The CX Cast

Once a company is bought-in on design, how do design leads scale the design organization to continue to meet the company's evolving needs?  In this episode we're joined by Lance Thornswood, Senior Vice President, Head of Design at US Bank, to discuss the scaling of their design practice, which has doubled in size each year for five years running. From utilizing and customizing existing methodologies to create understanding of and demand for design, to advocating for and building out a design system, the design organization's functions and practices have evolved over time.

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How To Scale Your Design Organization

All firms can access the same tools for business success — capital, business process, and tech — making it hard to generate a sustainable market advantage. The pandemic reveals that adaptive companies update their use of these tools more effectively than others. But adaptivity depends on an underutilized fourth tool: a workforce motivated to apply its creativity to business problems and opportunities. In this episode we're joined by VP, Principal Analyst James McQuivey, PhD to discuss how firms can achieve creative advantage, a state where creativity multiplies the effective use of every other business tool.

 

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Creativity Feeds The Future Of Work

Evolving an organization's culture towards greater customer centricity is complex work, requiring careful prioritization. In this episode we're joined by Chief Experience Officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC), Gratia Carver, to discuss her team's approach to evolving culture and the important role measurement plays.

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Elevate And Scale Your CX Measurement Program

Evolve Your Culture Work Practice

How Customer Experience Drives Business Growth, 2020

With vaccine rollout occurring around the world, hopes run high of returning to a life free from COVID-19. Vaccine passports promise to quickly turn this hope into a reality, including bringing employees back to the physical workplace. Despite the high expectations, employers must be cautious as they plan and execute their pandemic management plans. In this episode we're joined by Senior Analyst Enza Iannopollo, to discuss the array of unique privacy and ethical concerns, legal and compliance considerations, and other operational risks employers must consider as they contemplate leveraging vaccine passports for pandemic response

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The Opportunity, The Unknowns, And The Risks Of Vaccine Passports In The Workplace

Marketers and CX professionals are out of touch with today's business realities. While companies pursue business models that scramble traditional customer lifecycles, marketing and CX functions remain siloed in outdated roles that become ineffective and wasteful. There is a better way forward: CX and marketing can master the new normal by reinventing their relationship with each other. In this episode we're joined by VP, Principal Analyst Rick Parrish,  to discuss five proven strategies for creating the deep and sustained collaboration between CX and marketing that is necessary for success in today's world.

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Five Ways To Ensure Deep Collaboration Between Marketing And Customer Experience

In this episode, we're joined by VP, Research Director Harley Manning to discuss a recent internal research effort to better understand the needs of Forrester clients.  Iterative interviews with about 40 senior CX leaders helped to uncover what they're working on, what data and insights they're missing, and more.

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Introducing Forrester Decisions

After a merger and acquisition, CX teams must face the realities of combining forces.  From VoC measurement to the overall approach for improving experiences, they must evaluate ways of working across both organizations.  In this episode, we are joined by Yvan Goupil, Head of Customer and Marketing Insight at Virgin Money UK, who experienced and succeeded at merging CX teams after an acquisition. He shares what worked well throughout the process, as well as some challenges they encountered.Click the titles below for more on this topic:

Case Study: UK Bank Virgin Money Transformed CX And Improved Business Outcome

Measuring the impact of design is critical so that design teams can prove their value internally, scale up, and elevate their strategic influence. In this episode, Principal Analyst, Gina Bhawalkar, joins us to answer the question: What steps can companies take to measure the business impact of experience design? The complexity of this topic and wealth of examples led to a long episode, so we've included an episode guide to the key discussion points below:

00:00: Why do you need to measure the impact of design?

8:30: What hinders measurement efforts today, and what is "metric phobia"?

11:00: How can organizations overcome measurement hurdles today?

14:30: What are the five best practices to create a design measurement plan?

25:00: What about creating an ROI model?

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Research Overview: The Design Revolution

How To Scale Your Design Organization

When Companies Question The Value Of Design - Alan Cooper

Companies are adopting agile frameworks and adding designers to their delivery teams to improve digital experience development efforts. But these two constituencies don't rely on the same workflow, artifacts, or ceremonies — and often struggle to find common ground as a result. In this episode, we're joined by Senior Analyst Karine Cardona-Smits to discuss how designers can better understand their role in and the value of agile frameworks, allowing the two worlds to join forces to create better products together.

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Agile And Design Teams — Better Together

Organizations don't typically know how customers derive value and which value drivers matter most. Instead, they measure value using flawed proxies. They also collect data about value in different parts of the organization, at different cadences, and using different tools, making it hard to assemble a complete picture of the value that customers derive. In this episode, we're joined by VP, Principal Analyst Maxie Schmidt to discuss how to overcome these challenges and measure true value for customers.

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How To Measure Value For Customer

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