Bringing a Human Voice to Customer Choice     $50 US*
Rededicating Marketing to Serve the People in Front of the Data

Chief Marketing Officers believe brands like Amazon, Google, Apple, Nike and Starbucks are getting customer experience right, looking at omni-channel engagement as a means to guide and inspire customers on a journey, and not just push them forward in a buying process. And in fact, this human-first approach is not just developing better relationships, but driving significant profitability and growt...

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The State of Engagement     $50 US*
Bridging the Customer Journey Across Every Last Mile

Customer empowerment is heightening the job security risks of chief marketing officers, who are struggling to keep up with new digitally driven ways to engage, satisfy and enrich the experience of more mobile, savvy and fickle consumers. According to this study from the CMO Council, 75 percent of CMOs believe their jobs are on the line if their customer experience strategies are unsuccessful. Mor...

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Getting Serious About Omni-Channel Experience     $50 US*
Making Customer Value Creation the New Competitive Equation

Today’s omni-channel consumer expects a seamless journey across both physical and digital channels. Personalization and real-time, always on experiences are a core demand for consumers who expect that each and every experience delivers value to their unique journey. But this expectation has shone a harsh spotlight onto two critical players in the omni-channel experience: the brands creating...

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Connected Interaction to Power Brand Attraction     $50 US*
How Marketing Is Transforming to Create More Connected Customer Engagements

According to this research by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and IBM, senior marketers will be devoting significant effort to better understanding the customer journey and how to create more personal, content-rich and connected experiences for their customers in 2017. The success of these efforts, however, will be contingent on their ability to create alignment across the digital and ph...

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Context, Commerce + Customer     $50 US*
Best Practices to Exceed Expectations

While digital marketing technologies and engagement channels multiply, many marketers remain concerned that they are still not delivering what customers want most: a seamless, frictionless and individualized buying and problem-solving experience. According to new research from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and SAP Customer Experience, more than a third of marketers (39 percent) believ...

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Giving Customer Voice More Volume     $50 US*
Turning Customer Pain into Competitive Gain

Customer experience is still very much a work in progress for senior marketers who participated in this study, fielded in late 2008. Despite overwhelming agreement on the importance of customer experience and word-of-mouth, the admit their companies are failing to take decisive, company-wide action to integrate customer voice and experience into key business and marketing processes. Sponsored...

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