It was a privilege to present at the recent Next Generation Patient Experience conference. I had never attended a conference solely focused on healthcare, so I learned a lot about what innovative healthcare systems are doing to improve the patient experience. There are definite best practices, but there are still a lot of unknowns. Healthcare […]

Have you ever thought about how cool it would be to have one of those dinner parties with people you admire? I believe many of us dream of getting folks around a table to share what inspires them, how they are successful, and what makes them tick. That’s essentially how I see the podcast I’ve […]

  It’s the time of year we do our best to be grateful. In the United States, we typically do this in part with a turkey dinner and family time in honor of Thanksgiving. But how can we make customer appreciation a living part of the customer journey? Here are 5 easy ways to express customer […]

by Marti Konstant 1. Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. The mantra among leaders of the software company Intuit is to fall in love with the problem, not the solution. Suzanne Pellican, a Design Fellow at Intuit and opening keynote speaker at a conference called Delight, told the story of how 10 […]

For those of us who are sports fans (cough cough, Go Cubs!) it’s sometimes weird to hear about our beloved teams as “products.” This term is thrown around a lot by team owners who fight with cities over stadiums and parking lots. In the last few months, I’ve had the privilege of getting an up-close […]

by Jeff Toister It’s not every day you solve a $50,000 problem. That’s what the customer service manager had just done. It was a billing issue that fooled the company’s CRM system into thinking a customer’s payment had been processed when it really hadn’t. Incredibly, the IT department was able to fix the issue in […]

I admit I was nervous. Growing up in the 1980’s and 90’s, the only association with the city of Medellin or the country of Colombia was hearing about the violence on the news. The violence is what made the news, of course, and it was primarily due to the drug trade. What didn’t make the […]

Your customers are already evaluating the experience you are delivering. And they’re making decisions because of it. 89% of customers will decide based on customer experience in 2016. How can you create a better customer experience now to compete in this changing marketplace? 1. You need to understand the customer journey of today. You can’t improve on […]

The ideal customer journey is so tempting. It’s so magical to start designing the beautiful, happy day  journey for our customers. On their best day, they fall in love with our products, they get excited at the unexpected moments of delight we offer, and they move on to become evangelists whose loyalty can’t be threatened. […]

Written by Jon Drachenberg My husband Jason and I recently took a short trip to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, a favorite childhood destination of mine, just to unwind after several chaotic weeks of packing and moving across the city. We were seriously beat, and looking for something much more low-key than our usual trip to a theme […]