Author: Mark Atterby

Creating exceptional experiences for customers requires having engaged employees who are enthusiastic about their workplace and their role within the organisation. According to a recent Gallup study however, employees are disengaged at work – worldwide only a tiny 13% of workers are engaged. Considering how much time we all have to spend at work, it must be soul destroying to go to a place everyday that eats away at the very fabric of your being. Of course if you are paying off a ridiculous mortgage like people do in Sydney then you may not have a lot of choice. The…

Customer journey maps are an important first step in understanding the experiences of customers. From initial contact to final purchase it highlights the key interactions the customer has with the brand, identifying gaps or pain points in the customer experience. All too frequently, however, the exercise fails to drive positive change within the organisation. A common problem with customer journey maps is that they are mapped out internally. Chris Luxford, Director of Experience Innovators, observes that companies have a tendency of having a “inside looking out” view of the customer journey that doesn’t align with the “outside looking in” view.…

The ability to offer customers the ability to communicate with a brand via a variety of channels has been the Holy Grail for the contact centre industry for quite some time. Now days customers are multi channel shoppers and business as a whole are struggling to meet the multi-channel expectations of their customers.

By Mark Atterby. Everyone is talking about digital disruption. But how much are traditional companies doing about it? And what will be its full impact? We’ve seen the rise of Uber and Airbnb to disrupt the taxi and travel industries. Who’s next? According to the Harvey Nash CIO survey 2016, Australian organisations are being affected by digital disruption far more than their global counterparts. The research reveals how 56 per cent of Australian chief information officers say their companies have been affected by digital disruption — 21 per cent higher than their global counterparts. Digital disruption has gone past being…