Skip to content
Wednesday, 26th November 2025
  • Contact Us
  • Home
  • Content Hubs
    • Executive Profiles
    • Customer Experience
    • Customer Insights and Data
    • Employee Experience
    • Artificial Intelligence – AI
    • Contact Centre & Channels
    • Marketing & Brand Experience
  • CX Events
  • Training & Development
  • Movers & Shakers
  • Vendor Gallery
  • Subscribe

Author: Mark Squires

Mark Squires is CEO of Watermelon, a CX consultancy and ‘Voice of the Customer” research firm based in Sydney, London and New York. Mark is passionate about enhancing the customer experience and helping organisations to understand their customers better. That’s why he founded Watermelon Research in 2012. Watermelon builds smart, simple and customised solutions to understand customer experience in the moment. A team of CX experts, Watermelon works with clients to measure what matters to customers and drive real business change.

Why do ‘customer experience’ programmes fail?

By Mark Squires   Posted in Customer Experience Features
Posted on August 23, 2018August 23, 2018

Many business leaders look to use CX programmes to strategically improve operations – companies are investing more today than ever before on customer service and customer experience. But why are CX programmes failing, and what can business leaders like yourself do about it? Here are four common pitfalls to avoid as you develop and execute …

CXFocus Magazine

CXFocus is for executives who need to understand digital disruption and how it’s reshaping the type of relationships brands have with their customers. By providing the latest news, special reports, case studies, blogs, videos, and a host of other content CX Focus is a forum to explore the key issues around customer experience and digital disruption.
  • Editorial schedule and features list

Latest Posts

  • Ready Maestro! Genesys unveils its strategy for an orchestrated future November 20, 2025
  • Is CX in existential crisis? Why 2026 will be an Inflection Point November 17, 2025
  • Voice AI: The future of the contact centre is not automation — it is true conversation November 12, 2025
  • Better identity management for superior, repeatable CX November 10, 2025
  • AI needs empathy and strategy, not just ROI November 7, 2025
  • How AI is reshaping the patient experience in Australia? November 6, 2025
  • Boosting employee experience in contact centres is the key to success October 31, 2025
  • How the Qualtrics-PG Forsta merger will reshape the VoC market October 30, 2025
  • Optimising digital experiences to fuel growth October 28, 2025
  • For Kapitol Group human connection & trust wins the business October 28, 2025
Theme by WPFig