Becoming customer centric is smart, but it’s hard to do…

It’s smart because it’s more efficient for the business and better for customers. Win + Win.

The problem is, it’s a massive shift for large organisations, many have been structured around key product areas and work in siloed ways. So, trying to transition to a customer centric culture and operating model is an enormous task.

My guest in the next episode of the Customer Smarts Podcast Khachig Kabakjian has climbed that very mountain and successfully driven customer centricity inside massive organisations like CommBank and Standard Chartered Bank in Asia & Africa. He was heavily involved in CommBank’s successful customer decisioning program. And, most recently worked with Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore to drive customer centric change at scale, across multiple markets including Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia & UAE. He has now moved tech side working for Pegasystems in an advisory role to help organisations drive customer centricity at scale.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why customer centricity is so important
• The barriers to overcome
• Some great examples of driving personalisation
• How to drive customer centricity across multiple markets.

Host Bio - Justin Stafford has spent the last 20 years working on digital transformation and CX strategy projects all around the globe with brands like Samsung, Virgin, Lexus, eBay, PayPal, CommBank and even the Air Force.

You can connect with me on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-stafford-cs/ If you’re looking for help in the customer strategy & experience design space go to www.customersmarts.co

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The speed at which AI is changing the customer experience space is mind blowing…

Qualtrics invited me to record an episode of the Customer Smarts Podcast at their X4 Summit in Sydney last week. Every guest I interviewed was genuinely blown away and excited by the amazing new Gen AI driven capabilities, things like: conversational feedback in surveys - where Gen AI adapts questions based on how the person responses to get more robust insights. As well as Managers Assist on the employee experience side an AI feature that acts as a manager coach to help managers better understand staff and make better decisions.

I had the privilege of interviewing 6 amazing guests including:

Bruce Temkin – also known as the godfather of customer experience, because he pioneered the whole industry. Bruce shared many pearls of wisdom about driving customer centric change and how to approach KPIs. Brad Anderson – President at Qualtrics who not only shared some amazing perspective on the new Gen AI features but also some great advice on driving customer centric change from all the CX leaders around the world he advises. Steven Issa - Steven Issa Former Chief Digital Officer at Australian Digital Health Agency. Ashley Taylor from Flight Centre. Melanie Disse at Ecosystem and Steve Bennetts, Head of EX at Qualtrics

This episode is a compilation from the 6 conversations. Jam packed with a broad range of insights about AI, CX and EX and how organisations are closing the insights to impact gap. I hope you enjoy.

Host Bio - Justin Stafford has spent the last 20 years working on digital transformation and CX strategy projects all around the globe with brands like Samsung, Virgin, Lexus, eBay, PayPal, CommBank and even the Air Force.

You can connect with me on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-stafford-cs/ If you’re looking for help in the customer strategy & experience design space go to www.customersmarts.co

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Will AI make us less or more creative?

AI and automation have stolen the spotlight in the last couple of years, so I wanted to explore the impact it’s having on the creative industry and what it means for the future.

To help explore that question and dive into what drives great creativity I had Lee Simpson join me on the Customer Smarts Podcast. Lee has won some of the most prestigious creative awards in the world including the rare D&AD Black Pencil and 2 Grand Prix at Cannes Lions. He’s worked with companies like Volvo, Westfield and CommBank. And most recently as CEO of WhiteGrey, led them to win AFR’s Most Innovative Company in 2023.

In this episode we discuss:

• The role of creativity
• What great creativity looks like today
• How to build a creative culture
• Using creativity to solve real world problems
• Creativity in the AI age

Host Bio - Justin Stafford has spent the last 20 years working on digital transformation and CX strategy projects all around the globe with brands like Samsung, Virgin, Lexus, eBay, PayPal, CommBank and even the Air Force.

You can connect with me on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-stafford-cs/ If you’re looking for help in the customer strategy & experience design space go to www.customersmarts.co

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