Customer Experience Gaps

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A few well known brands are renowned on the basis of how their customers experience these brands. Year after year, the situation remains the same: the same brands stand out in terms of the customer experience, and of the rest most of them are doing ok (not great) and haven’t improved much from the previous year.

So what’s missing?  Is it that the Tops and Middles in these so-so organisations/brands don’t understand the importance/value of customer experience? Is it that they don’t understand how to go about improving the customer experience? If this is the case then the mountain of speaking and writing that has taken place and continues to take place on the important/benefit of Customer Experience is failed. If this is the case then all the effort that academics, consultancies, and ‘gurus’ have put into coming up with and pushing forward their secret recipes – approaches, methods, tools and techniques – has been wasted.

Hold on. Could it be that what is not missing is not knowledge/understanding – of the benefits, and how to get there?  Could it be that folks understand Customer Experience and that understanding is not enough?  I invite you to read and reflect on the following words of wisdom:

In life, understanding is the booby prize.

– Werner Erhard

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Forbes: La Customer Experience è il nuovo campo di battaglia per il Business

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AICEX: Ancora sul ruolo del (nuovo) Marketing 🙂

We’ve heard it all before: thanks to digital disruption, traditional brand marketing is losing its luster and the customer is now in charge. To wit, Gartner predicts this is the year companies will compete primarily on the customer experiences they deliver. But if businesses are no longer able to compete on price, and the customer experience truly is the new battleground, what can be done to meet this sea change?

At the SAP Hybris Summit held this week in Munich, a fascinating session called “Mapping the Customer Journey To Your Business” provided tangible steps any business can take if they want to remain competitive in today’s digital economy.

“At the end of the day it all starts and ends with the customer journey,” said Damir Saracevic, Rivet CX Group. “If it doesn’t, customers will simply go somewhere else.”

Recent Gartner research suggests CMO’s are to lead this cross functional charge. But it’s not that easy to achieve because the customer journey doesn’t end after buying cycle is done.

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Dimenticatevi della Customer Experience

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AICEX: Anche in questo post emerge l’importanza del Cliente come persona.

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This title makes a bold statement but don’t get me wrong. I am not suggesting that you shouldn’t consider customer experience within your business objectives. A valuable customer strategy, after all, is known to deliver increased revenue, higher profit margins, decreased expenses, greater efficiency, and improved brand loyalty; however, the fact of that matter remains that many businesses approach this tactic entirely wrong. In fact, I would argue that customer experience is often a fruitless initiative. Rather, your organizational focus must be on the customer’s experience.

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Banche: L’evoluzione CX dal lato del Cliente

AICEX: Chi si occupa di CX nell’ambito Bancario certo non si annoia 🙂

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Banks have been focusing on the customer experience for more than 20 years.  So, one has to ask “How far have banks come?”  One way to answer this question is to look through the lens ofCXEvolution.  The CXEvolution framework gives bankers the ability to gauge how well their organization is delivering on the Customer Experience and what needs to be done to improve and move up the evolutionary scale.  Although each bank charts its own course, clear patterns have emerged over time that allow us tell an evolutionary story.

Banks began exploring and evaluating the customer experience in earnest in the early 1990’s when some forward-looking retail line of business executives realized customer satisfaction could be important to retaining customers.  This school of thought emerged as banks became deregulated and increasingly began to think of themselves as retailers.  Banks began placing more emphasis on marketing as competition for customers became more intense and management quickly realized that retaining customers and nurturing them to maturity was less expensive and more profitable than acquiring new customers.  Until then, banks pretty much relied on anecdotal feedback from branch employees and customer comment cards for the “voice of the customer.”  As reliable branch level measurement programs took hold and executives focused on scores, management began asking a host of logical questions.  Among them:

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