"The business world’s preoccupation with customer experience has led to billions being invested in digital transformation. This means marketers can play a bigger role, says Omobono’s Jonathon Palmer, but to do so successfully requires clarity on where to best focus efforts.
This year’s research, in partnership with Marketing Week, gleaned from more than 1,100 participants around the globe, reveals key insights about the role marketers should be playing in helping organisations shape their customer experience and become more relevant in their customers’ lives."
https://www.marketingweek.com/2018/06/08/customer-experience-opportunity-grow-influence/
How are you getting insight on your customers that is deeper than your competitors? How well is it working? Are these insights allowing you to make changes that increase your market share and revenues?
You will already know where the trend is going. GDPR will create some volatility as the implications start to play out, but without doubt it will play out albeit with amended guidelines. What is also without doubt will be the explosive growth of passive data which will be harnessed to increasingly sophisticated analytics as a means of predicting customer behaviour. As data bandwidths increase and become cheaper, the sheer volume of data will explode as almost everything we do becomes monitored to a greater and ever granular degree.
Is it possible that we are relying too much on technology? Are companies now adapting their customer journeys, internal processes and products based on what the technology-driven analytics say alone? Or are there alternatives that will give you better insight?
https://nextten.media/voice-of-customer-and-big-data-will-never-be-your-key-differentiator/
Marketers are constantly introducing newer and more sophisticated Customer Experiences (CX). But, how do you ensure that all of your customer touchpoints will align with the promise of these new CX improvements?
Based on our VoC research, we have learned that the brands most successful in making their CS (Customer Service) and back-end processes align beautifully with their front end CX, are those which involve and integrate every department and every employee!
Here are 3 tips to help ensure that your CS matches the promise of your CX:
http://customerthink.com/3-tips-to-ensure-customer-service-matches-your-promised-customer-experience/
Kris McKenzie Senior Vice President and General Manager for EMEA at Calabrio explains to Information Age how having access to data and effectively utilising it to drive strategic business initiatives and deliver a stellar customer experience are two different things.
http://www.information-age.com/data-business-initiatives-customer-experience-123472182/
Harnessing the voice of the customer and using role-specific insights to improve the performance of every individual agent is how NICE Satmetrix is revolutionising Customer Experience (CX) in the contact centre.
Featuring a set of unique and truly innovative technologies that gather direct feedback from the customer and apply contextualised analytics to help improve agent performance, NICE Satmetrix offers an unprecedented CX solution that adds value to every interaction.
https://www.uctoday.com/reviews/contact-centre-solutions/nice-finding-value-in-the-voice-of-the-customer-with-nice-satmetrix/
GDPR may be one of the hottest topics in the business world today, causing many organizations to rethink and revise how they approach many of their everyday practices.
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, aims to increase the protection and privacy of personal data, also known as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), for all EU residents.
In the age of the GDPR, consent and managing individual’s rights are crucial. Because of this, Voice of the Customer (VoC) research may become an even more important source of data and insights to marketers wanting to understand better and improve the Customer Experience (CX).
In this post, we look at why.
https://www.iperceptions.com/blog/voice-of-the-customer-gdpr/
There are many voices you need to listen to when developing your customer experience strategy.
You listen to your customers and to your employees. You do listen to them, right? Both of them?
Think those are the only voices you should be listening to in order to improve the customer experience? Nope! They're not the only ones. There are many voices that are key to total understanding.
You know the main ones...
https://www.cx-journey.com/2015/07/the-many-voices-of-customer-experience.html/
With in-depth understanding of the wants and needs of customers and prospects, it becomes possible to plan and implement powerful marketing strategies and build meaningful relations with customers.
Organizations are aware that, in order to to reliably deliver superior customer experience in the future, they need to understand the customer experience they provide today. This is fundamental in developing loyalty and retention. In this context, customers feedback plays a very important role when it comes to dependably improving and enhancing customer experience.
https://www.capgemini.com/2018/05/voice-of-the-customer-voc-taking-into-account-feedback-as-a-whole/
Customers are changing far faster today than organizations are. Customers are setting the agenda. Their expectations are rising in direct proportion to their declining trust in and loyalty to organizations and brands.
You cannot deliver quality customer experience if you don’t understand the needs of your customers and create products and services to meet those needs. The agile organization is constantly soliciting customer feedback and constantly adapting and refining based on that feedback.
http://gerrymcgovern.com/customer-feedback-drives-the-agile-organization/
Customer experience is undergoing a massive shift — similar to how smartphones took hold ten years ago. At that time, if your brand didn’t have a mobile strategy it’s likely you didn’t survive. Today, we’re on the precipice of the next catalyst: Voice.
In her annual Internet Trends Report, influential analyst Mary Meeker named voice one of the top trends of the year, noting the rise in mobile voice and improved voice recognition. We’re entering a new era of customer communication as people transition to mobile-only and voice assistant usage — which surged by an estimated 130% in 2017.
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/319668/the-rise-of-voice-are-marketers-listening.html/
