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The Authenticity challenge: 25 marketing, CX and innovation takeaways from the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit

Alida

Earlier this week, more than 400 professionals in marketing, customer experience, innovation and research gathered in Chicago for the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit. The two-day annual conference featured keynotes and presentations by some of the world’s leading customer-centric brands. Eliza (@eliza_jacobs) September 20, 2016.

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How smart brands measure customer intelligence ROI

Alida

In our e-book The 10 Smartest Brands: How They Use the Competitive Advantage of Customer Intelligence , we reveal how companies like D E WALT, LinkedIn and Salomon engage with customers to make better marketing, customer experience and product innovation decisions. Some brands use their community to build buzz and awareness.

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The hidden success for brands in the future

Beyond Philosophy

Where AI Meets CX: The Remarkable Future for Humanizing Brands. One area that we see interesting applications of AI Technology is the brand personification and social media management. Conversational Commerce is a way to describe how customers interact with brands on social media and other channels to move them through the sales cycle.

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INFOGRAPHIC: 2016 State of Knowledge for Customer Service

Tricia Morris

Customers’ expectations for brands and organizations delivering the right answer at the right time, whether through assisted or self-service, continue to grow. This infographic presents a snapshot view of the current state of knowledge, with new information from Microsoft’s 2016 Knowledge Management in Customer Service Report.

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10 Customer Service Trends to Watch in 2016

Tricia Morris

The insights collected from the individuals above for 2016 are an interesting mix with a fantastic focus on people. It’s easy when you’re asked about trends to talk about an innovative technology or feature you know is going to create a buzz. Jeanne Bliss: Chief Customer Officer Author and CXPA Co-founder.

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11 Customer Experience Trends for 2016 (The Year of Emotion)

Experience Matters

With this post, I’m declaring 2016 “ The Year of Emotion.”. As you can see in our video Driving CX Transformation , customer-centric culture requires mastering four CX core competencies : Purposeful Leadership , Compelling Brand Values , Employee Engagement , and Customer Connectedness. Effort Metric Expanding.

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Six Ways Chatbots Can Enhance Retail Brand Communications

CSM Magazine

This has led retail brands to investigate new forms of communicating with and serving customers, notably chatbots. Provide a platform for two-way communication: once, brands communicated to customers, with little opportunity for traffic to come back the other way. That only adds to brand understanding, trust, and loyalty.

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