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Customer Experience News 239: CX Predictions 2022, HBR: Low-Profit Customers, What Successful CX Leaders Do

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Empathy, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, Customer Journey Mapping, CX, CX Management, CX Strategy, EMPATHY, QUICKBITE

Forrester: CX Predictions 2022 (2min) Yes, it’s that time of the year again. We promise this article and Alex’s 2022 CX predictions, will be the only two posts of this …

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Customer Experience News 236: Facebook Slammed, Customer-Led Innovation Driving Profit and Save the Date!

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, CX, CX Management, CX Strategy, EMPATHY, QUICKBITE

Profits Before People: Facebook Slammed (2min) This breaking news confirms what we have all suspected, Facebook puts ‘astronomical profits’ over people. Whistleblower Frances Haugen, recently shared thousands of pages of …

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Customer Experience News 233: Journey Mapping vs Touchpoint Mapping, CMOs Seat at the Table & Turning Customers into Profit Peaks

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Empathy, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, Customer Journey Mapping, CX, CX Management, CX Strategy, EMPATHY, journey mapping

Journey Mapping vs Touchpoint Mapping (2-3min) An excellent read. This article for Customer Think takes a deep dive into the differences between customer journey mapping vs touchpoint mapping; as the …

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Customer Experience News 224: Google’s Murky Customer Workarounds, Digitising an 80-Year-Old Brand & Stealing Customer-Centric Secrets

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, Customer Journey Mapping, CX Management, EMPATHY, QUICKBITE

Google’s Murky Customer Workarounds (3min) If it’s free then you are the product, writes the author of this NY Times article. Google has long profited from scraping user data, but …

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Customer Experience News 222: Post-Pandemic Customer Journeys, Making the CX Business Case and Human-Centred Design

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Empathy, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, CUSTOMER JOURNEY, Customer Journey Mapping, CX, CX Management, QUICKBITE

Designing Post-Pandemic Customer Journeys (3min) This HBR article discusses the critical factors that define post-pandemic (post-2020) customer journeys and determine whether your organisation’s performance will be grounded or grow in …

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Customer Experience News 221: Customer Data: Mining for Gold, CX in 7 Steps and Closing the Empathy Gap 

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Empathy, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, Customer Journey Mapping, CX, EMPATHY, QUICKBITE

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, …

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Customer Experience News 220: Transformation Failure, The Good, Bad & Ugly of Amazon and CX: What’s Holding Marketers Back?

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Empathy, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, CUSTOMER JOURNEY, Customer Journey Mapping, CX Mangement, QUICKBITE

Transformation Failure: Identifying the Causes (4-5min) The rate of transformation failure rate sits at around 70%. This HBR article examines the major causes of organisational change failure, recommends how to overcome …

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Customer Experience News 211: Welcome Back!, Mission Possible, Confusing Employees with Customers & Brand Advertising; From Preservation to Perseverance

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, Customer Journey Mapping, CX Management, CX Strategy, EMPATHY, QUICKBITE

Welcome Back! It’s our first edition for 2021 and whilst we continue with ‘business-un-usual’, it’s great to hear renewed energy and optimism in conversations with other CX folk. The new …

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Customer Experience News 208: Best CX & EX Books 2020-2021, Using Personas to Make CX Sticky and Fake Customer Reviews

Alex Allwood ALEX ALLWOOD, Customer Experience, Customer Experience News, CX Design, CX Strategy, EMPATHY, QUICKBITE

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 & …