October, 2016

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The Ultimate Customer Experience Infographic, 2016

Experience Matters

Once again, Temkin Group is publishing a new infographic as part of our CX Day celebration. Take a look at last year’s ultimate CX infographic. Here are links to download different versions of the infographic: Infographic: in.jpg format, in.pdf format 18″ x 24″ poster: in.jpg format, in.pdf format Filed under: CCXP3 Organizational Adoption […].

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Embedding Customer Centricity: The Customer Experience Jigsaw Puzzle

ijgolding

As someone who spent 17 years working in a corporate environment, I have experienced enough metaphors and analogies to last me a lifetime. Often, the use of both come across as either patronising, irritating, or indeed both!! That being said, in reality, I am actually as guilty as using them to get a point across as anyone else! If you are not fond of an analogy, then I suggest you spend the next five minutes of your time doing something else!!

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Do Customer Journeys Drive Your Content Strategy?

Kerry Bodine

This journey map for the Exploratorium , a science museum in San Francisco, is one of my favorites. That’s because the folks at the former design agency Adaptive Path (which was acquired by Capital One back in 2014) did a great job of highlighting two key things: 1) The entirety of the customer experience. It would be easy for Exploratorium management to focus exclusively on the museum experience—everything that happens within their physical walls, represented by the square box in the middle of

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Thirty Drivers of Value Perceptions, or Why Customers Love Your Company

InMoment XI

Customers love a company because they perceive value in their interactions with its people, products, and services. As customer experience (CX) professionals, we usually measure this sense of value with the Net Promoter Score®, or NPS®, which is a nominal indication of how likely the customer is to recommend the company to another person, and.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Increasing member engagement: 4 effective strategies for online community growth

Alida

Online communities are now an important tool in gaining ongoing customer feedback and insight. In particular, insight communities —private, online communities made up of carefully selected groups of customers who develop long-term relationships with brands—are now used by hundreds of customer-centric global brands. To get the most business value out of your online communities, you must work to keep members engaged.

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Infusing Humanity Into CX, Discussion With Barry Schwartz

Experience Matters

It’s CX Day in New Zealand, so that’s reason enough to kick off Temkin Group’s CX Day celebration. I can’t think of a better way to start CX Day in The Year of Emotion, then to share my Q&A with Barry Schwartz. During this one hour video focused on Infusing Humanity into CX, we discuss some of Barry’s key findings about people and happiness, and […].

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Customer Experience: The Differentiation Battleground

ijgolding

The Golding family car – a Renault Grand Espace we affectionately call ‘the beast’ – is reaching the end of its life. Despite transporting us to all corners of the UK; the entire length of France; and from La Coruna to Barcelona and Menorca in Spain; all good things come to an end. We have both accepted that the time has come to find a replacement.

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10 Steps To Mapping Your Current Customer Journey

Kerry Bodine

Of the four types of customer journey maps , the current-state map is the most ubiquitous. That’s not surprising, given how many organizations are trying to understand their customers’ current pain points and improve the customer experience. Wondering how you can get started mapping your own organization’s current-state journey map? Follow these 10 steps: 1.

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Activate Your Customer Service Superpowers with Kayako and Zapier

Kayako

Let’s face it: customer support is a superhero role. You make customers happy, remove roadblocks, and save the day when catastrophes arise. But it can be difficult to do all of that when your faithful sidekicks (in this case, the tools you use to do your job) don’t let you achieve your full potential. There are two superpowers that are essential for modern customer service: X-Ray Vision, and Telekenesis.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Generation Z statistics: New report on the values, attitudes and behaviors of the post-Millennials

Alida

Generation Z, the cohort born between 1996 and 2010, is ready for the spotlight. Finally escaping the shadows of the generations before them, many Gen Zers are now entering the workforce. As a result, their spending power, currently valued at $44 billion , is growing every day. Also known as Gen Z, iGeneration (iGen) or Net Gen, this cohort is massive and influential.

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Stepping To The Curb – Go Faster…Make It Easier

Michelli Experience

It will come as no surprise that consumers today demand effortless and expedited service! Online retailers like Amazon have made shopping easier (24-hours a day, purchasing from the comfort of our home, with no lines at checkout) but they make customers wait for delivery (typically relying on UPS). By contrast, brick-and-mortar businesses have products available for immediate purchase but often aggravate customers with slow or inefficient processes for completing transactions (e.g. lines at the

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Free eBook: 25 Tips For Tapping Into Customer Emotions

Experience Matters

As part of our CX Day celebration, we’re giving away this free eBook: 25 Tips For Tapping Into Customer Emotions. Here’s the executive summary: Emotions play an essential role in how people form judgments and make decisions. Consequently, a customer’s emotional response to an experience with a company has a significant impact on their loyalty to […].

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Document THIS! Betrayed by Customer Experience Documentation

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Processes involving humans (that is, ALL of them) require lots and lots of reminders, revisions and revamping. The post Document THIS! Betrayed by Customer Experience Documentation appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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100% is not enough to impress with customer service quality. You need 120%

Vonage

When a company reaches the top, does customer service quality still matter? Industry leaders tend to think so. I recently organized a service bench-marking visit to Singapore for 22 Korean sales and service trainers. In seven days we visited 23 leading organizations. A very busy week! At the Singapore Airlines Cabin Crew Training Center, one visitor asked, “How does Singapore Airlines stay on top all these years?

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7 Guaranteed Ways to Lose a Customer

Steve DiGioia

because my loyalty does have limits This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. You failed them again. Be honest – face the facts! You worked hard for years to build a loyal customer base and now look at you. Your customers are leaving in droves. What happened? Sales are down, bills now pile up. Employee morale is low and coming to work is no longer fun.

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New Research Confirms – Honey Preferred Over Vinegar, Part One

NICE inContact

In July of 2016, inContact conducted a survey of more than 500 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to gather insights about their workplace environment, motivators and challenges. This deep dive study provides a glimpse into working on the front lines of the customer service industry. Please download the full report for complete details. In honor of National Customer Service Week , let’s revisit a celebrated example of a CSR taking the “above and beyond” mantra to an all-time high: A Zappos

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Mastering Voice of the Customer – the VOC journey

ijgolding

Whilst there are still some business leaders around the world who are yet to believe it, most organisations have woken up to the importance of continuously listening to the perception of the customer. It seems so obvious that a company or business should constantly monitor how its customers feel about what it is doing, but it would amaze you how many are not doing so.

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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Report: 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors that rates the customer experience of 62 large tech vendors based on a survey of 800 IT decision makers from large North American firms. This is the fifth year of the ratings, here are links to the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 ratings. Here is the executive summary […].

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The History of Customer Service: Ticket Troubleshooting to Proactive and Personal

Kayako

Can you imagine a world where customer service was over physical mail? You sit down at your typewriter, write out a wordy letter, send it into the head office that’s located halfway across the country, and wait a few weeks for a reply? Or, go further back in time: you purchase an item from an independent store, and when you get home you find it’s defective.

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Improve the Experience by Asking the Impossible Questions

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Asking questions without limitations can lead to a better experience for your customers. The post Improve the Experience by Asking the Impossible Questions appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Should You Really Wait For The Perfect Employee?

Steve DiGioia

…or does it even matter? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. After your star performer quit and left you high and dry you insisted on keeping that manager position open for three weeks. Face it; your pride got the best of you. “How dare he walk out like that? Besides, we didn’t need him anyway”. Boy, how wrong you were. No emails went out about why he left and there was no mention to the middle managers of what happened.

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An Introduction to AI in Customer Service

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has risen dramatically in the customer service industry over the last few years. But many contact centers have yet to implement AI. In this eBook, we give an introduction to how customer service leaders are using AI to improve their customer experience.

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Customer Experience Is the New Competitive Advantage

GetFeedback

It takes a personalized, customer-centric approach to capture the modern consumer's attention. That's why customer experience is the next frontier.

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Customer churn: The pipeline that shall save you

Customer Bliss

Customer churn is bad. You don’t want it, obviously. In a perfect utopia, all your customers would stay in the fold, retain, and refer you to other new customers. That’s the apex of a customer-driven growth engine, and it’s essentially the polar opposite of customer churn. But we all know the quote, often attributed to Warren Buffett.

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Report: Translating Brand Promises into Employee Behaviors

Experience Matters

We just published a Temkin Group report, Translating Brand Promises into Employee Behaviors. Here’s the executive summary: Temkin Group has found that the companies that deliver great customer experience use their brand as a blueprint for how they treat customers, which is why Compelling Brand Values is one of our four customer experience core competencies.

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4 Tips to Ace Your First 90 Days as a Support Manager

Kayako

Finding your comfort level in a new job can be arduous for you, and your colleagues as you absorb your responsibilities. For customer support managers there are many duties to get your head around. Your first 90 days as a new manager are scary, and more so if you are pioneering a role in the company. How do you navigate the start of your journey with a company?

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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3 Reasons Your Brain Won’t Let You See the True Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

We’re giving our brains a real workout when dealing with customers. We do our best to see the experience from the their perspective, to empathize with their issue and find the best solution, and simultaneously use processes and procedures to move the interaction to its next logical step. We use our own lens to view the experience while trying to […].

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Market research as a profit center: How smart companies use customer feedback to generate revenue

Alida

One of the biggest disruptions in the market research industry is the monetization of the research practice. According to research expert Ray Poynter, more insight teams are generating revenue by providing market research data and other value-added services to partners, sponsors and advertisers. Driven by new technologies like insight communities , this trend is one of the consequences of the move towards faster and cheaper research.

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New Research Confirms – Honey Preferred Over Vinegar, Part Two

NICE inContact

In July of 2016, inContact conducted a survey of more than 500 Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) to gather insights about their workplace environment, motivators and challenges. This deep dive study provides a glimpse into working on the front lines of the customer service industry. In honor of National Customer Service Week , we are going to take a closer look at things, from the CSRs’ perspective.