CX Files

Christine Bardwell is the Senior Principal Strategy for Oracle Loyalty and Commerce and she is responsible for all the global go to market strategy for Oracle Loyalty. Before Oracle, Christine was an industry analyst at companies including IDC and Ovum and therefore she has spent several years analysing the markets that she now works on for Oracle. In the podcast we explored smart speakers, China,...

Sarah is the Chief Happiness Officer at Happy Coffee Consulting. She is also the Head of Customer Service at Sure Petcare managing a customer service team that works across borders using several languages. For CX Files she is speaking in her Happy Coffee capacity. Sarah speaks on this podcast about Employee Experience and the importance of great managers and work culture - how does this influence...

Amit Shankardass is the Executive Vice President of worldwide marketing at Teleperformance. Teleperformance has over 300,000 people delivering CX services to 170 markets from 80 different countries. In this edition of the podcast, Amit talks about the differences between a human and digital focus on CX and how brands can achieve the best possible blend of both. If 80% of customers prefer to speak...

Until very recently Vadim Anikanov was the Head of Global Customer Operations at Digital Finance International, which is a member of the Finstar Financial Group. He has spent a couple of decades in various CX leadership roles and at present he is researching the effect of smart speakers on the customer experience. Vadim is particularly interested in the way that smart speakers, such as the Amazon...

Wendy Shlensky is the Global Head of PR and AR at Hinduja Global Services (HGS), based in New York. Wendy was a speaker at the recent CXOutsourcers event in Windsor, UK, so I called to catch up on her conference takeaways and views on the future for BPO and CX in 2019. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyshlensky/ https://www.teamhgs.com/ https://knowledge-executive.com/cxoutsourcers/

Ed Thomas is the Principal Analyst for technology thematic research at GlobalData PLC. He was recently speaking about AI and CX at the CX Outsourcers conference in Windsor, UK. After his talk, I asked Ed to explain some of his thoughts about AI for the podcast. Are companies really getting value from AI today? Listen to Ed's thoughts here… https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgthomas/ https://www.globald...

Miya Knights is the head of industry insight at Eagle Eye Solutions. She is the director and publisher of retail technology magazine. She has a long history in both retail and technology journalism and analysis and she is the co-author of a recent book titled Amazon - how the world's most relentless retailer will continue to revolutionise commerce. Miya talked to CX Files on the edge of the CXOuts...

Peter Ryan is the Principal Analyst at Ryan Strategic Advisory and is a great friend of CX Files. On Monday March 25th he presented the latest RSA research - the 2019 Front Office BPO Omnibus Survey. This outlines the most popular locations for contact centres globally. In a CX Files exclusive this episode is being released earlier than usual so it is published simultaneously with his live speech...

Maxine Holt is a research director, leading the security practice at industry analyst Ovum.  Maxine will be delivering a keynote speech on trends in cybersecurity at the CXOutsourcers conference in Windsor on March 25th. In this podcast we explore some of the issues around protecting customer data and how GDPR is looking, one year into enforcement. https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxineholt/ https://o...

David Rumble is a Managing Partner at GoBeyond, a consulting firm based in the the UK that specialises in complex CX transition. Dave is a well known international expert on offshore outsourcing and he will be speaking about offshoring strategies later this month at the CX Outsourcers Mindshare event in Windsor, UK. In the podcast I asked Dave about some of the current trends around offshoring and...

Nuno Horta is head of innovation at Grupo Ageas, based in Lisbon Portugal. Ageas is based in Belgium and is the largest insurance company there although they operate across 14 different countries. Nuno talks about how insurance is changing and how insurance companies can improve the customer experience through the use of emerging technologies and just redefining their role in the life of the custo...

Tamar Ravelli is an international recruitment consultant at Talingual. Talingual is a recruitment company, based in Belfast, focused on helping contact centres find staff, particularly multilingual centres who need people that are prepared to relocate for their job. Talingual published research suggesting that the place that young Germans want to live and work most is England. Given the uncertaint...

Mike Havard is Director of Ember Group. Ember Group is a customer engagement and CX professional service business based in the UK. Mike talked about how brands can become service champions and how Brexit is affecting CX in the UK. Mike was on the coast near Vancouver, Canada during this recording therefore you may hear gulls! www.embergroup.co.uk www.linkedin.com/in/mike-havard-5913401 http://know...

Atul Vashistha, is the Chairman and CEO of Neo Group. Neo Group was founded in 1999 and is a US-based consulting and advisory firm focused on global services and sourcing. Atul has written three books about globalisation and sourcing and he is on the US Department of Defense Business Board - an advisory body that provides the US government with private sector expertise. In the podcast Atul talks a...

Steve Morrell is the Managing Director of ContactBabel. ContactBabel is an industry analyst firm, which studies the global contact centre and customer engagement industries. They recently published the 18th annual edition of their contact centre decision makers guide, which analyses the customer service industry with feedback from over 200 companies. In the podcast Steve talks about this research,...

Patrick O' Brien is the UK research director at Global Data Retail and has a long career researching retail trends in the UK and across Europe. Global Data publishes over 15,000 reports and forecasts a year analysing 500,000 companies in 80 different countries. In the podcast, Patrick explains his thoughts on retail trends for 2019 and how CX will play a major role in shaping the future of retail....

Loren Moss is the founder of Unido Digital, based in Medellín, Colombia. He is a CX analyst with expert knowledge of FinTech and Intelligent Automation. In this interview, Loren and I spoke about CX channels and their connection to customer demographics. http://www.unidodigital.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenmoss/

Vit Horky is the co-founder and CEO of Brand Embassy, based in Prague. Brand Embassy is focused on helping companies move to digital customer service. He recently published a book titled 'Customer Service in the Transhuman Age' and this podcast is focused on learning more about the book... Where is CX going in 2019 - and beyond? www.brandembassy.com https://hubs.ly/H0g5tND0 www.linkedin.com/in/vit...

Mark Angus is the CEO of publisher and research company Knowledge Executive, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Together with Peter Ryan of Ryan Strategic Advisory he is hosting a new conference focused on the companies that deliver CX - CX Outsourcers. In this special bonus edition of CX Files, Mark explains what to expect from the next CX Outsourcers conference which will take place in March 2...

Jens Butler is the Director of Services, CX, and Sourcing for Tech Research Asia, based in Sydney, Australia. He is one of the best known analysts focused on sourcing and CX in the region and is in demand as CX analyst and speaker globally.  I caught up with Jens to ask for his views in CX trends in 2018 and what to expect in 2019. This is the final CX Files episode focused on looking ahead to 201...

Melissa O'Brien is the Research Vice President for customer engagement, retail and travel at HfS Research - she is based in Boston, Massachusetts. HfS is known globally as one of the most innovative analyst firms focused on BPO and CX. Melissa looked back at the key CX trends from 2018 and ahead to what we should be expecting as the key trends for 2019. https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-o-brien/...

The final CX Files of 2018! Peter Ryan is Principal of Ryan Strategic Advisory, based in Montreal Canada. Peter talked to me about some of the big CX events of 2018 and what we can look forward to in 2019. Enjoy it and HAPPY NEW CX YEAR! https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-ryan-2b39b71/ https://ryanadvisory.com/  

Steve Weston is the Managing Partner of SK Weston & Co, based in Washington DC. Steve himself has over 25 years consulting experience in the field of CX and BPO and he is known globally as an expert in this area.  In this edition, we looked back at CX in 2018 and forward to the main trends worth watching for in 2019. https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-weston-1843152/

Andrei Lepeyev is the Director of the Software Development Department at IBA Group in Minsk, Belarus. Andrei is leading teams focused on Mainframes, Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explains how these technologies are helping the clients of IBA improve the CX they offer to their customers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrei-lepeyev-416a8380/ http...

Stefan Osthaus is an author, keynote speaker and CX expert based in Dusseldorf, Germany. He is the founder and managing director of experience5, focused on helping companies to manage CX and employee experience (EX) together. In the podcast Stefan talks about customer centricity, building a CX strategy and how to combine a CX and EX strategy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanosthaus/ https://www....