Afleveringen
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Search can make or break your digital experience, but how much do you really know about search vendors, the choices you can make, and how search really impacts customer loyalty? Forrester Principal Analyst Emily Pfeiffer joins us to share some insights into what CX leaders should know about commerce search.
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A journey atlas (also known as a catalog of journeys) helps companies establish and sustain a shared customer-centric language across silos. It creates a strategic, bird’s-eye view of what matters to customers to help companies prioritize, assign responsibility, collaborate, and find shared value across journeys.
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Frontline workers have an obvious role in the customer experience, but frontline work has changed a lot in the last five years. VP, Principal Analyst J. P. Gownder discusses the headwinds frontline workers face and the role that leaders need to embrace to be forward-thinking in how they drive effectiveness.
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Emirati holding company Majid al Futtaim won Forrester’s first-ever Customer Obsession Enterprise Award in 2023. Grégoire Charpe-Civatte, VP of CX and Innovation, joins the CX Cast this week to discuss how the CX team embeds CX into the firm's strategy and drives action across the organization.
Featuring:
Grégoire Charpe-Civatte, VP of CX and Innovation at Majid al Futtaim
Show notes:
Emirati holding company Majid al Futtaim won Forrester’s first-ever Customer Obsession Enterprise Award in 2023. CX At Majid Al Futtaim
We discuss:
How do you make CX resonate in very different businesses?
What’s happened since Majid al Futtaim won our CX award last year, and what’s top of mind now?
How are you scaling for innovation?
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How can you get stakeholders engaged in your CX research program? Forrester analyst Senem Biyikli combines her research expertise with practitioner interviews to offer best practices.
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Customer experience for IT (CX4IT) is a concept that transforms how IT operates, placing customers at its center. Forrester Principal Analyst Gordon Barnett explains how to build experience-driven IT organizations and why it matters. We discuss how CX pros can inspire, inform, and collaborate with IT leaders to achieve great CX for IT.
Featuring:
Gordon Barnett, Principal Analyst
Show Notes:
Customer experience for IT (CX4IT) is a concept that transforms how IT operates, placing customers at its center. Forrester Principal Analyst Gordon Barnett explains how to build experience-driven IT organizations and why it matters. We discuss how CX pros can inspire, inform, and collaborate with IT leaders to achieve great CX for IT.
We discuss:
Who are the “customers” in CX4IT?
Is there a specific definition of CX when it comes to IT offerings?
What are the benefits of CX4IT?
Do CX pros partner with IT to make CX4IT happen, or is this an opportunity space?
Does best-in-class CX4IT look the same in every organization?
How can CX pros approach the IT org to inspire change?
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Sam Stern, Senior Manager of CX at LinkedIn, returns for a discussion on customer-centric culture. Along with a candid assessment of the current state of customer-centric culture at LinkedIn, he offers his perspective as a former Forrester analyst-turned-practitioner.
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Sam Stern, founding CX Cast host, returns to the podcast to share his experiences as Senior Manager of CX at LinkedIn. Sam and Angelina talk about the importance of maintaining trust and confidence by improving customer experiences.
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It’s time B2B organizations get our full attention! VP, Research Director Dave Frankland gives a survey of the research that will be showcased at Forrester’s B2B Summit, diving into insights shared on orchestrating comprehensive buyer and customer experiences.
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CX teams can take many paths to grow their capabilities and influence. Figuring out where to start and what’s most important can be paralyzing. Senior Analysts Su Doyle and AJ Joplin developed tools to help clients reconnect with their purpose as CX teams and plan a path forward.
Featuring:
Su Doyle, Sr Analyst
AJ Joplin, Sr Analyst
Show Notes:
CX teams can take many paths to grow their capabilities and influence. Figuring out where to start and what’s most important can be paralyzing. Senior Analysts Su Doyle and AJ Joplin developed tools to help clients reconnect with their purpose as CX teams and plan a path forward.
We discuss:
How can we identify the capabilities a CX team needs to achieve its unique goals?
What is the impact of using a standard tool, built on market research, to support decision-making?
CX doesn't own everything — and sometimes owns nothing. How can CX teams be orchestrators of CX activities?
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Demonstrating empathy in digital experiences helps brands build trust and loyalty, yet many brands struggle to reflect customer understanding in the experiences they create and miss out on opportunities to make customers feel heard and understood. Forrester Analyst Senem Biyikli and Principal Analyst Gina Bhawalkar offer best practices to design for empathy.
Featuring:
Gina Bhawalkar, Principal Analyst
Senem Guler Biyikli, UX Analyst
Show Notes:
Demonstrating empathy in digital experiences helps brands build trust and loyalty, yet many brands struggle to reflect customer understanding in the experiences they create and miss out on opportunities to make customers feel heard and understood. Forrester Analyst Senem Biyikli and Principal Analyst Gina Bhawalkar offer best practices to design for empathy.
We discuss:
What’s “design for empathy”? Why does it matter?
What are the challenges brands face when it comes to empathy?
You discuss five best practices in your report. Can you tell us about those?
Is AI going to make things better or worse here? Can AI help us design for empathy?
How can brands start applying those best practices? Where should they start from?
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You’ve identified dozens of journeys and hundreds of moments of truth that matter to your customers. But where do you start your journey mapping, journey measurement and journey improvement actions? How do you prioritize where you will drive the most impact? Forrester VP and Principal Analysts Maxie Schmidt and Joana de Quintanilha join us to explain how to bring rigor and process to the task.
Featuring:
Maxie Schmidt, VP, Principal Analyst
Joana de Quintanilha, VP, Principal Analyst
Show Notes:
You’ve identified dozens of journeys and hundreds of moments of truth that matter to your customers. But where do you start your journey mapping, journey measurement and journey improvement actions? How do you prioritize where you will drive the most impact? Forrester VP and Principal Analysts Maxie Schmidt and Joana de Quintanilha join us to explain how to bring rigor and process to the task.
We discuss:
Why is it important to prioritize journeys?
How can CX leaders go about it?
What are the ideal outputs of a journey prioritization exercise?
What inputs do we need?
What mistakes should CX leaders avoid?
How can companies get started that aren’t very mature in their journey work?
How does journey prioritization fit in the larger road to increasing journey centricity maturity?
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In our second episode showcasing E.ON’s journey toward customer centricity, we talk to Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Joana de Quintanilha and Keith Fletcher, International Customer Experience Manager at E.ON, to examine the inner workings of journeys at E.ON.
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Since 2008, E.ON has been on a path to use journeys, not processes, as the building blocks for sustainable growth. Its customer journeys are key to giving over 47 million customers access to a sustainable supply of electricity and heat, with the aim of becoming climate neutral by 2040. Effectively leading a journey-centric transformation requires pulling six operational levers — structure, culture, talent, metrics, processes, and technology — in concert. In today’s episode, we talk to Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Joana de Quintanilha and Keith Fletcher, International Customer Experience Manager at E.ON, about E.ON's journey with journey centricity.
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Most large organizations operate across lines of business, products, segments, brands, and/or countries. CX leaders who want to scale their CX measurement program across such an organization must balance the need for efficient and consistent CX measurement with an appropriate level of autonomy for organizational units. VP and Principal Analyst Maxie Schmidt answers common questions on scaling measurement management programs, illustrated through case studies.
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What do CX pros need to know about the promises and perils of generative AI? Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Martha Bennett explains the statistical complexity in layman’s terms and offers recent CX examples to illustrate the new paradigm.
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Revenue operations teams and CX teams have overlapping interests when it comes to understanding the customer and improving the buying experience. Principal Analyst Anthony McPartlin gives us an initial overview of RevOps, revealing some exciting opportunities for both functions to be stronger together.
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CX leaders must invest to drive customer-focused action. This means investing more in tech to create and improve experiences, critical employee skills, unstructured feedback, and predictive modeling. Principal Analyst Pete Jacques walks us through Forrester's 2024 CX Planning guide and pragmatic budgeting advice to meet the emergent needs of customers.
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Every year, Forrester looks to the future to predict what we think will happen across industries, geographies and technologies. In this episode, VP, Research Directors Oliwia Berdak and David Hoffman join us to talk about where they see the financial services industry heading in 2024.
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Every year, Forrester looks to the future to predict what we think will happen across industries, geographies, and technologies. In this episode, Judy Weader and Shannon Germain Farraher get into the CX implications of the biggest predictions in healthcare. Tune in for insight on smart tech in hospitals, nontraditional benefits in plan designs, medical deserts, and other topics.
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