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Digital-First Futures Being Driven by Younger Customers, Report Underlines

Companies must provide digital-first omnichannel experiences to meet consumer expectations and effectively compete in the experience economy. That is the key takeaway from the third annual 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark report, which details how understanding younger generations’ use of – and...

Six CX Factors Shared by Award-Winning Firms

Idit Aloni is Head of Product Marketing at Amdocs, and has over a decade’s experience consulting and leading Marketing and Customer Experience within large organisations globally.   Recently, I’ve been feeling like a child in a candy shop, as I had the...

Retail and the Data Revolution

What’s really driving the change in how we shop? As we dive head-first into the holiday season, we can expect to see a familiar set of stories about the changing face of the retail industry. Headlines will no doubt focus...

Black Friday Footfall up on Last Year

This year’s Black Friday footfall increased by six percent compared to 2018, despite challenges including Brexit uncertainty. Official data from ShopperTrak shows that overall footfall for the year sits 0.2 percent up against the same period last year. Saturday, meanwhile was expectded to be the...

ContactEngine: Facilitating the Future of Customer Conversations

2019 has proven to be a successful year indeed for the conversational AI experts at ContactEngine, which is leading the vanguard in changing the fundamentals of how 21st-century customers interact with brands. It’s been a year in which their trophy shelf...

Succeed in Experience Management with Experia Summit

This article was jointly written by Annette Franz, CCXP, and Joakim Thorn, XM Scientist, co-founders and hosts of upcoming free online event Experia Summit.   Google the term “experience management” and you’ll find as many definitions as colours of the rainbow, and then some....

Fictional Fast Food Drug Front Would be Among Best Places to Work

Despite being a front for a criminal empire built on crystal meth, Breaking Bad fried chicken restaurant Los Pollos Hermanos is among the best fictional food franchises for Employee Experience, according to new research. Food box company Gousto has revealed a...

You Should Give a Sentimental Feeling for Customers this Christmas

Emotions run high in the build up to Christmas, with sentimental songs, moving charitable causes, and emotive TV ads all tugging at consumer heartstrings.  So, in the midst of the festive shopping frenzy that starts this week with Black Friday...

Kantar Names First Direct as CX Leader in Banking Survey

Leading insights agency Kantar has named named First Direct the UK’s top bank for CX in a new report that compares brand perception with the thoughts of customers. Kantar’s inaugural CX+ report on retail banking surveyed 8,687 retail banking customers who were...

UK Trails Europe on AI Adoption

The UK is trailing behind Europe in customer service as brands race to adopt AI technologies to transform how they engage with customers, according to new research. Customer engagement software firm Freshworks found that just over half (54 percent) of UK...