Every successful company knows that customer experience (CX) is important and that developing and refining it to delight customers is a priority.
However, there’s often a debate about who should own the customer experience project. Should it be outsourced to a bunch of consultants or subject matter experts? Or should it be managed in-house by a cross-functional team?
https://techwireasia.com/2018/08/why-you-shouldnt-outsource-your-customer-experience/
Chatbots are a simple and fun way to help shoppers find what they are looking for and enhance their online customer experience. Thanks to recent advances, web developers are now creating chatbots that are ever-more human, aiding the flow of communication by recognizing verbal patterns and interpreting non-verbal signs.
https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/what-comes-next-for-chatbots-and-customer-experience/
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/
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/
At Modern Customer Experience 2018, I was up to my eyeballs with fantastic CX insights and exciting innovations. Here are three of my top takeaways.
https://smartercx.com/top-3-modern-customer-experience-takeaways/
Customer experience is the new frontier of business differentiation. Eighty-nine percent predicted that by 2016, they will separate themselves from their competition on the basis of customer experience—more so than product and service. A variety of factors influence a customers’ experience with a company, ranging from interactions with an in-store sales clerk, to reading an FAQ page to navigating a company’s website. We are currently seeing businesses invest heavily in customer experience, with Gartner reporting that businesses invested in customer experience more than any other area of marketing in 2014 and are expecting customer experience to lead innovation spending in 2015.
http://multichannelmerchant.com/blog/the-top-6-innovations-in-online-customer-experience/
There are often two camps when it comes to customer experience: those who think automation and technology is the future, and those who think humans will still perform every task. However, perhaps the most likely scenario is one championed by David Clarke, Global CxO & Experience Consulting Leader, Digital Principal at PwC, who believes future success in customer experience comes from a combination of people plus technology.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2018/05/14/the-future-of-customer-experience-people-plus-technology/#41c4e9f31bc1/
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/
I like to view customer experience as a combination of themes and capabilities that ensure the right product is designed for a problem, and the right set of integrated services are designed to support customers during various phases of solution ownership.
There are 14 common journeys I consider to be the starting point. Each of them have a predetermined map incorporating the objectives that a customer must reach each step of the way. This starting point ensures that no journey, or experiencer is overlooked.
http://customerthink.com/the-14-universal-journeys-of-customer-experience/
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