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Strategic perspectives on customer experience, governance frameworks, and organizational transformation. Curated from over 20 years of writing at cxobsession.com

Case Studies

Retail Disruption: Winners, Losers & Lessons

Analysing the retail transformation: which companies are thriving, which are failing, and why.

By Steve Towers
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Case Studies

United Airlines Changes Its Policy on Displacing Customers

A cautionary tale of customer experience failure and the policy changes that followed.

By Steve Towers
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Customer Experience

Data-Driven CX: What Leaders Do Differently

The capabilities, processes, and mindsets that enable truly data-driven customer experience.

By Steve Towers
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Innovation

AI, Automation & the Future of Customer Operations

How artificial intelligence and automation are transforming customer service and operations.

By Steve Towers
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Innovation

Predictive Analytics for Customer Experience

Using data and analytics to anticipate customer needs and deliver proactive experiences.

By Steve Towers
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Employee Experience

The Future Workplace & Customer-Centric Organisations

How the evolution of work is enabling more customer-centric ways of operating.

By Steve Towers
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Employee Experience

Leadership Behaviours That Make or Break CX

The specific leadership actions and mindsets that enable customer-centric transformation.

By Steve Towers
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Employee Experience

Culture Eats Strategy: CX Edition

Why organisational culture is the biggest determinant of customer experience success—and how to shape it.

By Steve Towers
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Customer Experience

The 80/20 Rule of Customer Experience

Applying the Pareto Principle to customer experience: how to focus on the 20% that drives 80% of results.

By Steve Towers
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Customer Experience

Moments of Truth: Designing for What Really Matters

How to identify and optimise the critical moments that define customer relationships and drive business outcomes.

By Steve Towers
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Innovation

Why Personalisation Fails (and How to Fix It)

The common pitfalls that derail personalisation programmes and proven strategies to deliver genuine personalisation at scale.

By Steve Towers
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Innovation

Digitisation & the New CX Landscape

Understanding how digital transformation is reshaping customer expectations and experience delivery.

By Steve Towers
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Customer Experience

Outside-In: The Secret to Customer-Led Transformation

Why starting with the customer perspective is the only way to create meaningful organisational change.

By Steve Towers
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Innovation
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Internet of Things Will Revolutionize Retail

How IoT technology is transforming retail experiences and creating new possibilities for customer engagement.

By Steve Towers
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Customer Experience
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Successful Customer Outcomes (SCO) — Why It Changes Everything

The revolutionary shift from measuring customer satisfaction to engineering successful customer outcomes.

By Steve Towers
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Employee Experience
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The Employee Experience Is the Future of Work

Why organisations that prioritise employee experience are winning the war for talent and outperforming competitors.

By Steve Towers
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Customer Experience
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THIS 4-DAY Course May Change the Way You Do Process Forever

Why the CEMMethod® certified programme is transforming how organisations approach process design and customer experience.

By Steve Towers
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Innovation
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The Expanding Role of Design in Creating an End-to-End Customer Experience

How design is evolving from aesthetics to strategic business driver, shaping entire customer experiences.

By Steve Towers
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Customer Experience
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Putting Customer Experience at the Heart of Next-Generation Operating Models

How forward-thinking organisations are redesigning their operating models around customer experience to drive competitive advantage.

By Steve Towers
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Customer Experience
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Top 5 Customer Journey Management Challenges (and How to Solve Them)

The most common obstacles organisations face when implementing customer journey management, and proven strategies to overcome them.

By Steve Towers
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