How much do your customers trust you?

Trust is a critical component in the evolution of CX, particularly in a world and consumer landscape ravaged by the impact of COVID 19. Without trust, it’s almost impossible to build customer engagement and loyalty. Trust can make or break a business. Yet, in today’s digital world where things are constantly being disrupted, establishing trust …

Volkswagen’s CX success shifts into top gear

Volkswagen Group Australia’s obsession with improving the customer experience and making life easier for customers, has placed the company in the top spot for brand loyalty in the Australian automotive industry. Jason Bradshaw, chief customer and marketing officer for Volkswagen Group Australia, talks about their customer experience journey. Back in in 2015, Volkswagen Group Australia …

Beating Survey Fatigue

Collecting and analysing customer feedback, typically via some form of survey, is at the core of most customer experience initiatives. Survey fatigue, where customers become bored, frustrated or annoyed at filling out surveys has become a major issue, however. It can impact accuracy as well as the level of insight provided by feedback surveys. Survey …

Yarra Valley Water – Customer Experience Team of the Year 2020

Yarra Valley Water won “Customer Experience Team of the Year” at the Ashton Media Customer Experience Awards 2020. In this interview, Dr Anna Lorenzetto talks about Yarra Valley Water’s CX journey and the initiatives they took to understand their customer needs. Yarra Valley Water is the largest water utility in Melbourne. Providing water and sanitation …

Customer Data Platforms: Does your CX strategy need one?

These days marketing and customer experience are all about data. Having sufficient, accurate data to draw insights from and support critical decisions that help grow the business. Most organisations, however, have struggled to integrate and leverage their data in a way that’s easy for marketing to use. Are Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) the answer? Similar …

Why is local government investing so much in CX?

Many local councils across Australia have started their CX and digital transformation journeys. They are all at different stages of their journey, have different objectives and have greatly differing requirements but they all share one key objective – to promote ‘trust’ between citizens and the local governments that are meant to serve them. Local governments …

What every leader needs to know about cyber security – Part II

This article was originally published on managingcx,com. Cyber security affects nearly every touchpoint in a customer’s journey. For example, customers may unwittingly share sensitive information by filling out a form in a phishing email disguised as a marketing email, or click on a malicious pop-up on your organizations’ website. Some SunTrust Bank customers, for example, …

Four ways alternative data can be used to extract consumer insights

Information about market trends are everywhere, but by the time conventional media reports, it is usually out of date. The reason is that the most up-to-date insights on consumer trends can be generated from data created by consumers themselves.  Social media, review sites, eCommerce pages all contain a wealth of data that is updated by …

What every leader needs to know about cyber security

Cyber security initiatives are an excellent opportunity for CX teams to deliver even more secure, trusted and enjoyable customer experiences.  Greg Bell, the U.S. leader at KPMG Cyber, explains, “In too many industries, information security is still seen as a technology risk to be minimised instead of a business issue to be optimised.” Cyber security involves …