A few weeks ago, I hit a patch of ice driving down a mountainside and crashed into a snowbank. I wasn’t injured but I was definitely shaken. To make matters worse, it was 10° F outside and I’d left my coat in town. Oh, and my gas tank was nearly empty. As is usually the […]
By Gord Ripley, Senior Vice President Operations at Verde Group There are many text analytics platforms available on the market today. In essence, they all claim to take unstructured data (verbatim) and turn it into structured insights. Terms like machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing and sophisticated algorithms are being thrown around, but […]
By Paula Courtney, Chief Executive Officer. It’s a never-ending battle for your customer’s business. We need all the help we can get because in most cases, we’re playing catch up to meet our customers’ ever-changing expectations. Don’t worry. You’re not alone. We can learn from others who have gone before us. Earlier this month I […]
By Lori Childers, Vice President This month, the Airports Council International Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards released a list of the top airports in the world for customer experience. The survey asked questions to some 600,000 passengers at 343 airports, based out of 84 different countries. In the questionnaire, different aspects of each airport from […]
Going into 2019, the customer experience is still one of the biggest trends driving business success. In fact, roughly 84% of consumers agree that the key to winning them over is to treat them as people and not as numbers. While organizations are taking note of this and changing their models to better suit the […]
Our CEO, Paula Courtney, recently wrote an article regarding the four major customer experience trends happening in 2019. As a follow up to her article, we thought we would dig a bit deeper into one of the 2019 trends which we’ve seen emerging for many years: reward and recognition (R&R) for customers. Rewarding and recognizing […]
One of the most common questions I get asked by my clients is “what’s next?”. Where is the customer experience (CX) going? In an era of disruption, hyper-digitized economies and value-seeking customers, the pressure to be better and cheaper has been replaced with the pressure to be different and relevant. The leaders of tomorrow will […]
Consumers are creatures of habit, often seeking out their favorite restaurant, hotel or store, because they know they’ll have a positive experience. These positive experiences make them loyal — whether it’s a perfectly grilled steak, a service associate who helps you find that perfect gift, or the ease of pre-selecting your hotel room in advance […]