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Customer experience leads to profits . . . but not because it makes your customers feel warm and fuzzy, and not if it’s just a slogan. Customer experience leads to profits . . . if you treat it as a business discipline. In fact, customer experience is the greatest untapped source of both decreased costs and increased revenues in most industries — but only if you take the time to understand what drives it and how you can benefit financially from improving it. This keynote will show you:
It sounds easy enough, but Virgin Media must put this single mission to work across all product and service experiences delivered by 20,000 employees during millions of interactions each year. As such, Sean Risebrow, Director of Customer Experience, maintains that the failure to achieve customer loyalty is an execution problem. In his keynote, you’ll learn how Virgin Media is using practical approaches like Net Promoter, service design, and employee engagement on its journey to transform itself into a company that is continuously led and informed by its customers’ voices. Sean will address key points such as:
Social continues to grow with a plethora of new social technologies on offer. But is this a blessing or a curse? As organisations dawn to customer experience as the next battleground in the social world it's time to grow up and get serious about social. It's no longer acceptable to dabble in the channel or run this as an isolated function – social should be integrated as a key part of your customer experience strategy. This keynote will provide examples of leading global brands taking innovative approaches to delivering a fully integrated social customer experience strategy across their organisation with resulting, measurable ROI.
Brand-building in the 21st century is not just what you say the brand means in your marketing material. It's about how you deliver on the brand promise at every customer touchpoint. In this session, Craig will pull from his recent experiences to share:
To make the leap from incremental improvements to breakthrough transformation, companies must routinely perform a set of sound, standard practices. These practices fall into six high-level disciplines: customer experience strategy; customer understanding; design; governance; measurement; and culture. Collectively, the disciplines represent the most important things that the best companies we know of do to be great at customer experience. This keynote will explain:
Culture
Companies are grappling to maintain their traditional sources of competitive advantage in the age of the customer — a world where empowered consumers, commoditized products, and intense competition stretch organizational capabilities to their limits. Enter the customer-obsessed CMO who can transcend the operational status quo and lead a companywide journey to establish new sources of competitive advantage. In this session, you will learn how CMOs positively change the corporate culture around customer obsession by:
Design
Design is one of the six core disciplines required to build effective customer experiences. But the word “design” conjures up a lot of different, often vague meanings. This track session demystifies design. It will provide Customer Experience Professionals with insight into how successful design processes work, how design differs from other business disciplines, and who should be involved in the design process.
Customer Understanding
This session drills into the technology adoption trends of our European respondents, based on a survey of European customer intelligence (CI) respondents. We review the goals of and roadblocks to improving marketing and customer intelligence. We also review European CI Professionals’ plans funding and acquiring technologies to improve customer experience in a world of fragmented channels and multiplying touchpoints.
Technology And Measurement
Mobile phones and tablets are becoming the remote control of our daily lives. They enable brands to engage with consumers in radically new ways. Are you ready for new experiences on mobile devices?
With seemingly unlimited customer choices and intense competition for limited consumer attention, every enterprise must evolve to ensure they stay connected to today’s changing consumer. As digital innovation ramps up, the network of customer touch points intensifies—getting the ‘customer experience’ right becomes paramount to success in this rapidly evolving ecosystem. In this session, marketers will learn:
Enterprises are focusing on the customer experience to create differentiation, attract new customers, enhance reputation, and ensure loyalty. However, understanding, managing, and responding to the customer journey across multiple channels — like website, email, mobile, and social — is a challenge even for the most customer-focused organization. Innovative customer intelligence tools that leverage social media and call center interactions combined with effective, real-time customer experience management are key to re-establishing those ties. This session will show how to manage and deliver a relevant and engaging customer experience across all channels. This session will cover:
Over the last 5 years, Scania has redefined their online communication to meet future demands, a rapidly evolving technology landscape and a wish to develop deeper brand engagement and better understanding of key stakeholders– such as drivers. This includes reaching beyond traditional B2B practices to strengthen brand identity for the drivers of Scania vehicles and addressing emerging technology channels, while supporting strategic corporate objectives.
This session will discuss best practices for addressing an online communication transformation and take a look at the lessons learned and business value added. Key topics include:
This session is sponsored by SDL.
Design
Customers routinely visit multiple channels while pursuing a single goal. But few companies can build good experiences within one channel, much less across multiple touchpoints. This track explains how a design approach empowers firms to build more unified and effective experiences for their multi-channel customers.
Customer Understanding
Market Insights Professionals can provide higher-value segmentation results by integrating transaction (“what customers do”) data from customer intelligence teams. This session will help Market Insights Professionals understand where customer intelligence data can add value and how to build a successful collaboration with these teams.
Technology And Measurement
In order to maximize insight, emotional engagement and impact brands should endeavour to operate coherently across the physical and digital. This session will highlight some breakthrough technologies that are enabling richer sensing of environments for more contextually relevant experiences.
B2B Spotlight
This “virtual track” of four sessions debunks myths about customer experience for business-to-business (B2B) companies and explains why customer experience mastery is as valuable for B2B firms as it is for business-to-consumer (B2C) firms. As an introduction, Peter O’Neill, principal analyst at Forrester, explains why myths about customer experience for B2B companies are just that — myths. Then, Jesper Engelbrecht Thomsen from Maersk Line, one of the largest shipping companies in the world, discusses how the company improved its Net Promoter score from -10 to +30 over 30 months. The improvement program was a concentrated effort involving staff throughout the enterprise. The key learnings from the Maersk Line Customer Experience Program include:
Culture
Few firms have a good handle on the best way to manage resources to support their growing emphasis on digital strategies. What skills do you need internally? What should you outsource? Where can you find good digital recruits? Where should digital teams live within the organizational hierarchy? This track session will look at how companies should organize to support digital today — and how they can keep top talent engaged. But more importantly, we will also identify the key questions to answer in order to determine the right staffing and organizational structure for your business. You may find that solving your organizational challenge actually requires nailing down your planning, technology, and measurement goals first.
Design
Good design is not about using aesthetics to conceal shoddy work. It is a business discipline that can be reliably assessed. Evaluating the quality of any customer experience, whether it’s business-to-consumer (B2C) or business-to-business (B2B), requires a framework that gives Customer Experience Professionals and their colleagues a shared understanding of what matters — and why.
Customer Understanding
Today's CRM tools focus on selecting customers most likely to respond, not those who are likely to enter into long-term relationships with a company. This case study showcases a Folksam's effort to build a customer interaction hub: a self-learning system that uses a mix real-time customer interactions and business rules. The hub's primary function is to select best actions for customers based on their interests and feedback, ultimately delivering offers to customers that optimize lifetime value (LTV). Key takeaways include how marketers can:
B2B Spotlight
Kees Henniphof of NetApp (data storage and management) will show how consolidated data from external research, marketing, sales, channels, and customer support provide deep insight into customer behavior throughout the buyer’s journey. As a result, B2B marketers can support their sales teams with clear competitive differentiation, realistic objectives, and an audience-based go-to-market strategy. Although establishing a truly data-centric paradigm is hard enough as it is, the real challenge exists in bringing departments and people together from all parts of the organization and turning insights into decisive action by ensuring:
Adopting a customer-centric approach doesn’t mean enabling every experience on every touchpoint. The touchpoint arms race means that each customer journey is different and the permutations are endless. Instead, brands must focus on architecting compelling cross-touchpoint experiences around the interactions that are the most valuable for both the company and its customers. In this keynote, we will examine:
BBVA has long embraced innovation. The holistic approach taken to evolve touch-points, channels and the overall experience when people interact with BBVA, plus a set of real examples (innovation projects), will be used to illustrate and share the experiences.
Delivering a great customer experience isn't just a matter of pride — it's a matter of profits. Four years ago, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal took on the task of improving the passenger experience to compete in the fierce European market. Francisco Pita, Deputy Airport Manager, will describe how he and the ANA team created a vision of new passenger services and executed on that vision across dozens of retail, travel, and hospitality partners. From this, you will learn:
When companies as diverse as publishers, banks, and media firms add a Customer Experience Professional to their board, it might appear to be the embodiment of outside-in thinking. But simply appointing a CX expert to a board, does not a customer-centric organization make. The notion of customer experience must still be driven throughout the company, and — crucially — throughout the board. During this session, Lisa Lindstrom, who leads Doberman, a customer experience agency and sits on several boards including those of the Nobel Prize media company and Avanza Bank, will share:
Culture
Philips is a multinational company with sales and services in more than 100 countries worldwide. Although the world is getting smaller with the latest technologies, there is still a “distance” between the headquarters and each country that faces the customers on a day-to-day basis. This “distance” is difficult to overcome because in most cases people will not understand the culture until they experience it. It’s the same with customer experience programs. Until you experience as a “customer,” you will never understand their challenges. In this session, we will explain how to allow people with different backgrounds to virtually experience the customers from different cultures and bring multinational customers to the center of the whole organization.
Culture
Social applications are a powerful way for employees to listen and respond to customers. However, well-meaning people sometimes commit risky blunders when they join the fray. To avoid embarrassing mistakes, companies must develop social training programs that bring employees into social plans in a responsible way. This session will describe casual, structured, and formal training approaches, and it will guide you to the approach that best matches your company's commitment to social media. This session will answer these questions:
B2B Spotlight
Most B2B companies now do customer experience research as part of their product and website design processes. Many have “Voice of the Customer” (VoC) programs to collect customer and/or user feedback and expose potential areas of dissatisfaction; and the VoC executives are usually at a high enough level to correct any issues they discover. But fully changing from a product-centric vendor to a customer-centric service provider requires a cultural and design transformation. Customer experience needs to be designed into every potential customer interactions: marketing and sales interactions in the buyer journey; support interactions; plus all other interactions between companies in business with each other (in procurement, accounting, legal and other corporate departments). This presentation discusses how to understand all the potential interactions and optimize their design to maximize the complete B2B customer experience:
Design
Customer experience design is not simply reactive. Leading firms rely on design thinking and methodologies as a strategic advantage that helps them proactively identify and nourish new, meaningful, and enjoyable experiences. Learn how human-centered design techniques can help customer experience teams take a prominent role in driving innovation.
Technology And Measurement
Tracking how campaigns are perceived across multiple channels is a difficult but not impossible task. To date, unifying customer experience metrics such as Net Promoter Scores have been successful in seeing which way the wind blows, but new complementary approaches using sentiment analysis are helping uncover rich drivers and insights along the customer journey. In this session, see how brands are using multiple customer experience models in concert.
B2B Spotlight
B2B marketers have traditionally paid more attention to their sales process than the customer’s buying process, but that strategy is losing relevance with today’s empowered B2B buyers, who are two-thirds of the way through their buying process before they engage with tech vendors’ sales teams. Digital marketing and social media have inadvertently disintermediated B2B salespeople from their customers for a significant part of buying cycle. It is now marketing’s role to engage with early stage buyers and guide those buyers through the buying process. When these buyers interact with companies, they expect more relevant, personal, and timely communications than ever before. This presentation will discuss: