Why CEM will make its mark on business

User experience, customer satisfaction and value-add: concepts that are banded about quite easily, but more often than not overlooked and neglected … until now. Today, we have customer experience management (CEM) and it is very much the next “big...

Mapping your customer journey transformation

Danny Drew, Avaya’s MD for South Africa, outlines the five things you shouldn’t miss when planning your customer journey. A customer journey map puts the user front and center in the organisation’s thinking. It shows changes in customer behavior and...

Your business’s worst enemy is a ringing phone

Everywhere, businesses are wrestling with how to offer an omnichannel experience to their customers. But in pursuing digital customer strategies, many companies often try to run before they learn to walk, letting important fundamentals fall by the wayside. “It...

Digital ID and what the customer wants

Remi de-Fouchier, vice-president: marketing communications at Gemalto, believes we are reaching the tipping point in discovering what the customer of tomorrow wants. Our lives have become, in many ways, a ‘mobile experience’. We’ve become inseparable...

Omni-channel the link to enhanced CX

The business ideal of omni-channel communication is rolled out with varying degrees of success. Although omni, the idea of a seamless customer experience across multiple contact channels, is the way to go, it must be implemented in ways that best serve customers. It...

VR commercialisation to jump-start haptics industry?

James Hayward, senior technology analyst at IDTechEx, examines whether commercialisation of VR could provide the jump-start that the haptics industry has been waiting for? Haptics are key technologies found as an essential feature enhancing the user experience in many...