What’s Causing the Customer Empathy Deficit? (3min)In this edited extract from her new book, Alex Allwood argues that despite best efforts, businesses are becoming emotionally disconnected from their customers and explains the …
Customer Experience News 166: Journey Mapping Do’s & Don’ts, Using Voice of Employee Insights & Improving Collaboration
Journey Mapping Do’s and Don’ts (3-4min)Creating a customer journey map does not necessarily guarantee the success of your CX initiatives – what matters is the quality of the process. In this article …
Customer Experience News 165: Improve Your NPS, The ‘Experience Factory’, Optus 2020 CX Vision and CX Education
How to Improve Your NPS (3min)Referencing business examples, this HBR article explains how you can improve your NPS. It also shows how surveys conducted across the customer value chain can reveal the …
Customer Experience News 164: Inspirational Journey Mapping, Amazon Empathy Training, Self-Service CX & Company Culture
How Your Journey Map Can Inspire Change (3min)If your beautifully crafted customer journey map has so far failed to deliver the desired results, or if you’re about to embark on your …
Customer Experience News 163: Top 50 CX Brands, NAB’s Customer Culture, Assessing CX Governance, What’s in a Name?
Top 50 CX Brands Revealed (2-3min)The latest KPMG Customer Experience Excellence report ranks the top 50 CX brands in Australia, but warns that a siloed approach in many businesses is limiting the effectiveness of …
Customer Experience News 162: CX Report on Leaders & Laggards, Government CX Strategy, Experience Design and CX Day 2019
Tempkin Report Rates CX Management (3min)The State of Customer Experience Management, 2019 CX report, authored by Bruce Tempkin, has identified that only 6% of the 212 companies surveyed globally have achieved top-level CX …
Customer Experience News 161: The Ripple Effect: What CEOs Value Most, Calculating CX ROI, Top 10 CX Success Stories & Airbus Tracks Toilet Trips
The Ripple Effect: What CEOs Value Most (2min)Alex Allwood writes on the importance of leadership behaviours in shaping an organisation’s customer-centric culture. Using examples from this week’s news media to demonstrate how few …
The Ripple Effect: What CEOs Value Most
What’s important to us drives our actions. Our behaviours big and small reflect what we care about. In organisations too, what’s valued by the CEO informs the business’s mindset, language …
Customer Experience News 160: Porsche Customer Journeys, Prospect-Centric vs Customer-Centric, Bank Bots and Macca’s Tech
How Porsche Aligns Complex Customer Journeys (4min)Important lessons from the My Porsche team on using customer journey mapping to align complex customer journeys across multiple product teams, to deliver a seamless brand experience to customers …
Customer Experience News 159: CX Academy at Optus, Customer Participation Pitfalls, IBM Reinvention and DJ’s Dilemma Solved
CX Academy Engages Optus Employees (2min)In the five months since Optus launched its CX Academy, over 300 employees have already completed at least one of the masterclasses on offer. Not only does …