Innovation: Home Delivered Fuel – What Next? (3min) HBR asks, how often are we really innovating to solve customer problems? For example, when the ‘job to be done’ by customers is …
Customer Experience News 201: The Future of Customer Personalisation, Using Your CX Toolkit in Agile and Retail Nightmare Before Christmas
Facing the Future of Customer Personalisation (5min) The promise of ‘customer journey orchestration’ is real-time, cross-channel engagement that delivers highly relevant experiences at optimal points in the path-to-purchase. Early adopter …
Customer Experience News 200: World’s Best Case for Customer-Centric Growth, New Empathy Research and CX Top 50 Leading with Culture
World’s Best Case for Customer-Centric Growth (2-3min) In this week’s opinion piece, Alex Allwood takes on the CX sceptics with a little help from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who recently …
World’s Best Case for Customer-Centric Growth
Ever read an article that makes you see red? Perhaps one that includes an opinion like this: “But some of the norms have become more than that, more like fundamental …
Customer Experience News 199: Customer Empathy Nudges, Making Sense of the ‘Messy Middle’, Frictionless Journeys and a Fashion Fightback
Are You Using Customer Empathy Nudges? (3min) Interviewed by Bill Stakios for his new podcast Be Customer Led, Alex Allwood poses the question ‘How often are we really discussing customer …
Are You Using Empathy Nudges?
What does your team discuss in their daily stand-up? This was a question I asked my LinkedIn connections this week. Typically it’s: 1. What did you do yesterday? 2. What …
Customer Experience News 198: Expert ‘Building Blocks’ Guide CX Success, Research Reveals ROI of CX and Microsoft Backs Empathy
Expert ‘Building Blocks’ Guide CX Success (3-4min ea.) The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) has created a “CX Building Blocks” series designed to help practitioners establish or strengthen their CX …
Customer Experience News 197: Customer Needs the New Normal, Empathy Key to Enhanced CX and The Fake Review Epidemic
Needs Not Wants the New Normal (3min) Responding to findings from McKinsey’s US Consumer Sentiment surveys, senior partner Kelly Ungerman shares four essential CX practices that will help retailers and …
Customer Experience News 196: Winning in the New World, Peter Fader on Loyalty & Customer Value and Emotional Intelligence
Winning in the New World (5min) A timely and in-depth article from the Australian Institute of Company Directors on how smart businesses can capitalise on the shifts in consumer behaviour …
Customer Experience News 193: New Customer Needs = Growth Opportunities, Solving the Data Deficit Problem and Woolies Cops $1M Fine
New Customer Needs = Growth Opportunities (2-3min) Alex Allwood explains why it is critical in the current environment for businesses to understand their customers’ new needs and experience expectations, in …