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How To Scale Service Design: Technology
Several weeks ago, I had the honor of delivering the closing remarks at this year’s Service Design Global Conference in Madrid. The theme of the conference this year was “Service Design at Scale”—and over the course of the three days in Madrid, I was inspired by the conference presentations, projects
Q&A From Our Webinar With J.D.Power
Yesterday I co-hosted a journey mapping webinar with our partner J.D.Power. We got a ton of great questions from the attendees, but didn’t have time to answer them all on the call. But good news: I’ve answered them all here! You’ll find them grouped them into four categories: general questions,
3 Service Design Conferences in 3 Weeks? Wow!
If you haven’t noticed, the field of service design has been picking up steam over the past several years—largely in part, in my opinion, to its natural alignment with helping organizations create better customer experiences. The latest evidence that the discipline is on a roll is that right now you
Broken Promises: Courtyard By Marriott Edition
A friend of mine recently had a business trip to the Bay Area and booked his room at the Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Oakland. The morning before his stay, he received an email from Marriott, encouraging him to “Use Mobile Check-In to access Elite benefits.” He read through the
Journey Mapping Workshops In Chicago This November
Want to learn more about journey mapping? We have two opportunities this coming November for you to join us for a hands-on workshop in downtown Chicago. If you’re got 2 hours… Join us at CMSWire’s DX summit on November 13. In our two-hour mini workshop, we’ll go over the essential
$50 CX Day Discount For Our November Journey Mapping Workshop!
Happy Customer Experience Day! I hope you and your colleagues are joining one of the many CX Day celebrations around the world. To celebrate today’s global focus on customers, we’re offering a $50 discount on our next customer journey mapping workshop, November 15 & 16 in Chicago. Combined with our early bird
Why You Need To Measure Journeys—Not Just Touchpoints
The concept of customer journeys isn’t new to the customer experience world. Yet it’s taken some time for organizations to evolve from simply creating journey maps to actively using the journey as a framework for how they do business. One of the most exciting developments of the past few years
Why Should You Care About Customer Experience?
A couple of months back, I wrote a post called You Must Invest In Customer Experience. In it, I detailed research by the American Customer Satisfaction Index that shows that an investment portfolio that takes long bets on CX leaders and shorts CX laggards outperforms the S&P 500 by nearly
Marketing Through Valuable Experiences
I first read Gilmore & Pine’s The Experience Is the Marketing on a cross-country flight sometime around the year 2007. Their article was already several years old at that point, but their ideas made me want to jump out of my seat with joyful cheers: “To be clear, we’re not
Congratulations To The Service Design Award Finalists of 2017!
I’ve had the honor and pleasure of serving as the head of the jury for this year’s Service Design Awards. As a jury member since the inception of the award in 2015, I’ve seen a steady increase in the quality of the award submissions—and this year was no exception. I
