Tag: Innovation
Accelerating Feedback, Justifying Development, and Anticipating Questions with AI
Customer support is about expectations, and the expectations that customers have today were shaped by their previous experiences. No customer experience exists in a vacuum either. Expectations for all service providers are influenced by all service providers in every industry. Consumer expectations are changing all the time. As businesses scramble to get a competitive advantage ...
Giving Customers What They Want – Modernize Your IVR
Think for just a minute back to the vehicles you have driven throughout your life. How has the dashboard and basic features changed through the years? The mid-90s Ford Explorer that endured my early years of driving was exactly what you would expect from a typical mid-90s vehicle. There were heating/cooling options that were controlled ...
Welcome, Andrew!
It is my pleasure to announce my blogging partnership with Andrew Gilliam! I tend to have a magnetic draw to people who approach life with passion, articulacy and professionalism. Andrew has been a fire underneath my bottom, cultivated thought-leader and fresh voice in my life (and on CX Accelerator) for many months now. I am ...
We’ve Poisoned the Self-Service Well
Self-service technologies like interactive voice response (IVR) and chatbot systems have a bad reputation. Many customers view them as roadblocks in their journeys, pain points to be eliminated. The technology was well intended, but as Peter Drucker said, “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Have poor implementations contaminated the water? It’s true, the water has been ...
Don’t Be A Jack Russell Terrier
Look up behavior traits of a Jack Russell Terrier. Any canine website will state something like “the energetic Jack Russell needs lots of exercise, is vocal, has the urge to jump & explore which results in a tendency to wander.” Unfortunately, I’m not discussing puppies in this post but rather how those traits can be used ...
The Caffeinated Tale of Nespresso & How They Do Customer Experience Right
Coffee is coffee is coffee? Wrong. Call me a coffee snob if you must, but there is a distinct line between good coffee and bad coffee. If you are unaware of this line in the sand, give me a holler and we’ll set up a time to get you on the right track. 🙂 Once ...
I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid
Was—I was a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid. Because Toys ‘R’ Us kids did in fact grow up but apparently not enough of them grew up to be Toys ‘R’ Us adults. Now Toys ‘R’ Us is doneso. I had another blog post started about customer privacy and personalized consumer experiences but the recent news of ...
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You. – Steve Jobs
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