Experience Matters
AUGUST 29, 2017
Temkin Group has labelled 2017 The Year of Purpose, so we have been examining the topic of purpose across many different angles. One of the areas we are interested in is the impact that a person’s level of purpose and meaning has on how they behave as an employee and customer. It turns out that it has a pretty significant impact in both of these areas.
Storyminers
AUGUST 28, 2017
I’m always curious about what makes leaders of customer experience and transformation projects invest in what’s new. Oracle , in its recent “ CX FACTOR PROGRAM ” has done much of that research for me (and for you). It’s in the form of a dozen interviews with company leaders whose brands are excelling at the customer experience.
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QuestionPro Audience
AUGUST 9, 2017
The past few years have been a whirlwind for the autonomous automotive industry. To date, Google’s self-driving cars have driven over 2 million miles and Tesla’s 90,000 cars are equipped with AutoPilot enabling the vehicles to maintain speed, change lanes and even park without any input from the driver. What Tesla advertised as simply a driver’s assistant, is being used as much more than that.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 31, 2017
About 500 Southwest Airlines customers were stranded at Houston’s Hobby Airport last Sunday morning once the Hurricane Harvey flooding began and the FAA shut down Hobby. What did Southwest do? Something great from a CX perspective. Step 1: They got permission from the FAA to find a way to fly out the 500 or so passengers and work with the FAA on the security and legal nature of it.
Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber
Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.
ijgolding
AUGUST 9, 2017
A perennial problem for any Customer Experience Professional around the world is to find an effective way to engage people with the significance of the subject. Whilst many profess to ‘get’ Customer Experience (CX), they tend to do so instinctively, intuitively and accidentally. In other words, they ‘understand’ what CX is, but do not necessarily think that there is anything that they or their organisation need to do to continuously improve the way they manage CX and educate their people in INTE
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Experience Matters
AUGUST 20, 2017
I’m sorry about this somewhat political post (you can stop reading it now if you like), but I feel as though we all have a responsibility to speak up. I’ve become saddened by the apparent rise of hate across the U.S. Instead of embracing the strength of our diversity, our country seems to be giving rise to hateful rhetoric and policies that target minority groups.
GetFeedback
AUGUST 23, 2017
The support experience is made up of small interactions that leave big impressions. Here are 4 customer support touchpoints that might need your attention.
QuestionPro Audience
AUGUST 15, 2017
Data is the lifeblood of today’s digital businesses, and protecting it from theft, misuse, and abuse is the No. 1 responsibility of every data security professional. Hackers stealing customer data can erase millions in profits within weeks, stolen intellectual property can erase competitive advantage overnight, and unexpected privacy abuses can bring unwanted scrutiny and fines from regulators while inflicting reputational damage that can last months, even years.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 24, 2017
I have said this over the years, and recently, several of my podcast guests have also discussed it: there is an ever-increasing need to think of employees as customers as well, i.e. internal customers. Retention rates in major companies have been dropping for years, for a variety of reasons: more flexible work options, people pursuing their own ventures or teaming with startups, bad management, etc.
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ijgolding
AUGUST 20, 2017
Looking back through my articles over the last few months, a great number have made the connection between strong, customer centric leadership and the ability to drive an effective and sustainable approach to Customer Experience. It is no secret that I am a huge admirer of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon – in May I wrote an article explaining why.
Kayako
AUGUST 30, 2017
All hands support has been a buzzword in the tech world for a few years now. Its premise—that everyone in the company from the CEO down to developers—spends time working as customer support agents, talking to customers, and answering questions. It’s a great practice in theory, and hypothetically will make everyone at a company more empathetic and customer-driven.
Experience Matters
AUGUST 14, 2017
Temkin Group published the 2017 Temkin Online Ratings. Based on a study of 10,000 U.S consumers, the ratings benchmarks the online experience delivered by 282 companies across 20 industries. USAA took the top two spots for its banking and insurance businesses, and its credit card business tied for 4th. Advantage Rent-A-Car took third place and Amazon.com tied for 4th.
GetFeedback
AUGUST 7, 2017
Customer support and customer success both focus on driving customer satisfaction and loyalty, just in different ways. But will they be different for long?
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QuestionPro Audience
AUGUST 31, 2017
It’s no secret that happy, loyal customers are your business’s most valuable asset; a loyal customer is worth up to 7x more than a new one! For that reason, consumer-facing companies find it essential to have some type of customer loyalty program. From the ubiquitous and tech-savvy Starbucks App to the paper punch card at the cafe down the street, there’s a solution available for every type of business at every price point.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 3, 2017
Some interesting, if not surprising, news from the customer experience world recently. Forrester recently released their US 2017 Customer Experience Index , which goes through data from 120,000 online consumers to rank 300 brands across 21 industries. Forrester is a very-vetted research brand, but it’s important to understand the ecosystem here.
Alida
AUGUST 9, 2017
More than 8,300 retail stores are expected to close all over North America in the next 12 months. And yet, according to Doug Stephens , founder of the consultancy Retail Prophet, brick-and-mortar stores still have an important role in business today. The number of stores that are expected to close in the next year, according to @RetailProphet. [link] #cxblindspot pic.twitter.com/xgMHhSlcDA. — Kelvin (KC) Claveria (@kcclaveria) August 3, 2017.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
AUGUST 9, 2017
I’m getting calls from very well-meaning business leaders lately. They are well-versed in many areas of business. Perhaps they were in marketing, or technology or operations. Or maybe they were responsible for the learning and development of thousands of employees. They have credentials and experience and are viewed as leaders of change in their organizations.
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Ready to explore 2024’s CX landscape? Join experts from SMG and guest Forrester as they discuss prominent trends actively shaping the industry and dive into a stack of bold predictions for the year ahead. Will the average customer experience improve? How can leaders leverage their CX metrics to establish financial linkage? What will global firms achieve using customer-facing generative AI?
Experience Matters
AUGUST 18, 2017
In previous research, we described how CX organizations will need to evolve towards a Federated CX Model, which is made up of three components shown below. An important component of this model is the existence of distributed CX skills. To gauge where companies are in this journey, we asked large companies about the degree to which CX skills are distributed across their organizations.
Kayako
AUGUST 10, 2017
You finally send off an email that answers all your customer’s questions. But before you can congratulate yourself with a pat on the shoulder, they’ve replied with a dozen more queries. Or even worse, they’ve – inexplicably – become angry! Don’t they understand what you meant? Don’t they get you’ve got more customers to deal with? Unfortunately, the answer to both questions is often ‘no’.
QuestionPro Audience
AUGUST 31, 2017
Our Engineering and Product teams had a great quarter in preparation for QuestionPro’s second official Engineer Appreciation Day. Huge congratulations and recognition goes to Ronak Shah, Sr. Java Developer, who was awarded for his relentless dedication and knack for problem-solving on August 22nd, 2017 in QuestionPro’s office in Pune, India. Our team of 40+ engineers gathered to celebrate their collective hard work and accomplishments throughout the second quarter.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 1, 2017
Episode Overview. Tom is the Principle, Head of Member Experience at Aon Hewitt. While he’s been in customer-facing roles for about 25 years, he’s only been at Aon Hewitt since mid-2016. (Immediately prior, he was a Senior Customer Experience Analyst for Forrester.) Because he’s been in his role about 12 months, most of this conversation is focused on what he set out to accomplish in the first year — and what he thinks the next 6-12 months will look like.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Michelli Experience
AUGUST 30, 2017
__. Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D. is a professional speaker and chief experience officer at The Michelli Experience. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, Dr. Michelli and his team consult with some of the world’s best customer experience companies. Follow on Twitter: @josephmichelli. The post {Infographic} Leading with the Good: A Must have for Customer Experience Success appeared first on Joseph Michelli.
Uniphore
AUGUST 29, 2017
Who wants to be a customer experience manager? A relatively new job title in the customer service space, customer experience manager is more than just a fancy title – it is the glue that holds the customer service center together. Read More.
Heart of the Customer
AUGUST 7, 2017
I met Beth Berg—a customer experience researcher—at a journey mapping round table at this year’s CXPA Insight Exchange, and really enjoyed her approach. So, I invited her to get together and discuss her approach, and she agreed. First, tell us a little bit about yourself and your work. My area of expertise is bringing the […]. The post Bringing the Voice of the Customer into CX Design – and Interview with Beth Berg appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Kayako
AUGUST 23, 2017
This is a guest post by our friends over at Nicereply. Viktor Magic will teach why it’s important to ace your next customer feedback survey and which mistakes to avoid. Read on for a great post! Surveys come in all shapes and sizes. Done correctly, surveys can improve all departments in your business: Your product team can use them to find product-market fit and get customer feedback.
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Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.
Experience Matters
AUGUST 7, 2017
We just published a Temkin Group report, Infusing Culture Throughout The New Employee Journey. Here’s the executive summary: A company’s culture reflects the attitudes and behaviors of its employees and influences almost every aspect of the employee journey and experience. However, despite its importance, many companies fail to orient new employees to their culture during onboarding.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 15, 2017
Episode Overview. Annette Höher-Bäuerle went from being internal legal counsel at the Thomas Cook Group to leading all of Customer Experience globally. Her skills and long tenure with the company led her to use agile design thinking to prove and implement changes in the customer experience — to gain traction and drive real sustainable improvement.
Who's Your Gladys?
AUGUST 2, 2017
You’ve undoubtedly heard of the Internet of Things (IoT). So what is it? According to Forbes, IoT is described as everyday objects that can be connected to the Internet and be recognized by other devices and contribute info to a database. The Internet of Things. The post How is the Internet of Things Affecting Customer Service? appeared first on Who's Your Gladys?
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