Author: CXM Editorial

FTC Investigating AI-Based Dynamic Pricing

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered eight companies to provide more details of their practices. These companies, which use AI to set prices based on consumer data, should now clarify how this may harm privacy, fair competition, and consumer...

Softcat and Hilton recognised as top UK employers for women

Hilton, Softcat, and Bristol Myers Squibb have been named Best Workplaces for Women 2024 in the UK. Global workplace culture firm Great Place produced the list and used its trust index employee survey and analysed the responses of more than 80,000...

Google abandons third-party cookie deprecation plans

After years of uncertainty, Google has revealed it won’t be deprecating third-party cookies. Instead, it will keep third-party cookies up and running if they are not disabled manually by the user. “The continuation of third-party cookies will surely bring some relief...

Microsoft tech outages create mass global disruption impacting numerous industries

On Friday 19th July, Microsoft’s Windows operating systems displayed errors, and consequently created mass impacts globally across many different industries. Reports of disruptions started flooding in from around the world, including in the UK, parts of Europe, Asia, and USA....

This week in CX: what can you do with customer membership?

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we’ve been looking at customer membership initiatives and perks especially seen with Amazon Prime Day, new CX standards, the rise of customer focused roles, and much...

Unprepared leaders put worker safety at risk

The ‘Safety Culture Maturity Report 2024’ indicates that senior leaders may not be fully prepared to handle risk, with an average score of only 44% in risk management expertise.  This discovery overlaps with data from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)...

2024 Amazon Prime Day results show growing customer desire for huge online discounts

This year’s Amazon Prime Day proved to be the biggest online shopping event for the UK market. The 2-day online event hosted huge deals exclusively for Prime members. The total UK online spend just on the first day of the event surpassed £622.4...

Customer-focused roles are on the rise

There has been a 30% overall increase in the appointment of primary customer-focused roles since the same period in 2023. These roles include chief customer officers, customer service directors, and directors of CX.  The research comes from Douglas Jackson’s ‘Customer Moves’ report. The...

Industry heavyweights combine to form CX standards

Kantar, Bain & Company, and Qualtrics have partnered to publish a set of jointly endorsed CX standards. The framework aims to introduce a “common language for excellence”, that will elevate the quality of CX practices across all industries. “The need for...

Smart cane wins the King’s “best of British” award

WeWalk has picked up a King’s Award for Enterprise for its cutting-edge ‘smart cane’ product. The smart cane, which integrates with Google Maps to offer visually impaired people direction assistance, also won a gold award at the recent 2024 Turkiye Customer Experience...