Maxie Schmidt and Joana de Quintanilha, both VPs and Principal Analysts at Forrester, delve into the importance of prioritizing customer journeys. They discuss practical steps for CX leaders to identify impactful journeys, the inputs needed for effective prioritization, and common pitfalls to avoid. The conversation highlights how to create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for journey prioritization, emphasizing stakeholder engagement and incremental approaches. Their insights aim to help organizations enhance customer experience by aligning journey efforts with strategic goals.

In our second episode showcasing E.ON’s journey toward customer centricity, we talk to Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Joana de Quintanilha and Keith Fletcher, International Customer Experience Manager at E.ON, to examine the inner workings of journeys at E.ON.

Since 2008, E.ON has been on a path to use journeys, not processes, as the building blocks for sustainable growth. Its customer journeys are key to giving over 47 million customers access to a sustainable supply of electricity and heat, with the aim of becoming climate neutral by 2040. Effectively leading a journey-centric transformation requires pulling six operational levers — structure, culture, talent, metrics, processes, and technology — in concert. In today’s episode, we talk to Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Joana de Quintanilha and Keith Fletcher, International Customer Experience Manager at E.ON, about E.ON's journey with journey centricity.

The podcast discusses the challenges of scaling CX measurement programs across diverse business units and countries. It highlights the importance of unified metrics for effective CX measurement while emphasizing the need for local adaptations. Case studies illustrate the strategies for implementing consistent measurement programs in multinational organizations and the evolution of central teams in global transformations.

Exploring the complexity of generative AI, including large language models and guardrails. Customized models for conversational AI using company data. Secrets of personalized customer interactions with generative AI models.

Revenue operations teams and CX teams have overlapping interests when it comes to understanding the customer and improving the buying experience. Principal Analyst Anthony McPartlin gives us an initial overview of RevOps, revealing some exciting opportunities for both functions to be stronger together.

CX leaders must invest to drive customer-focused action. This means investing more in tech to create and improve experiences, critical employee skills, unstructured feedback, and predictive modeling. Principal Analyst Pete Jacques walks us through Forrester's 2024 CX Planning guide and pragmatic budgeting advice to meet the emergent needs of customers.

Predictions for the financial services industry in 2024 including customer demands for higher interest rates, challenges and opportunities with open banking, the need for investment firms to improve mobile investing apps, and the ever-evolving banking industry

Every year, Forrester looks to the future to predict what we think will happen across industries, geographies, and technologies. In this episode, Judy Weader and Shannon Germain Farraher get into the CX implications of the biggest predictions in healthcare. Tune in for insight on smart tech in hospitals, nontraditional benefits in plan designs, medical deserts, and other topics.

Every year Forrester looks to the future to predict what we think will happen across industries, geographies and technologies. In this episode Principal Analyst Riccardo Pasto joins us to talk about where he sees Government CX heading in 2024. We cover generative AI, open government, cross-agency collaboration and more as we discuss the state of CX in government and its path in 2024.