Customer Experience
Customer Experience
Management
Introduction
•Customer experience, also known as CX, is customers’ holistic perception of their
experience with any business or brand
• CX is the result of every interaction a customer has with the business, from navigating the
website to talking to customer service and receiving the product/service they bought and
the after sales service as well
• Bridge between voice-of-the-customer & customer engagement to earn trust, loyalty, and
enduring profit growth.
• Benefits of Customer experience –
• increased customer loyalty
• increased customer satisfaction
• better word-of-mouth marketing, positive reviews,
and recommendations
Customer Journey – The Concept
Customer Journey Definition:
Outcome: Identify all services accessed
and experienced by the customers
Technology: People:
Connecting social media Business leaders and service
communities and other agent well connected with
channels helping develop customers. Also, employees
better run communities more willing to represent
company’s brand.
Improving Customer
Experience (CX) though CRM
Strategy: Operations:
Continual customer journey Better flexibility in businesses
mapping made possible with would help fulfill variation in
access of good data and customer requirements – made
providing customized services possible by collaborative
business unit
Streamlining the Decision Journey
Start
new
Start journey
classic
journey Consider
Evaluate
Consider
THE LOYALTY
Bond LOOP
Advocate Enjoy
Buy
1. Leveraging the Power of Artificial Intelligence: Gartner in a report has published that by 2020, chatbots will run approximately 85% of the
online customer interactions.
Chatbots are available round the clock and they can potentially handle a limitless customers request without getting tired
Since chatbots lack human emotion, a customers will more often than not receive a calm and composed response & takes less time
2. Predictive Personalisation: The potential to predict the future action of the customers based on their past behaviour is called Predictive
Personalisation.
Amazon Example.
Using predictive personalization, a company can predict the future course of action of the customer, thus broadening the leads in the next stage
of the sales funnel
3. Doing away with what customer definitely doesn’t want: Customers should be in love with the business and it can only happen if the
company is able to fulfil their needs to the fullest. Here are a few ways a company can do this:
•Optimizing the website for smartphone web browsing
•Collect data points to access how the customers will react to special offers and use it to the advantage of the company
•Not bombarding the customers on the website and providing information to the customers as and when needed
Improving Customer Journey & Experience
4. Streamlining Communication: Communication is the lifeline of a business. Choosing the right medium, language and message at the
right time are essentials to a company’s success. Here are some ways a company can do this:
•Communicating proactively and ensuring that the customer are aware throughout their journey
•Taking shortest routes when it comes to communication can be fatal as customers of today are smart enough to realise a lack of
trustworthy and reliable communication which could cause them to switch brands instantly due to the plethora of options available to
them
•To identify the channels are most cost effective, a company can rank the sources of traffic sources coming to the website, hence
enabling the company to provide better solutions
5. Provide Enhanced Security to the Customers using Blockchain: In this day and age where data privacy is one of the biggest concern,
customers will prefer businesses that take their personal data security very seriously. Hence, here blockchain comes in handy for not
all, but definitely certain companies doing business online. Here are a few reasons why blockchain impacts customer experience:
•Loss of data is not a problem as the data is decentralised thus acting as a reliable store of the customer’s data
•Encryption and validation provided in the blockchain increases the security of the data
•Customer retention process can be managed in real time with the help of blockchain. Scalability is made easier via blockchain without
compromising security
Digital Technology Changing Customers
• Digital transformation is changing the customer experience and customer journey across different
industries
• Customers expect relevant content in relevancy what they’re doing anytime, anyplace and within the
format and on the device of their selecting – Many a times the digital transformation is not
determined by the organization but by the customers
• Digital Transformation is about changing the way businesses interacts with customers with a
consistent experience and thereby proving value to the customers
•Customers are always connected through mobile devices and multiple apps – Digital technology
helps in this case to stay on top of the customer’s mind
• For marketing teams, improve customer experience through a data-driven marketing strategy by
leveraging the power of analytics. Companies should use digital channels to implement SEO (Search
Engine Optimization), account-based marketing and email marketing methods.
• How companies can achieve this?
• Seamless Multi-channel experience
• Personalized experience to customers (e.g. – shopping recommendations in Amazon)
• Agile data analytics team – embracing automation (e.g. – Automated compliant resolution by food delivery
services like Swiggy, Zomato)