The Six Contexts of Customer Engagement (Behavioral Science)

Drive customer engagement by using six behavioral levers: grab attention with storytelling and curiosity, align goals to overcome biases, build interest with authority and labels, create desire through social proof and reciprocity, frame choices with scarcity and loss aversion, and deliver memorable experiences using the Zeigarnik and IKEA effects. These strategies boost action and long-term loyalty.

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John Gusiff
Five Core Roles of the Chief Experience Officer

It's been over a decade since the book The Experience Economy by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, was written. To this date, I haven't found a better definition for the Chief Experience Officer and the multiple roles they must perform: The Catalyst, The Designer, The Orchestrator, The Champion, and The Guide.

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John Gusiff
EX Study Irresistible Organization - Retail Coffee Companies

The recent Great Resignation and resulting War on Talent have made a focus on employee experience even more important. This study benchmarks six retail coffee companies based upon six core tenets of an irresistible organization: meaningful work, hands-on management, positive environment, health & wellbeing, growth opportunity, and trust in leadership.

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Five Reasons to Drive your Omni-channel Strategy via Journey Mapping

Customer Journey Mapping is the ideal platform and approach from which to define and build your overall omni-channel strategy.

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Uber as an Example of Current vs. FUTURE State Journey Mapping

Journey Mapping continues to grow as a very useful method and tool for helping organizations develop an understanding of their customer's experience.

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