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Mike Wittenstein: I am by no means an actor

Storyminers

Next, Mike founded Storyminers in 2002 to continue mastering the art and science of customer experience and to build the business. Measurement has a really strong bias in it.” A lot of things that matter to customers aren’t things we have measures for yet.” Your brand can’t be any better than what your customers’ experience.”

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UK Scores Fall Whilst U.S. Rise – What’s The Problem?

Beyond Philosophy

Ten-thousand respondents ranked brands’ Customer Experience based on six categories. These six areas drive brand advocacy and loyalty, the gold-standard for any company measuring CX performance. Per the report, brands in the U.K. Per the report, brands in the U.K. Brands in the U.S., Time and Effort.

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Is Outsourcing Your Customer Experience Really A Good Idea or Just Wrong?

Beyond Philosophy

Therefore, how they measure success tends to be transactional, aka, how much the call center expense was reduced, not experiential, aka, how it makes a customer feel. Sure, controlling the experience through a partner is challenging, especially when you need to measure results, but it remains crucial to an organization’s success.

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Was a Gender-Neutral Doll the Right Move for Mattel?

Chadwick Martin Bailey

It was 2002. sensitive) men, but try to hide it—so I measured their emotional reactions using facial EMG. sensitive) men, but try to hide it—so I measured their emotional reactions using facial EMG. So it’s also worth asking: Was a gender-neutral doll the right move from a brand perspective? Wait, don’t go!

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Uncovering CX in China: They’re Ready, Are You?

Beyond Philosophy

Last year, Forrester published the Customer Experience Index, China 2015, ranking 60 brands for their performance in Customer Experience. According to APAC Insider , Forrester concluded that no brand was doing an excellent job there yet. However, China does have social media; it’s just their brand of it. Billions of them.

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Getting Company Culture and Operations Right, and Keeping Them Right: What It Really Means to Be Stakeholder-Centric This Labor Day

Beyond Philosophy

In part, he authors built on ambassadorial ideas expressed in two editions of The Customer Comes Second (1992 and 2002), by Hal Rosenbluth and Diane Peters. Develop strategies for each group, so that measurable outcome value can be created. Harmonize the interests of each group, to minimize conflict.

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What Happens if You Fail to Plan for Holiday Sales?

GlowTouch

Is your brand aware of how? The past as prologue: last year’s data should provide a baseline for this year – what were the most common issues, what channels were most often used, what dayparts saw peak demand, and how did performance measure up to metrics? Humanize the brand. The time to prep, the time is now. About GlowTouch.

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