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We have been traveling a lot lately. Why? Here at Regalix, we help large global companies with their customer success and sales enablement initiatives, which include things like digital marketing, knowledge management, customer experiences, sales operations, customer service and support, rewards and loyalty programs, etc., all of which are critical to the business and are today being digitally transformed. While helping businesses transform themselves in these areas we have seen and learned a great deal. Let me share some of the lessons we have learned.Org Charts, Centralization and Customer Experience ManagementWe have learned that businesses need a companywide customer experience (CX) leader with a centralized view and strategy. Too often companies have different people managing different segments of the customer journey in different ways and they don't communicate with each other. They often work in isolated information silos, which leads to a disjointed approach and understanding of their customers' experiences. A company may deliver exceptional customer experiences in 9 out of 10 interactions, but the customer leaves unhappy as a result of the one negative experience. If that failure and the lessons learned are not communicated companywide, then CX managers may mistakenly believe they have succeeded, when in fact it was a failure for both the customer and the brand.Customer experience management (CXM) is about considering the entire end-to-end customer journey and making sure the holistic experience is extraordinary. It recognizes all the customer interaction points, monitoring each, removing friction and creating an overall CXM view. Improving the CX often means the entire customer journey must be analyzed with a fresh set of eyes. Those invested in the development and management of existing processes are often too invested or defensive to be objective. As part of our work, we are often called to play the role of a new customer, or an existing customer with a problem, so we can experience a customer's journey and document our experiences.FrictionOne of the key metrics we look for and document is friction. The more friction in the system, the harder it is for a customer to get through it and be satisfied. Lower CSAT scores mean fewer sales, less brand loyalty, and less referral business in the future.We document the things that cause friction. Here are some common ones:
- Too many steps to accomplish a task on a website, mobile app or form
- Processes are too confusing, repetitive or convoluted
- User interfaces (UI) are confusing or too complex
- Instructions are unclear or confusing
- Directions on what to do next are unclear
- Processes take too long
- Self-service options are unavailable
- Information is stored in separate silos requiring searches in multiple locations
- Too many logins and passwords required
- Websites or mobile apps jump you out to third party sites without clearly stating why
- Information is hard to find and difficult to understand
- Vendors ask for too much information up front
- Vendor asks for information they already have
- Problems take too long to resolve
- Call center representatives are not informed, not trained enough or don't have access to the right information to quickly resolve issues
- Loyalty programs ask for a lot of information and commitment, but don't deliver customer loyalty
- Rewards programs don't offer rewards that motivate
We capture and analyze the friction points, and then recommend ways to remove or reduce the friction for the purpose of improving CXs. Reducing friction generally involves a series of steps like:
- A review of current processes, user interfaces, applications, systems, decision structures and technologies necessary to identify the sources of obvious and hidden friction points.
- A brutally honest understanding of how customers feel about their experiences at each step in the customer journey
- UI and process improvement and/or re-engineering to reduce friction
- Digital transformation - often involving the sharing of information across the CX ecosystem, strategic applications of predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, CXM platforms, content and knowledge management systems, automation and personalization engines.
- Human augmentation - providing intelligent tools and applications to help your customer facing teams deliver the best customer experiences possible.
- Creativity - looking at innovative new ways of delivering products and services that may involve new business models and subscription services.
As you can see, there is a great deal of digital transformation happening in CXM today. Companies that are laggards in their CXM maturity and sophistication, will soon find their customers have abandoned them.
DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology conferences and trade shows has announced the conference tracks for CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorldEXPO within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term.
A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout enterprises of all sizes.
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DXWorldEXPO | CloudEXPO 2018 New York cover all of these tools, with the most comprehensive program and with 222 rockstar speakers throughout our industry presenting 22 Keynotes and General Sessions, 200 Breakout Sessions along 10 Tracks, as well as our signature Power Panels. Our Expo Floor brings together the world's leading companies throughout the world of Cloud Computing, DevOps, FinTech, Digital Transformation, and all they entail.
As your enterprise creates a vision and strategy that enables you to create your own unique, long-term success, learning about all the technologies involved is essential. Companies today not only form multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures, but create them with built-in cognitive capabilities.
Cloud-Native thinking is now the norm in financial services, manufacturing, telco, healthcare, transportation, energy, media, entertainment, retail and other consumer industries, as well as the public sector.
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FinTech Is Now Part of the DXWorldEXPO | CloudEXPO Program!
Financial enterprises in New York City, London, Singapore, and other world financial capitals are embracing a new generation of smart, automated FinTech that eliminates many cumbersome, slow, and expensive intermediate processes from their businesses.
Accordingly, attendees at the upcoming 22nd CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO November 11-13, 2018 in New York City will find fresh new content in two new tracks called:
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which will incorporate FinTech and Blockchain, as well as machine learning, artificial intelligence and deep learning in these two distinct tracks.
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FinTech brings efficiency as well as the ability to deliver new services and a much improved customer experience throughout the global financial services industry. FinTech is a natural fit with cloud computing, as new services are quickly developed, deployed, and scaled on public, private, and hybrid clouds.
More than US$20 billion in venture capital is being invested in FinTech this year. DXWorldEXPO | CloudEXPO are pleased to bring you the latest FinTech developments as an integral part of our program.
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Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS - software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud strategies, now is the perfect time to attend and learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the right path to Digital Transformation.
Every Global 2000 enterprise in the world is now integrating cloud computing in some form into its IT development and operations. Midsize and small businesses are also migrating to the cloud in increasing numbers.
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Companies are each developing their unique mix of cloud technologies and services, forming multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures and deployments across all major industries. Cloud-driven thinking has become the norm in financial services, manufacturing, telco, healthcare, transportation, energy, media, entertainment, retail and other consumer industries, and the public sector.
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Kevin Benedict serves as the Senior Vice President, Solutions Strategy, at Regalix, a Silicon Valley based company, focused on bringing the best strategies, digital technologies, processes and people together to deliver improved customer experiences, journeys and success through the combination of intelligent solutions, analytics, automation and services. He is a popular writer, speaker and futurist, and in the past 8 years he has taught workshops for large enterprises and government agencies in 18 different countries. He has over 32 years of experience working with strategic enterprise IT solutions and business processes, and he is also a veteran executive working with both solution and services companies. He has written dozens of technology and strategy reports, over a thousand articles, interviewed hundreds of technology experts, and produced videos on the future of digital technologies and their impact on industries.
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