Category: Customer Experience

An increasing number of people are living in cities, but the problem we face is that cities are not sustainable in their current form. As more and more people converge on a small area, it becomes challenging to meet their needs without causing excessive pollution and depleting the world’s resources. While it’s easy to not…
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We evolved to care about things that were close by or in the near future.

That makes sense. It’s a useful survival skill in a primitive world.

Today, though, our instinct for the close and the imminent is being used against us. Media and those in search of our money or attention bring the far nearby, amplify the reality of threats and emphasize sunk costs in pushing us to stay stuck.

We need to get much better at investing in the future, and being distracted by loud, sudden noises isn’t helpful.

At its core, hybrid staffing models are centred on the employees and what works best for them. New models provide employees with greater flexibility into where and how they work.   Essentially, hybrid models investigate working conditions and situations. This changes the organisational core of the business, seeing how it benefits the employees. These models are…
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There’s no secret to what consumers want when they interact with brands. That is – convenience and speed. The brands that delight customers are those that have easy, fast, and smart self-service.  Now AI that is purpose-built for customer experience (CX) is ushering in major advances. There are use cases across every touch point—self-service and…
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No one cares. That happens rarely.

Someone cares. That happens all the time, and it’s at the heart of our work.

Everyone cares. Almost never.

Someone is enough. In fact, someone is the entire point.

Customer Experience (CX) has a major influence on an organisation’s ability to grow its revenue, customer base and market share. Without exceptional CX, customers will simply jump ship and find another product or service provider. Statistics show that 86% of customers are willing to pay more for a great experience. Companies who focus on CX…
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Who gets the benefit of the doubt?

Who is treated with dignity?

You would think that this shouldn’t be scarce. When the pool of respect is widened, no one is harmed.

And yet, cultural status roles have ingrained biases all around us.

We’re now seeing a long overdue evaluation of unexamined norms, which aren’t, and shouldn’t be treated as “normal.”

The most direct way forward is to default to more respect, simply because that’s what people deserve.

You probably know that Bruce Wayne is actually Batman. That’s a secret identity that most of us are aware of.

And if you’re up on pop culture, you know that the best Batman was played by the late actor Adam West.

Visit the visual search engine Lexica, though, and you’ll see that it knows that Adam West was Batman. A search for “Adam West” (with no mention of roles, DC comics or secret identities), shows us this:

It’s important to note that none of these are pictures of Adam West, in or out of costume. It simply “knows” that Adam West is Bruce Wayne is Batman, and shows us some reconstructed images of Batman from the 1960s. It also knows that we might be looking for Batman, even though it’s a secret. The new algorithm it’s using is more than twice as good at figuring out what a picture is a picture of.

When a human does something mysterious like this sort of leap, we simply call them smart. It’s a simple way to describe something we don’t understand. Complexity and breadth mixing in mysterious ways.

And now computers are doing it all the time. (Except when they don’t–lots of the searches are not quite ready for the public.)

PS check out this story about West and the phone book.

We’re bringing you the latest roundup of industry news. Last week, featured new Zendesk research, British consumer purchase reconsiderations, CMO data into customer behaviours, and Zoho’s growth in the UK.  Key news Twilio have launched new research exploring the way the cost-of-living crisis is changing how consumers interact with companies in the UK and across Europe….
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