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 …
Customer Experience News 192: 5 Fixes for Broken Market Research, Flybuys Behavioural Segmentation & CX Strategies for Re-engagement
5 Fixes for ‘Broken’ Market Research Model (5min) New data shows less than one third of clients commissioning market research are satisfied with the recommended business actions. This article shares some useful …
Customer Experience News 191: NPS Danger, Interview with SurveyMonkey’s CX Lead and Unthinking & Undoing in Service Design
Avoiding the Pitfalls of ‘NPS for All’ (3min) Whilst acknowledging the value of NPS and other customer satisfaction metrics, this article from CustomerThink identifies the dangers of giving NPS goals to every …
Customer Experience News 190: Sainsbury’s CMO Promotion, Can the Experience Economy Make a Comeback and Making Remote Collaboration Work
In the News – Sainsbury’s Promotes CMO to Board (2min) In the news this week, in ‘a strategic move designed to help the supermarket get closer to it’s customers’, the new …
Customer Experience News 189: Customer Care Fail, Customers Want Back-to-Basics and Employee Journeys the Key to EX Success
In the News – Boutique Bank’s Customer Care Fail (2min) At a time when empathy, transparency, communication and care for customers are the hallmarks of genuine customer-first companies, ASIC has lashed …
Customer Experience News 188: Forbes Ranks Top Corporate Responders, Shaping Remote Work and New World Impacts Profits & Growth
Forbes Ranks Top Corporate Responders (4-5min) Forbes has just released new research that ranks the 100 largest employers among US public companies based on how well they have responded to the …
Customer Experience News 187: New Consumer Sentiment Research, ‘New-Normal’ Customer Personas and Mapping Emotional Journeys
New Consumer Sentiment Research (4-5min) The first in a series of monthly posts by BCG highlighting the changes in Australian consumer sentiment; attitudes, perceptions and behaviours, brought about by the coronavirus …
Customer Experience News 186: CX Leads do DIY Listening, CX Strategy to Rebuild Customer Loyalty and Bupa Fast Tracks Experience Innovation
CX & Marketing Leads Do DIY Listening (3min) For this week’s opinion piece, Alex Allwood reports on her own ‘listen and learn’ conversations with CX and Marketing leaders. Allwood explains how their Do-It-Themselves …
Crisis Leadership: CX and Marketing Leaders Use DIY Listening
Rather than hibernating during the COVID-19 lock-down, I’ve been running my own ‘listen and learn’ program with CX and Marketing Leaders (CCO’s, CXO’s and CMO’s) to understand their challenges and …
Customer Experience News 185: CPI’s The New Customer-Centric Metric, Post Pandemic Predictions and Reopening: The Retail Marketing Challenge
The New Customer-Centric Metric (3min) This thought-provoking article from HBR argues that traditional metrics such as Net Promoter Score (NPS) do little beyond contributing to company-centric KPI’s. The alternative, as both …