by Annette Franz | Aug 17, 2022 | customer experience design, customer feedback, customer understanding, customer-centric, customer-centric culture, feedback, listen, listening, product design, Uncategorized
I originally published today’s post on Forbes. It appeared on their site on May 2, 2022. I recently came across an article in the Wall Street Journal about David Novak, the former CEO of Yum Brands. In the article, he talks about his epic fail: Crystal Pepsi, the...
by Annette Franz | Jun 15, 2022 | customer feedback, employee feedback, feedback, listening, Uncategorized, voice of customer, voice of employee
A couple months ago, I wrote a post titled, CX Journey™ Musings: The Challenges of Customer Listening. In it, I wrote about, well, some of the challenges that brands face as they embark on their customer listening work. I included things like: inducing survey fatigue,...
by Annette Franz | Apr 20, 2022 | customer experience, customer feedback, data, feedback, listening, surveys, Uncategorized
You know by now that there are three ways to achieve customer understanding: Listen (feedback and data), Characterize (personas), and Empathize (journey mapping process). Of these three, probably the one that is used most often – or the one that most companies...
by Annette Franz | Feb 23, 2022 | culture, customer experience, customer feedback, customer-centric culture, insights, listening, Uncategorized, voice of customer
I’m pleased to share a guest post by Uma Bhat of Clootrack. Note: I’m one of the 102 customer experience experts included in Clootrack’s report. What are the biggest challenges that brands face when they want to implement an exceptional customer...
by Annette Franz | Nov 3, 2021 | customer experience, customer feedback, data, feedback, insights, Uncategorized, voice of customer
It’s that time of the year again when folks are looking for predictions about what customer experience will look like next year and beyond. I find it more interesting to reflect on this year as a follow-up to the shitshow that was known as 2020. What did brands...
by Annette Franz | Apr 21, 2021 | customer effort, customer experience, customer feedback, feedback, metrics, Uncategorized, voice of customer
I originally wrote today’s post for GetFeedback. It appeared on their site on February 26, 2020. One of the biggest mistakes companies can – and do – make with customer feedback is to do nothing at all with it. Remember the old Gartner statistic: 95% of companies...
