From chatbots to hyper-personalised experiences to better understanding customers, AI and machine learning have been used in a variety of contexts to improve the customer experience. In 2022, the role of AI is expected to expand as enterprises become mature in its adoption. More and more business leaders in Australia as well as consumers are …
Most organisations store vast amounts of information about their customers in transaction systems such as their billing and CRM systems. They are also constantly surveying customers for their feedback and recommendations as well as drawing on customer insights from social media and other external sources. By Integrating all this data, brands hope to build a …
Too many customer experience projects stall because leaders are unable to demonstrate the value these projects create. Connecting specific customer insights to specific tangible benefits for the business is critical to overcoming this challenge. Initially, executives can get very excited over the promised benefits of becoming a customer centric organisation: greater customer loyalty, higher retention …
Nobody likes change. It’s something that we all have to put up with though, given its prevalence in life. Change disrupts everything it touches, throwing your plans into disarray and can take months of planning obsolete. Fortunately, there are several key ways to cope with organizational change, with these principles being able to scale from …
Over the last few years, the role of experience and insights professionals and the associated skills required, has evolved dramatically. Sprout Strategy’s new report, Australian State of Experience & Insights Leadership Report 2021 – 2022, looks at how these roles are evolving and what it means for these roles in the future. The research with …
A subsidiary of Energy Queensland, Ergon distributes electricity to 746,000 customers across most of Queensland. Ergon manages customers across regional and remote areas of the state, from Cape York in the North all the way down to Dalby in southwestern Queensland. Most of Ergon’s customers are households, but they also cover small-to-medium businesses, commercial enterprises …
Zoom2u was founded in 2014 to provide Australians with a better delivery experience. The pandemic created a massive surge for their service due to the growth in ecommerce and home delivery. Steve Orenstein, founder and CEO, explains how Zoom2u coped with the rapid growth, while transferring staff to work remotely yet still maintaining exceptional delivery …
Experience management leaders need to go beyond offering simple ROI and financial metrics to justify and validate the value of their customer and employee experience initiatives. They need to convince senior executives and other stakeholders in the organisation of why CX should be a strategic priority. There are numerous articles and reports available that tell …
Discussion with Jarvous Freeman, leading US authority on CX and contact center optimization, on how to leverage the contact center to create lifelong customers. Freeman has spent his entire career in this space and has seen it all. Name the largest enterprise contact centers, and he’s probably run them. Contact center optimization is his passion. …
Customer 360 is essential to connecting with customers As many of us know only too well, key to knowing our customers is listening to them, connecting with them both directly and indirectly, through an ever-increasing number of communication channels. Keeping ahead of today’s connected consumer is a complex business. It involves combining disparate but connected …