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 …
CX in a Changing World: Learnings from CX Folk Panel Discussion
Firstly a big thank you to our panel of CX experts, Jason Bradshaw author of It’s All About CEX!, Jaquie Scammell author of Service Habits, Alex Allwood author of Customer …
Customer Experience News 181: Creating New Customer Value in a Crisis, Forrester Takes Consumer Pulse and Work-from-Home Collaboration
Creating New Customer Value in a Crisis (2-3min) Writing for mycustomer’s new content hub, Corporate Social Responsibility During COVID-19, Alex Allwood identifies some of the good, bad and ugly responses to …
Leading with Empathy: Safety is the New Customer and Employee Value
This article was first published in mycustomer.com COVID-19 has brought upon us frenetic change. Around the world, people have bunkered down. Our homes are now isolated and have become digital …
Customer Experience News 180: Empathy on the Front Line, Leadership in an Uncertain Future and Empathy in Action
Empathy on the Front Line (2-3min) From USA Today, some inspirational examples of how individuals across the US are responding to the unfolding COVID-19 crisis, by providing compassion, kindness and empathy …
Customer Experience News 179: Managing Customer Panic, Nudge Theory in CX and Systems Design
How to Manage Customer Panic (2min)In the current crisis, images of empty supermarket shelves, angry shoppers and early morning queues have dominated mainstream news and social media. This timely article …
You’re Only as Good as the Quality of the Insight
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 …
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 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 …