How PayPal Champions its Customers (3-9min) In this McKinsey interview, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman, explains how putting the needs of customers ahead of certain business priorities has paid dividends, not only for PayPal’s …
Customer Experience News 123: Mass Customisation, NPS vs NetCNS and VoC
How Carnival Mass Customises Guest Experiences (3min) Cruise operator Carnival is now hyper-personalising guest experiences at scale with the recent launch of their high-tech Ocean Medallion. Experience guru Joe Pine explains how the device ‘efficiently, seamlessly and amazingly’ …
Customer Experience News 122: Gartner B2B Journeys, Southwest Airlines, Culture & Forrester
Gartner on the B2B Customer Journey (2-3min) Latest research from Gartner shows the widely-held assumption that B2B customer journeys are linear is fundamentally flawed. This article from Forbes uses the Gartner findings to illustrate what a B2B …
Customer Experience News 121: Bridging Silos, CXM Trends & Professional Development
Changing the Silo Status Quo (3min) In Oracle’s SmarterCX this week, Alex Allwood’s feature article explains why customer empathy is the key to bridging organisational silos that impede customer experience efforts and how empathy enables …
Bridging Organizational Silos With Customer Empathy
First published in Oracle SmarterCX: https://smartercx.com/bridging-organizational-silos-with-customer-empathy/ Who owns the customer? We all do. While this aspirational statement is good in theory, it can be difficult in practice because we often …
Customer Experience News 120: Customer Care, Unconscious Bias & Thomas Cook’s VoC
Have We Lost the Art of Caring? (2-3min) Empathetic leadership, argues Alex Allwood, is one of the key factors in driving customer-led organisational change. Using examples from both the public and private sectors, this article illustrates how a lack …
Customer Experience News 119: Customer Conversations, CX Transformation & Slack
Conversation the Key to Understanding Customers (2min) According to CX expert Jim Tincher, if you’re not actually talking to customers your journey mapping can be fatally flawed by false assumptions. To illustrate …
Have We Lost the Art of Caring?
First published in InMotion: http://www.printgraphics.net.au/myfiles/InMotion_August_2018/24/index.html In an effort to deliver organisational outcomes have we lost the art of caring? Customer experience is a strategic business proposition that promises engagement, competitive advantage and …
Customer Experience News 118: Emotion Graphs, Customer Care Metrics, CX & Data Security
#GrowthHack: Customer Emotion Tells the Story (2min) Alex Allwood writes on the importance of incorporating a customer emotion graph into your journey mapping to truly understand the customer relationship from the customer’s …
Customer Emotion Graph – Using Visual Language to Tell Your Customer’s Story
If your role is customer facing you will probably have developed an aptitude for decision making with customer empathy. Non-customer facing business units such as HR, finance and IT however, …