by Annette Franz | Aug 3, 2022 | customer experience, customer experience design, customer experience journey, journey map, journey mapping, Uncategorized
I originally wrote this post for Wix Answers. It appeared on their site on February 21, 2022. I mentioned in my last post that customer service is not only an important part of the customer experience but also of the success of a business. Get it wrong and a lot of...
by Annette Franz | May 5, 2021 | customer experience, customer experience design, customer experience journey, empathy, empathy map, journey map, journey mapping, Uncategorized
Back in 2019, I shared an excerpt from my book, Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business, that outlines the various types of maps that you may encounter or use in your work to...
by Annette Franz | Apr 21, 2020 | culture, customer effort, customer expectations, customer experience, customer experience design, customer experience journey, customer understanding, customer-centric culture, employee engagement, employee experience, Uncategorized
I mentioned over the last couple of weeks that there are some important takeaways from the current crisis. Here’s another takeaway. There’s a little bit of irony in the title of today’s post. Why do we have to make sure the customer experience is...
by Annette Franz | Mar 25, 2020 | customer experience, customer experience journey, employee experience, journey map, journey mapping, Uncategorized
Another question (recall, last week’s question was about CX teams) that has been posed regularly over the last couple of weeks is, “Should we cancel our journey mapping workshops?” or “Is it possible to conduct journey mapping workshops...
by Annette Franz | Aug 14, 2019 | customer experience, customer experience design, customer experience journey, customer journey, CX vision, cxjourney, journey map, journey mapping, service blueprint, Uncategorized
Are you using journey mapping to design a better future-state experience and to deliver new value for your customers – with your customers? One of a dozen or so journey mapping myths that I’ve written about over the last few years is that you can’t...
by Annette Franz | Aug 7, 2019 | customer experience, customer experience journey, CX strategy, CX vision, employee experience, governance, Uncategorized
I originally wrote today’s post for Kayako. It appeared on their blog on March 1, 2019. The only true competitive advantage for brands is their customer experience. As a result, more and more companies – both large and small – are slowly getting on board with...
