Today’s interview is with Dr. Rob Walker, Vice President, Decision Management and Analytics at Pegasystems, a leading provider of software for customer engagement and operational excellence. I had a chance to sit down and chat with Rob when I met up with him at Pegaworld in June. We talk about ethics, artificial intelligence (AI), impact and the balance of the human touch and technology in customer experience. This is the last of three interviews that I conducted at Pegaworld so …
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Today’s interview is with Mattijs ten Brink, Chairman & CEO of Transavia, a Dutch low-cost airline which is a wholly owned subsidiary of KLM and part of the Air France/KLM group. I had a chance to sit down and chat with Mattijs when I met up with him at Pegaworld earlier this month. We talk about how Transavia competes against larger competitors, how they are building an agile and adaptable organisation, the passenger and employee experience and a fascinating piece …
Today’s interview is with Chase Clemons, a customer support team lead at Basecamp, a provider of project management and team communication software. We talk about Basecamp’s CEO Jason Fried assuming personal responsibility for all customer refunds, what that means in practice, what it’s like to work at Basecamp, what customer service means for them, particularly when they have approx 50 people in 30 different cities around the world and how they deliver great service to their clients. This interview follows …
Today’s interview is with Don Schuerman, CTO and Vice President of Product Marketing at Pegasystems. I had a chance to sit down and chat with Don when I met up with him at Pegaworld earlier this month. We talk about what companies, in the midst of the customer experience maelstrom, should be doing more of and what they should be doing less of, the balance of the human touch and technology in customer experience as well as the emerging ethical …
Today’s interview is with Stan Phelps, Founder of Purple Goldfish, a think tank of customer experience and employee engagement experts. Stan joins me today to talk about his new book: Red Goldfish: Motivating Sales and Loyalty Through Shared Passion and Purpose that he has co-authored with Graeme Newell. We talk about the book, why purpose matters to both customers and employees and also a number of ways that businesses are embracing purpose and what impact it is having. This interview …
Today’s interview is with Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, who is the Chief Marketing Officer at Mozilla, non-profit organization that fights to keep the Internet a global public resource, open and accessible to all and is most famously known for being the maker of the Firefox browser. I caught up with Jascha at the recent Collision conference in New Orleans and we had a chat about all sorts of things including customer experience, engagement, trust and emotion. This interview follows on from my …
Today’s interview is with Jacob Morgan, a speaker, advisor, futurist and best-selling author on the future of work. Jacob joins me today to talk about his new book: The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces They Want, the Tools They Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate, the extensive research project that fueled the book, the RoI of employee experience and what we can learn from the book. This interview follows …
Today’s interview is with Susan Ganeshan, Chief Marketing Officer of Clarabridge, a leading customer experience Saas platform that transforms survey, social, voice and all other forms of customer feedback into actionable intelligence that drives real change in business and creates happier customers. Susan joins me today to talk about some research that they recently conducted (Call Center Agent Survey Results), which investigated the differing viewpoints of both contact centre employees and consumers in the United States. This interview follows on …
Today’s interview is with Blake Morgan, a customer experience futurist, fellow Forbes contributor and the author of a new book: More Is More: How the Best Companies Go Farther and Work Harder to Create Knock-Your-Socks-Off Customer Experiences. She joins me today to talk about her new book and what we can do to create ‘knock your socks off’ customer experiences. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Understanding consumer behaviour by going to the gemba – Interview with …