It was when strong year-on-year growth rate levels started to slow that alarm bells began ringing for the team at Aussie Home Loans.

Qualtrics, Medallia, InMoment and Forsta are leading the way for voice of the customer (VoC) tech solutions, according to the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant research.

Getting to the bottom of customer churn and finding new ways to lift customer performance have prompted H&R Block to invest in a fresh voice of customer (VoC) management platform and approach.

As recent months have clearly shown, having a strong digital marketing and commerce capability has been one of the defining factors of those organisations that have best coped with the COVID-19 crisis.

Customer feedback management (CFM) platforms and are becoming increasingly crucial in the martech stack and vendors including Clarabridge, Medallia, InMoment, Qualtrics and Confirmit are leading the way​.

Pharmaceutical wholesaler, Sigma Healthcare, knew it needed to modernise with a renewed customer-first approach. In choosing the new platform to support these aims, however, it was very much a case of evolution, rather than revolution, as any new system needed to fit with its legacy tech while offering a future path for continual development.​

The Coffee Club was facing a situation many brands find themselves in today: Meeting rising customer expectations along with the need to harmonise its customer insights.​

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.