ECXO

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Stop Pushing Products, Start Planting Solutions: Trust and Loyalty Through Value Selling Once upon a time, in a thriving city in the midst of Italys Emilia-Romagna region, sat a warm little bakery by the name of Dolce Vita. With its mouthwatering pastries and aromatic espressos, Dolce Vita had long been a staple in its community. However, with new coffee shops and patisseries beginning to sprout in and around, its owner, Signora Maria, noticed a loss in its long-term loyal following of patrons.

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eglobalis

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Introduction In todays digital age, the relationship between technology and customer experience (CX) has become almost inseparable. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve , it is fundamentally reshaping how businesses interact with their customers, offering personalized, efficient, and predictive solutions. For B2B enterprises, the integration of AI into customer experience strategies has become a cornerstone for staying competitive.

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Adrian Swinscoe

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This is a guest post from Ofer Tirosh, Chief Executive Officer, Tomedes. Why Language is the Key to a Great Customer Experience In a world where [] The post How AI translation is transforming customer experience first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Inside Customer Service

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This plan will help you train employees who serve internal customers. An internal customer is anyone you serve inside your own organization. This can include several groups of coworkers: People on your team Your boss People in other departments You can also broaden it to include contractors, vendors, and other third-parties you work closely with to get your job done and ultimately serve your external customers. ( See more here. ) The training plan guides you through the Serving Internal Customer

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What does customer service excellence look like in 2024? According to our report with insights from CX expert Shep Hyken, customer expectations are at an all-time high, and there’s a bigger shift toward self-service and leveraging AI capabilities.

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Futurelab

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

#NoBullshitCX Some truths are only visible in the real world. Whats in common between Ford, Toyota, Intel, and Amazon (apart from their great stories of success)? They all champion getting out of the house to solve the problem. We learned the Genchi Genbutsu principle while working for Toyota (and once you have done things Toyota way, you keep on, because it works).

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

No matter how talented you are as a customer experience or market research professional, you need a team to build and sustain a world-class Voice of the Customer (VoC) program. In this lesson, were focusing on the internal help youll need. (In the next blog post, I focus on Lesson 16 in the age of AI and external partners.) As I outlined in the book , the reality is, VoC doesnt live in a vacuumit touches multiple departments, each playing a crucial role in making customer insights actionable.

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eglobalis

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Empathy in customer experience is essential, but businesses must follow through with actionable solutions that drive results and improve growth and client retention. The Gist Action over sentiment. Empathy alone isnt enough. Swift, measurable actions must follow to resolve issues and drive client satisfaction. Proactive problem-solving. Using predictive analytics and AI, businesses can anticipate and address client concerns before they escalate.

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Adrian Swinscoe

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This is a guest post from Gans Subramanian, Managing Partner, B-TRNSFRMD Artificial intelligence (AI) has helped the omnichannel customer experience and service industry achieve a revolutionary [] The post The AI revolution in customer service: What to expect in 2025 first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

2025 Contact Center Goals and Investment Priority Trends: Embracing AI for an Enhanced CX and EX February 2025 DMG Consulting has conducted an annual global survey of enterprise, contact center, customer experience (CX), and IT leaders over the past decade (excluding 2019) to gain insights into business goals and technology investment plans for their servicing organizations during the next year.

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Futurelab

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

#NoBullshitCX (CW3) When planning CX initiatives, dont overpromise to customers-or yourself One of my New Years resolutions is to keep it real when it comes to CX promises. What does it actually mean? When we worked on a CX maturity assessment for a global leader in energy, we asked the client: What level of CX are you actually aiming at?. For amanufacturing organisation, simply going for what the customers want (as many self appointed gurus would recommend), is never going to be a full answer.

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Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is at an inflection point. Rigid, monolithic platforms slow brands down, but a full replatforming is disruptive and costly. Modular architecture offers a flexible, scalable alternative - allowing enterprise brands to modernize without ripping and replacing their entire stack. Learn how a composable approach helps modernize commerce stacks while maintaining control over critical systems.

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Navedas

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is revolutionizing industriesranging from construction and bid management to customer service, compliance, and enterprise automationby merging real-time data retrieval with large language models (LLMs). Unlike traditional AI, which relies on static datasets that become outdated over time, RAG continuously updates its.

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ECXO

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Great Illusion: How Reality is Just a Matter of Perspective (and Why It Matters for Customer Experience) Ever had a conversation where one person insists it’s freezing cold while the other swears it’s just mildly chilly? Or arguing about whether a songs lyrics say one thing while your friend hears something completely different? Or had a friendly argument about whether “The Matrix” was a mind-blowing sci-fi masterpiece or just a two-hour headache?

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The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Creating Your Brand Standards World-class service companies have brand standards, or what I like to call a Customer bill of rights, that every person in that organization clearly knows and follows 100 percent of the time. Would you ever expect to see a Disney cast member, in full uniform on break, chewing tobacco and spitting. Read Full Article The post How to Create Your Brands Non-Negotiable Standards appeared first on The DiJulius Group.

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Adrian Swinscoe

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Todays podcast is with Ari Weinzweig, the CEO and co-founding partner of Zingermans Community of Businesses, a much-admired gourmet food business group headquartered in Ann Arbor, [] The post Life Lessons I Learned From Being A Line Cook Interview with Ari Weinzweig first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Back in 2017, I wrote about the critical importance of communication in Voice of Customer (VoC) programs. Looking back and re-reading this chapter, I had to laugh. I was emphasizing daily huddles and paper posters on walls - and while these personal touches still matter (a lot in some cases), AI has revolutionized how we can amplify these communications in ways I never imagined.

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Futurelab

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

#NoBullshitCX #20yearsFuturelab Dont rebrand into the old CX. The Jaguar rebranding got my team discussing the topic of brand representation in experience again. The burning question for us was How will this new branding translate into their CX? Will they dump this fresh, futuristic, colourful image into an old dealership model? Or will we finally see modern showrooms on high streets, test-drives to inspiring locations, salespeople who respect your interests and try to give you what you need ins

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Navedas

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

AI agents are everywhereat least, thats what Microsoft, Salesforce, and half of Silicon Valley want you to believe. If you listen to them, AI-powered assistants are on the verge of replacing customer service reps, automating workflows, and writing business proposals with zero human involvement. The post AI Agents: The Future is (Still) a Few Years AwaySo Lets Be Pragmatic appeared first on Navedas.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Potential CFPB defunding could reshape consumer protection in the US. This blog explores what could change, potential impacts, and considerations to ensure consumer trust and protection.

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Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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The DiJulius Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Podcast Summary: In this episode, Denise and John discuss John’s journey from being an employee at UPS to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the beauty industry. They explore the challenges faced in starting a salon, the importance of customer service, and how John’s experiences led him to become a sought-after speaker and consultant.

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Adrian Swinscoe

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Todays podcast is with Alex Levin, the Co-Founder and CEO of Regal.io, that provides high-touch contact center software (CCaaS) that enhances sales, support, and customer retention [] The post The natural home of the contact center is under the CMO Interview with Alex Levin of Regal.io first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Lumoa Product News for February 2025 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! Changing where + buttons live in the UI Starting on March 3rd, we are going to be changing where certain buttons are placed in the UI.

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Futurelab

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

#NoBullshitCX This Golden Rule literally brings the gold. Every time I speak about the main CX rule Treat others as you want to be treated I have someone scoffing at me for being too idealistic. There are so many misconceptions around it, it makes my blood boil. Some people think that good CX comes from hiring good-hearted people (spoiler alert no, it comes from good processes).

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Totango

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

For enterprise organizations, managing customer relationships is far from simple. The scale of operations, diversity of customer needs, and complexity of organizational structures create unique challenges. Yet, one constant remains critical understanding customer health. For enterprises, a well-constructed customer health score isnt just a nice-to-have; its a strategic asset that empowers teams to manage complexity, sustain customer satisfaction, and scale their customer success efforts.

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The CX landscape is evolving. Read this blog to learn how organizations can get more out of their CX investments, including how AI can improve the quality of customer feedback and insights.

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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Influencing a CX+EX+PX-Based Way of Life is Crucial Now Lynn Hunsaker Who fuels your enterprise's growth? Customers fund salaries, budgets, and dividends Employees provide what customers need Partners deliver what customers need Accordingly, anything your enterprise is doing that's out of alignment with customer, employee, and partner needs (CX+EX+PX) is waste!

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Adrian Swinscoe

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Todays podcast is with Suvi Lindfors, Strategic Business Development, Netigate. Suvi joins me today to talk about why she thinks the contact center is becoming one [] The post Harnessing the contact centers potential as a real-time data gold mine Interview with Suvi Lindfors of Netigate first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Lumoa Product News for January 2025 Hey everyone! Lovely seeing you again, back with more exciting Lumoa updates! We have had a doozy of a month, with lots of features that we think will make Lumoa better for you. Let’s get started! Better translations and Topic logic is now available! You can now request to have our new Translation Engine and our new Topic Modeling AI.

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Futurelab

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

#NoBullshitCX #20yearsFuturelab Nobody is too small for CX. Sometimes when I talk to clients, they say things like We are too small to do Customer Experience. CX is somehow believed to be something for the big names. Nothing can be further from the truth. I need to remind them all the time that the most customer-centric businesses are often small market stalls, hole-in-the-wall venues, little bars on beaches, and tiny corner shops.

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PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Touchpoint mapping has always been a critical step in building a great VoC program. It helps CX leaders identify the key interactions customers have with their company and prioritize where feedback is needed most. But as AI advances, the way we approach touchpoint mappingand what we can do with the datahas fundamentally changed. AI-Powered Touchpoint Mapping: A Smarter Approach Traditionally, touchpoint mapping has been a manual processCX and market research teams brainstorm, list out all custom

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Callminer

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Improving patient experience is a key focus for global healthcare organizations in 2025. This blog explores key trends and challenges shaping healthcares use of AI to impact patient outcomes.

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