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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…
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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…
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How to view the guides developed on this site – PDF
I’ve just completed a new trend report and I am making it available for purchase and download as a PDF. I wanted to explain why and how best to consume it. I did cover the why on both the page where you can buy it and where I provided some background but here is a…
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Gartner survey of Board of Director intentions 2021 – Digital
Gartner has just published a press release with some data on the survey they conducted amongst 273 people serving as directors or members of corporate boards of directors in US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. I’ve highlighted two of the stats that stood out for me in the infographic. But first, for the one, I had to…
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We Work Unbound – key concepts for a hybrid world
Working at Yammer back in the day (2012 onwards), we were at the forefront of some cutting edge work practices that had been brewing a while. The advent of social technologies of which Yammer was a latest iteration and that I had also previously been involved in (more here: birth of enterprise social) were driving…
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The post pandemic organisation’s hierarchy of needs
This is a long overdue follow-up to a piece I doodled and wrote about way back in 2016: The Modern Organisation’s Hierarchy of Needs. For two main reasons its due an update. The clue to the first is in the original title. Anything that lays claim to being modern needs a revisit at least every…
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Jobs of the future will be what robots cannot do
The title of this post actually comes from a video I viewed on Big Think way back in 2016. It was a short video by renowned American physicist, Michio Kaku. I’ve just searched the site extensively to try and find it again but couldn’t. Good thing I downloaded a copy at the time and uploaded…
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State of advertising and company customer interactions 2021
My background in advertising makes this an interesting topic and you will hopefully soon see where the company customer interactions come in. I started out in the ad industry in the 90’s but left it before the turn of the century. My reasoning: the writing on the wall which indicated a gradual decline and irrelevance…
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Update on As a Service Trends
Sources for image gallery plus other related articles: Culture: The Biggest Challenge in Getting the Subscription Model Right MaaS transit: The business of mobility as a service The first era of SaaS ends: ‘Best of breed’ was prelude to ‘systems of delivery’ Smart Growth: the Case for Measuring Brain Capital Customer Experience Redefined: Insights From Chief Customer Officers on the Frontlines Top 10 IT…
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State of a category – customer success 2021
I’ve been in this space formally for almost 10 years now. I say formally because I’ve been doing the work a lot longer, just under another name. I’ve been passionate about it all these years and still am but after that long, you’ve got to question things. I’ve written on the state of customer success…
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Accentures Technology Vision 2021
From the article this 👇 “Small pilots and incremental scaling are an obsolete luxury, and the friction between research, development, and large-scale deployment must diminish or disappear.”
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Employee customer experience connection – infographic
Sources Harvard Business Review: The Key to Happy Customers? Happy EmployeesJosh Bersin: The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft VivaGoogle Trends More here
