How Anytime Fitness is redefining member experience

Anytime Fitness’s vision for “one million healthier lives” guides their innovative marketing, retention strategies, and unwavering focus on empowering individuals through mind, body, and community. I recently sat down with Caitlin Bancroft, Group Chief Brand & Marketing Officer for Anytime Fitness, to explore how Australia’s largest gym network is inspiring healthier lives. From championing inclusivity …

Calculating the ROI of AI in CX – Beware of consultants bearing gifts

The impact of AI on Customer Experience (CX) is immense. Many companies find themselves, however, grappling with a landscape bombarded by often exaggerated claims and false promises. While AI offers genuine, measurable benefits, navigating the hype, understanding current limitations, and strategically implementing solutions are crucial for realising true return on investment (ROI). Tom Lewis, global …

How AI can reveal the unspoken truth about your customers

In the quest for superior customer experience, businesses traditionally rely on direct feedback channels like surveys, feedback forms, and product reviews. While invaluable, these methods often present a curated view of customer sentiment. The true goldmine of customer insights lies in the vast, unstructured world of indirect customer feedback – the unsolicited data generated through …

AI-powered humans – Redefining the role of the human agent

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the customer experience landscape, enabling brands to deliver faster, smarter, and more personalised interactions at every touchpoint. AI assists organisations in quickly resolving issues through virtual agents, providing dynamic recommendations, and delivering highly targeted communications. AI technology helps organisations anticipate needs, provide support in real time, and enhance personalisation in …

How to tackle contact centre team turnover with AI adoption

Here’s something we should probably all acknowledge: internal customer experience can be as important as external customer experience, especially in environments like contact centres. But new AI-powered tools are helping to get user experience right internally to help retain talent. Tackling turnover in customer contact centre teams can be a perpetual challenge for customer experience …

Forsta and InMoment merger: A new powerhouse in the VoC marketplace

The recent acquisition of InMoment by Press Ganey Forsta marks a significant shake-up in the Voice of the Customer (VoC) marketplace. This merger brings together two prominent players, creating a formidable force aiming to challenge Qualtrics and Medallia. This increased competition is likely to drive further innovation and potentially benefit customers with more comprehensive and …

Inside KFC’s global journey to actionable experience management insights

In the fiercely competitive quick-service restaurant industry, customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) are no longer distinct – they’re two sides of the same coin. For a global giant like KFC, with over 20,000 restaurants spanning diverse markets, the challenge of truly understanding and responding to the voices of both customers and team members …

Qualtrics unveils experience agents: Autonomous digital workers, powered by agentic AI

Qualtrics aims to transform how organisations understand and act on customer and employee feedback with its launch of “Experience Agents.”  Unveiled at Qualtrics X4 in Sydney, this innovation uses agentic AI to automate understanding at scale, moving beyond surveys to deliver proactive, personalised experiences. Agentic AI is poised to revolutionise Voice of Customer (VoC) in …

How to transform your company’s contact centre into a blue chip asset

Contact centres are becoming the frontline of brand experience and key to delivering value to the organisation and their customers. Here’s how forward-thinking organisations are getting it right in transforming contact centres into strategic assets. In today’s times, Australian businesses are well and truly alive to the advantages a high functioning contact centre can confer. …