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Thoughts & Tidbits Blog

3/2/2023

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AI gives 5 strong reasons why customer experiences don’t need a human touch

 
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In my recent personal newsletter, Thoughts & Tidbits, I made the case that organisations should match their digital transformation investments with a ‘human touch’ for everything they do.

Tactically, because any digital edge will eventually be copied by the competition. Strategically because, until further notice, humans still pay the bills and we like a side serving of humanity. 

Still, we live in a time where nothing is as it was before.

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2/14/2023

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My Customer Experience Valentine Wish for 2023: Less process, more passion

 
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The other day I saw a customer experience checklist that said a business had to be Easy, Fast, Convenient, Trackable, Personalised and Predictive ... OR ELSE, the relationship with its customers would fall apart.
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In my head, it makes sense. In my heart, I have my doubts. 

Especially when looking at my top 'real life' relationship: that with my wife.

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1/27/2023

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Why every successful corporate transformation must be a human transformation

 
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We are living in an age of corporate transformation. 

Every business wants to be more agile, customer-centric, digital, diverse, sustainable, inclusive, and more. In fact, some large companies are running so many change initiatives that merely mentioning the T-word makes people groan. 
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Still, most transformations are a waste of time. 

Depending on your source, 70-84% of programmes fail. So every time organisations press the T-button, leaders gamble resources, pain and late nights for a lottery chance of success. 

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1/12/2023

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An experience that is too effortless can make customers leave your brand

 
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Last week, I got home without remembering how I got there​

No, I wasn’t under the influence. Also, as far as I could tell, my brain was still quite functional.
 
I blanked because I knew the road so well that I walked it on autopilot. All I remembered of my journey was the podcast I was listening to. And the cyclist who nearly ran me over. 

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12/29/2022

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My 2023 resolution: Reboot Customer Experience

 
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To me, customer experience management has always been about making a difference.

Literally, by helping the companies I worked for differentiate. 

Metaphorically, by enriching their customers’ lives. 

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12/14/2022

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3 ways generative ai will impact customer experience in 2023

 
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Every exponential curve eventually takes you by surprise. Even if you’re watching.

In generative artificial intelligence, for me, that moment was last week.

​I’ve played with it since 2017. But I looked at it as a toddler writing or drawing. The effort and creativity were endearing. Though I felt it had a long way to go.

​Earlier this year, my views started changing.

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12/1/2022

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7 leadership behaviours I try to display in corporate transformations

 
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Over the years, I’ve worked on quite a few ‘corporate transformation’ programmes. Some were highly successful. Others we don’t talk about.

Typically, success and failure depended on the behaviour of the people in charge. Including my own.

Though looking at each experience as a learning opportunity, I have identified a few behaviours of which I remind myself every time I work on a new project or with a new team. They typically live as a reminder in my (digital) drawer. So I cleaned them up a bit, to share in this article.

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11/17/2022

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What is the ‘next level’ in customer experience?

 
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​I had it coming

During a recent presentation, someone pointed out that I regularly mentioned the need to ‘level up’ the customer experience, but I never really described what that next level should look like. 

It was a fair point.
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Because yes, my point about levelling up is contextual, so my answer is always: "it depends". But that shouldn't prevent a clear opinion on where I think the CX profession should go next.

The answer I gave on the spot was a start.

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11/4/2022

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Six powerful ways to reboot customer experience in 2023

 
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For a few years, Forrester has been tolling the death bell for non-performing customer experience programmes. But in their latest European Predictions 2023, they deliver their harshest verdict yet. To paraphrase:
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Tighter markets mean next year is 'sink or
swim' time for CX leaders, in which up to 20%
​of programmes may disappear.

​At the risk of being unpopular, I can see the logic of CEOs getting critical about CX. 

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As a profession, many of us confuse the tools and the tech with the financial, competitive and customer value results we are supposed to deliver.​

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10/20/2022

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5 life-changing experiences I’d like to visit

 
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Most transformative experiences happen by accident. 

Out of ten companies you apply to, the one that says yes makes you move city or country. You find or lose someone to love. You have an accident. Pick one school over another. Get mugged. Find unexpected kindness in a stranger.

We all know these moments.

Going in, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Looking back, you can see the moment as a trigger point. A first domino in a sequence of events that turned you from the person you were back then into the person you are today. You didn’t script or plan the journey. But it happened. Changed you.

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