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Customer Experience News 156: Council’s Customer Journey, Why Customer-Centricity Matters, 2019 Most Innovative Companies & Bupa

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‘City of Caution’ Considers Customers (3min)This article should strike a chord with anyone who’s ever experienced the pain and frustration of dealing with government red tape and regulation. An amusing take on …

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Customer Experience News 154: Customer Revolution is Coming, Why CX Fails, Marcoms Move to Problem Solving & Top 20 CX Metrics

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, customer-centric culture, CX Strategy

Are You Ready for the Revolution? (3min)Starcom’s Future of Connected Living research report marks 2019 as the start of the ‘Third Connected Era’ in digital living. The report warns of profound changes …

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Customer Experience News 153: Implementing Agile, Walmart’s Integrated Experience, Customer Value & ‘Phygital’ CX

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‘No Plan B’ An Agile Approach to Agile (4-5min)How does a large, historically conservative corporation successfully implement an agile methodology? In this extended interview with McKinsey, three senior executives from New …

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Customer Experience News 152: Organisational Purpose, CMO to CXO, Augmented Reality and Healthcare CX

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, CX, CX Insight, CX Strategy

For GOODNESS Sake (1-2min)In this week’s Insight, Alex Allwood argues that to avoid merely delivering a ‘brighter shade of lipstick on the pig’, transformative organisations must successfully bridge the ‘Purpose Gap’ – building …

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Customer Experience News 151: Co-Creation, Digital Service Experience, Amazon Innovation, CX Nightmare

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, CX, CX Strategy

5 Ways to Co-Create With Customers (1-2min)Instead of seeing customers as simply the end users of a product or service, this article argues that organisations need to invite their customers to help co-create …

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Customer Experience News 150: Experience Economy Update, Decoding Customer Emotion, Forrester CX Index & CX Best Practice

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Joe Pine’s Experience Economy Update (2-3min)Joe Pine and James Gilmore famously coined the phrase ‘the experience economy’ over 20 years ago. In this interview, Joe Pine shares his thoughts on the current …

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Customer Experience News 149: Gartner VP Interview, Personas, Customer Insights and Adobe Experience Index

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Gartner VP Ups the Ante (2-3min) In this wide-ranging CMO interview, Gartner VP and leading analyst Don Scheibenreif discusses current perceptions of customer experience, the stumbling blocks to CX maturity and …

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Customer Experience News 148: CX Recession Proofing, The CXO, Temkin Interview & Vaynerchuk on Empathy

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How CX Can Recession-Proof Your Business (1-2min)With the ‘R’ word on everyone’s lips lately, this timely article from CMSWire argues that a renewed focus on customer experience will not only help …