Think Customers

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Disruption in business involves having the ability to sense changes occurring in technology, customer behaviors, and product demands and being able to evolve quickly and implement plans outside the norm for long-term survival. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog.

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

We’re one month into 2015, and it’s already apparent that Customer Experience is on everyone’s agenda - or at least on those of the 95% of retailers surveyed by Boston Retail Partners ,who identified customer experience as a top-three priority in the new year. In 2015, that’s all subject to change - and rightfully so.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 15, 2015

American Express CEO Ken Chenault and Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba , sat on a small stage and asked each other a few questions about small business, customer-first leadership, and the future of innovation. YWCA Chicago (@YWCAChicago) June 10, 2015. Quite the opposite, thanks to innovating. Stay lean if you can.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 24, 2015

Mike Zarin (@zarin) March 24, 2015. Michael Perman , Dean of Innovation from Gap, Inc. discussed how challenging it is to think of innovation in positive terms. Thinking about innovation in these terms is limiting. Leaders often not aligned: what they want for the customer. So many answers!

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 31, 2015

SXSW 2015 was no exception. Jeannie Walters Jeannie Walters is the Chief Customer Experience Investigator™ and founder of 360Connext, a global consulting firm specializing in the cornerstones of customer experience: customer engagement, employee engagement and connections like social media.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 18, 2015

A photo posted by Jeannie Walters (@jeanniewalters) on Mar 14, 2015 at 1:04pm PDT. . These are things that help me think about the endless possibilities of innovation and experience. A photo posted by Stan Phelps (@9inchmarketing) on Mar 17, 2015 at 7:22pm PDT. So, yes, there are things to complain about. It is not dead.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2015

Jon Galloway (@jongalloway) April 12, 2015. Vocal customers offer valuable ideas. I asked Amy about how she hears from customers like me, who sometimes are using their app on a daily basis. One innovation is using API partnerships to provide even more information to the travelers at the time it’s most relevant to them.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Marketers need to position products and the behavior around them for consumers who don’t necessarily know they are ready for the next innovation. MakerBot, a leader in 3D Printer technology, announced a variety of exciting innovations at CES. Robert Schmid (@roberteschmid) January 7, 2015.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 22, 2015

Marketers and other business leaders could actually prevent customer service issues by using social media to share more proactively with customers and their communities. Share innovation as it happens. Make short videos for Instagram or Vine explaining the innovations as they happen and the challenges around them.

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SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

One of the most compelling reasons to conduct a journey mapping exercise is to get various employee representatives around the room, engaging with one another and finding ways to make positive organizational change. Customer Journey Mapping: Three Ways Journey Mapping Can Drive Employee Engagement. suitecx ©2015, suitecx Inc.

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Alida

MARCH 30, 2017

At a recent Vision Critical webinar, Sam Trimboli, consumer insights specialist at Price Chopper, joined us to discuss how customer insight is helping the company thrive in the increasingly fragmented grocery industry. Trimboli highlighted three benefits of using customer insight. Identifying unmet need. Watch the on-demand webinar.

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Alida

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In our e-book The 10 Smartest Brands: How They Use the Competitive Advantage of Customer Intelligence , we reveal how companies like D E WALT, LinkedIn and Salomon engage with customers to make better marketing, customer experience and product innovation decisions. Increasing revenue with NewsCorp Australia.

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Oracle

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As 2019 draws to a close and a new year and a new decade are nearly upon us, we’re looking back at the year’s biggest AI innovations. Companies have applied artificial intelligence and machine learning to everything from enhancing the customer experience to revolutionizing medicine. AI changes how we manage our money.

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Tricia Morris

OCTOBER 1, 2015

But are customer service preferences and expectations? The 2015 Global State of Multichannel Customer Service Report published by Parature, from Microsoft and Microsoft Dynamics CRM shows that geography does play a role in customers’ views on service. Global Similarity Highlights. Download the Full Report.

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Tricia Morris

JULY 23, 2015

In the new 2015 State of Multichannel Customer Service Report , 98% of U.S. consumers say customer service is important in their choice of and/or loyalty to brands. Extending “//oneweek” to our partner ecosystem was a natural and logical step,” said Bill Patterson, General Manager of Service Engagement for Microsoft.

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Avaya

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Here in the Middle East, the biggest event that brings together technology vendors, partners, and their all-important customers is GITEX Technology Week, happening in October in Dubai. The post Building Innovation on Customer Feedback appeared first on Avaya Connected Blog. We listened and built the solution for that.

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Alida

JULY 28, 2016

To learn more about this topic, join us at the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit , where Lauren Meewes, senior program manager of seller at eBay, and Catherine Makk, vice president of global insights at HarperCollins, will share how to use customer feedback to give context and meaning to big data. The big data hype is officially dead.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 24, 2015

Sprout Social (@SproutSocial) July 22, 2015. Jeannie Walters Jeannie Walters is the Chief Customer Experience Investigator™ and founder of 360Connext, a global consulting firm specializing in the cornerstones of customer experience: customer engagement, employee engagement and connections like social media.

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Wired and Dangerous

MARCH 7, 2016

workers in 2015 who Gallup considered engaged in their jobs averaged 32%. The majority (50.8%) of employees were “not engaged,” while another 17.2% ” The 2015 averages are largely on par with the 2014 averages, and reflect little improvement in employee engagement over the past year.

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Tricia Morris

APRIL 22, 2016

We invite you to join us at the event for Microsoft and our customers’ speaking sessions which begin on Monday, May 23, with Microsoft general manager of customer service solutions Bill Patterson taking a look at the future of customer service, including what Microsoft has in store when it comes to virtual assistants and the Internet of Things.

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Andrew Maher

JUNE 7, 2015

Boy did I feel lucky I was part of a A-Team lineup which spoke at the Avaya Engages 2015 in London this week. Three things just threw me for a loop. Being part of the trio with Andy Cunningham (CMO and legend in Tech Marketing) and Gary Barnett (SVP and General Manager) was for me […].

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Think Customers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Yesterday at Advertising Week in New York City, MLB, NBA, and NFL executives shared their thoughts on the evolution of customer engagement in major league sports and why they’re experimenting with new technologies from live video to virtual reality. In 2015, 86 percent of U.S. adults between the ages of 18 and 29 owned.

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Wired and Dangerous

AUGUST 20, 2018

Gallup* reports that 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged! The majority (67%) of employees were “not engaged,” while another 18% were “actively disengaged.” ” The 2017 data are largely on par with the 2015 data and reflect little improvement in employee engagement over the past year.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

More than 70 percent of respondents from mature companies believe that enhancing customer loyalty is their organization’s primary goal compared to only 39 percent of less mature companies. Retaining existing customers is among the top priorities (51 percent). Methodology. Half the leaders polled are in the U.S.,

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Martin Hill-Wilson

JUNE 4, 2015

We are in the process of recruiting more delegates for the 2015-2016 P&Q Challenge. The post P&Q: proving employee & customer engagement can be improved appeared first on BrainFood Extra. We already have a cohort just for the insurance industry signed up and ready to go. The open course still has places available.

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Storyminers

MAY 16, 2016

76% of UK consumers had a mobile phone at May 2015, 6% up on prior year, 80% of UK consumers have a laptop and tablet penetration has increased to 60%. This equates to about £100bn of sales in 2015. International conference speaker and corporate consultant on customer experience, retail, and innovation. Fundamental.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Date: Friday, October 16, 2015 The opportunity for European customer experience. Published on: October 16, 2015. Author: Olivier Njamfa From Berlin to Bermuda, and San Francisco to Singapore, consumers increasingly demand a superior customer experience from the organizations that they choose to buy from.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 30, 2017

IBM was among the first larger brands to open a customer experience lab, and at the time they noted three major goals: Enhanced customer insight: The goal was to better predict individual customer behavior across multiple channels. Inside the Wendy’s customer experience lab. The yin and yang of customer experience labs.

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transcosmos Information Systems

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The Aspect blog provides technology news, trends and actual customer experiences, best practices for customer experience related matters for contact centers and enterprises. Ameyo’s topcs revolve around customer engagement, best practices for business processing outsourcing industries, and a lot more. Mike Wittensein.

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transcosmos Information Systems

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The Aspect blog provides technology news, trends and actual customer experiences, best practices for customer experience related matters for contact centers and enterprises. Ameyo’s topcs revolve around customer engagement, best practices for business processing outsourcing industries, and a lot more. Mike Wittensein.

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AWS Machine Learning

JUNE 16, 2022

Zendesk is a SaaS company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software for everyone, with simplicity as the foundation. It thrives on making over 170,000 companies worldwide serve their hundreds of millions of customers efficiently. This post is co-written with Sowmya Manusani, Sr.

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Eptica

JANUARY 20, 2016

Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Looking into the customer service crystal ball. Author: Robin Tandon Having recently looked back on customer experience in 2015 , what is predicted for the coming year? Published on: January 20, 2016. Eptica research backs up the need to make self-service easier. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Why aren’t organizations embracing digital customer service? Published on: September 16, 2015. Author: Steve Nattress The spread of digital customer service channels, from email and chat to social media , can provide organizations with significant benefits. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Eptica

AUGUST 28, 2015

Date: Friday, August 28, 2015 What is a customer hub? Published on: August 28, 2015. Author: Steve Nattress When customer service first rose to prominence within organisations it was straightforward to define. This creates a hub of innovation, improvement and competitive responsiveness for the rest of the organisation.

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Eptica

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Making a success of Twitter customer service. Published on: September 09, 2015. Author: Michael Cheung The immediacy and reach of Twitter means it has become a vital channel for customer service. times over the past two years. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Think Customers

JUNE 24, 2015

Drawing in new customers is more challenging than ever as companies compete to engage consumers who have a rapidly shrinking attention span and high expectations. Here are three takeaways for your own customer acquisition strategy.

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Toonimo

JANUARY 5, 2017

Businesses can differentiate themselves from one another by way of the customer experience. Several exciting innovations took place in 2016, as businesses realize the inherent benefits of delivering an exceptional customer experience. Businesses cannot be complacent about the customer experience; a proactive approach is needed.

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