On Wednesday, May 19, I’ll be joining forces with my friend and former Forrester colleague Megan Burns at Medallia’s Experience 21 event. In an engaging panel discussion led by Medallia’s own Brian Andrews, we’ll share our unique perspectives from decades of observing and shaping the customer experience landscape. Join this session to hear our thoughts (Read More...)
What do pirates, waffles, and discos have to do with customer experience? Find out by watching the replay of my keynote! *** I’m super excited to be part of Alida’s Activate Spring Masterclass on May 6 from 1 – 5pm ET. This is your chance to understand how you can quantify the value of customers’ (Read More...)
It’s the time for service designers from around the world to connect. Now more than ever, we need to lean on one another to navigate the challenges ahead, and the Service Design Network is looking forward to bringing the service design community together for virtual reflection, insight, and inspiration on October 22 & 23, 2020. (Read More...)
Join me on Wednesday, August 12 at 1:00pm ET for a webinar with the Toronto Customer Experience Professionals Association. It’s FREE for CXPA members and CAD$65 for everyone else. Webinar overview Journey mapping has reached fever pitch in the customer experience world. But an organization’s mapping efforts are only effective if the resulting maps drive (Read More...)
While some in-person customer experience conferences in parts of the world less affected by the pandemic seem to be moving forward for fall 2020, there’s no clear indication of when the global events industry will get back to some kind of new normal. But that doesn’t mean that your need to learn and connect with (Read More...)
In today’s digital era, consumers are rapidly continuing to switch from offline to online — and the contact center may be the only time your customer interacts with your business. As a result, it is imperative to master the customer journey in order to gain insight into your customer’s pain points along each and every (Read More...)
This event has been rescheduled for September 17 & 18. Hope to see you there! *** What are you doing on March 17 & 18? If you’re going to find yourself in the neighborhood of Lima, Peru, please join me at the 17th International Retail Congress. Retail 2020 is aimed at entrepreneurs, managers, general managers, (Read More...)
I’m often asked about customer experience conferences: What’s out there? Where am I speaking? Which conferences would I recommend? I’ve compiled the following list of conferences spanning a variety of topics — like CEM, service design, customer loyalty, customer success, and contact centers — that should be of interest to a wide range of customer experience professionals. (Read More...)
This is the fourth post in a series about how to scale service design, based on my closing remarks at the 2017 Service Design Global Conference in Madrid. The first three posts focused on technology, the ubiquity of contexts in which practitioners are now applying service design, and the discipline’s need for coaching. This final post will (Read More...)
I’ve been writing a series of posts about how to scale service design, based on my closing remarks at the 2017 Service Design Global Conference in Madrid. The first post of the series focused on technology, and the second on the ubiquity of contexts in which practitioners are now applying service design. In this third post, I’ll (Read More...)