Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today’s interview is with Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner. Juliette is an author, entrepreneur, technologist, and strategist, who works at the intersection of culture, data science, […] The post How to safely realise the enormous potential of Al – Interview with Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I’d like to tell you a couple of stories about some things that happened to me while travelling to speak at an event in Munich recently […] The post Consistency is often overlooked but is the secret ingredient to making customers happy first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s interview is with Micah Solomon, a renowned expert on customer service, hospitality, and customer experience. Micah joins me today to talk about his new book: […] The post Your customer doesn’t want to know about your technology – Interview with Micah Solomon first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This is a guest post by Jeni Rogers, Managing Editor, Wheelhouse.com. As CX continues to evolve into a modern business initiative and area of keen focus […] The post Embracing the future of CX: Unleashing the power of converged VOIP, contact centers, and video conferencing software first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This is a guest post by Jeni Rogers, Managing Editor, Wheelhouse.com. As CX continues to evolve into a modern business initiative and area of keen focus […] The post Embracing the future of CX: Unleashing the power of converged VOIP, contact centers, and video conferencing software first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s interview is with Micah Solomon, a renowned expert on customer service, hospitality, and customer experience. Micah joins me today to talk about his new book: […] The post Your customer doesn’t want to know about your technology – Interview with Micah Solomon first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I’d like to tell you a couple of stories about some things that happened to me while travelling to speak at an event in Munich recently […] The post Consistency is often overlooked but is the secret ingredient to making customers happy first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today’s interview is with Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner. Juliette is an author, entrepreneur, technologist, and strategist, who works at the intersection of culture, data science, […] The post How to safely realise the enormous potential of Al – Interview with Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This is a guest post from Janine Hunt, Client Partnership Director at customer service outsourcer Kura. Data shows that 35% of businesses have adopted using AI […] The post How the world is reacting to AI use in customer service first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Today’s interview is with Dr. Peter Kim, Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and author of a […] The post The science behind repairing trust – Interview with Professor Peter Kim first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This is a guest post by Cindy Mielke, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Tango. Maintaining a sense of unity and company culture in remote and hybrid […] The post How to bring employees together for the holidays – Even if they’re far apart first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Today’s interview is with David Rogers, who is the world’s leading expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the […] The post The five barriers to digital transformation and a roadmap to overcome them – Interview with David Rogers first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Whenever we are presented with a question that we don’t have the answer to or a situation that is unfamiliar to us, we seek help. Historically, […] The post The stakes are set to get higher in onsite search experience first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Today’s interview is with Nate Sanders, the co-founder and CEO of Artifact, the customer experience forecasting company. Nate joins me today to talk about the recent […] The post Brands don’t need more feedback or survey data to better understand their customers – Interview with Nate Sanders of Artifact first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This is a guest post by Grace Anderson, senior HR business partner at Kura. Data shows that 76% of customers would happily move to a different […] The post 5 Ways your business diversity is improving the customer experience first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Today’s interview is with Walter Flaat, dentsu Canada’s Chief Data Officer. We talk about a new whitepaper that they’ve just published on the Attention Economy, what […] The post When we talk about attention, we’re actually talking about engagement – Interview with Walter Flaat of dentsu Canada first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This is a guest post by Akin Arikan, the author of Customer Experience Analytics and Multichannel Metrics. Adrian points out that “CX should not be reduced […] The post What data skills can actually help CX Punk Rockers? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Today’s interview is with Cathrine (Cathy) Jooste, President of the Business Process Outsourcing Division, and John Samuel, EVP and CTO, at CGS, a global provider of […] The post CX in the age of AI: A leading outsourcer’s perspective – Interview with Cathy Jooste and John Samuel of CGS first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This is a guest post by Jon Brooks, Head of Financial Services at Sabio Group. In the dynamic landscape of financial services, where numerous firms are […] The post Why financial services firms must stand out through stellar customer experience first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer Experience 217

Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s interview is with Micah Peterson, a member of the founding team and the VP of Product Management at ProcedureFlow, the next-generation knowledge management software that […] The post Interview with Micah Peterson of ProcedureFlow first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

It’s not been a great couple of months for customer experience. In the middle of June, Forrester released its US 2023 Customer Experience Index, which showed […] The post Recent research suggests that something has to change in the contact center space first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

AUGUST 25, 2023

Today’s interview is like an interview I released a couple of weeks ago and features two, separate interviews that I conducted on a recent trip to […] The post The autonomous enterprise is like a North Star vision of where business is going – Interview with Kerim Akgonul and Peter van der Putten of Pega first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

This is a guest post by Dana Bishop, VP of Experience Research Strategy at UserTesting. Over the last decade, the user experience (UX) industry has not […] The post From sole ambassadors, to the heart of business decisions: the UX evolution of the last decade first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

AUGUST 19, 2023

Today’s interview is with Carey Smith, who is Founding Contrarian at Unorthodox Ventures. Carey is a returning guest and was first on the podcast back in […] The post Revisiting the Big Ass Fans story and what happened next – Interview with Carey Smith of Unorthodox Ventures first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

AUGUST 14, 2023

I was in Las Vegas recently for Pegaworld iNspire 2023, Pega’s annual customer event. It’s the first time it’s been held in person for four years, and […] The post When it comes to customer experience transformation, technology isn’t the problem first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

AUGUST 10, 2023

Today’s interview is a bit different as it features two, separate interviews in one episode. It’s a two-fer! These interviews were conducted on a recent trip […] The post New shoes, a surprising but delightful musical collaboration, the autonomous enterprise, gen AI and getting personalisation right – Interview with James Dodkins and Tara DeZao of Pega first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is a guest post from Jim Davies, (former) Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at Calabrio. Managing the hand-over from bot to agent is like taking part […] The post Don’t drop the omni-channel baton and win the CX relay race first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

AUGUST 1, 2023

Today’s interview is with Jose Herrera, CEO and Co-Founder of Horatio CX, a next generation CX outsourcing firm and the trusted partner of some of the […] The post Taking an employee-centric approach has allowed us to achieve an attrition rate of 5% – Interview with Jose Herrara of Horatio CX first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JULY 28, 2023

This is a guest post from Nevilson Christian, Founder of SeekThem. Imagine this: You visit an online retail website for the first time. The website automatically […] The post Creating memorable customer experiences: Inspiring loyalty first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JULY 24, 2023

Today’s interview is with Sheila Anderson, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Aflac, a Fortune 500 company that provides insurance and financial protection to millions of […] The post Our transformation journey and unleashing the power of AI and automation – Interview with Sheila Anderson of Aflac first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JULY 17, 2023

This is a guest post from Ben Mercer at Leisure Lakes Bikes. The Tour De France, which sees its 110th outing this summer (July 1-23), has […] The post Microexcellence: What can marginal gains and the Tour de France teach us? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JULY 14, 2023

Today’s interview is with Michael Ramsey, VP of Customer Workflow Products at ServiceNow, a cloud computing platform that help companies manage digital workflows for enterprise operations. […] The post The messy middle of customer service revisited – Interview with Michael Ramsey of ServiceNow first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JULY 10, 2023

Readers of my articles will know by now that I love a good bit of research. This is for two reasons: One, I love discovering new […] The post New Adobe research: Consumers expect even better experiences when economic conditions worsen first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JULY 5, 2023

Today’s interview is with Michael Upton, Chief Digital & Technology Officer at First Tech Credit Union (or First Tech), which is the US’s premier credit union […] The post The pragmatic approach to transforming customer service – Interview with Mike Upton of First Tech Credit Union first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JUNE 29, 2023

Many customers are suffering right now with high inflation and interest rates. Now, while that is easy to say and observe, it’s often hard to quantify […] The post Is adhering to the FCAs new consumer duty impossible without the help of technology? first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Adrian Swinscoe

JUNE 26, 2023

Today’s interview is with Deborah (Deb) Battaglia, Senior Vice President, Customer Experience at Assurant, Inc, a global B2B2C Fortune 300 company that provides risk management and […] The post Purposefully designed experiences don’t happen by accident – Interview with Deborah Battaglia of Assurant first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Customer Experience 167

Adrian Swinscoe

JUNE 21, 2023

This obituary was written by Nate Sanders, the co-founder and CEO of Artifact, the customer experience forecasting company. The Survey, a long beloved method of gathering […] The post Obituary: The Survey (1920s – 2023) first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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