CMO’s and the CX Remit (1min) CMO has just launched their STATE OF THE CMO 2019 survey to gauge the state of Australia’s marketing leadership. Here are three things CMO discovered …
‘Less of This, More of That’ Getting CX Transformation Right in 2019
Article first published in CustomerThink, February 1, 2019 ‘Short-termism’ has become the enemy of CX transformation. We have developed a preoccupation with what is happening now, quick wins, next month’s …
Customer Experience News 126: Customer Lifetime Value, CX Excellence Index & 7-Eleven
Finding Value in Every Customer (4-5min) The Wharton School’s Peter Fader and Sarah Toms discuss their latest book, The Customer Centricity Playbook: Implement a Winning Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime Value, and explain the …
Customer Experience News 114: Mapping Methods, Service Design & MVCs
Mapping Methods Cheat Sheet (4-5min) From late last year but nevertheless an excellent article comparing the four most commonly used mapping types, (empathy mapping, customer journey mapping, experience mapping and service blueprinting), …
Who Are We Really Innovating For?
First published in Oracle SmarterCX: https://smartercx.com/who-are-we-really-innovating-for/ Innovation still tends to be predominantly inward looking, used primarily to solve business problems and often confined to, and stifled within, siloed business units. At …
Customer Experience News 111: C-Suite Mistakes, Amazon, Customer Retention & Telco’s
C-Suite Loses Customer Focus (2min) In this short video on LinkedIn, legendary American entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk and former Home Depot CEO Frank Blake discuss the biggest mistake C-suite executives are making and how …
Customer Experience News 110: Alignment, Customer-Centricity, Mobile CX, CXO
#GrowthHack: Activating Customer Alignment (2min) Alex Allwood writes this week on issues around organisational alignment and the critical factor required to successfully evolve a customer-centric culture. Customer-Centricity Case Study (4min) A case …
Customer Experience News 100: CX Leadership, EI, Citi and McKinsey
5 Essential Qualities of a Customer-Centric Leader (3min) To introduce our 100th Quickbite this week Alex Allwood outlines the top five qualities business leaders will need to deliver customer-led transformation. Emotional …
Customer Experience News 98: #GrowthHack, TED Talk, Experience Design & Marketoonist
#GrowthHack Customer Journey Consistency (2min) This week Alex Allwood writes on the importance of developing customer experience vision and principles to guide employee behaviour and ensure the delivery of consistent experiences across the …
Customer Experience News 97: Customer-Centric Culture, CX Budgets and Leadership
4 Strategies to Inspire a Customer-Centric Culture (3min) Even the most well-resourced customer experience program cannot succeed without employee buy-in across the business. This article from CustomerThink outlines four simple, yet …