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Customer experience management is a business science with the direct purpose of:

Customer experience management is a business science with the direct purpose of:

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Abstract

Survival in today's economic climate and competitive retail business requires more than just low prices and innovative products. Customer experience includes every point of contact at which the customer interacts with the business, product, or service. The concept of customer experience has emerged as a strategy for the retail business which is facing competition. Data have been collected from multiple sources such as books and journals. The paper aims at explaining how the actual implementation of customer experience to help the business organizations retaining satisfaction of their customers in a long term and how the company gains an extra competitive advantage.

Keywords

Customer experience

Retail

Strategy

Customer Relationship Management

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Customer experience management is a business science with the direct purpose of:

Customer experience management is a business science with the direct purpose of:

Under a Creative Commons license

Open access

Abstract

Customer experience (CX) has emerged as a sustainable source of competitive differentiation. Recent developments in big data analytics (BDA) have exposed possibilities to unlock customer insights for customer experience management (CXM). Research at the intersection of these two fields is scarce and there is a need for conceptual work that (1) provides an overview of opportunities to use BDA for CXM and (2) guides management practice and future research. The purpose of this paper is therefore to develop a strategic framework for CXM based on CX insights resulting from BDA. Our conceptualisation is comprehensive and is particularly relevant for researchers and practitioners who are less familiar with the potential of BDA for CXM. For managers, we provide a step-by-step guide on how to kick-start or implement our strategic framework. For researchers, we propose some opportunities for future studies in this promising research area.

Keywords

Customer experience

Customer experience management

Customer experience insight

Big data analytics

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Dr. Maria Holmlund is a Professor of Marketing at the Hanken School of Economics (Finland). Her research interests include service and customer-oriented management in business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets. Her publications have appeared in, for example, the Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Service Management, and Marketing Theory.

Dr. Yves Van Vaerenbergh is an Associate Professor of Marketing at KU Leuven (Belgium). His research interests lie in the areas of service marketing, customer experience management, service recovery, access-based services, and empirical generalisations. His work has appeared in, for example, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Retailing and Academy of Management Perspectives.

Dr. Robert Ciuchita is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Marketing at Hanken School of Economics (Finland). His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of service management, user engagement, digital service innovation, and mobile marketing. His work has appeared in, for example, the Journal of Service Research and Journal of Business Research.

Dr. Annika Ravald is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Hanken School of Economics (Finland). Her research covers strategic marketing issues, such as business logics, network and relationship dynamics, future business landscapes, and value creation issues. Her publications can be found in, for example, the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Management, and European Journal of Marketing.

Dr. Panagiotis Sarantopoulos is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK) of Marketing at University of Manchester's Alliance Manchester Business School (UK). His research interests lie in the areas of marketing research and analytics and their applications in retailing and pricing and digital marketing. His work appears in the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Business Research. Prior to joining academia, he worked as an analyst in Greece, Spain, and Sweden.

Dr. Francisco Villarroel Ordenes is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has achieved substantial expertise in the use of linguistic frameworks and text mining as methods to develop accurate measures of consumers’ sentiments expressions and brand content strategies in social media, assessing their impact on online sales and e-WOM. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of Advertising among others.

Dr. Mohamed Zaki is the Deputy Director at Cambridge Service Alliance. His research focuses on developing novel machine learning methods to manage and measure customer experience and predict customer loyalty. Other research interests include digital transformation and data-driven business models. His work has appeared in for example the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Service Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, PloS ONE, Journal of Production Planning & Control, and Journal of Services Marketing.

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What is the purpose of customer experience management?

CXM software helps you streamline your customer journey and allows you to design, connect, deliver, and manage experiences across diverse channels—from call centers and brick-and-mortar stores to email, social media, web and mobile apps, and all the many ways customers engage with your brand.

What are the 3 main components of customer experience?

The three main components for creating a customer experience strategy are discovery, engagement and delivery.

What are the main elements of customer experience management?

Customer experience encompasses every aspect of a company's offering—the quality of customer care, of course, but also advertising, packaging, product and service features, ease of use, and reliability.

What is the role of customer experience management in CRM?

Customer experience management (CXM) is the management of customer interactions through each physical and digital touchpoint in order to deliver personalized experiences that drive brand loyalty and increase revenue, according to David Clarke, global chief experience officer at PwC.