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Who will be the next ‘United Breaks Guitars’? Don’t let it be you!

ijgolding

However, it is only a matter of time before a viral customer experience public relations disaster could hit any business…… and that leads me very nicely on to a story that might just be the next one to do it… Meet Maggie and David Wheeler.

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Statistics: Is This Big Data’s Biggest Hurdle?

Bob Hayes

zettabytes in 2012. It’s not surprising that Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, in 2009, said that “ the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians.” In a recent study , I found that customer experience professionals had difficulty estimating size of customer segments based on customer survey metrics.

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Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020

SurveySensum

XM Scientist and Co-Founder at Effectly AB and experiasummit.com, Joakim Thörn is a subject-matter expert and a speaker who specializes in facilitating and helping clients expand their market presence through experience-based differentiation. Jaakko Männistö is an entrepreneur, Founder, and Omnichannel Customer Experience Professional.