There’s been lots of discussion on Forrester’s prediction ‘that 25% of customer experience (CX) professionals will lose their jobs in 2020’. One CX commentator has blamed an inability to align …
CX Folk: Lessons from the CX Experts
Last night was our first CX Folk meetup. The meeting was a great success; we raised $400 for the Australian Red Cross Bush Fire Appeal, and came together to connect …
Customer Experience News 169: Why Customer Empathy Matters, Canva Cross-Functional Design, AI Teaching EQ? and a Choice Quiz
3 Reasons Why Customer Empathy Matters (2-3min)Fresh off the press, in her new book, Alex Allwood argues that customer empathy is essential to realising the promised returns of CX effort. In this …
Customer Experience News 168: Big Brother’s Secret Consumer Scores, Shopify Goes Green, Finding the ‘Why’, & Saving CX Management
Big Brother’s Secret Consumer Scores (3min)From the New York Times, a fascinating article on companies that track consumers’ personal data and generate ‘secret surveillance scores’ for their clients. Requesting his file …
Customer Experience News 167: The Customer Empathy Deficit, Journey Mapping to Journey Management and Embracing Social Licence
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 …