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 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 156: Council’s Customer Journey, Why Customer-Centricity Matters, 2019 Most Innovative Companies & Bupa
‘City of Caution’ Considers Customers (3min)This article should strike a chord with anyone who’s ever experienced the pain and frustration of dealing with government red tape and regulation. An amusing take on …
Customer Experience News 155: Siloed CMOs, Emotional Experiences, Relieving Customer Pain & Qantas CCO
Siloed CMO’s Fading Fast (3min)In what is a growing trend in the US, McDonalds is the latest company to ditch the role of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), following the lead of other …
Customer Experience News 150: Experience Economy Update, Decoding Customer Emotion, Forrester CX Index & CX Best Practice
Joe Pine’s Experience Economy Update (2-3min)Joe Pine and James Gilmore famously coined the phrase ‘the experience economy’ over 20 years ago. In this interview, Joe Pine shares his thoughts on the current …
Customer Experience News 149: Gartner VP Interview, Personas, Customer Insights and Adobe Experience Index
Gartner VP Ups the Ante (2-3min) In this wide-ranging CMO interview, Gartner VP and leading analyst Don Scheibenreif discusses current perceptions of customer experience, the stumbling blocks to CX maturity and …
Customer Experience News 148: CX Recession Proofing, The CXO, Temkin Interview & Vaynerchuk on Empathy
How CX Can Recession-Proof Your Business (1-2min)With the ‘R’ word on everyone’s lips lately, this timely article from CMSWire argues that a renewed focus on customer experience will not only help …
Customer Experience News 146: Godfather of CX, Customer Empathy, CX Leadership & Best B2B CX
Wise Words from the Godfather of CX (1min)In this week’s reflection on CX Leadership, Alex Allwood shares some of Bruce Tempkin’s ‘wise words’ on CX strategy and her thoughts on how leaders can …