The success of many customer experience projects has been limited due to a range of very complex challenges and problems. “Design thinking”, with its capacity to harness the creativity and experiences of numerous stakeholders, promises a panacea for these problems. Over the last few decades design thinking has emerged as a framework for solving complex …
Customer experience has become a top priority for most organisations. Yet brands struggle to execute on their CX vision. Changing customer expectations and the impact of digital disruption are constantly rewriting the ground rules companies need to work by. In 2020 new trends will emerge adding to the list of existing challenges that are thwarting …
Personalisation is key to engaging consumers on mobile devices, according to research from Sinch. Yet most brands are not leveraging the data they need to offer the personalised experiences that customers want. The year 2020 is predicted to be the year of hyper-personalised CX. Fundamental to driving success in offering highly personalised experiences is the …
Organisations that understand the link between happy engaged employees and happy engaged customers will exceed in the experience economy. Successful EX (Employee Experience) equals successful CX. Yet these strategies are often not aligned to the detriment of both employees and customers. Research from the XM Institute highlights how organisations that are CX leaders consistently demonstrate …
Customers today are used to self-service experiences and expect instant answers to almost all queries. Some customers do their research before contacting you, others are less prepared but still expect quick, accurate answers to their questions – and with the resources from digital channels available, it’s expected that you should be able to provide just …
Technology is dramatically reshaping the role of the contact centre and the tasks performed by contact centre agents. What will the contact centre of tomorrow look like? And what will be the role of the agents in the contact centre of the future? The first call centres emerged decades ago. Their primary role was to …
In the last 2 years, Australian Red Cross has redefined itself by becoming a customer centric organisation. Katrina Harrison, their Head of Customer Experience, explains the journey the organisation has taken and how that has impacted its vision and aims for the future. Main Picture: Katrina Harrison and her team. Established in 1914, Australian Red …
Customer experience (CX) quality languished for the third year in a row, according to Forresters CX index from 2018. With firms failing to perform the core CX management activities and index scores for 2019 not looking promising, at first glance this may look like doom and gloom for the CX sector. However, this actually makes …
Two years ago Caroline Maillols was appointed by MedicalDirector, a leading provider of healthcare and practice management software, to take charge of their CX and digital transformation strategy. Caroline’s job was to change MedicalDirector from being a product centric company to a customer centric business. CXFocus talks to Caroline about the challenges and successes she …
Only 5% of customers with a problem will contact your organisation. The rest will just leave. Customer churn prediction based purely on analysing data from the contact centre or from customer satisfaction and NPS surveys, will provide a very limited view of what’s going on. Your analysis and churn prevention strategies will be skewed to …