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 …
Why Customer Empathy is Important in Customer Experience Management
For 20 years now, organisations have worked at delivering customer experience (CX) excellence; appointing a senior CX leader and dedicated team, investing resources into measuring customer satisfaction, mobilising teams to …
What’s Causing the Customer Empathy Deficit?
This is article an edited extract from Alex Allwood’s new book, Customer Empathy, A radical intervention in customer experience management and design. Available November 11, 2019. In my work I’ve …
Customer Experience News 165: Improve Your NPS, The ‘Experience Factory’, Optus 2020 CX Vision and CX Education
How to Improve Your NPS (3min)Referencing business examples, this HBR article explains how you can improve your NPS. It also shows how surveys conducted across the customer value chain can reveal the …
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 …
The Ripple Effect: What CEOs Value Most
What’s important to us drives our actions. Our behaviours big and small reflect what we care about. In organisations too, what’s valued by the CEO informs the business’s mindset, language …
Customer Experience News 159: CX Academy at Optus, Customer Participation Pitfalls, IBM Reinvention and DJ’s Dilemma Solved
CX Academy Engages Optus Employees (2min)In the five months since Optus launched its CX Academy, over 300 employees have already completed at least one of the masterclasses on offer. Not only does …
Customer Experience News 158: Empathy in Business, Lenovo Backs CX, Amazon Beware! & Crazy Customer Loyalty
Does Business Benefit from Customer Empathy? (2-3min)New research from the University of Melbourne assesses the impact of empathy in business. Professor Liliana Bove shares some important insights into the benefits and …
Customer Experience News 157: Customer Hell!, Sephora Rewards, Storytelling in CX Conversation, Latest Employee & CSAT Research
My Husband’s Customer Hell! (3min)We’ve all been there, trying to make sense of a retail energy plan when the only thing you know for sure is that you’re likely to be worse off, …
My Husband’s Customer Hell!
Somewhere along the way, someone forgot to ask; what would our customer think about that? I’ll just give you the abridged version of this story to bring you up to …