Customer-centric retailing and selling are the new business models. The new model goes beyond the traditional horizon of omnichannel, breaking down the lofty walls between internal intent silos and the potent customer experience platforms.
https://martechseries.com/analytics/behavioral-marketing/unified-commerce-customer-experience-future/
Auriga, an expert software R&D and IT outsourcing services provider, has once again earned its place among the most innovative, responsible, and dedicated outsourcing companies in the world and enjoyed additional distinction for the sustained excellent performance it has demonstrated for over a decade.
https://nulltx.com/auriga-among-top-companies-for-innovation-and-customer-experience/
When thinking about innovation, don’t just think of technology. Consider the customer experience.
“It’s about the connection,” Nicholas Webb said during a keynote address at CU Direct’s Drive 18 Conference Thursday in Grapevine, Texas. “It’s the way we understand our customers.”
http://news.cuna.org/articles/114293-innovation-includes-the-customer-experience/
Cultivating confident and loyal consumers in the digital age is dependent entirely on eliminating hassle. As evidenced with digital disruptors like Casper’s “fold em’ and deliver em’” mattresses or the lifestyle musings of Away’s expertly crafted luggage, today’s successful brands are identifying what makes their customers tick, and transcending their immediate needs. In many ways, these brands are expertly creating their own microcosmic culture—one where the combined appeal of convenience, luxury and knowledge is at arm’s reach, all thanks to a brand’s expertise.
https://www.psfk.com/2018/06/customer-experience-innovation-key-trends.html/
Almost every retailer out there will tell you they need to be more innovative, and that this is hard. Retail has long been an industry focused on buying low, selling high, and optimizing everything in between. Shifting to meet an expectation of providing content, services, experience, engagement and more – this is a big shift, and not easily accomplished. Some retailers – vertically integrated brands, or those with private label merchandise – might be good at product innovation, but that is a far cry from process innovation – and that is a large part of what retailers need right now, as they try to make the shift to be more relevant to consumers.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nikkibaird/2018/06/30/traditional-retailers-focus-on-customer-experience-at-the-expense-of-other-innovations/#1eb7a18f5832/
An innovation has brought another award to the Indianapolis International Airport. The Airports Council International-North America has named the airport's human-powered charging stations as one of the Best Innovative Consumer Experiences or Practices among airports.
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/story/38566197/airport-innovation-earns-consumer-experience-award/
The current trend in e-commerce marketplace has stretched its wings in various directions today, in comparison to how it started. Today’s e-commerce marketplace is no more just an online platform where people can buy or sell things but much more, from being hyperlocal to infusing artificial intelligence to offering even intangible goods and services like GST compliance or short-term loans, e-commerce marketplace has evolved rapidly.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/317179/
Now more than ever, marketers have a variety of new and traditional options in their toolboxes. In addition to tried-and-true foundational practices, our group of professionals shared their insights into new ways of approaching demand generation, improving content marketing, and leveraging early forms of machine learning and AI — all within the framework of a vastly expanded appreciation of the central role of the customer experience.
http://customerthink.com/the-evolving-scope-of-b2b-marketing-its-all-about-customer-experience/
In recent years, I’ve noticed my online shopping experiences have become more personalized. The data that online retailers have collected on me has been used to sell me the appropriate products at the appropriate time, creating an enhanced shopper journey. However, this trend has only occurred online and not in physical brick-and-mortar stores. So how do offline retailers adapt? During a recent panel discussion at the 2018 GMA Leadership Forum, this topic was discussed in-depth by retail industry thought leaders.
https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2018/08/innovating-customer-experience/
When I think of a hospital I think of fear and bad vibes. Patients are afraid of staff, and staff are scared of being sued. We think of aloof doctors and under-appreciated administration. Vulnerable patients are abrasively stuffed into a system that doesn't want them there.
The hospital that morphs itself into a luxury hotel, now that's something to think about. It all comes down to innovation and customer experience.
Here are 10 examples of customer experience innovation that transform the hospital to be more like a luxury hotel.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2018/08/21/10-examples-of-customer-experience-innovation-in-healthcare/#70466e5171ec/