InnerVentures

  • Why customer success still needs humans and service innovation

    A long while back, early in my customer success career, I predicted that The Future of Customer Success is Not Human. That was written way before AI had become what it is today, so arguably truer than ever. Yet in support of the title of this post, I didn’t say humans would be done away…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Customer service is broken and AI can fix it

    I am sharing an experience I had with Samsung customer service the other day. I’m not picking on them – I bet my experience is common amongst many other customers with a wide swathe of consumer companies. I share it just to show what bad looks like and how the promise of AI for customer…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The future of customer success is not human – part 2

    I wrote part 1 way back in 2017: The Future of Customer Success is Not Human. Things have certainly come a long way. For one, I was talking about automation at the time. Now it’s all about AI which has progressed in leaps and bounds. I was also focused on customer success then, as a profession.…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Things of beauty and action – future of the web experience

    I was struck by two insights recently that impacted my views of web experience and its future. One was recent announcements on WordPress in its 21st year powering over 40% of the web which is considerable, so this is influential – see post by Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress. The other was seeing recent…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The Employee Experience Journey Matrix

    As I am trying to conclude my work on the Employee Customer Experience Connection trend report, I felt an important yet lagging part of not just my work, but generally, was a comprehensive view of the employee journey. Not just the journey but what contributes to making it successful. The result of that is this…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    3 science-backed ways to train your brain to have a growth mindset Posted on November 11. There’s a key link between helplessness and mastery, it’s worth figuring out. A growth mindset is the belief that a trait (like intelligence or resilience) is malleable and can be developed through hard work, good strategies, and the ability…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The Business Impact of Employee Experience on Customer Experience

    I am working on a new trend report covering this topic in part and this is based on the work I do (disclosure) – more on the report here: Employee Customer Experience Connection. One of the primary assumptions I’m exploring for the report is that effectively driving a positive employee experience has interrelated benefits on…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Infinite experience at the intersection of employee and customer

    As I have written a trend report on the subject (Employee Customer Experience Connection), I’m always on the lookout for new indicators that the trend is catching on through the writing or research of others. I’ve found two such pieces just today which are definitely good indicators, especially of the “connection” part. The first is…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • At the intersection of inner and outer worlds – the individual and company

    The inner and outer worlds are indivisible and if you are to make a sucess of yourself as an individual, you need to think of both. When it comes to work, companies also have to think about these worlds, in relation to employees and customers. We have to think about how we, as individuals, bring…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Employee Experience platform offering grows with new Microsoft Viva modules

    I’m writing this post because I am working on a new trend report covering the subject: Employee Customer Experience Connection. So I have an interest in new developments in related fields and I also want to use these posts as a way to collate all these new developments so I can add them to the…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The employee customer experience connection – 6 reasons to focus

    With a world that is so binary I’m not surprised there isn’t more attention on this topic. People are either in the one camp, or the other, mostly. There are some, and I consider myself one, that straddle both sides. Here is why I think this is going to become increasingly important and a key…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • 3 reasons retailers are leading at the intersection of employee and customer experience

    This post is related to a trend I am watching: Employee Customer Experience Connection. My thinking is captured in the title, in essence. It came to me on discovering the video from Samsung after which I have also added some additional thoughts: This is really inspiring and makes total sense. It’s well within the realm…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The employee customer experience connection – fundamentals

    Here is an infographic with some supporting source material and an industry overview for context if you want it. Here too is where my interest and expertise in this space lie. This post is intended to dig a little deeper on the subject. Check out the diagram which captures a little more detail than I’ve…

    Stephen Danelutti