The document summarizes key takes from a conference on customer experience (CX). It discusses how integrating customer-facing disciplines is essential to building successful CX. The 'Future 50' research identified top growth companies that transformed their categories through exceptional CX. Legacy brands are being challenged by disruptors taking a customer-centric rather than product-centric approach. Successfully transforming CX requires working across the enterprise and leading long-term CX transformation.

1. TOP TAKES
Steven Cook, Contributing Editor

2. 18 industry associations united: CX, UX, MarTech,
Marketing, Research, CRM, B2B, B2C, Social Media,
Store Design, Service Training, VOC.
Demonstrated why integrating all disciplines is
essential to building successful CX that will last & be
meaningful to customers & employees.

3. ‘Future 50’ research to identify top growth companies:
- 2,300 public companies. Determine which had market potential, strategy,
technology & investment, people, & structure to achieve sustained growth.
- Top 25 companies in $20Billion+ market value: Salesforce, Tesla,
Facebook, Netflix, Activision, Google, Amazon, & Priceline.
- All have transformed their categories through exceptional customer
experience as well as innovative products & services.
- Legacy brands & corporations are being increasingly challenged by
disruptors from outside their categories who are using a customer-
centric approach … not a product-centric approach.
- Challenge to work across the enterprise to lead long-term customer
experience transformation – marketing & sales, operations, organization/
culture, technology, infrastructure, & financial.

4. www.cmo.com/features/articles/2017/10/5/corporate-culture-looms-large-on-customer-experience.html#gs.S9eI3Jc

5. WHY IS CX SO IMPORTANT?
WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

6. CHALLENGE -
STANDING OUT FROM THE CROWD & BEING
RELEVANT, STICKY, MEMORABLE & LOVED..

7. FIGHTING FOR ATTENTION.

8. CHOICE IS INFINITE. ATTENTION IS NOT.

9. CX SUCCESS NEEDS
CONSUMER INSIGHTS
THAT DRIVE:
> VISION
> DESIGN
> CULTURE
> LEARNING

10. BEST-OF-BREED CX-CENTRIC CO.
EVERY FUNCTION, MANAGEMENT
LEVEL & EMPLOYEE NEEDS TO
UNDERSTAND CX STRATEGY,
WHY, CX PLAN & ROLE.
BE EMPOWERED TO MAKE REAL-TIME
CUSTOMER-CENTRIC DECISIONS.

11. Carlos Pimenta
CX Talks Chair
CEO, Macquarium
‘Customer Experience & User Experience are united by the
common goal of customer success’.
‘UX is more focused on designing digital touch-points.
CX has a broader scope in designing every interaction a
customer has with a brand’.
‘You will see how important it is to establish an empathetic
customer-centric culture to do this right. Creating a best-of-
breed CX is much broader and deeper than you think’.

12. Vivek Bhaskaran
CEO
QuestionPro
Vision: CX strategy & how customer obsessed your
company is. Be clear how CX will deliver business goals.
Design: Know what to do & where to begin. CX spans
disciplines. This is a challenge for most organizations.
Culture: Need to get buy-in & alignment from CEO down &
across the organization to infuse a culture of customer-first.
CX must be important to your CEO. You need CX metrics to
be able to keep score.
Learning: Closing the loop with customers & organizationally.

13. Sterling Jackson
SVP
MGM Resorts Int’l
Mission: For all MGM resorts - Entertain The Human Race.
‘We also learned that creating great experiences that inspire joy
& amazement don’t just happen when you show up at a hotel.
We had to define consistent service standards for 27 unique
resort brands, train 77,000 employees & we get our leaders to
endorse & support the CX message & accountability’.
‘Made it easy for employees
to remember how they can
create defining CX
moments for our guests’.

14. Rob Sherrell
VP Global CX Lead
North Highland
‘We need to think about evolving from Customer Experience to
Human Experience - CX to HX. 89% of corps are now focused
on differentiation via CX. Great CX will become table stakes’.
‘HX is an organizations’ ability to connect to & meet higher level
human needs - to move from purely commercial intent to
human commitment. This will be competition based on
corporate humanity’.
‘Delivering HX versus CX will require organizations to be
purposeful, cognitive, adaptive & conscious, in addition to
delivering great CX that is easy, relevant and orchestrated’.

15. Will Payman
VP Strategy
Macquarium
‘The IoT is here & accelerating. 50B smart devices by 2020.
Explosion in touch points that CX professionals will have to
create, manage & optimize’.
‘This will require new thinking about the components of an
experience, a potential shift from products to services & new
ways of measuring the experience. It is going to take CX to the
next level & it will become more complex to integrate’.
‘IoT should be looked at as a way to drive innovation &
competitive advantage’.

16. FINAL CX TAKES
1. NO ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL. TAILOR CX TO YOUR
CUSTOMER’S NEEDS, INDUSTRY & BIZ GOALS.
2. CX IS NOT MARKETING’S JOB … IT IS EVERY
FUNCTION & EVERYBODY’S JOB.
3. ‘EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE’ IS ESSENTIAL.
4. USE CX METRICS THAT MATTER TO YOUR CEO
& C-SUITE – REVENUE & PROFIT.
5. CX TAKES A VILLAGE TO DO IT RIGHT.

20. Will Gunn
Digital Product Manager
GE Industrial Solutions
David Johnson
CEO, Decooda