Experience Design, Machine Learning and the Platinum Rule

The Golden Rule or law of reciprocity is the principle of treating others as one would wish to be treated. It is a maxim of altruism seen in many religions and cultures. Simply stated, “One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.” As a child, I learned it as “Do onto others as you would want them to do … Read more

Customer Experience Satisfaction, Loyalty and Advocacy Questions

When measuring your customer experience, there are three questions that you may ask your customer that will give you insight into their satisfaction, loyalty and advocacy. The standard “How satisfied are you with…” is always good way to measure basic satisfaction. When compared to “How much do you value…” – you gain tremendous insight. If … Read more

Customer Experience and Creating a Voice of the Customer Program

Vovici, provider of enterprise feedback management solutions, has an exclusive whitepaper, Getting Behind the Customer Experience Wheel, where they describe how to create a Customer Journey Map and a “Customer Experience Wheel” as part of creating a Voice of the Customer program. The whitepaper states, “Research reveals that having a centralized customer experience team and … Read more

Customer Community

A customer community is where customers gather to share ideas, advice, experiences and feelings. Customer communities allow the organization that host the community to “listen” to the groups talk about their industry, brand, products, and competitors.  Customer-focused organizations create these communities to gain deep insight into their customers’ interests, decisions, and needs.  Customer-focused companies listen … Read more

Customer Experience Management

Customer Experience Management (CEM) is a strategy that focuses organizations around the needs of their customers. Moving customers from satisfied to loyal to advocate. As brands become increasingly commoditized, companies look to CEM to maintain their competitive advantage. CEM solutions integrate external and internal customer interactions to create a unified, consistent, end-to-end customer experiences. By … Read more

Enterprise Feedback Management

Enterprise feedback management (EFM) is an integrated approach to the management of all forms of feedback available to an organization. EFM solutions centralize key demographic and attitudinal data about respondents, targeted subsets, and integrate feedback data to and from CRM, HRIS and other systems EFM consists of data collection, analysis and reporting. EFM solutions provide … Read more