Many say customer experience will be the key differentiator for companies in the digital era. And customers have a long list of requests for brands. A lion's share of the onus to deliver these experience falls on marketers and customer experience professionals. Those very folks gathered at the fourth annual CMSWire DX Summit at the Radisson Blu Aqua in Chicago. (Editor’s note: Simpler Media Group, the publisher of CMSWire.com, runs this conference). Here they share their digital customer experience focus areas for 2019.
https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/what-digital-customer-experience-pros-will-focus-on-in-2019/
The business of customer experience
Think about the last great customer experience you had.
Now, try to pull out all of the little details about that experience that made it great.
Customer experience is a fuzzy concept. As consumers, we can quickly name multiple different companies with great customer experiences, but struggle defining exactly what components make each experience exceptional.
https://uxplanet.org/how-to-run-a-customer-experience-design-workshop-in-your-organization-f70af760ac89/
Digital customer experience technology has changed dramatically in the last four or five years. In 2014, in its first Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Wave, Forrester cited three core capabilities which set DXPs apart: content, commerce and data. In its third Wave on Digital Experience Platforms in 2017 (fee required), Forrester named eight core components: content, marketing, commerce, service, analytics, customer data, personalization, and development and operations.
https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/how-digital-customer-experience-software-has-changed-in-5-years/
The first step in determining if you have some problems with your customer experience programs is admitting you may have a problem. According to Dimension Data’s 2017 Global Customer Experience (CX) Benchmarking Report (Registration required), 71 percent of organizations cited customer experience as a competitive differentiator but only 13 percent of brands rated their CX delivery a 9 out of 10 or better.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/8-tips-for-conducting-customer-experience-audits/