The CX Cast

It’s a topic that is a perennial favorite among CX pros: journey mapping. Today, journey mapping platforms help not only with mapping itself but with visualization, brainstorming, and ideation, as well. Covering the key trends is Forrester Senior Analyst Michelle Beeson.

CX pros are used to focusing on the customer, often using tools like personas and workshops to create stellar customer experiences. This week, Forrester Senior Analyst Su Doyle makes the case for using those same strategies to prove CX value internally.

Responsible design — design that aligns with a company’s brand purpose, values, and commitments — is a powerful tool for earning trust. Forrester Principal Analyst Gina Bhawalkar joins us for a discussion on what responsible design is and why brands should embrace it.

Many brands sell products through retailers. Forrester Senior Analyst Michelle Beeson joins the CX Cast this week to discuss how, now that we care more than ever about the customer experience, the brand and retailer partnership is more important than ever.

Susan McNulty, a consultant specializing in CX transformation, shares her extensive experience in customer experience leadership. She delves into the importance of journey atlases as a tool for visualizing customer experiences across product lifecycles. Discussion highlights include optimizing customer journeys through continuous data analysis and cross-functional collaboration. McNulty emphasizes creating actionable plans for change management and fostering engagement to drive customer-centric transformations in organizations, particularly in sectors like financial services.

Organizations rely on voice-of-the-customer (VoC) measurement teams to collect and share insights and metrics that drive employee and partner actions. Unfortunately, VoC programs tend to be neglected or misunderstood within organizations. Senior Analyst Colleen Fazio, who helps Forrester customers build VoC and customer experience (CX) measurement programs, joins the CX Cast to discuss challenges and opportunities facing VoC programs and how they should evolve.

Discover the importance of journey centricity in fostering customer obsession and achieving higher revenue, reduced costs, and better customer experience. Learn about the stages of transformation to journey centricity, the role of customer immersion and storytelling, and the development of a tool for implementing journey-centricity in organizations.

How can CX and EX coexist in an organization? Can the right relationship between CX and EX management have a magnifying effect? Martin and Angelina talk through the model for shared management of (or collaboration between) CX and EX, with considerations for different existing organizational structures.

By 2050, your website could be a wasteland. VP and Principal Analyst Julie Ask joins the CX Cast this week to discuss how your current website must evolve to meet customer needs, and what this means for your CX strategy.

Brands today can reach consumers on more than 300 digital touchpoints, and that number is growing quickly. VP, Principal Analyst Julie Ask joins the CX Cast this week to discuss the complexity of the consumer digital touchpoint landscape, and how companies must navigate this to build a strong CX strategy.