There’s been lots of discussion on Forrester’s prediction ‘that 25% of customer experience (CX) professionals will lose their jobs in 2020’. One CX commentator has blamed an inability to align …
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 164: Inspirational Journey Mapping, Amazon Empathy Training, Self-Service CX & Company Culture
How Your Journey Map Can Inspire Change (3min)If your beautifully crafted customer journey map has so far failed to deliver the desired results, or if you’re about to embark on your …
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 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 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 …
Customer Experience News 142: Customer-Centricity, Empathy, Fader and Toms, Experience Economy
Customer-Centricity Starts at Home (2min)This article from Business Live argues that even in the world’s most customer-centric companies, no two customer-centricity strategies are the same. What they do have in common …
CX Insight – Rediscover the Power of Customer Journey Mapping
What a great start to the morning! Over 120 CX enthusiasts showed up for Qualtrics’ Friday CX breakfast conversation in Sydney. Presented by yours truly, the topic, ‘Customer Journey Mapping …