Boosting customer loyalty through personalised banking experiences

Personalisation has become an important aspect of creating a great customer experience. Customers now expect seamless personalised experiences when dealing with their bank and if they aren’t satisfied with their current institution, an alternative provider is only a click away. The move to greater personalised experiences has gained momentum during COVID.  Banks are looking to …

The Omni-channel Experience: Strategy versus buzzword

An omni-channel experience is about providing a seamless experience across all service and communication channels. Regardless of how or when or how often a customer wants to interact with a brand, they can. Over the years, however, omni-channel has become an over-used buzzword employed by vendors to sell technology and software. Rather than a strategy …

Is creating a great employee experience a waste of time and money?

Organisations that understand the link between happy engaged employees and happy engaged customers will exceed in the experience economy. Yet Customer Experience (CX) and Employee Experience (EX) strategies are often not aligned to the detriment of both employees and customers. Forrester defines EX in the context of how positively employees perceive the organisation’s environment, culture, …

Airlines and government information hotlines fail to meet the needs of up to one in three callers

COVID-19 transformed the way we work across industries and the call centre environment is no exception. In fact, call centre agents became the critical front liners of many organisations. They quickly scrambled to shift operations so tens of thousands could work from home, while simultaneously dealing with an unprecedented surge in calls, many of which …

Where does the customer journey end?

From Telstra Enterprise. End-to-end customer experience is the journey a customer takes from their initial thoughts or considerations to the actual purchase of a product. But the journey doesn’t end there! A customer’s initial buyer experience may have been sensational. The website was easy to navigate and the checkout process was simple and streamlined. But …

Teaching the machine to serve our customers

In recent years the customer experience landscape has seen the emergence of chatbots, virtual digital assistants, and AI. By automating repetitive tasks these tools have saved costs, allowing humans to focus on more complex issues. The long term impact of AI and machine learning applications, however, is potentially tremendous and far reaching. Machine learning refers …