Starting today, General Motors will let you buy coffee, order take-out food or make dinner reservations with the tap of your car's touchscreen.
The service, called Marketplace, links drivers to popular vendors including Starbucks Corp., Dunkin’ Donuts Inc. and Applebee's. Using your established digital relationship with those brands, along with data collected from your car such as location or time of day, it can offer highly personalized experiences.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2017/12/05/your-car-knows-how-you-like-your-coffee-and-can-take-your-order-on-the-dashboard/#183cf4cf7b88/
It’s a universally acknowledged fact that technology has influenced every aspect of human life, specifically over the last few years.
This stands unambiguously true for travel industry. Remember the time when a "things‐to‐pack" list used to be very extensive ‐ camera, film rolls, Walkman, copies of important documents, maps, dictionary, etc. All these things can be carried in one tiny device called smartphone now!
https://www.phocuswire.com/Technology-and-customer-experience-analysis/
It used to be that customer experience technology meant only CRM, or customer relationship management. The terms were almost interchangeable because the only technology used to connect with customers was basic data like names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses. However, there has been an explosion of customer technology that is changing the customer experience.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2018/05/05/what-is-customer-experience-technology/#138880182d03/
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/
Retailers concerned about the future of customer experience should be paying close attention to emerging markets, whose quick embrace of new technology offers mature market brands a unique chance to watch, learn and implement change – with little risk.
Jacob Younan, Associate Director, Global Solutions, LoyaltyOne
https://www.colloquy.com/latest-news/watch-and-learn-emerging-markets-experimental-technologies-and-the-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/
Listen to Commercial & Operations Director, Group Enterprise at Vodafone Gary Adey, on the Modern Customer Podcast.
In a world where many customers just feel like dollar signs or voices on the phone, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world promises its customers they will be able to see the whites of its employees’ eyes. No matter the issue, there will always be someone there so closely involved in the situation that customers will know who they are and feel their presence.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2018/05/03/the-critical-role-of-operations-in-customer-experience/#808341266983/
A new report released today finds that technology is becoming an increasingly integral part of shopping and dining experiences for Americans, and in turn, technology successes and failures are seriously impacting whether consumers return to a store or restaurant.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180627005326/en/Tech-Savvy-Retail-Restaurants-Raising-Bar-Customer/
Being mobile centric, offering alternative payment options such as the ability to pay later and enabling one-click repeat purchase are all key to winning over online Christmas shoppers.
So says new research by payments provider Klarna, which harvests the views of more than 2,000 consumers to reveal that shoppers are so stressed out in the extended run up to Christmas that they’re overwhelmed when the day itself arrives.
http://internetretailing.net/2017/12/retailers-must-invest-mobile-payments-ease-pain-christmas-customer-experience/
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