I read an article last week on employee empowerment by Annette Franz. She reflected on the merits of employee empowerment and also provided excellent examples of how employers can improve the customer experience by empowering their employees; she sites examples from the likes of Ritz-Carlton, Hyatt and Diamond Resorts, to name a few. Before employers […]
Customer experience touch points are not created equal. Findings from a study of six B2B technology companies highlight the top customer experience touch points that drive different kinds of business growth. What helps businesses acquire new customers is not the same as what helps them keep customers or improve their share of wallet. Businesses are looking to the […]
My best friend went on a family vacation and, upon his return home, retold his vacation horror story to me. He was so upset about his treatment by a major airline that he wrote a 4-page letter to them, detailing his displeasure about his experience. The bottom line is that he missed a connecting flight […]
I read an article last week on Forbes, Customer Loyalty Is Dead. Long Live Engagement, by Curtis Bingham. He argues that companies need to use customer engagement metrics instead of using customer loyalty metrics. He, however, confuses the meaning of customer loyalty with the measurement of customer loyalty. While he correctly claims that most companies measure customer […]
I had the privilege of delivering a talk on the topic of Big Data and Customer Experience as part of the Customer Experience Professional Association (CXPA) Bay Area Local Networking Event in San Mateo, CA on February 26, 2014. I would like to thank the CXPA for hosting and organizing this event. Below are the slides […]
An examination of data scientist skills reveals an often overlooked skill necessary to uncover insights from data: The Scientific Method Data scientists are a hot commodity in today’s data-abundant world. Business leaders are relying on data scientists to improve how they acquire data, determine its value, analyze it and build algorithms for the ultimate purpose of […]
Last week, I consolidated several Big Data vendors’ predictions about what to expect in the Big Data world in 2014. This week, we will take a look at what Big Data customers think. IDG Enterprise conducted a study to gain a better understanding of organizations’ big data initiatives, investments and strategies. In their 2014 IDG Enterprise Big […]
Several Big Data vendors have provided their predictions about what we might expect from the field of Big Data in 2014. These predictions come from articles from the following vendors (links provide each vendor’s predictions): IBM, SGI, Think Big Analytics, Xplenty, Pentaho, Alpine Data Labs, MapR Technologies, DataDirect Networks and Concurrent. For each article, I used […]
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