Tag: CX news
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This week in CX: are major brand changes worth it?
Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we’ve been looking at the huge tech outage from last week, Google’s latest third party cookie decision, which companies are top companies for women to work...
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Poor UK delivery standards causing customer complaints to peak
New research from Shipup has highlighted the UK’s poor delivery standards causing customer complaints – with 2 out of every 5 complaints (almost 40%) being customers not receiving an expected package at all. “British shoppers have faced a frustrating period...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...