Serving today’s digitally savvy consumers across all channels poses a major challenge for marketers. In most cases, meeting omnichannel requirements includes looking at whether the company needs to expand, upgrade, and replace its CX technology infrastructure. At the same time, the focus often shifts from implementing a specific software vendor’s product or platform for omnichannel to a… read more >
Digital Transformation Requires a New Approach to Technology Implementation In this paper, Jill Finger Gibson explains why it’s essential to rethink traditional approaches when it comes to customer experience (CX) technology implementations. Organizations must learn to look beyond “go live” to achieve sustainable digital transformation. This new mindset will also put them in a stronger position… read more >
Focusing on operational excellence in customer experience is a key trend for 2017. It’s also a strategic way to change the culture of organizations that have committed to customer experience (CX) transformation even though mid-managers and employees have not fully embraced a new mindset and changed their behaviors. Many companies spend massive amounts of money… read more >
CEOs Will Double Down on Operational Excellence in Customer Experience Management in 2017 Putting the customer first will remain a top priority for CEOs throughout 2017 as senior executives around the globe continue to transform the enterprise from the outside-in and inside-out. How? By delighting customers and delivering exceptional experiences independent of existing and emerging… read more >
In my last post, I identified a strategic focus on operational excellence that will drive business leaders responsible for business transformation and customer experience (CX) management in 2017. Business leaders want to move beyond experimentation with emerging technologies. And they definitely want to end budget-blowing overruns on large scale projects, like omnichannel, which can cost… read more >
January is that time of the year when business and technology trends start surfacing fast and furious from think tanks, research firms, journalists, and independent consultants. This year is no exception—pundits have plenty to say about trends for hot technologies, such as the internet of things (IoT), virtual reality, cognitive computing, conversational robots, just to… read more >
Doing something over and over again and expecting a different result is EITHER practice or insanity. The difference is simply in how long you’re willing to wait until things start to change. Similarly, treating all customers the same and simply doing the same things over in the new channels, is equally as unproductive. To successfully meet… read more >
Around this time last year, media conglomerate Publicis Groupe released a video of CEO Maurice Levy on YouTube. Levy explained that the company was moving to a more client-centric organizational model comprised of four divisions: Publicis Communications, Publicis Media, Publicis.Sapient, and Publicis Health. As Digital Clarity Group noted in an analysis of the announcement, the idea of… read more >
Customer Experience (CX) initiatives can be extremely complex or relatively straightforward – depending on whether the focus is on 1) customer experience management (CEM) by transforming the CX and reinventing customer-facing business processes across the organization, or 2) implementing technologies such as a content management system (CMS), customer analytics, or e-commerce. But no matter what… read more >
I love my dentist. How many of you can actually say that and mean it? I first met him one weekend when an abcessed tooth blew up from nowhere, spiking my fever to 102 degrees on a Saturday night. In desperation I called my regular dentist, whose answering service told me about the on-call dentist… read more >
