Tag: Customer Experience

Judging at the UK Complaint Handling Awards: What I Learned

Basia Szumska-Hare judged at the 2019 UK Complaint Handling Awards in London earlier this month. So, it’s Friday March 8th in London, the sky is blue, the children didn’t complain about getting ready for school, and I didn’t hear any complaints of...

How Effective is Your Complaints Procedure?

So, you have an effective complaints procedure in place; you are engaging with customers, finding problems and working through solutions, but just one important question remains: “How well are we doing?” There is, of course, one clear sign of an effective...

A Judge’s Guide to Awards Success

Daniel Ord is the Founder and Director of OmniTouch International, and a judge at the Gulf Customer Experience Awards. This year I’m scheduled to judge awards entries in Dubai, London, Amsterdam, and Wiesbaden (Germany). I think the benefits for an industry practitioner...

B2B E-commerce Lagging Behind B2C for Customer Experience

Poor product visualisation is preventing almost a quarter of B2B customers from making purchases online, according to a new report. E-commerce agency PushON surveyed 500 key business decision makers from up and down the country and found that although the majority of B2B...

Five essentials for a world-class customer experience programme

I’ve been reflecting on what successful CX leaders we partner with at Medallia are doing, and have identified five key actions to ensure a world-class customer experience programme. 1. Start with the end in mind Visualise where you want to be at...

Get Ready for the Gulf Customer Experience Awards

A new year has dawned and with January comes the countdown to the finals of the Gulf Customer Experience Awards. The annual event is celebrating its fourth year in 2019, and continues to be the Middle East’s premier platform for honouring...

The Human Touch: How Well do you Know Your Customer?

Is the increase in martech spend at the cost of Customer Experience? There’s a growing challenge in marketing that we’re not speaking about nearly enough. For all the investment brands are ploughing into technology to increase capability and visibility, many still...

Cranfield School of Management Among World’s Best in Wall Street Journal Rankings

Cranfield School of Management, which partners the UK Customer Experience and Employee Experience Awards among others, is celebrating after its MBA and its Finance and Management MSc were named as two of the world’s very best programmes in the new...

Pain in the Age of the Customer

A rather clever and interesting experiment, led by Michael Treadway at Vanderbilt University, sheds light on what we, perhaps intuitively always knew. Humans hate effort The experiment is an insight as to why we humans hate effort. What exactly happens in our...

Aptean Unveiled as Sponsor for 2019 UK Complaint Handling Awards

Software solutions firm Aptean has joined the UK Complaint Handling Awards as a sponsor ahead of the 2019 event in the heart of London. The global company, which helps streamline the operations of over 2,500 organisations in 54 countries, has joined...