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...
by Annette Franz | Jul 11, 2019 | customer expectations, customer experience, customer experience design, customer experience journey, customer feedback, customer focus, customer loyalty, customer retention, customer satisfaction, customer-centric, Uncategorized
Today I’m pleased to share a guest post by Adrian Swinscoe. I believe that the customer experience (CX) space is becoming like prog rock in the 1970s, i.e., overly technical, too elaborate and complicated, inwardly focused, a little exclusive, and in danger of...
by Annette Franz | Jul 3, 2019 | budget, customer experience, customer experience design, customer experience journey, journey mapping, Uncategorized
Are you making this mistake when journey mapping? We already know that people are making mistakes when they’re journey mapping. I’ve outlined several of them in past posts: 5 Myths of Journey Mapping, in which I wrote about: I’ve mapped; I’m done. One map...
