Buying beauty and skincare products is a highly personalised experience, often stretching across offline and online engagement. And thanks to a significant overhaul of its digital platforms, customer data approach and CRM strategy, it’s a personalised experience Jurlique is increasingly confident of delivering.

​Customer experience (CX) is being superseded by human experience (HX) and it is those companies who recognise this who will have an advantage.

WPP AUNZ has confirmed BMW’s global VP of digital strategy will join the team as CEO and managing director from October, a move designed to ramp up its tech and transformation credentials.

Attraction and retaining talent is the top issues facing businesses today, according to a new report, with 43 per cent of CEOs globally citing lack of talent and skills as a barrier to future innovation.

Australian payments company, Afterpay, is one of the relatively few tech success stories this country has produced. And it’s through a consistently stable yet increasingly diverse approach to mobile and Web capability that the business is capitalising on growing international consumer demand, its chief product officer says.

It’s taken just a decade for mobile advertising to rise from relative obscurity to represent a billion dollars of ad expenditure in Australia (according to the IAB), and account for 62 per cent of general digital display spending.

The more brands invoke the unmet, unarticulated needs of consumers by showing empathy, the more they will innovate.

Digitisation in retail today is less about table stakes capabilities such as ecommerce and omnichannel efficiency and more about how brands innovate their customer experience, particularly in-store, SAP’s retail chief claims.

ASX-listed banking and wealth management group, MyState, has appointed its first group general manager of digital and marketing to put both at the centre of its business strategy.

SXSW 2019 has confirmed the extent to which technology will impact every aspect of our lives in deep and profound ways. I’m 15 sessions in, spanning a range of topics from flying vehicles, smart cities, neuro-science, nano-technology, to how the CIA uses creativity to solve complex counter-terrorism challenges.

Organisations are fast shifting from the ‘pioneering’ phase of testing artificial intelligence (AI) applications into implementation as a way of digitally transforming their businesses, IPsoft’s chief commercial officer, Jonathan Crane, believes.

Cross-functional teams empowered to make decisions based on what needs to change as well as customer feedback have been key to making digital sales transformation successful at Westpac.

The world is experiencing a crisis of trust as digital and the fourth industrial revolution disrupt industries and jobs. And it's the way organisations harness technology for customer good that will get us through it.

Seven West Media chief digital officer, Clive Dickens, will leave the organisation to join Optus, a move triggering a series of leadership digital, technology and content leadership changes at the ASX-listed SWM group.

An AI project aimed at improving business processes by automatically recognising and tagging thousands of images used across its sites has resulted in a host of unexpected customer experience benefits for Carsales.

Technology and marketing leaders gather for the third annual CIO and CMO Executive Connections in Auckland. Here are pictorial highlights from the event.

Medibank recently underwent a digital experience transformation, a move that's resulted in the My Medibank app becoming the highest-rated private health insurance app in the Apple Store in June 2017 and led to a raft of other benefits.

Being able to deliver a virtual personalised assistant to every staff member and student on campus is a step closer to reality for the University of Canberra after it signed up to a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot platform.

Krispy Kreme’s Australian business chalked up a 23 per cent increase in conversions in just one month after becoming the brand’s first team globally to rollout a cross-channel payments solution.

The University of NSW has thrown its dollars behind Adobe’s Experience Cloud as part of a digital experience transformation aimed at lifting its reputation and standing to the top echelons of tertiary providers globally.

For many organisations, the emergence of digital channels necessitated creation of an entirely new business function to support them. A key question then is where to house that function – within marketing, IT, operations, customer, or someplace else?