Punk CX: Customer Experience Insights with Adrian Swinscoe

Today’s interview is with Dr. Paul Redmond who is a leading expert on generations and the graduate labour market. Dr. Redmond joins me today to talk about a report that was recently released by Capgemini and Pegasyatems that looks at how UK millennials are engaging with insurance companies, how important social media is in that context and the lessons that can be learned from learned from the research. This interview follows on from my recent interview - Improving B2B customer experience through Total User Experience – Interview with Sanish Mondkar of Ariba – and is number 147 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.

Today’s interview is with Sebastian Henkes and Claire Clifford who are the Managing Director and Head of HR and People Development respectively at Sabio, a systems integrator that specialises in providing contact centre solutions. Sebastian and Claire join me today to talk about the fact that Sabio have recently been named as one of the best places to work in the UK, what makes Sabio such a great place to work and what lessons other firms in the contact centre space could learn from their experience. This interview follows on from my recent interview –Millennials and how they engage with insurance companies – Interview with Dr Paul Redmond – and is number 148 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.

Today’s interview is with Jo Taylor, former Director of Talent Management at Talk Talk, a provider of pay TV, telecoms, internet access mobile services to businesses and consumers in the UK. Jo joins me today to talk about what it takes to build a dynamic, responsive and evolving culture. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Building a better place to work helps develop long term customer relationships – Interview with Sebastian Henkes and Claire Clifford of Sabio – and is number 149 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.

Today’s interview is with Jeanne Bliss, who is the Founder and President of CustomerBliss, and the Co-Founder of The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). Jeanne joins me today to talk about her new book: Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth Engine. This interview follows on from my recent interview – The pre-life, early life and in-life stages of the employee experience – Interview with Jo Taylor – and is number 150 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.

Today’s interview is with James McGourlay, who is the Senior Vice President of Global Technical Services at OpenText, a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM) & Canada's largest software company. James joins me today to talk about some of the big challenges that they are seeing and hearing about from their customers, how they are helping them and he also gives a view and update on the perennial challenge of creating a unified view of the customer. This interview follows on from my recent interview –How Chief Customer Officers build their organisations customer growth engine – Interview with Jeanne Bliss of CustomerBliss – and is number 151 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.

Today’s interview is with Damian Thompson, Director of Distribution at Principality Building Society, a Welsh building society founded in 1860 and head-quartered in Cardiff. Principality is the largest building society in Wales and the sixth largest in the United Kingdom. Damian joins me today to talk about how they transformed their customer experience by moving from a performance target culture to a behavioural model and how that has delivered sustained and consistent improvement in their customer experience. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Towards a unified view of the customer – Interview with James McGourlay of OpenText – and is number 152 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.

Today’s interview is with Paige O'Neill who is Chief Marketing Officer of SDL, a global Customer Experience software solutions provider. Paige joins me today to talk about SDL’s latest global Customer Experience Thought Leadership research into when Customer Experience fails (and when it triumphs), exactly what happens, and why? This interview follows on from my recent interview – How we transformed our organisation and our customer experience – Interview with Damian Thompson of Principality Building Society– and is number 153 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.

Today’s interview is with Lord Mark Price, who is the founder of engaging.works, an author, speaker, Chair of the Fairtrade organisation, Member of the House of Lords and former Managing Director of Waitrose and Deputy Chairman of The John Lewis Partnership. Mark joins me today to talk about engaging.works, workplace happiness and their The State Of Workplace Happiness Report - 2019. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Pathfinder customers and employees are demanding more of senior leaders – Interview with Katherine LaVelle of Accenture – and is number 325 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees.

Today’s interview is with Ian Siegel who is co-founder and CEO at ZipRecruiter.com, a job platform for small and medium sized businesses which provides them with the fastest and easiest way to get a job listing in front of millions of candidates as well as some additional on-boarding features. Ian joins me today to talk about the growth of the company, being the company’s first customer service representative and how they continue to delight customers today through their approach. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Customer experience failures are more likely to be remembered than successes – Interview with Paige O’Neill of SDL – and is number 154 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.

Today’s interview is with Gary Miles, who is the is the General Manager for Amdocs’ Big Data and Strategic Innovations unit. Amdocs is a leader in the customer experience software solutions and services space for the world’s largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. Gary joins me today to talk about working with their customers as partners to produce innovations that drive improvements in customer experience and operational efficiency. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Having a goal of reducing customer service calls to zero – Interview with Ian Siegel of ZipRecruiter – and is number 155 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to their customers.