Tech: The Smallest Showroom in the World (3-30min) VW steps into the experience economy – leading the way with the launch of their new Augmented Reality (AR)-powered showroom which enables …
Customer Experience News 204: Podcast: CX Strategy & Customer Empathy, Customer Advocacy: Who Do You Trust? & CX Management: Protecting CX Budgets
Podcast: CX Strategy & Customer Empathy (57min) This week I talked with Head of Customer Experience at Freddie Mac, Bill Staikos, on his new-ish Podcast, Be Customer Led. We discussed CX strategy, …
Customer Experience News 203: Culture: Lego & GSK on Customer Centricity, Loyalty: A New World of Customer Loyalty? and Supply Chain: Speed & Flexibility the Key
Culture: Lego & GSK Talk Customer Centricity (2min) Who owns customer centricity? CMO’s from Lego and GSK discuss how customer centricity is informing agile and responsive organisational behaviour, how they are …
Customer Experience News 202: Innovation: What Next in CX?, Customer Experience: What’s Normal Anymore? and Technology: Human vs Machine
Innovation: Home Delivered Fuel – What Next? (3min) HBR asks, how often are we really innovating to solve customer problems? For example, when the ‘job to be done’ by customers is …
Customer Experience News 201: The Future of Customer Personalisation, Using Your CX Toolkit in Agile and Retail Nightmare Before Christmas
Facing the Future of Customer Personalisation (5min) The promise of ‘customer journey orchestration’ is real-time, cross-channel engagement that delivers highly relevant experiences at optimal points in the path-to-purchase. Early adopter …
Customer Experience News 200: World’s Best Case for Customer-Centric Growth, New Empathy Research and CX Top 50 Leading with Culture
World’s Best Case for Customer-Centric Growth (2-3min) In this week’s opinion piece, Alex Allwood takes on the CX sceptics with a little help from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who recently …
World’s Best Case for Customer-Centric Growth
Ever read an article that makes you see red? Perhaps one that includes an opinion like this: “But some of the norms have become more than that, more like fundamental …
Customer Experience News 199: Customer Empathy Nudges, Making Sense of the ‘Messy Middle’, Frictionless Journeys and a Fashion Fightback
Are You Using Customer Empathy Nudges? (3min) Interviewed by Bill Stakios for his new podcast Be Customer Led, Alex Allwood poses the question ‘How often are we really discussing customer …
Are You Using Empathy Nudges?
What does your team discuss in their daily stand-up? This was a question I asked my LinkedIn connections this week. Typically it’s: 1. What did you do yesterday? 2. What …
Customer Experience News 198: Expert ‘Building Blocks’ Guide CX Success, Research Reveals ROI of CX and Microsoft Backs Empathy
Expert ‘Building Blocks’ Guide CX Success (3-4min ea.) The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) has created a “CX Building Blocks” series designed to help practitioners establish or strengthen their CX …