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Blockchain, the Internet of Things and other top tech trends for 2018

Alida

Which emerging technology trends will shape the business world in 2018, and how will they change consumer behaviors and expectations? For 2018, experts believe smarter, cutting-edge technology will enable companies to provide better customer experiences and get more useful insight and data. More seamless home delivery.

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8 CX Trends for 2015 (The Year of the Employee)

Experience Matters

In my post last year, I named 2014 “ The Year of Empathy.” With this post, I’m declaring 2015 “ The Year of the Employee.”. We’ve recently seen a surge in the number of companies looking to build more customer-centric cultures and train their people on CX. It’s once again the time of year for me to publish my CX trends.

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Customer Experience Labs: Your Strategic Weapon

Customer Bliss

IBM was among the first larger brands to open a customer experience lab, and at the time they noted three major goals: Enhanced customer insight: The goal was to better predict individual customer behavior across multiple channels. Customer experience labs and … water heaters?

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Beyond Facebook: 4 types of online communities and best practices on how to use them

Alida

A 2014 report from the analyst firm Demand Metric shows that two-thirds of companies employ different types of online communities. Social communities are useful for tracking what your competitors are up to and identifying broad consumer trends. Online communities are now mainstream business tools.

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Self to Assisted Customer Service: Are You Passing or Dropping the Baton?

Tricia Morris

For the first time in the history of Forrester Research’s North American Consumer Technographics Customer Life Cycle Survey , consumers now say they are using self-service FAQ pages on a company’s website for customer service more often than speaking with a live agent on the phone. Employee Engagement.

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5 customer experience trends: What’s expected from your brand in 2020

delighted

In a recent report, they discovered that 67% of consumers believe that their standards for good experiences are higher than ever. The same report also revealed that 84% of customers say being treated like a person, not a number, is very important to winning their business and that 51% of businesses ‘fall short’ of consumer expectations.

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Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020

SurveySensum

Head of Customer Experience for UL EHS, Co-Founder of CX Accelerator, and CEO of Officium Labs, Nate Brown is an ICMI Top 50 Thought Leader. He is a Customer Experience Blogger and Speaker and offers expertise in customer journey mapping, a voice of the customer programs, survey process and analysis, employee engagement, and others.