There’s a strong chance you and your dev team are already relying on Jira for backlog management of technical projects, assigning bugs and scheduling sprints. And while Jira can be fantastic for managing these aspects, it has downsides as a thorough system of record for product management; most importantly, Jira often becomes a dumping ground for feedback and ideas without any purposeful priorities. A black hole of input makes Agile development methods really tricky.
https://community.uservoice.com/blog/top-5-reasons-your-jira-backlog-fails-you/
As more companies make experience their business, they are also coming to the conclusion that everyone across the organization is responsible for customer experience, not just the marketing department. That includes unusual suspects including community relations, sustainability, and talent aquisition teams.
At last month’s CES, Adobe met up with executives from various disciplines for a series of podcasts in which they discuss their roles in the customer experience. Tune in.
http://www.cmo.com/features/articles/2018/1/31/adobe-exb-podcast-series.html#gs.ncKhDVc/
Almost all of us, as consumers, experience different frustrations and irritations online. The tricky part here is for companies to be able to identify where these pain points are. Mopinion has researched the top ten online irritations of 2016.
https://mopinion.com/top-ten-online-irritations-2016/
While a technical background is a mandatory prerequisite for becoming a product manager, there are some technical skills worth having in your toolbox as a PM. The good news is you don’t need to go back to school to master these technical competencies either. The skills we’ll discuss in this article won’t put you in competition with your engineers or make you smarter than your system architects. But they WILL make you faster, more independent, and more knowledgeable about your product and your users.
https://community.uservoice.com/blog/technical-skills-every-product-manager-should-know/
Luckily there are countless resources available these days for monitoring customer experience, and provided we use these resources the right way we can prevent or remedy a lot of irritations. We have put together a top 10 of irritations based on the customer feedback that we collect for our clients.
https://mopinion.com/the-ten-biggest-website-irritations/
Every day is a new opportunity to learn how disconnected businesses are with their customers. But it's also a chance to discover the secret to better experience is really quite simple. All you need to do is listen.
Consider this. I recently spent 63 minutes glued to my phone trying unsuccessfully to resolve a health insurance issue. Five phone calls. A dozen transfers. Multiple hang-ups. Inconsistent information. Contradictory advice.
Come on now, I wondered. Is this any way to treat a customer?
http://customerthink.com/the-most-amazing-customer-experience-starts-with-your-ears/
The Customer Experience (CX) is the preoccupation for most customer facing organisations. In an age where customer service is the definitive part of many retail offerings, CX is a key ingredient in retaining and growing the customer base.
https://mopinion.com/the-difference-between-a-user-experience-and-a-full-customer-experience/
As a result of their experience today, how likely do I think it is that my customer will come back?
The key to this question is answering it with complete, sincere honesty. It relies on the person answering it to have actually put themselves in the shoes of their customer so they are able to answer the question with complete honesty. If you wanted to ‘test’ the principle, asking the same question to your customer (independently of the employee) would be fascinating.
http://www.customerexperienceupdate.com/?open-article-id=7884429&article-title=the-customer-experience-million-dollar-question--will-my-customer-come-back-&blog-domain=ijgolding.com&blog-title=ijgolding/
In recent years, after the first quarter, I try my hardest to publish the top trends of the current year. One of those trends I’d like to focus on here and now is how having a strong CX (Customer Experience) philosophy is vital, critical to achieving growth. For both Brick and Mortar and Online.
The following are trends that should be of interest to businesses who aim to listen to the Voice of the Customer (VOC); the goal being to implement the technology needed to respond to that voice, boosting the customer experience, and the bottom line.
If you’ve only been talking about CX, Here are 6 2018 Trends that will inspire you to take action:
https://www.business2community.com/consumer-marketing/take-businesss-cx-next-level-2018-6-trends-02041477/
The rise of new digital tools (like mobile, live chat, omnichannel support, self-service, social media) and a broad array of IoT devices (like activity monitors, beacons, smartwatches) and emerging technologies (like AI, AR, Machine Learning, VR, 3D printing and so on), has exponentially increased the number of customer touchpoints available to marketers.
On the other hand, chats, stories, and statistics grab today’s customer’s attention, and they get influenced by other people’s reviews and opinions and feel compelled to share their experiences of encounters with brands. Also, the customer experiences often trickle over from one industry to an entirely different sector, termed as “liquid expectations.” The rise of “always – connected” customers and their liquid expectations, has led to a common misunderstanding that businesses must rush to adapt themselves as “digital first.”
https://customerthink.com/reshape-customer-experience-by-leveraging-digital-trends-and-design-thinking/
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