Today, startups that build tools for businesses looking to automate their customer service experience and operations are being acquired by global companies.
Though they may have the necessary automation tools that may be required during the digital journey, they may not necessarily have the experience to accelerate the digital transformation itself.
User/Customer Experience (CX) is the most important element in the journey of digital transformation that every organisation should be striving to improve.
https://yourstory.com/2018/12/uxcx-important-journey-towards-digital-transformation/
If you’ve ever worked in the service industry I’m sure the chant “the customer is always right” still rings in your head. Customer service and the customer journey are not new concepts. However, the medium that customer service is carried out through today is new. With the eruption and growth of the internet over the past 20 years – the entire customer journey has been rewritten – no matter how long you’ve been in business or what industry you’re in. As the way we do business evolved, the customer experience evolved with it. But why has it been so difficult for businesses to transition?
https://mopinion.com/why-the-customer-experience-should-be-your-main-focus-this-year/
"People have increasingly higher expectations and demands for better shopping experiences. While we just finished the holiday season when purchasing is at its highest, customers pay attention to their experiences and make buying decisions based on their satisfaction all year round. A key factor in customer experience includes easy access to products and services leveraging mobile apps. The following statistics emphasize my point:"
http://customerthink.com/why-mobile-is-a-key-factor-in-winning-customer-experience-infographic/
Many customer experience (CX) transformations stall or fail because marketers can’t show how their efforts create value. Isn’t it about time we created a better way to quantify customer experience? asks Jean Belanger, CEO and co-founder of Cerebri AI.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/customer-experience-2/why-marketers-need-a-better-way-to-quantify-customer-experience/
No matter what services your company provides or what communication platforms you use, customer experience (CX) needs to be at the core of everything you do. With all the tools that are available to help brands engage with their customers -- from social media to artificial intelligence-based resources like product recommendations and chatbots -- there are more opportunities than ever to create powerful customer experiences that build loyalty and drive sales.
But these tools aren’t going to use themselves, nor will a CX-focused culture spontaneously arise on its own. Brands need to make CX a priority at every level, from the first moment a consumer decides to explore their products online to the final step of the customer journey to the ongoing relationship that may last for years or even decades.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2018/12/11/why-customer-experience-has-never-been-more-vital/
Improving the customer experience (CX) is on the priority list of just about every organisation globally these days.
Yet it feels like little genuine progress has been made. It is still too difficult to discover new products on the web, find merchandise information and even purchase goods online, especially if companies were truly as customer-centric as many claim to be.
Why is this? Why are brands struggling to improve the customer-facing parts of their businesses – and what can marketers do to help?
https://econsultancy.com/what-is-ideal-customer-experience-why-elusive-for-brands/
We hear companies throwing around common phrases like, ‘Customer centricity is at the heart of our organisation’ and ‘We’re very much in tune with the needs of our customers’. Not surprisingly, seeing as how according to a study carried out by Bain and company, 80% of organisations they surveyed believed that they were providing a superior customer experience to their customers. Meanwhile, just 8% of their customers shared this opinion. Only eight percent! This is a huge disconnect and gap in perception, one that is commonly referred to as the customer experience gap.
https://mopinion.com/what-is-the-customer-experience-gap/
THERE are a lot of exciting stories about companies using AR and VR and about experts suggesting that the technologies are going to revolutionize every industry — from manufacturing to education.
However, if have you actually tried using the technology, it might seem difficult and you might feel that it doesn’t really lend itself to every kind of situation without a lot of adaptation.
Don’t blame the technology for it. The technology, to be clear, has a tonne of potential. It can really help businesses transform their workplace and their strategies.
https://techwireasia.com/2018/10/what-ar-and-vr-can-do-for-your-brand/
If there’s one person I’m learning a lot from these days, it’s my 2-year-old granddaughter. Watching young Hazel encounter and learn to navigate her way in the world is a delight and incredibly instructional. She has no preconceived ideas of how things should work, nor built-in assumptions of what an interaction should be. She learns by copying, and most of all, by trying: pushing her limits of what is socially acceptable, and technologically feasible, to help her obtain her goals.
Hazel is the best predictor of the customer experience.
https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/want-to-know-the-future-of-customer-experience-ask-a-2-year-old/
Customer experience is all about personalization today. In fact, both marketers and consumers agree on this in overwhelming figures; 96% of marketers polled know how important personalization is in forging strong relationships between customers, and 81% of consumers have a strong expectation that their preferred brands know who they are.
Of course, establishing high levels of personalization isn’t necessarily an easy task to accomplish. Such a task requires not just robust datasets but a suite of strong tools. UX design is often one of the best tools to accomplish this task, but even so, there are plenty of ways that even the savviest and most talented UX designer can go astray. That’s why we’ve gathered some of the best UX hacks to better provide personalization options for your customers.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/ux-hacks-for-better-customer-personalization-02154768/
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