InMoment XI
JULY 21, 2017
Capitalizing on Small Wins for Agility and Growth Unifying the customer experience across every channel doesn’t necessarily have to start with a fully baked, end-to-end CX plan. In many cases, the best evolution happens as you follow the proverbial tea leaves—reading what the future holds and letting each initiative guide you to the next. In.
Experience Matters
JULY 28, 2017
As most readers of this blog will likely know, customer-centric organizations must master Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness. It turns out that you’re only as good as your weakest link. Here’s what it looks like when you fall short in one of these areas: Without Purposeful Leadership the company is Stagnant.
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QuestionPro Audience
JULY 11, 2017
A year ago, we published a series of best practice for questionnaire development. This year, we would like to highlight some common mistakes that research practitioners should avoid, to ensure their data collection effort is not wasted. We are calling them The Seven Deadly Sins Of Questionnaire Design. The Seven Deadly Sins emerged from an ecclesiastic era, and since then have evolved as broader ethic markers for those who prefer disinfected consciences.
Bill Quiseng
JULY 18, 2017
I had the great opportunity to interview Blake Morgan , customer experience futurist about her new book, More is More: How the Best Companies Go Farther and Work Harder to Create Knock-Your-Socks Off Customer Experiences. I have been a big fan of her customer experience articles that regularly appear in Forbes. Her book is a must-read resource for those intent on delivering an exceptional experience for their customers.
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ijgolding
JULY 14, 2017
“Focus on the whole journey, not just the transaction” In the world of Customer Experience (CX) you will hear this phrase frequently. But what does it mean? It’s the difference between a task and a purpose. The difference between a user story like the one above, and meeting a customer’s overall goal. It is important to understand the difference between the two, because how you frame the interaction determines how your customer will experience it.
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InMoment XI
JULY 17, 2017
According to Gartner’s research, nearly nine out of ten executives expect customer experience to be a key differentiator with today’s demanding customers. Yet a critical link — engaged employees — is often overlooked. A recent Temkin Group study revealed that CX leaders have 50% more engaged employees than laggards. Your front-line staff are the face.
Experience Matters
JULY 21, 2017
After an inspiring weekend at the 2017 World Congress of Positive Psychology in Montreal, I decided to take a look at some of our data that connects positive psychology with customer experience. I started by examining the question: Does the innate happiness of a consumer influence how she perceives her experiences with companies? The answer is yes! I analyzed the happiness of consumers (based on the degree to which they agree with the statement “ I am typically happy “) and the Temki
QuestionPro Audience
JULY 25, 2017
If you thought the answer was that they are both the same you couldn’t further from the truth. Though the two are different, they are often used interchangeably. It may sound like a semantic dispute, but hopefully the difference will be clearer by the end of this blog post. Remember in grade school math learning that a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn’t a square?
Kerry Bodine
JULY 30, 2017
Journey maps have become one of the most popular tools for understanding and improving customer experiences. (Case in point: more than 1,000 people have downloaded our free journey mapping template since the beginning of this year.) But why are journey maps so popular? And why should you invest in developing them? Let’s start with the reasons that the underlying framework of the journey is so important.
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GetFeedback
JULY 25, 2017
Customer feedback plays a huge role in customer experience management. We put together a shortlist of CX metrics every company can benefit from tracking.
Kayako
JULY 13, 2017
After a week-long trial, I was ready to purchase a subscription for a project management app for my personal and work projects. I eagerly pulled up the company’s Contact page , entered my details, wrote my inquiry about their pricing, and hit Send. Then 3-4 seconds after sending the message this came in: ## Please reply above this line to update your ticket ##.
BlueOcean
JULY 24, 2017
Would you buy a house without first walking through it? Even fully armed with an exhaustive list of property details, features, and listing information, would you really be comfortable forking over your hard-saved down payment and signing on the mortgage without at least taking a tour? Unless you’re a daring risk-taker, the answer is probably not. You need tangible reassurance that your new home will be the best fit (and won’t end up costing you more than it’s worth.).
Experience Matters
JULY 26, 2017
I recently attended the fifth annual World Congress on Positive Psychology (WCPP) in Montreal with Aimee and Karen. It was four amazing four days of inspiration and reflection. I’m already looking forward to the next WCPP in Melbourne in 2019 (it’s a bi-annual event). As I did after the the last congress, I’m sharing my thoughts and observations from the four day event.
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Vonage
JULY 7, 2017
Although much about providing a great customer experience is timeless, it’s also a good idea to align your strategy with today’s consumer trends. In particular, I suggest adjusting your style of service in the following five ways. Amp up your speed of service. I still hear veteran business people spout that old platitude: “Quality, speed, price – you can only pick two.
Kerry Bodine
JULY 10, 2017
Whenever we conduct one of our open enrollment journey mapping workshops , we start by asking attendees to list three words that describe their current feelings toward journey mapping. As you can see above, the top two responses are curious and excited. But overwhelmed is a close third. Take a look at the smaller text, and you’ll see that a few attendees have bravely admitted that they see journey mapping as daunting.
ijgolding
JULY 25, 2017
Over the last 22 years, I have worked in and with businesses of all shapes and sizes, across multiple industries, all around the world. I secured my very first full-time job in the financial services industry in 1995. Among others, I was interviewed by the company chairman and the managing director. At the time, as a naïve young man entering the workplace for the first time, I had no comprehension as to how significant it was to be interviewed by the two most senior people in the business.
Kayako
JULY 27, 2017
CSAT. NPS. TTFR – So many acronyms, so little time! As a support team manager, you’re already wearing a ton of hats – bet you didn’t think data wizard would be one of them, huh? But this is your life as a manager developing a SaaS customer support model that scales. And there’s so many metrics you can track ! It can leave you feeling overwhelmed with a lot of decisions to make about data.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Customer Bliss
JULY 20, 2017
This will be a shorter post than normal, but I wanted to put this out there. Sometimes with clients or companies, I’ll hear a concern about launching a full-scale customer experience program because “we’re far behind on it” or, more vaguely, “we already have something like that.” The status quo wins out and sameness persists, even though it’s not engaging customers and rivals are chipping away at market share because of their experiences.
Experience Matters
JULY 19, 2017
We just published a Temkin Group report, Renovating Your Voice of the Customer Program. Here’s the executive summary: Voice of the customer (VoC) programs are essential to any customer experience effort. In recent years, VoC efforts have continued to expand Read More.
Vonage
JULY 13, 2017
When a business clearly defines its customer service culture in its mission statement, values and goals, great things can happen. The right words inspire, motivate and encourage people to achieve excellence. A great example of how a finely crafted mission statement can create a customer service culture comes out of Singapore. The colonial post office in Singapore’s financial district has been transformed into the luxurious Fullerton Hotel.
Kerry Bodine
JULY 11, 2017
Half an hour after the first round of introductions and ice breakers, our customer journey mapping workshop was in full swing. The five customers in my group were in the midst of a warm-up activity we often use to precede journey mapping proper—brainstorming and prioritizing the ways in which they interact with an organization, in this case a major retailer.
Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight
As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.
BlueOcean
JULY 11, 2017
Looking for a new contact center outsourcer is rarely as simple as it sounds. That’s why we’ve pulled together our top “How To” procurement tips so you don’t have to spend hours hunting down the resources. From call center outsourcing costs and RFP questions to onboarding and strategizing with your new outsourced partner and their workforce management team, this Slideshow provides a high-level outline of everything you need to know.
ijgolding
JULY 12, 2017
I absolutely love it when people share things with me that I have never come across before. It is why I am so adamant about calling myself a ‘specialist’ – not an expert – as I spend my life continually learning. Every day; every week; every month; every year; I enjoy continually evolving my specialism – through practical application and through acquiring knowledge.
Alida
JULY 17, 2017
On July 13 2017, over two hundred Vision Critical customers, insights, marketing and CX professionals gathered in Sydney for the Asia Pacific Customer Intelligence Summit, Vision Critical’s 7th annual customer summit. Throughout the day, one clear theme emerged: shared value. Creating shared value is essential for developing an authentic brand and truly connecting with customers.
Calabrio
JULY 18, 2017
No one ever said working in retail was easy. There are long hours, narrow margins, heavy competition and the threat of loss at every turn. You spend most of the year in the red, hoping for a big holiday season, and sometimes it doesn’t happen. Succeeding in retail is tough and these days it’s much more difficult. Online retailers — of which Amazon is the most notable, but hardly the only — have completely changed the market landscape and put yet another pressure on this difficult market.
Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron
2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt
Experience Matters
JULY 16, 2017
As part of our ongoing consumer studies, we measure a number of different attitudes. Given our belief in the importance of Positive Psychology, we recently started tracking a few new ones: I feel loved and appreciated I am optimistic about Read More.
Kerry Bodine
JULY 31, 2017
Back in May 2014, I wrote a post titled The Connection Between Customer Satisfaction & Stock Price. The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) had recently made headlines, along with a 13-year financial analysis of the publicly traded companies in the index. Here’s the gist of my post: The ACSI had created a stock portfolio comprising companies with the highest customer satisfaction scores in its yearly study.
Customer Bliss
JULY 11, 2017
Episode Overview. Catherine Courage is currently the VP of Ads and Commerce User Experience at Google, where she’s been since October 2016. This is his third time around in a tech customer experience role, previously having held similar jobs at DocuSign and Citrix. I’ve known her for several years and I thought she’d be a great guest because of the tech space background, the multiple times experiencing the role, and her overall understanding of products, experience, and how to
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