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
One of the Apple Guidelines for developing applications is to create an application definition statement early in your development effort to help you turn an idea and a list of features into a coherent product that people want to own. A definition statement is a concise, concrete declaration of the main purpose and its intended … Read more
According to Larry Tesler, “Companies that delight their customers outperform their peers.” We should listen to Larry because he knows what he is talking about. Larry was one of the researchers at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated) back in the 70’s. PARC, if you didn’t know, has been responsible for such well known and … Read more
Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the “ability to access” and possible benefit of some system or entity. Accessibility is often used to focus on people with disabilities or special … Read more
I once had a client that was rolling out their next generation behavioral targeting enterprise solution to their market and we needed to understand how the different market segments were going to use it… so we created customer profiles. We divided their customers into three categories: Those who used their solution strategically; those who used … Read more