Getting a cross-functional team to come together, let alone work together for a common cause, such as customers and improving their CX, can be like herding cats. It can feel …
Customer Experience News 214: Mapping Customer Emotion, Are You a Servant Leader? and Fear and Loathing on the CX Trail
Mapping Emotion in the Customer Journey (2-3min) As a follow up to Alex’s recent article on Customer Journey Mapping, this week she takes a deep dive into mapping customer emotion …
Customer Experience News 211: Welcome Back!, Mission Possible, Confusing Employees with Customers & Brand Advertising; From Preservation to Perseverance
Welcome Back! It’s our first edition for 2021 and whilst we continue with ‘business-un-usual’, it’s great to hear renewed energy and optimism in conversations with other CX folk. The new …
CX Q&A: How Do You Deal With In-Moment Customer Feedback?
Last week I posted this question on my LinkedIn profile, ‘How do you deal with in-moment customer feedback?’ What surprised me was the number of responses to this problem and …
Customer Experience News 208: Best CX & EX Books 2020-2021, Using Personas to Make CX Sticky and Fake Customer Reviews
Best CX & EX Books 2020-2021 (5min) Alex Allwood’s little yellow book, Customer Empathy: A Radical Intervention in Customer Experience Management and Design, has made the list of best Customer & …
Customer Experience News 207: Forrester’s CX Predictions for 2021, CX Tech Saves the Day and Why Empathy is Good for Business
Forrester’s CX Predictions for 2021 (1min) A quick look at some of the key customer experience take outs from Forrester’s ‘Predictions 2021’ research. Notably, the flow-on effects of the pandemic …
Customer Experience News 206: Collaboration: CX Leaders Adopt the ‘No Silo Rule’, Empathetic Leadership Empowering Employees and 7 Deadly Sins of CX Transformation
Collaboration: CX Leaders Adopt the ‘No Silo Rule’ (1min) Both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, have followed the ‘no silo rule’. As Musk wrote to Tesla employees, “We obviously can’t …
Customer Experience News 205: VW Launches the World’s Smallest Showroom, Customer-Led Innovation, and Sense-Making, Digital Ecosystems & AI
Tech: The Smallest Showroom in the World (3-30min) VW steps into the experience economy – leading the way with the launch of their new Augmented Reality (AR)-powered showroom which enables …
Customer Experience News 204: Podcast: CX Strategy & Customer Empathy, Customer Advocacy: Who Do You Trust? & CX Management: Protecting CX Budgets
Podcast: CX Strategy & Customer Empathy (57min) This week I talked with Head of Customer Experience at Freddie Mac, Bill Staikos, on his new-ish Podcast, Be Customer Led. We discussed CX strategy, …
Customer Experience News 203: Culture: Lego & GSK on Customer Centricity, Loyalty: A New World of Customer Loyalty? and Supply Chain: Speed & Flexibility the Key
Culture: Lego & GSK Talk Customer Centricity (2min) Who owns customer centricity? CMO’s from Lego and GSK discuss how customer centricity is informing agile and responsive organisational behaviour, how they are …