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Optimizing Returns: Driver Simulation for CX ROI
In our recent exploration of “The ROI of Customer Experience,” we navigated the challenges of short-termism in today’s corporate landscape. Building on the momentum from last week, this week’s blog post dives deeper into the practicalities of measuring and proving the financial impact of CX initiatives.
read more2023 oCX Leaders
In today’s business landscape, ‘short-termism’—the focus on immediate financial results—dominates corporate strategy, often at the cost of long-term planning and sustainable growth. This trend poses a significant challenge for C-Suite executives, who face pressure to deliver quick financial returns, potentially compromising product quality and service. This article explores the critical intersection of short-termism and Customer Experience (CX), highlighting the need for CX professionals to demonstrate the long-term financial benefits of customer-centric strategies. Understanding this balance is essential for aligning immediate actions with the enduring health and loyalty of the organization.
read moreThe Million-Dollar Question About CX: Is It Worth the Effort?
In today’s business landscape, ‘short-termism’—the focus on immediate financial results—dominates corporate strategy, often at the cost of long-term planning and sustainable growth.
read moreShopee vs Lazada: What to expect in 2024?
Shopping on Lazada and Shopee: What to expect in 2024? In our series of marketplace platform analyses, we previously delved into the dynamics of eBay versus Rakuten and Amazon versus Etsy. Now, turning our focus to Southeast Asia, we scrutinize the customer...
read moreeBay vs Rakuten: Holiday Shopping Analysis
Embark on an exploration of Rakuten versus eBay in the online marketplace arena. Discover Rakuten’s innovative rewards system and diverse merchant network, challenging eBay’s traditional auction model. Dive into the unique appeal of each platform and unlock secrets to maximizing your shopping experience.
read moreEtsy vs Amazon: An Analysis of Holiday Shopping 2023
Dive into the ultimate guide for your holiday shopping adventure! Discover the game-changing trends in consumer spending, unravel the mysteries behind Amazon’s global dominance, and explore Etsy’s unique charm in supporting small businesses.
read moreIntroducing oCX, the New, AI-Generated CX Metric
Whenever a company is seeking to evaluate the quality of its customer experience, nothing is more important than the opinions of the customers who actually have the experience. This is why virtually all metrics designed to measure CX quality today are derived from surveys administered directly to customers.
read moreBenefits of AI-Enhanced CX Management Systems
Here is the three main benefits of CX management systems fueled by artificial intelligence and how they are transforming the ways we do business.
read moreCX Metrics NPS, CSAT, or CES: Is It Telling the Whole Story?
Beyond Customer Experience Metrics: Leveraging Text Analytics for Deeper Customer Insights and Improved CX Management
read moreBest Real-World Examples for Predictive Customer Analytics
The power of predictive NPS enables companies to design and execute Customer Experience processes with an optimized effort.
read moreDon’t Ghost Your Customers! Close the Loop
The fundamental essence of a highly successful close the loop program is real-time customer engagement capability powered by AI-based CX automation platforms.
read moreCustomer Obsession: Vital Component of Growth
A taste of customer perspective won’t be enough to propel business growth. It is becoming increasingly vital for brands to understand evolving customer journey trends.
read moreGoing Beyond Sentiments: Emotion Analysis
You have done everything you can to please your customers. In every aspect, your team of professionals provided the best possible service from the operational side; you are confident in your work.
read moreCustomer Experience Metric Selection
The first step before deep diving into customer experience metric selection is to understand the main areas to address when measuring CX. Then we share some of the often used metrics in customer perception of the quality of experience.
read moreFour Areas to Address When Measuring Customer Experience
Companies that integrate customer feedback into their DNA, can quantify their customers’ perceptions better, understand the customer journey as well as bottlenecks in it and continuously improve experience every day.
read moreWhat Does It “Feel Like” to Be Your Customer?
Companies need to know what it’s like to be in their customers’ shoes. With today’s increasing volume of customer experience signals, it takes a lot of time and effort to make sense of customer feedback manually.
read moreCX Signals and Slack Pair for a Perfect Fusion in Organizational Culture
This in-app trend has greatly expanded methods for collecting customer feedback, including NPS. The crucial advantage comes from directing valuable feedback about your product or service to the appropriate teams…
read moreThe One with the 1% Diamond Insight
Alterna CX Co-Founder and CEO, Gürol Kurt, recently joined the “CX Passport” podcast series and talked about “The one with the 1% diamond insight”. The program is hosted by Rick Denton, who leads a show about creating great customer experiences, with a dash of travel...
read moreDecoding The Customer
Loads of valuable signals can tell a company what a customer feels about their customer experience, or the extent to which the customer has been highly successful with the company’s product or service, or even how efficient the company’s website is in providing information and access.
read moreHow CX Priorities Differ Across the Atlantic
We discussed how CX in Central Europe differs from the US.Listen NowListen Now Alterna CX Co-Founder and CEO, Gürol Kurt, has recently joined the “Talking CX - CX Around the World” podcast series. The program is hosted by Robin Miller and Graham Clark, who lead...
read moreHow to Choose the Right Customer Experience Platform
Choosing the Right Customer Experience Platform Leads to High-Quality CX Customer Experience (CX) is the overall experience that customers have during the relationship with the delivered product/ service from first contact to becoming a happy and loyal...
read moreAdopt AI Enhanced CX Management to Get Ahead of the Competition
In a tech-driven and ever-changing business landscape today, the competition between companies across industries becomes more brutal and difficult by day. And now more than ever, successful leveraging and implementation of emerging technological solutions…
read moreGetting Actionable Insight from Unstructured Customer Feedback
Many customers want to tell you what they think and how they feel. Are you really listening to them? Most likely your answer is “YES” and you’re not alone! It is fair to say that companies have become better at…
read moreCX Technology: Enabling Technology for Better CX Management
Customer Experience Technology: Are We Ready to Absorb? A high-level customer experience technology can automate your CX efforts from collecting…
read more8 Statistics that Demonstrate the Impact your EX Has on your CX
There are hundreds of interesting statistics on employee experience. To make things easier for you, we’ve extracted data from leading global reports that you should know about if you want to create an…
read moreLeveraging Internal Communication for Better CX
We already know that good CX quality and customer loyalty drive successful business growth. What most firms overlook is that they should prioritize the “people factor” since employees work hard to provide high-quality customer experience. The impact of employee...
read more10 Simple Steps to Boost Employee Engagement
How Can We Improve Employee Engagement? This is one of the most asked questions about employees on Google. Let's have some background information about this fact. COVID-19 has emotionally exhausted many workers. The term “great resignation,” which refers to the high...
read moreEmployee Experience: The “EX” Factor
The Ex Factor: Employee Experience as One of Customer Experience Milestones A company can see its definition as a “customer-centric company” as its proudest achievement today. This is only possible with customer-focused employees. The equation is simple: Happy...
read moreThe key piece of the puzzle: Change management
In many customer experience research, expert interviews and case studies, we often see how important the concept of change management is for CX. There is no doubt that change management should be handled in a structured way for the customer experience program to...
read moreWhy CX score doesn’t guarantee your future performance?
CX Metrics is not a Goal, It is a Tool to Gauge Your Performance We all know that customer experience (CX) has become the primary competitive differentiator for today’s B2C and B2B businesses. In fact, customer experience now ranks higher than price and product as a...
read more5 Major Trends Every CX Professional Must Watch in 2022
5 Major Trends Every CX Professional Must Watch in 2022 There is no doubt that 2020 was a year unlike any other. The COVID-19 pandemic which led to unforeseen eventssuch as a global shutdown, slumped economics and home confinement, impacted business models around the...
read moreDream customer experience team – the “starting five”
How to Build a Customer Experience Team Forrester recently shared 2022 predictions about customer experience. One of the predictions was: Customers will Want Over Half of the Pandemic-Era Services to Become the “New Normal”. As an example, one-half to two-thirds of...
read moreCustomer-Centric Organization
How to Become a Customer-Centric Organization Customer centricity is a way of doing business and a way of thinking that focuses on customer needs and is committed to creating a great customer experience. The goal of a customer-centric organization is to provide...
read moreClosing the Customer Feedback Loop: Turn Insights into Action
Closing the Customer Feedback Loop Closing the customer feedback loop is considered a milestone in building trust and loyalty with your customers. As Fred Reichheld and Rob Markey stated in their article*: “Closing the loop is a central element of the Net Promoter...
read moreExperience Design: Designing the moments that matter
Experience Design: Understand and Visualize the Moments of Truth Design thinking, experience design or service design. Sometimes our playing field seems to be dominated by jargon. These are fairly similar terms, but what do they actually mean—and why is it worth...
read moreCreating a Voice of Customer Program
What is Voice of Customer? Simply put, Voice of Customer (VoC) is the process of collecting customer feedback about a business, its products and services. Many companies believe that collecting customer feedback through surveys is the meaning of a VoC program. In...
read moreCustomer Loyalty: Five Steps to Become a Loyalty Leader
Customer and Brand Loyalty For the fifth year in a row, Amazon has been listed as the loyalty leader in the U.S.A. according to Brand Key’s annual loyalty rankings. The New York-based brand loyalty and customer engagement research consultancy examined 1,260 brands in...
read moreHow Can Insurers Leverage Customer Experience?
Expert Opinion webinar to learn how Insurers can leverage customer experience and win the trust and loyalty of their customers
read moreIuteCredit: Improving Customer Experience in Four Countries
Best practice webinar series with IuteCredit to discuss how they’ve transformed their company culture through a comprehensive voice of the customer program
read moreHow to Build a Voice of the Customer Program?
How can financial services understand the root causes of the problems they face and identify pain points to act and improve their journeys and/or products?
read moreWhat Awaits Customer Experience in Financial Services?
In our expert opinion webinar, we are joined by Graham Clark, experience management revolutionary and leader at Customer Results and Michelle Spaul, Customer Experience Consultant and Founder of Delta Swan, to uncover the challenges and opportunities for CX in the BFSI industry
read moreHow the Customer-Driven Agenda Shapes the Future of Insurance
In our expert opinion session, we’ve invited Kurt Neckebrouck, Market Development Manager at Baloise Insurance to discuss how the customer-centric agenda shapes the future of insurance.
read moreHappy CX Day!
Insights from experience professionals themselves across industries about their most significant learnings from 2020 and their expectations for 2021 regarding customer expectations and CX efforts
read moreHow to Drive a Branded Customer Experience Transformation
Together with David Lloyd, International Customer Experience & Service Design Manager at E.ON, we discussed maximizing opportunities with customers with relatively low contact frequency, CX efforts under an enterprise-level CX program, and the scalability of the CX program.
read moreThe Future of Retail and Customer Experience
Yenal Gökyıldırım, CEO of MediaMarkt Turkey, talked about how the company adapted to the uncertainties and shared his view of the future of retail and customer experience. In our latest recording, Çağlar Göğüş, CEO of Doğan Holding, our moderator for this recording, asked critical questions to unveil the underlying reasons for MediaMarkt’s success.
read moreMaking insight generation a habit
Aras Bilgen, a distinguished guest and an expert on human centric design with global industry experience. He is also a scholar and an author. We talked about how to make insight generation a habit
read moreIntegrating VoC with Dynamic Journey Design to Improve CX
During the global pandemic, we have witnessed that customer needs, expectations, and journeys shifted overnight. Times like these have once again shown us the importance of managing “dynamic” customer journeys.
read moreKeep Calm and Invest in Digital
In our expert opinion podcast, Corey User, Partner at Wipro Digital, shared his insights on the short and long term effects of Covid-19 on the financial institutions and why listening to the voice of the customer in unprecedented times is crucial.
read more4 Ways to Focus VoC Programs During the Covid-19 Pandemic
As the first wave of the impact of the pandemic is experienced, we see some changes in this initial response. Based on our conversations with our clients in banking, retail and insurance, we wanted to share approaches and actions regarding Voice of the Customer programs:
read moreVoice of Employee in Remote Working – Pulse Management
In times like these where organizations and businesses are working remotely; building space for communication between employees, understanding their needs and supporting has become a priority.
read moreReal-Time Feedback via Continuous Improvement Loop
Continuous improvement loop is a proven approach in managing customer experiences. Customer Experience Platforms automate the flow in continuous improvement loops and make it easy for companies to manage
read moreConnecting the Dots Around the Customer
In our expert opinion podcast, Melih Ozgul, Head of Customer Experience and Continuous Improvement at Metro C&C Turkey, shared his expertise on customer experience process improvements
read moreSmart Investment in AI for an Enhanced Customer Experience
In our expert opinion webinar, we are joined by Ansi Rona-Bayildiran, Director of Tinderbox Technologies, for a conversation to understand how it is possible to achieve both CX satisfaction and financial benefits simultaneously with real-life examples.
read moreA Bank + Fintech Love Story
Together with Ümran Akbulut, Customer Experience Manager at Türkiye İş Bankası, our Co-Founder Gurol Kurt talked with Efma’s Boris Plantier about the origins of our successful collaboration.
read moreUnderstanding and Measuring Employee Engagement
What are the issues companies face today – or issues they don’t know that they are facing! – in understanding the realities of employee engagement?
read more5 Key Steps for Designing the Customer Journeys
Only 45 percent of senior marketing professionals understand their customer’s journeys. Read on to learn the critical steps in designing customer journeys
read moreDon’t Be Afraid to Ask Why: Text Analytics in Action
Reveal the value behind the unstructured data
read moreA Royal Road to Listening to Your Customers
CX management starts with listening to customers carefully. Start getting insights right after the activation of a listening mechanism…
read moreCreating a CX Driven Culture for Retail Banking
An expert opinion podcast with John Berry. Discussion on how leaders can transform their culture to become more customer-centric.
read moreNet Promoter Score (NPS) Software
NPS is a simple metric to measure, but it is not that simple to improve NPS score. Higher NPS score does not always guarantee better performance in business KPI’s
read moreHow to Create Customer-Centric Culture?
Delivering superior customer experience is the result of a customer-centric culture which starts with people. They are not your customers they are your employees.
read moreEngaging Employees for CX Success
How to create engaged employees who will “go the extra mile” at their own choice through a customer-centric culture?
read moreImproving Employee Engagement by Listening to VoE
It is much more critical today to improve employee engagement as a lever for higher productivity, for retention of key talent and ensure the realization of the happiness of customers!
read moreHow AI Improves Marketers’ Creativity
An article by Don Peppers explaining “an array of innovative tools based on artificial intelligence and machine learning”, including Alterna CX.
read moreHow To Enable Frictionless Customer Experience?
How can companies deliver frictionless customer experiences? Here are some effective insights on making the customer experience better for the customer and more efficient for your business
read moreExperience Design and Management
Customer journey mapping and customer experience management programs have become intertwined essential tools to drive business growth.
read moreContextual Relevance to Drive Continuous Improvement in CX
How can companies leverage voice of the customer (VoC) to understand the context of the experience and improve customer journeys?
read moreSmart Customer Experience to Drive Real-Time Action
On Demand Webinar Smart Customer Experience to Drive Real-Time Action
read moreHow is AI transforming Customer Experience?
What is AI technology and how does it relate to Customer Experience? Pros of Integrating AI into daily customer experience process
read more4 Actions to Accelerate CX Performance for Insurers
For insurers, improving customer experience and service quality is not only a necessity; it is also a loyalty and revenue growth opportunity
read moreGetting actionable insight from unstructured customer feedback
Text analytics enables companies to determine which topics are on your customers’ mind and trigger actionable insights
read moreDelivering The Customer Experience Promise
If we consistently deliver experiences that create distinctive emotions in our customers, then we can get a differentiated positioning in their hearts and minds
read moreWhy Do Leading Home Goods & Services Brands Outperform Their Competitors?
Exploring beyond the surface of oCX leaderboards, we conduct a comprehensive data analysis to decipher the core elements defining a superior home goods & services experience. Drawing insights from our machine learning-based examination of over 200,000 user reviews, our aim is to empower home goods & services brands to refine their offerings, address user pain points, and elevate overall customer satisfaction in the realm of home improvement. This analysis is based on our newly released E-Commerce oCX Report Fall 2024, providing fresh and actionable insights for the industry.
read moreCustomer Feedback Software: How to Analyze Customer Reviews?
Customer feedback plays a vital role in shaping business strategies, enhancing services, and improving overall customer satisfaction. Analyzing these reviews effectively can be a challenging task, but modern solutions like customer feedback software make it manageable, turning raw data into actionable insights.
read moreText Analytics: Faster Insights Compared to Manual Review
In an age where customer opinions shape brand reputations, understanding how customers feel about your brand is more important than ever. Sentiment analysis provides businesses with the ability to interpret emotions expressed in customer feedback, reviews, and interactions. This insight allows companies to take a proactive approach in improving customer experience, while also gaining a competitive edge.
read moreSentiment Analysis: Gaining Insights from Customer Reviews
In an age where customer opinions shape brand reputations, understanding how customers feel about your brand is more important than ever. Sentiment analysis provides businesses with the ability to interpret emotions expressed in customer feedback, reviews, and interactions. This insight allows companies to take a proactive approach in improving customer experience, while also gaining a competitive edge.
read moreCustomer Experience Management: Key Benefits for Businesses
Effective Customer Experience Management (CXM) is a vital component for businesses seeking to build lasting relationships with their customers. By focusing on every touchpoint of the customer journey, CXM enables companies to deliver consistent, high-quality experiences that drive satisfaction and loyalty.
read moreCustomer Feedback Software: Detecting Emotions
Understanding customer emotions is key to delivering personalized and effective experiences. With the help of Customer Feedback Software, businesses can detect emotional responses in customer feedback and use these insights to refine their services. Emotional detection through feedback helps companies not only improve customer satisfaction but also deepen customer loyalty.
read moreCustomer Experience Improvement: The Role of Data Analysis
Data analysis has become a powerful tool in driving Customer Experience Improvement, offering valuable insights that help businesses better understand customer behavior, preferences, and expectations. With data guiding decisions, companies can create experiences that are more personalized, efficient, and aligned with customer needs.
read moreSocial Media Sentiment Analysis: The Rise of AI
The rise of AI is transforming how businesses analyze and interpret the vast ocean of opinions shared across social media platforms. Social Media Sentiment Analysis, powered by AI, enables companies to decode these conversations, providing insights into customer feelings, preferences, and needs. This shift has revolutionized how businesses engage with their audiences and shape strategies.
read moreCustomer Experience Automation: Boosting Customer Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is at the core of every successful business. With the advent of Customer Experience Automation, companies can now manage and improve customer interactions with precision and efficiency, creating a seamless experience that keeps customers happy and loyal.
read moreCustomer Feedback Software: Driving Personalized Interactions
Personalized interactions have become a cornerstone of excellent customer experiences. By leveraging customer feedback software, businesses can gain the insights needed to create tailored engagements that meet individual needs and preferences.
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Engaging Employees for CX Success
How to create engaged employees who will “go the extra mile” at their own choice through a customer-centric culture?
read moreExperience Design and Management
Customer journey mapping and customer experience management programs have become intertwined essential tools to drive business growth.
read moreContextual Relevance to Drive Continuous Improvement in CX
How can companies leverage voice of the customer (VoC) to understand the context of the experience and improve customer journeys?
read moreSmart Customer Experience to Drive Real-Time Action
On Demand Webinar Smart Customer Experience to Drive Real-Time Action
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Food Delivery oCX Report
Summer 2023
This report offers an AI-based analysis of 350,000 customer reviews from 2023, covering the top 80 brands worldwide, including DoorDash, Uber Eats, Just Eat, and Grab. It introduces the Observational Customer Experience (oCX) score, an objective metric to quantify customer reviews. The report features leaderboards across service quality, ease of use, and delivery time, and explores cultural and local trends in food delivery experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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Seeing is believing
Learn how to apply AI to analyze all the various CX ”signals” generated by your customers via surveys, text, complaints, social media, and other interactions. Discover how to quickly identify and flag the most important problems and opportunities, and then better prioritize your investments.