It’s becoming an increasingly familiar occurrence these days for businesses, like healthcare practitioners, utility and telecoms providers, that rely on appointments with ‘customers’ for them to send out reminders, either via text message, email or by phone call, in the run up to the appointment. There is sound logic in taking this approach as not only does it provide a perceived better level of ‘service’, there is a rule of thumb in these industries that around 10% of all appointments …
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Today’s interview is with Martijn Gribnau, Chief Transformation Officer, at Genworth Financial, an S&P 400 insurance company that is focused on providing long term care insurance, life insurance, annuity retirement solutions and more. I spoke to Martijn at Pegaworld, Pegasystems’ customer event in Las Vegas in early June, where we talked about digital transformation, the pursuit of simplicity, customer centricity and leadership behaviour. This is the first of three interviews that I conducted at Pegaworld (like last year) so look …
My wife and I recently returned from a trip where, using a hired motor-home, we toured the North Coast 500, a recently established driving route covering some of the most northerly parts of Scotland. The trip was fantastic. On one of the nights we pulled into a campsite in for the night and went looking for a place to eat. We stumbled upon the Scourie Hotel and enquired if they had a restaurant in the hotel. They said that they …
Today’s interview is with Jessica Groopman and Jeremiah Owyang, industry analysts and founding partners at Kaleido Insights. They join me today to talk about blockchain, customer loyalty programmes and why and when you should be considering learning more. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Every great business has a backstory that drives and compels the work they do – Interview with Bernadette Jiwa – and is number 267 in the series of interviews with authors and business …
This is a guest post from Jonas Andrén, Lokesh Dadhich, Johan Treutiger and Tove Kjellén from Arthur D. Little. Digitalization is a cross-societal megatrend, affecting and challenging all sectors, from manufacturing to local government. Consequently, executive interest in digital transformation is increasing rapidly, as more and more organizations face agile disruptors harnessing new technologies to compete against them. We define digital transformation as: The use of digital technologies and data to create new value propositions and operating models. These are …
Today’s interview is with Bernadette Jiwa, Founder of The Story of Telling and a recognised global authority on the role of story in business, innovation and marketing and the author of a number of best-selling books on marketing and brand storytelling. Bernadette joins me today to talk about her new book: Story Driven: You don’t need to compete when you know who you are, why stories and why now, a flavour of some of the stories in the book, why …
Silo-ed working is common complaint in many organizations and it is often cited as being both a barrier to competitiveness and a barrier to being able to deliver a connected and consistently great customer experience. However, the challenge is that when coming up with ideas about how to break down silo-ed behavior and improve communication and collaboration across firms, many leaders and executives often default to software based solutions. Now, many of these software solutions are great. But, what they …
Today’s interview is with Nick Hague, Director and Chairman of B2B International, a leading global B2B market research and consulting specialist, and author of a couple of books. Nick joins me today to talk about his new book that he has co-authored with Paul Hague, his father: B2B Customer Experience: A Practical Guide to Delivering Exceptional CX, how it came about and what we can learn from it. This interview follows on from my recent interview – The potholes of …
This is a guest post by Katie Sekelsky, graphic designer at VHT. There is a revolutionary shift underway regarding customer expectation, and it’s called the post channel customer experience. Although you may not be familiar with this term, understanding the transformation and how it’s unfolding will allow you to capitalize on this unique moment. But first, let’s look at what the post channel customer experience is. What is the Post Channel Customer Experience? Customer service used to be split across …