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 …
AI isn’t the advantage. It’s how your competitors are removing customer friction using AI.
**AI isn’t the advantage. It’s how your competitors are removing customer friction using AI.** Most Australian organisations now have access to broadly the same AI capabilities. The models are similar. …
Inside Specsavers’ CX Transformation: How Empathy Outperformed AI in Australia’s Top Customer Experience Brand
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 …
Why Customer Journey Mapping Fails Without Rigour
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 …
Customer Experience News 240: Holiday Reading: Books That Inspire, Better CX Governance and US President’s CX Agenda
Books That Inspire Me: Holiday Reading (2min) There are 4 books in particular that helped Alex shape the narrative and inspired her thinking for her latest book, Customer Empathy: A …
Customer Experience News 239: CX Predictions 2022, HBR: Low-Profit Customers, What Successful CX Leaders Do
Forrester: CX Predictions 2022 (2min) Yes, it’s that time of the year again. We promise this article and Alex’s 2022 CX predictions, will be the only two posts of this …
Customer Experience News 238: CX Programs – the State of VoC, Top 10 Aussie CX Brands and IKEA & Bad Customer Behaviour
CX Programs Are Big Hat And No Cattle (3min) The headline of this good read published in Forbes caught our eye. It aptly sums up the state of VoC. Whilst …
Customer Experience News 237: Dirty Experience Design Secrets, Customer Deception and the Impact of Empathy
Dirty Experience Design Secrets (2-3min) A must-read from FastCompany for CX, Service Design and Experience Design folk. Alex read this article and gasped at the ‘dirty secret’ the author claims …
Customer Experience News 236: Facebook Slammed, Customer-Led Innovation Driving Profit and Save the Date!
Profits Before People: Facebook Slammed (2min) This breaking news confirms what we have all suspected, Facebook puts ‘astronomical profits’ over people. Whistleblower Frances Haugen, recently shared thousands of pages of …
Customer Experience News 235: CX Leader Shares Lessons Learned, Fostering Trust & Giving Hope and Creative Thinking for Curious People
CX Leader Shares 4 BIG Lessons Learned (3min) The average tenure for a CX leader is between 12 and 24 months. Nancy Porte spent eight years in a global CX …