5 Ways to Close the In-Moment Feedback Gap (3min) Last week Alex posted this question on her LinkedIn profile, ‘When a customer makes a discrete complaint in an informal way, …
Customer Experience News 208: Best CX & EX Books 2020-2021, Using Personas to Make CX Sticky and Fake Customer Reviews
Best CX & EX Books 2020-2021 (5min) Alex Allwood’s little yellow book, Customer Empathy: A Radical Intervention in Customer Experience Management and Design, has made the list of best Customer & …
Customer Experience News 207: Forrester’s CX Predictions for 2021, CX Tech Saves the Day and Why Empathy is Good for Business
Forrester’s CX Predictions for 2021 (1min) A quick look at some of the key customer experience take outs from Forrester’s ‘Predictions 2021’ research. Notably, the flow-on effects of the pandemic …
Customer Experience News 205: VW Launches the World’s Smallest Showroom, Customer-Led Innovation, and Sense-Making, Digital Ecosystems & AI
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 …
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 …