The CX Cast Forrester

Generative AI signaled a major shift in vendor strategy for conversational AI. What do CX pros and customer service leaders, as the customers of these vendors, need to know about the vendor landscape? Principal Analyst Max Ball gives an overview of vendor history and motivations to quickly adopt generative AI for customer service applications. But will this evolution finally enable self-service applications to drive consistently good experiences? We discuss.

Principles of systems thinking expand our view on how to transform experiences and support the employees that deliver those experiences. Forrester VP and Principal Analyst J. P. Gownder shares his research on productivity and collaboration and how his systems thinking approach reveals implications for the customer experience. 

Search can make or break your digital experience, but how much do you really know about search vendors, the choices you can make, and how search really impacts customer loyalty? Forrester Principal Analyst Emily Pfeiffer joins us to share some insights into what CX leaders should know about commerce search.

A journey atlas (also known as a catalog of journeys) helps companies establish and sustain a shared customer-centric language across silos. It creates a strategic, bird’s-eye view of what matters to customers to help companies prioritize, assign responsibility, collaborate, and find shared value across journeys.

Frontline workers have an obvious role in the customer experience, but frontline work has changed a lot in the last five years. VP, Principal Analyst J. P. Gownder discusses the headwinds frontline workers face and the role that leaders need to embrace to be forward-thinking in how they drive effectiveness.

Emirati holding company Majid al Futtaim won Forrester’s first-ever Customer Obsession Enterprise Award in 2023. Grégoire Charpe-Civatte, VP of CX and Innovation, joins the CX Cast this week to discuss how the CX team embeds CX into the firm's strategy and drives action across the organization. 

Featuring:

Grégoire Charpe-Civatte, VP of CX and Innovation at Majid al Futtaim

Show notes:

Emirati holding company Majid al Futtaim won Forrester’s first-ever Customer Obsession Enterprise Award in 2023. CX At Majid Al Futtaim 



We discuss: 



How do you make CX resonate in very different businesses? 

What’s happened since Majid al Futtaim won our CX award last year, and what’s top of mind now? 

How are you scaling for innovation? 

What’s next? How are you using AI?