Customer Experience Strategy

You want to create inclusive experiences for your customers. You have a diverse and inclusive design team and practice inclusive design. But once you create the experiences you wanted, how do you know if you succeeded in making them truly inclusive?

It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! — “Alice in Wonderland” Run Twice As Smart We sit in the penumbra of a pandemic, on the cusp of a recession. In these […]

Read this blog to understand what precision nudging is and how it will help improve patient communication, engagement, and outcomes.

How can CX leaders gain funding? Develop executive empathy: Determine stakeholder priorities, connect CX to these existing priorities, and communicate the value of CX.

As custodians and lenders of money, banks cannot exist without their customers’ trust. But why do so few banks around the world actually track and measure it? We’ve examined how banks themselves look at trust and, even more importantly, what they actually do about it.

Recently Forrester released the US Customer Experience Index Rankings for 2022 and one prominent message was the fall of CX quality across industries (see Figure 1). However, it also revealed a bright spot - the emotional quality of customer experiences remains consistent.  According to the Average US CX Index, 60% of customers expressed they had emotionally positive experiences compared with 62% in 2021 and 60% in 2020. 

Discover how to connect the dots of CX value to business goals and get stakeholders excited about its power and potential.

The Forrester Financial Well-Being Tech Tide™ report presents an analysis of the maturity and business value of the 18 technology categories that support financial well-being. Financial services executives should read this report to shape their firm’s investment approach to these technologies.

Forrester’s Customer Experience Benchmark Survey, Canada Consumers, 2022, reveals that CX quality in Canada has slipped in 2022 following several years of stability.

Forrester's 2022 Customer Experience Benchmark Study reveals CX quality in the US has fallen back to early-2020 levels, reversing gains made in 2021.

It’s easy to conflate real-time interaction management (RTIM) with personalization tactics, but it goes far deeper. Forrester defines RTIM as: Enterprise marketing technology that delivers contextually relevant experiences, value, and utility at the appropriate moment in the customer lifecycle via preferred customer touchpoints. RTIM enables next best experience (NBX) decision-making in the face of changing […]

What is your ambition for your customer experience team for the next decade? Pick your CX team archetype. Learn more in this post.

Journey-centricity is not something you overlay on your current operating model. You cannot preserve the status quo; it will disrupt your business. It requires a bold vision to use journeys to incorporate products and services in customers’ lives, to adopt a shared journey language that aligns people, process, and technology across touchpoints, channels, and silos. […]

Our society is coping with unprecedented challenges. Your customers, employees, and partners are all facing growing uncertainties and concerns. Geopolitical tension, income inequality and job insecurity, social unrest, and misinformation and disinformation, you name it! In these challenging times, established societal institutions have often failed to unify and guide their communities. Trust has become more […]

More and more enterprises are opting for industry CRM solutions over its horizontal counterpart. These new solutions offer a vehicle for closer, more intentional relationships with the vendor's partners. This blog explores the top four benefits, as heard from the CRM vendors we spoke with.

With its revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), Europe aims to make payments safer and increase consumers’ protection, integrating new digital players into its market and requiring financial institutions to open their data and services to third parties. Doing so enables competitors to offer their own clients innovative digital experiences that would radically shake up traditional […]

Amazon’s latest product, Amazon Glow, can offer insight into how the future of experiences (for children) is being designed.

Organisations are not always fully in control of all of their customer’s experiences. Whether it’s logistics partners supporting a retailer’s delivery experience, insurance companies relying on sales via brokers, or consumer-facing brands relying on retail partners to sell their products, an organisation’s end-to-end customer experience (CX) often relies on external business partners. Across industries, brands […]

Customer marketing leaders, get ready for the spotlight. We’re having a “told you so” moment in customer marketing. As companies turn more attention to keeping their existing customers, the job of strengthening engagement, building loyalty, and developing advocates is front and center. A full 60% of marketing organizations plan to increase spend on customer engagement. […]