Annual customer satisfaction research tend to provide organizations with a general insight into what customers think of them. Based on the results, ‘general action’ is taken. The customer service department is told to do things differently, sales employees are sent to training days and attempts are made to make the logistic process more efficient.
In reality, these are all solutions that customers might experience the benefit of in the long term. But short term, they don’t see any change at all. There concrete complaints turn into negative emotion and they will only remember the truly negative contacts they experienced. Problems that will only be solved long term, by which time that particular customer is long gone and won’t benefit from improvements at all.
https://www.cx.management/the-importance-of-customer-feedback-during-the-entire-customer-journey/
Every day is a new opportunity to learn how disconnected businesses are with their customers. But it's also a chance to discover the secret to better experience is really quite simple. All you need to do is listen.
Consider this. I recently spent 63 minutes glued to my phone trying unsuccessfully to resolve a health insurance issue. Five phone calls. A dozen transfers. Multiple hang-ups. Inconsistent information. Contradictory advice.
Come on now, I wondered. Is this any way to treat a customer?
http://customerthink.com/the-most-amazing-customer-experience-starts-with-your-ears/
First, improve your customer’s experience – to help you attract customers, keep customers, generate solid business results, and maintain a positive reputation for service.
Second, build a strong and sustainable culture that provides a great place to work, for everyone who works in or with your organization.
Today, these outcomes are becoming more difficult to achieve, and more important because of six trends, six big changes that are disrupting the expectations of customers and the delivery of great customer experiences.
http://customerthink.com/the-six-disruptors-of-customer-experience/
How do you give your customers a personalised, positive experience with every interaction, while also optimising operational performance for the best business results? It’s something that even the most technologically advanced organisations struggle with. But working with Verint, a global leader in Workforce Engagement capabilities, we’ve come up with a way to make it easier.
With that, here are three reasons to opt for a converged customer and workforce experience:
https://www.tahawultech.com/insight/three-reasons-to-opt-for-a-converged-customer-and-workforce-experience/
The rapid rise of Airbnb shook the very foundations of the industry and forced incumbents to adapt fast. For marketers and business leaders, this presented both opportunities and threats. Here we look at the transformation of the industry and examine how businesses today can protect themselves.
Travel and tourism is one of the world’s largest industries valued at over 1.2 trillion USD. 1.24bn people worldwide left their homes and arrived at a foreign destination in 2016 – a number which has almost doubled since 2003. The industry is fast-growing and full of opportunity, with a lot of revenue on the table from holidaymakers. In the US the number of domestic trips taken by leisure and business travelers is expected to surpass 471m by 2020 with a growing proportion of these trips being booked online.
https://www.clickz.com/to-airbnb-and-beyond-digital-transformation-in-hotels-hospitality/113872/
Customer centric leaders come in all shapes, forms and sizes. I’m just kidding, they aren’t products that you can pick from a supermarket shelf. Nevertheless they all have one thing in common: a profound passion to serve the customer and give them the best experience possible. Not all customer centric leaders possess the skills that they should, but these are skill is one that can be acquired.
Learning from some of these global customer centric leaders you too can streamline your company to become customer centric and work from there.
What are the must-haves for a customer centric leader?
http://customerthink.com/top-10-must-haves-for-a-customer-centric-leader/
Another year has passed and Digital Customer Experience (CX) finds itself – once again – at the top of many business agendas. Not surprisingly however, considering many experts are calling CX ‘the new battlefield’. Dramatic, I know – but there is some truth in the expression. In fact, 2018 is the year Gartner predicted that more than 50% of organisations will redirect their investments towards customer experience innovations. So why is there such a high demand to provide a good digital customer experience? And as a result, what kinds of innovations and trends can we expect to see this year?
https://mopinion.com/top-digital-customer-experience-cx-trends-for-2018/
For modern business owners, tracking their customer and related experiences is really crucial to stay a step ahead of the competition. As the market says, customer experience (CX) is the key driver of any businesses’ success. With technological advancements, the business domain is now gifted with social media analytics as-well-as tailored software that track customer experience across multiple channels. In this article, we will be discussing how your small business can utilize these customer experience analytics and drive home your business-critical customers.
http://customerthink.com/tracking-customer-experience-analytics-helps-small-businesses/
As part of its online vision, travel organisation TUI focuses on maintaining an enjoyable and meaningful customer experience. TUI.nl, in particular, is a channel that enables TUI customers to find the information that they’re looking for, get in touch with TUI representatives and ultimately book their next vacation. In other words, a very crucial and commonly used portal for bringing in and converting customers.
https://mopinion.com/customer-success-story-tui-a-multichannel-feedback-solution-for-a-major-travel-organisation/
Businesses desire to make use of this insight, so “We’ve moved down a path to determine how to operationalize emotion, putting core insights on emotion into practices as we design, build and operate elements of the customer experience… This is not a prediction of how the customer will feel in the future; instead, it is an explanation of what they are likely to do as a result of feeling that way.”
http://customerthink.com/use-data-science-to-understand-customer-emotions-and-decisions/
Bookmarks on this page are managed by an admin user. 
