Bain on Delivering Customer Value (4-5min) This report from Bain, using data from a recent survey of more than 45,000 US consumers, explains the concept of ‘Elements of Value’ and shows how …
Customer Experience News 126: Customer Lifetime Value, CX Excellence Index & 7-Eleven
Finding Value in Every Customer (4-5min) The Wharton School’s Peter Fader and Sarah Toms discuss their latest book, The Customer Centricity Playbook: Implement a Winning Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime Value, and explain the …
Customer Experience News 124: PayPal, Facebook Messenger, CSat & Great CX
How PayPal Champions its Customers (3-9min) In this McKinsey interview, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman, explains how putting the needs of customers ahead of certain business priorities has paid dividends, not only for PayPal’s …
Customer Experience News 123: Mass Customisation, NPS vs NetCNS and VoC
How Carnival Mass Customises Guest Experiences (3min) Cruise operator Carnival is now hyper-personalising guest experiences at scale with the recent launch of their high-tech Ocean Medallion. Experience guru Joe Pine explains how the device ‘efficiently, seamlessly and amazingly’ …
Bridging Organizational Silos With Customer Empathy
First published in Oracle SmarterCX: https://smartercx.com/bridging-organizational-silos-with-customer-empathy/ Who owns the customer? We all do. While this aspirational statement is good in theory, it can be difficult in practice because we often …
Customer Experience News 120: Customer Care, Unconscious Bias & Thomas Cook’s VoC
Have We Lost the Art of Caring? (2-3min) Empathetic leadership, argues Alex Allwood, is one of the key factors in driving customer-led organisational change. Using examples from both the public and private sectors, this article illustrates how a lack …
Customer Experience News 119: Customer Conversations, CX Transformation & Slack
Conversation the Key to Understanding Customers (2min) According to CX expert Jim Tincher, if you’re not actually talking to customers your journey mapping can be fatally flawed by false assumptions. To illustrate …
Customer Experience News 118: Emotion Graphs, Customer Care Metrics, CX & Data Security
#GrowthHack: Customer Emotion Tells the Story (2min) Alex Allwood writes on the importance of incorporating a customer emotion graph into your journey mapping to truly understand the customer relationship from the customer’s …
Customer Experience News 116: Bain CX Trends, Zappos Culture & Medibank
Bain Reports on CX Tools and Trends (5min) The results are in from Bain & Company’s first comprehensive, global analysis of customer experience tools and trends. Executives at over 700 companies were …
Customer Experience News 113: Innovation, Gartner Report & Online CX.
Who Are We Really Innovating For? (2min) Writing for Oracle’s SmarterCX, Alex Alwood argues that inward looking innovation is a thing of the past and the key to adding real and sustained …