Digital Customer Journeys the Japanese Way (2min) A great Forbes article on how Lexus has adapted its digital CX. Starting with deep customer understanding through mapping the end-to-end customer journey, …
Customer Experience News 221: Customer Data: Mining for Gold, CX in 7 Steps and Closing the Empathy Gap
Customer Data: Mining for Gold (3-4min) In this article for HBR, three AI heavyweights outline the primary problem in measuring CX. They propose a solution using unstructured data and applied, …
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 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 169: Why Customer Empathy Matters, Canva Cross-Functional Design, AI Teaching EQ? and a Choice Quiz
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 160: Porsche Customer Journeys, Prospect-Centric vs Customer-Centric, Bank Bots and Macca’s Tech
How Porsche Aligns Complex Customer Journeys (4min)Important lessons from the My Porsche team on using customer journey mapping to align complex customer journeys across multiple product teams, to deliver a seamless brand experience to customers …
Customer Experience News 108: Empathy, CX Measurement, Customer Cause & VA’s
Empathy Inspired Decision Making (2min) Alex Allwood writes this week on empathy and how customer empathy can and should be incorporated into business decision making to benefit both customers and the bottom line. …