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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Customer Experience”

Customer Retention Gets Tested When Times Are Tough

Alex Allwood April 9, 2026 Customer Experience, CX Leadership, CX Strategy

Customers don’t just buy price. They buy value. Yesterday, I heard a senior leader briefing her team. No corporate deck. No polished narrative. Just the reality now. Pointing to the …

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Blockchain Boosts Brand Trust

Alex Allwood March 16, 2026 Customer Experience, Marketing

Brands are fighting back. As AI makes it easier to fabricate convincing digital and physical replicas, technologies that enable independent verification are becoming more important. Luxury brands were early adopters, …

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The next competitive advantage: Amazon changed the way we shop. AI is changing the way we make decisions.

Alex Allwood January 26, 2026 AI, Customer Centric, Customer Experience

Why experience-led AI and not efficiency-led AI is the next competitive advantage In the nineties, Amazon played a central role in how we choose, decide and purchase. From a customer’s …

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Inside Specsavers’ CX Transformation: How Empathy Outperformed AI in Australia’s Top Customer Experience Brand

Alex Allwood December 3, 2025 AI, Customer Centricity, Customer Empathy, Customer Experience, CX Strategy, News

Redefining CX Excellence In a year dominated by talk of AI-driven digitisation, Specsavers’ rise to the top of KPMG’s Customer Experience Excellence (CEE) rankings tells a refreshingly different story. Their …

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AI ‘Plan and Buy’ Customer Journey: Checkout Lands in Chat

Alex Allwood November 18, 2025 Customer Experience, CUSTOMER JOURNEY, DISRUPTION, INNOVATION

Customers will shift from searching for products to describing their needs AI shopping is still very early, patchy and far from seamless. But the direction of the future customer experience …

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Why Customer Journey Mapping Fails Without Rigour

Alex Allwood October 27, 2025 Customer Centric, Customer Experience, Customer Journey Mapping, CX Strategy

The Problem Most organisations approach customer journey mapping from the inside out. The exercise is typically led by internal stakeholders: marketing, operations or service delivery, who describe what they believe …

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Evidence Before Action: Why ‘As-Is’ Customer Journey Mapping is Critical

Alex Allwood October 8, 2025 Customer Experience, Customer Journey Mapping

There’s an emerging narrative in customer experience that journey management gets easier when you “map less.” The idea is seductive, especially when a CX solution involves fewer journey steps, fewer …

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CommBank’s AI Backflip: Lessons for Customer Experience Leaders

Alex Allwood August 24, 2025 AI, CCO, CMO, Customer Empathy, Customer Experience

News in CX: CommBank’s AI Backflip In the past 24 hours, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has dominated national headlines. Its attempted shift to AI-driven call centres — and …

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Customer Retention Strategy – Metrics First

Alex Allwood August 30, 2023 Customer Experience, CX Management, CX MEASUREMENT, Growth

In developing a customer retention strategy leading companies use a combination of metrics to measure customer retention – metrics first then the retention strategy. Customer retention is a critical metric …

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Discover Why Customer Experience is Important for Business Growth

Alex Allwood August 23, 2023 Customer Experience, CX, Growth

Here are 10 reasons why customer experience excellence is important for business growth and positive outcomes such as higher customer loyalty, repeat business and customer growth. Business Growth and Revenue …

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