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 …
What’s Causing the Customer Empathy Deficit?
This is article an edited extract from Alex Allwood’s new book, Customer Empathy, A radical intervention in customer experience management and design. Available November 11, 2019. In my work I’ve …
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 …
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 …
My Husband’s Customer Hell!
Somewhere along the way, someone forgot to ask; what would our customer think about that? I’ll just give you the abridged version of this story to bring you up to …
Customer Experience News 153: Implementing Agile, Walmart’s Integrated Experience, Customer Value & ‘Phygital’ CX
‘No Plan B’ An Agile Approach to Agile (4-5min)How does a large, historically conservative corporation successfully implement an agile methodology? In this extended interview with McKinsey, three senior executives from New …
Customer Experience News 152: Organisational Purpose, CMO to CXO, Augmented Reality and Healthcare CX
For GOODNESS Sake (1-2min)In this week’s Insight, Alex Allwood argues that to avoid merely delivering a ‘brighter shade of lipstick on the pig’, transformative organisations must successfully bridge the ‘Purpose Gap’ – building …