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What Is Customer Experience Innovation?
A good product or service in itself is no longer enough to create outstanding value for the user. We need to examine the entire customer journey from initial contact to their after-service experience to fully understand how to go above and beyond.
As HubSpot points out, innovating customer experience is different from improving it. The former focuses on adding superior new experiences rather than merely enhancing the existing ones.
A case in point is Starwood’s robotic butlers, “Botlrs”, that deliver amenities to guest rooms at the Cupertino Aloft Hotel. When guests call the front desk for extra towels or a toothbrush, for example, hotel employees supply the robot with the items, dial in the room number, and send the Botlr on its way. Guests can leave a rating on the robot’s touchscreen or leave a digital tip by tweeting with the hashtag #MeetBotlr.
Why Does Customer Experience Innovation Matter?
When you are able to awe and delight customers with impeccable product and service experience, you will have a legion of avid brand supporters who are always ready to sign up for your latest offerings. Think Apple and Amazon.
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To achieve this, the business needs to enforce a company-wide innovation culture which includes the following:
- Workplace innovation
- Product innovation
- Service innovation
- Business innovation
A recent report by the XM Institute on “The Global State of XM (Experience Management), 2020” highlighted that “89% of respondents who rate their company’s XM as “significantly above average” reported better revenue growth than competitors in the previous years, with 9 in 10 reporting better profitability, and 84% reporting better employee retention”.
Customer experience innovation involves assessing all customer touchpoints to identify flaws or gaps in their direct interactions with the brand. No detail is too small; it only takes a single bad experience to lose a customer.
According to the Zendesk Customer Experience Trends Report 2020, “Roughly half of customers say they would switch to a competitor after just one bad experience. In the case of more than one bad experience, that number snowballs to 80%.”
Don’t take your customers for granted. To get started on implementing customer experience innovation in your organisation, talk to us to find out how our custom-designed consulting services, workshops, and training programmes will help you deliver exceptional customer experiences.