Pop quiz! What does it take to deliver effective, coordinated cross-channel experiences in today’s business landscape? If you answered “data,” you’re not alone. In a recent survey of 1500+ marketing leaders, customer engagement platform Braze found that three of the top four challenges that marketers face related to customer engagement revolve around data: Collecting, integrating, (Read More...)
Earlier this week I posted about a study commissioned by the CRM platform Insightly, which showed the lengths that consumers and business decision makers would go to in order to avoid stressful customer service interactions. While the consumers and business decision makers in this study were clearly aligned on their feelings about the issue resolution (Read More...)
I don’t often run across survey data that makes me literally laugh out loud. But a recent — and somewhat cheeky — study commissioned by the CRM platform Insightly had me rolling in my desk chair. Thirty-one percent of U.S. adults reported that they’d rather wait in line at the DMV than try to resolve an issue (Read More...)
How important is customer empathy? Does developing customer empathy across an organization lead to positive business outcomes? What best practices can you leverage in linking customer empathy to business results? I’m partnering with Alida and the CXPA to find the answers to these questions — and if you’re a customer experience professional, we’d love your (Read More...)
I hope you’ll join me on Wednesday, October 20 at noon Central time, when I’ll be teaming up with the global procurement and supply chain consultancy Proxima for a fun webinar. The folks at Proxima share a mindset that’s near and dear to my heart: transformation through customer centricity. So… how exactly does customer centricity (Read More...)
If you’re looking for customer experience or service design inspiration, look no further. We’ve just announced our ten 2020 Service Design Award finalists. (And no, that’s not a typo… Covid through a wrench into our annual awards schedule.) The Finalists Commercial Work CX Transformation For Hearing Care by Smart Design in the USA Future Of (Read More...)
Never in my life have I witnessed so many people collectively anticipate the turn of a calendar page. Yet many of the challenges from 2020 still remain. And, at least here in the United States, we’ve ushered in the new year with political turmoil that almost guarantees the year ahead will give 2020 a run (Read More...)
It’s been… a year. And while it feels a bit odd to celebrate 2020 with a “Best of” post, I wanted to share the Bodine & Co. content that CX professionals leaned on most during this trying time. Because as it turns out, customer experience is even more important during a pandemic than it ever (Read More...)
This post is in honor of Service Design Day — and everyone who’s sick, grieving, or just struggling to make sense of the world right now. *** While walking across the Millennium Bridge in London a few years ago, I noticed a group of people standing around and looking down curiously at a man who (Read More...)
We’re in the midst of the most rapid change to human behavior that many of us will ever see. What you knew about your customers back in January just doesn’t apply now — and if you’ve got existing journey maps, they are officially out of date. Prior to the pandemic, my general advice for when (Read More...)
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