What Lies Behind Customer Experience

What Lies Behind Customer Experience

In the recent business-related communication, “customer experience” – noble heir of terms like “customer care”, “customer relationship management” and “customer satisfaction”, is regarded as the rosetta stone of digital transformation. Just type “customer experience statistics” in your preferred search engine to get a sense of it:

  • 96% of marketing executives say that data analysis is fundamental to improving the customer experience – Econsultancy.
  • In 2017, 50% of product investment projects will be redirected to customer experience innovations. Gartner analyst Jake Sorofman wrote in 2014.

A window on the world

truly, customer experience is invaluable as a windows from which to look at two directions: gaining knowledge over customer behavior helps enterprises get a sense of – and improve – their value proposition. Looking through the same windows the other way round, consumers get more insight on the product or service their are considering and make better purchase decisions.

A domain for exponential technology innovation

The customer experience market is at an inflection point where scarce literacy of the ones contrasts with advanced literature of the others. The repeated, yet invariably and fakely surprising awareness that customers’ behavior deserves attention, combines with the certainty that customer experience should be integral to the enterprise DNA as the focal point of those changes likely to improve value proposition: digital service provision, IT modernization, organizational quantum leaps, IoT integration and more generally R&D investments. As Jim Sinur underlines in Aragon Research’s “Embrace Digital Transformation in 2018 with These 10 Tips” blog post, “Placing an emphasis on an excellent customer experience—while optimising a balance between operational efficiency and customer satisfaction—should be the goal for digital organisations”.

A place to express value

From a more visionary standpoint, today’s customer experience focus reveals how strategic systems of value are to ensure loyalty and trust. By value, I mean neither product price of value for money spent, but the extent to which a business relationship deserves esteem from a moral and intellectual viewpoint. In particular I mean what is perceived as ideal to defend or reach. Closely watching customer experience helps understand such systems of value.

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