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Steven Walden
Steven Walden
Member Since: 9th May 2016
Steven Walden
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19th May 2022

There is big data, deep data and rich data. Covering all three is important in CX. The term Unified only refers to skating over the surface of big data.

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What Netflix’s customer retention crisis teaches us about CX
21st Apr 2022

Dean - I worked with Strativity and the Zen team on a starting piece of CX work. Good to see you are keeping to the great customer service theme and not being diverted to price competition.

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“Shut up, look, and listen” – the need for patience in the transient world of CX
30th Mar 2022

To be honest, I think the problem lies with IT controlling CX budgets. A colleague of mine once explained that people took jobs in IT to get away from people. So don't be surprised with a mindset that focuses on scale without empathy; root-cause thinking without consideration.
Rip budgets for CX away from IT and you might have more success. IMHO.

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Why there's a CX empathy gap and how to close it
26th Mar 2022

Thanks. I think another aspect is that firms are focusing so much on the immediacy of the here and now they have forgotten the impact of long-term loyalty. The approach is often build a data lake, mine the data lake, get immediate ROI by sending out offers. Loyalty as offer as immediate return. For me that's not loyalty. That's sales only. And it's set to get worse, a 'loyalty club' strategy will become de rigeur as cookie data is blocked i.e., as a customer sign-in to 'the club' so we can protect your privacy (not) - in reality so we can get around the blockage in cookies and fire offers to you.
This will undermine loyalty clubs.
The problem for me is cultural. Companies want your cash now and don't understand leading indicators. Over-engineered approaches are killing loyalty.

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Why it's time to reset our expectations about brand loyalty
10th Feb 2022

Buyers need to think more about methodology.

Example:

In many instances, the experience the customer (think-feel, do) is not equivalent to an aggregated dataset. Why? because aggregation assumes a mechanical engineering view of the customer that is at odds with reality (see Cynefin for the umpteenth time).
Think about it, scraping any old data on my experience of shopping is a partial truth; ask me, discuss with me and you'll get a lot better information - trial and test your thoughts, and you'll get my honest reply. Sure, view what I do, no problem there, but its not the final truth.
Far better then for CX heads to act transversally and focus on qualitative data not just quantitative. In other words, be design led - which might also help you gain traction with other departments by actually doing something rather than reporting on data?
Identify the pain... Resolve it, Measure the result (not vice versa)... in many cases but not all of course.

Trust a box seller? When did they ever put methodology above a fast buck?

But the problem is far deeper, as Ed identifies. When customer experience is understood as anything that touches the customer, anything goes! So the term becomes meaningless - Proof: you can have a 'bad' customer experience that generates cross-sale revenue, yet it's still a customer experience.

Personally I prefer the term Customer Centric Transformation.

ps..
Ed - I blame Gartner, stop calling it CX technology. Where is the magic quadrant for best customer experience measurement 'methodology'? I can send you one if you like.

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Why is technology such a headache for customer experience leaders?
19th Aug 2021

Interesting article. I would also extend to better consideration of how we embed cognitive science in understanding customers.

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Why the next era in customer engagement will be defined by small and wide data - and the right mindset
6th Aug 2021

So generic all the time.
Sometime effortlessness adds value. sometimes it doesn't

Why doesn't the profession learn to stop following hype or broad generalities designed to sell vendors wares.

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Why experts are wrong to encourage effortless customer experience
19th Jun 2021

I suggest a review of More Stories Like this. Fewer Stories Like that (SenseMaker) and the Cynefin view.
Not everything is about root cause and attitudinal data is not the same as mechanical

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How to convince company leaders to ditch NPS in customer service
10th Nov 2020

Thanks

Reply to
The six traps that mean customer journey mapping could be a mistake
10th Nov 2020

The biggest problem with Journey Maps is the Map itself.
You start by asking, what is this for? A nice picture that sits on the wall perhaps? If so, forget it.
For me a Journey Map is a design tool and should be seen as such. Hence, one of the biggest problems is the concept of 'a map' itself. Far better to use the approach of a guide.
For instance, in digital transformation, I combine each component of a process map with a screenshot of the experience received (i.e., the visual look and feel). So your process maps says 'click password' above which you can see the view of what that means in terms of experience quality. Overlay that with comments from UX research (UX and CX are the same), and you have a Journey Management Guide. This can then be used for ideation and training. As you can see this visual extension can be applied to earlier and later parts of the journey.
The utility is ideation and redesign, its useful when build teams are considering process maps and training teams need to see where they are in the journey,
No need for over-abstracted nonsense, just use what already is there.

Oh I forgot. No need for quant nonsense that sells software. Sure define key moments through hard data and soft data, but a map should be releasing our own innovation and understanding of 'where we are'.

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The six traps that mean customer journey mapping could be a mistake
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