With Customers (3min) This article from Forbes details five ways businesses can forge an emotional connection with customers to gain insights that inform better experience design, improved communication …