Hands-on workshops, inspiring presentations and creative stimulation. Events and conferences offer a wealth of opportunities for professional development. We’ve put together a hand-picked selection from the 2nd half of 2014 which we hope aligns well with your interests.
Besides experience design, we consider ourselves part of the service design community. As the experience and service industries grow, expertise in service design has become increasingly relevant for us. Some of our knowledge, insights and competencies are derived when companies and practitioners collaborate with academia, and those results are shared. At an event such as ServDes2014 (9-11 April, Lancaster UK), relevant and interesting research information is presented, discussed and shared. We picked five papers from the conference proceedings that we felt are especially relevant.
In June, I attended the annual UXLX conference in Lisbon (Portugal) with almost 400 other UX professionals from 40 countries. The conference provided many workshops and presentations on research, design and strategy. Although all three days were pretty intensive, I got a lot of inspiration and insights and met many interesting people.
By now, many organizations understand the relevance of a customer focus and try to incorporate customer thinking in their strategy. However, confining a customer experience strategy to only customer services and customer journeys only is missing a trick. While they are both important, a larger opportunity exists by moving into customer-centric services and experiences.
Similar to operational, financial or strategic excellence, customer experience (CX) excellence is an organizational competence, capability or capacity. In the 21st century, organizations with a high degree of CX excellence are more successful than others. They focus not only on the needs, expectations and dreams of customers, they also tend to have high levels of […]
Last month, I attended an event on what hopefully will become a new community of knowledge and practice: strategic enterprise design. At INTERSECTION (Paris, 16-17 April 2014), the communities of experience design and enterprise architecture and design hooked up, each with their own views, opinions and insights on the enterprise of the future. The conference […]
In many industries, digital transformation creates new opportunities and challenges. Becoming digital also means finding the best way to serve customers based upon available data, intelligence, and insights. The insurance domain can benefit tremendously when digital excellence is their core performance indicator. McKinsay-analists Tanguy Catlin, Pradip Patiath and Ido Segev dive into what digital excellence […]
Engaged employees are a great asset for companies, especially in relation to delivering great customer experience (CX). In a webinar (2012), customer experience transformist Bruce Temkin (of the Temkin Group) and chair of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA.org) explains how companies with superior customer experiences and loyal customers deal with the engagement of their […]
The growth of digital government initiatives – and open data specifically – is gathering pace. The UK’s top-of-government Government Digital Services (GDS) department, and projects such as the USA’s Data.gov, are creating transparency and opportunity that never existed before.
Identification, Differentiation, Interaction and Customization are all key activities to better create and manage customer relationships. It’s the last two, however, that significantly impact customer experience. What do they entail? A recent post at 1to1media.com explored them in more detail.
In late November, the Service Design Network held its sixth annual global conference, in Cardiff (UK). A record number of attendees (480+) spent two days in the eye-catching Wales Millennium Centre, listening to presentations, attending workshops, networking and meeting conference exhibitors. Videos and presentations from nearly all the talks are now freely available online.
B!RDS on a WiRE has had a successful year. Almost every week we managed to publish a least one post. Identifying relevant, interesting and valuable content has been our focus all the time. Content created by CX professionals from within Informaat and curated content by others from outside. This year our focus has been on […]
Organizational barriers too often stand in the way of achieving excellent customer experience. Overcoming these barriers requires a new approach: Discovering the many facets which influence CX and understanding the timeframes in which they play a role. A model to visualize these facets – and support their orchestration – is needed.
At the end of every year, analysts, thinkers and watchers provide their view on where we stand and what’s ahead of us in the coming year. These crystal ball readers predict our future with lots of statistical materials, like diagrams, charts and other nifty visualizations. Applied to various domains such as the internet, mobile or […]
Networking, hands-on workshops, inspiring presentations and creative stimulation. Events and conferences offer a wealth of opportunities for professional development. We’ve put together a hand-picked selection from the coming new year which we hope aligns well with the interests of you, our readers. Stay tuned, because we’ll keep updating the list regularly.
