Jim Tincher is the Customer Experience practice lead at SMS Research Advisors. In his blog post, Customer Experience Journey Map – the Top 10 Requirements, he shares with us detailed criteria they use to design and build their journey maps: Represent your Customer’s perspective. The customer experience map needs to represent the interactions as your … Read more
The first book I read on customer experience was Jeanne Bliss’s Chief Customer Officer. Like many of us, it changed my life. In Jeanne’s blog, Framing the 5 Customer Experience Competencies, she shares with us the five CX competencies. She states right up front that: “To make customer experience stick as part of your operation, … Read more
In the latest Temkin Insight Report, The Four Customer Experience Core Competencies, it highlights what it takes for an organization to become truly customer-centric. The report focuses on these four competencies: Purposeful Leadership: Companies need to make sure that all of their HR practices reinforce the company’s purpose. Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, explained … Read more
Forrester (and others) have put out some useful tips for designing experiences for mobile including Mobile App Design Best Practices and Best Practices in Mobile Banking. What I like best is seeing the fundamentals of experience design being applied to mobile. Here some basics: Take a Systematic Approach to Understanding Your Customers Success in designing … Read more
A new research study finds that majority of iPad owners say it is their preferred device for reading and writing email. The survey was conducted online in the second half of 2012 among 4,400 adults aged 18 plus, of which 66 percent were women. The study found that the most preferred device for reading emails … Read more
From Mark Eberman post, A Consistent Experience Is a Better Experience: Service Design on Micro Ecommerce : “Service design, viewed narrowly, is crafting each service your company provides so that the customer’s experience is a good one. All services should be designed experiences—nothing is unconsidered, and the needs and desires of all audiences are front … Read more
Annette Franz Gleneicki shared this post, this last Tuesday, December 18, 2012, on her blog, CX Journey and I had to past it along. As Annette states, “There are a lot of general life lessons that can be applied to the world of customer experience.” Here are the ABCs she shared: Accept Differences: Customers are … Read more
The Temkin Group recently published The Five I’s of Employee Engagement. As recent research has shown us the direct correlation between employee engagement, customer loyalty and profitability, this report spells out the 25 best practices based on interviews with companies that lead in this area. Here are the results: Inform 1. Follow a thorough communication … Read more
Jason Fried, of 37 Signals, wrote this in his recent blog, Pruning: Making room for something new: “It’s so easy to create (because creating is fun), but it’s also easy to ignore (because ignoring doesn’t involve work). Over time, if you create too much and don’t clean it up, you can lose control over quality. Quality, … Read more
In their recent post, Emotion Communicates Personality, Forms Relationships and Creates Meaning, Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adams share with us that: “Regardless of whether you intentionally give your product a personality, people will perceive a personality.” Not surprising, van Gorp and Adams’ research find that we tend to purchase products that seem to have … Read more
In the October 29 post by Om Malik, From inside Apple, the Scott Forstall fallout at Gigaom.com,Om shares: “Unlike in the Jobs era, when the company would ship features when they were ready for primetime, a culture of schedule-driven releases has become commonplace. The time-based schedule is one of the reasons why Siri and Maps … Read more
Lacey Grey is a Customer Management executive and one of the first Chief Customer Officers in the US. Grey is currently the principal at Customer Value Growth, an umbrella company formed by Grey for her consulting efforts with global companies in some stage of the customer centric journey. Prior to Customer Value Growth, Grey … Read more