Browsing the archives for the product development tag

A Superior Customer Experience beats the Vortex of Commoditization

in Books, Customer Experience

“Across industries we’re approaching the ‘Vortex,’ a feature horizon whereby winning customers and growing business is no longer a function of new features but something else entirely. Filled with accessible and thought-provoking examples, The Customer Experience Revolution demonstrates how organizations both large and small must engage with their customers to prevent commoditization and sustain a [...]

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The Next Generation of Customer Experience Leaders

in Books, Customer Experience, Event, Experience Design, Quotes

“This is the best business book in years! Bean and Van Tyne do a brilliant job of analyzing what winners do to create a world-class customer experience. They spell out the winning steps so you can implement them in your business. If you want to increase sales and customer satisfaction and, at the same time, [...]

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Customer Experience, Brand and that Emotional Connection

in Books, Brand, Customer Experience, Emotional Design

“Where does your brand begin and end? Where does your marketing stop and delivering online start? With cloud computing, online purchases, SAAS use, and live support in social forums, can you even define where your product experience begins and ends? These days you cannot and should not even try. Successful companies have prospered in response [...]

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At the Heart of Experience Design are the Designers and Testing

in Experience Design

If you are designing experiences for services then you will need service designers. If it is a space or counter experience then it may include training, architecture, interior design, display design, wayfinding and more. If you are designing experience for a product and that product is a device then you may include industrial designers and [...]

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Software Development Evolution Conference on LinkedIn

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The Software Development Evolution Conference was great – great speakers, great atmosphere, great networking! To keep the conversations going, they created a SDEC LinkedIn group. Please check it out. …and my presentations are here.

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The Customer Experience Revolution

in Books, Uncategorized

Jeofrey Bean of Del Mar Research and I are putting the final edits on our new book, The Customer Experience Revolution. It will be available January 2012. Jeof and I have interviewed folks who have shared their talents with Xerox PARC, Apple, Google, Netflix, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, JD Powers and more to gain insights into how great companies [...]

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Customer Experience and Creating a Voice of the Customer Program

in Customer Experience

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 [...]

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Making Peoples’ Lives Better is Good Business

in Customer Experience

In Hugh Macleod’s blog “Your customer won’t take a bullet for you” (love that title), he states that “If you want to benefit from a customer’s loyalty, you can’t bribe it, you must earn it. Deserve it. Focus not on upgrading your product but upgrading your user’s capabilities.” Hugh goes on and states that “Instead [...]

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Beyond SEO: Measure the Design

in articles, Uncategorized

Validate that customers’ needs are met and tasks are easy to do. Putting your solution in context for your customers and users, is a key to validating that the solution meets their needs and is easy to use. You need to work with people who fit the profile of your target customers and conduct design [...]

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Beyond SEO: Four Steps to Optimize Website Business Performance and Customer Experience

in articles, Uncategorized

In recent years, many executives frustrated with their websites have been told that investing in search engine optimization (SEO) should be their next step in making the most of their website’s performance. While some business owners and leaders have noticed improvements, most are still not sure that this effort truly optimizes the website for their [...]

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