Dimenticatevi della Customer Experience

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

Posted by Sandi Piatz

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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Il Marketing è troppo ottimista

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By Mark Kersteen

Marketers are an optimistic bunch…

When it’s your job to make customers excited and engaged on behalf of your brand, it’s hard not to let that positive, blue-sky outlook seep into your thinking elsewhere. I’m guessing that’s why marketers often have such a rosy outlook on the future of their marketing capabilities.

Well, today we’re going to burst some bubbles. Not that the future isn’t bright, just that we probably need sunglasses, not welding goggles. We asked the speakers from Incite Summit: West: “What expectations do marketers (or others) currently hold for the future of digital marketing that you believe are overblown or unrealistic?” Here’s what they said.

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HBR: Lasciate che i clienti si segmentino da soli!

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The late Sir Colin Marshall, when he was CEO and chairman at British Airways (BA), knew that success in his business came down to superior value capture. In a 1995 interview with HBR, he summed up the opportunity brilliantly: “You’re always going to be faced with the fact that the great majority of people will buy on price. But even for a seeming commodity such as air travel, an element of the traveling public is willing to pay a slight premium for superior service …. In our case, we’re talking about an average of 5%. On our revenues of £5 billion, however, that 5% translates into an extra £250 million, or $400 million, a year.”

If you’re out to capture more value, one surefire tactic is to figure out a way to charge different prices to customers with different willingness-to-pay (WTP). Economists sometimes call this “price discrimination,” which sounds bad since discriminating against people is generally illegal, not to mention immoral. However, most of us encounter forms of price discrimination frequently that don’t bother us. For example, who begrudges the discounts afforded to senior citizens and students? (Well, all right, I have occasionally felt a tinge as I see my retired neighbors driving much more expensive cars than mine.)

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