Three of Australia’s most dynamic brands sat down to discuss customer experience (CX) and why it is so vital at Twilio’s Engage event in Sydney this week.

Parent company for retail power tool brands including Milwaukee, Vax, Ryobi and AEG, TTi, realised it needed to develop a single view of customer to meet the rising tide of customer expectations in the era of disruptors.

​For a company that receives over 200,000 customer responses each year, implementing a voice of customer (VoC) platform can seem more than a little daunting. Add in some 25 different trackers (most companies have two), and the program can become downright unmanageable.

Three-quarters of organisations increased customer experience (CX) technology investments in 2018, according to Gartner.

When you are dealing with holiday makers who expect exceptional customer service, ‘gut feel’ isn’t going to cut it.

Usabilla, Pulse Insights and ForeSee have been named strong performers in the first Forrester Wave: Digital Voice-Of-The Customer Specialist Platforms, Q2 2019.

PEXA’s mission was a humble one: transform a 150-year-old legal process for property exchanges, enabling them to be completed securely and remotely. The company did this by taking a system entrenched in manual, paper transactions, digitising it and putting it online. Yet this wasn't enough, and PEXA went further by adopting Medallia, a best-of-breed application, to transform its member feedback systems.

Virgin Australia has had so much success enhancing customer experience by implementing voice of customer technology on its mobile app, the airline is now implementing the capability across other digital channels.

A new voice-of-customer management system is not only closing the loop on client experience feedback for international money transfer company, OFX, it’s also actively informing products that build competitive edge.

Scoot Airlines has made a significant investment into a voice-of-customer platform and overhauled its customer service and experience team structure in order to make CX its key competitive advantage in the low-cost carrier market.

​Humility and courage are key to implementing a successful voice of customer (VoC) transformation program, as is a willingness to be open to the fact you might have been wrong, sometimes for years.

The days of quick customer experience wins through digital and mobile innovation are gone and organisations must tackle the more complex task of overhauling their culture in order to find sustainable improvement.

We are entering the era of relationships where the process of understanding what’s happening with customers, then delivering against those needs, is crucial to building brand connections that sustain businesses.

Sydney Water’s move to hatch an innovation lab is helping reframe problems and forms a key part of the utilities’ overarching CX strategy, according to customer experience solutions manager, John Isben.

CX professionals may not like to admit it, but one of the benefits of a low customer satisfaction score is plenty of room for improvement and potential easy wins. But what do you do if your customer satisfaction is already high?

Voice of customer (VOC) programs are becoming increasingly popular with marketers, but there are some general do’s and don’ts to follow if they're going to succeed.

The shift to Bupa as a health and care provider, rather than a simple insurer, is a step closer with the launch of its new messaging direction, ‘Life is a gift. Take care of it’.

It’s no longer good enough to listen to customers just for the sake of listening. In the age of the experience, brands need to listen to improve the customer experience if they have a hope of staying relevant.

There’s a lot of talk that AI is the future, but the capabilities are already being widely used and it’s not really that scary, according to CEO of technology company Sherlok, Elisa Adams.

Rockend has been in the property software game for more than 35 years, providing real estate and strata software solutions to agents and strata managers across Australia and New Zealand. But it’s the group’s more recent voice of customer and employee efforts that are paying fresh dividends.

Village Cinemas’ marketing chief says a 10 per cent increase in its Net Promoter Score is the result of significant investment and cross-divisional support for its voice of customer program.