
Turn Board-Level Pressure Into Transformational CX Success

Customer experience (CX) and engagement are now board level priorities—for a good reason. According to a PwC survey of 15,000 people, 73% consider customer experience an important factor in their purchasing decisions. Positive experiences influence purchasing decisions in almost every industry but are particularly influential in healthcare (78%) and banking (75%). In the U.S., 59% of customers will stop interacting with a brand they love after several bad experiences; 17% after just one bad experience.
Most business leaders know they need to be taking steps to improve their customer/patient experiences through orchestrating better customer journeys . But many are struggling to understand what they could and should do to improve these experiences. Implementing a successful CX program can be challenging, and many businesses need prescriptive guidance on how to get started.
Why Is Implementing a Strategic Customer Engagement Solution a Challenge?
Over the past year, the Customer Engagement team at CSG set out to better understand why it is so hard for businesses to get started in enhancing CX. The team leveraged primary research, a customer advisory board, focus groups, customer implementations, a CMO advisory forum, and commissioned study of 480+ CX leaders, director level and above, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CSG to learn where businesses are struggling. We’ve learned that:
Getting started is a struggle . 90% of companies said identifying where to start is very/extremely challenging. One business leader couldn’t get stakeholder alignment on how her business “could” vs. “should” set up their CX program. Another said, “I spent nine months creating presentations just to find out we were wrong and needed to start over.”
Generic tools aren’t cutting it . Many businesses have invested in tools that only solve part of the customer experience problem. 70% of businesses indicated that they are leveraging a CRM as a customer engagement solution . Additionally, businesses need a solution that sits alongside their existing investments to bring together the entire customer experience and disparate customer data.
Prior investments haven’t yielded ROI. More than half of the organizations surveyed are currently spending $2.5 million or more on CX initiatives and strategies; yet, 30% report “investment in CX tools has been unsuccessful in the past.”