Tag: Customer journey

10 tips for building an effective omnichannel PoS strategy

Retailers have massively enhanced their online customer service capabilities over the past two years. Now we’re physically back in stores, the need is for a perfect blend of offline and online strategies. An omnichannel approach which uses a retail technology ecosystem to connect all channels...

Are businesses closing the Engagement Capacity Gap?

Over the last two years, Verint® has assessed customer engagement concerns; business priorities; and investment plans across geographies and industry sectors. This provides a perfect barometer for how well businesses are adapting to the new customer expectations.  Introducing the Engagement Capacity...

Who is the new ‘Workday Consumer’?

Advertisers pride themselves on knowing their customers. But what happens when their customer is suddenly not where they expected?   As work and school shifted online during early stages of the pandemic, advertisers had faced this exact scenario and were initially slow...

Four key elements of Starbucks’ customer personalisation strategy

The most recent Cheetah Digital 2022 Digital Consumer Trends Index survey found that 74% of global consumers want brands to treat them as individuals. Therefore, personalisation is a critical factor for companies to consider as the economy points to more...

Holiday chaos: what’s next for the travel industry?

We’ve heard the term “travel chaos” since the pandemic started. Yet, two years later, many customers are still experiencing huge disruptions to their travel itineraries and holidays. Staff shortages in airports and train stations are causing chaos across the country.   With...

Path to Purchase: Is your content delivering the best customer experience?

The need states Content is about fulfilling needs. I don’t just mean need fulfilment in the form of a purchase. Along the decision journey towards purchase, the customer will experience a variety of need states that lead them from touchpoint to...

Gig customer experience: top 10 takeaways from the 2022 report

McKinsey recently called gig customer experience (GigCX) an “on-demand revolution in customer-experience operations.” This was a breakthrough moment for the GigCX world, and relayed how it continues to make steady inroads into the mainstream of CX operations.  This was certainly apparent...

McKinsey’s latest research finds that a third of UK consumers see a lengthy economic recession 

Consumer pessimism about the UK’s economic recovery hit an all-time high in April 2022. Nearly 35% of UK consumers say they believe the economy will show regression or fall into a lengthy economic recession. This lack of confidence in the UK’s...

The progression of the metaverse era: what challenges are social media teams tackling?

According to the recent Sprout Social’s UK & Ireland Index 2022, 85% of social media marketers anticipate incorporating new technologies like Virtual Reality, the Metaverse, and NFTs into their social media strategy within the next year. Moreover, 30% of marketers believe their...

CX innovation in agile development is easier to implement than you thought

Lisa is doing wonders at a B2B e-commerce system. She supports developers to connect to the company customers, helps product owners make decisions for the product roadmap and bring out the best in the customer support team. Who is Lisa? She...