Here’s how I define customer experience: It’s your customers’ thoughts, emotions, and perceptions about their interactions with your organization. These words — thoughts, emotions, perceptions — sound touchy-feely. Fluffy even. And because of that, many execs and organizations still dismiss them. But here’s what innovative organizations understand: Customer experience is the superhighway to business success. So (Read More...)
As I looked at Comparably’s recent ranking of the 100 companies with the happiest employees in 2021, something struck me: In one way or another, many of top-scoring companies have a strong focus on customer experience. Top ten winners in the large company category include: Peloton and Zoom, two companies known for their customer obsession (Read More...)
Happy Customer Experience Day! I hope you and your colleagues are joining one of the many CX Day celebrations around the world. In honor of all current and aspiring CX practitioners, we’re offering a $100 discount on every seat for our upcoming October / November two-part open-enrollment virtual journey mapping bootcamp. Just use code CXDAY21 at (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...)
Our September bootcamp sold out, so we’ve added one more session to our fall schedule. Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping This introduction will help you (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...)
Yesterday I read a disturbing article in The New York Times about cultural change at Twitter. In a nutshell, Twitter brought in an executive to “revamp Twitter’s design team and make it more diverse.” Part of his process: asking employees “to go around the room, complimenting and critiquing one another” in a two-hour meeting. The (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...)
This bootcamp is sold out! Join us at our next bootcamp in late October. *** Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping This introduction will help you (Read More...)
