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 | May 28, 2020 | agile, change, customer experience, listen, listening, proactive, Uncategorized
In this week’s guest post, we continue the series with five customer experience industry veterans sharing their experiences from previous crises to help get through the current crisis. This post was written by Stephanie Thum, CCXP – with contributions from...
by Annette Franz | May 7, 2020 | customer experience, customer understanding, listening, metrics, Net Promoter Score, online reviews, Uncategorized
Today I’m pleased to share a guest post by Eric Melchor with ElevateMyCX. When most of us think of plagues or epidemics we think of victims who break out with red spots all over their bodies or egg-sized buboes that ooze pus and blood. But think about the...