CXMStars Returns — 2026 Edition Now Open! 

Customer Experience Magazine is thrilled to announce that CXMStars™️ 2026 is officially open for entries! Now in its seventh year, CXMStars™️ returns to recognise and celebrate the most inspiring customer experience (CX) professionals and thought leaders from around the world. This is...

Work isn’t Working According to EX Trailblazer Nadin

There’s a growing crisis in UK workplaces that most politicians don’t see. While MPs debate future skills and employability, they’re missing what’s happening right now: work simply isn’t working anymore. At the end of last year I sat down with the...

Editorial Guidelines for Contributors – 2026

Do you have an original idea you want to share that relates to the world of CX? The editorial team welcome you to submit your content for review. The main topics we cover are customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX),...

The Business Case for Building Relationships at Work, and How to Do It Right

Somewhere between Slack messages, hybrid schedules, and a calendar full of “quick syncs,” the art of building relationships at work got lost in translation.  The conversations that used to happen by accident, on the walk to a meeting, over coffee, after...

The Difference Between Customer Service and Customer Experience That’s Quietly Costing You Customers

If you’ve ever sat in a meeting where half the room said, “We need a better customer experience” and the other half replied, “We just hired more agents…”, you already know the problem. Inside most organisations, the difference between customer service...

Coaching vs Mentoring: How Smart Companies Build Performance and Belonging

Most people don’t leave a job because of pay. They leave when they stop growing. Sometimes they don’t even quit; they just disengage. It’s happening everywhere. Cameras off for every meeting. Effort down for every project. Energy is gone each...

Unified Customer Experience: The Evolution of Omnichannel

More channels don’t fix broken journeys. A single operating spine does; the kind that connects data (what’s known), decisioning (what happens next), and design (how it feels). When that spine is in place, organisations deliver a unified customer experience that...

Building a Mentoring Program that Drives Growth, Engagement, and Retention

Work feels different lately. Teams are stretched, attention is thin, and even strong cultures are wrestling with the hangover of constant change. In many companies, people didn’t just slow down their job searches; they stopped caring.  Against that backdrop, a well-built...

Empathetic CX: How Customer Sentiment and Customer Emotion Impact Loyalty, Revenue, and Reputation

A phone rings in your contact centre. It gets answered in under 30 seconds. The customer issue is resolved quickly. On paper, the metrics are perfect. But later? That same customer posts a frustrated review about feeling unheard. In today’s world, moving...

Marketing, Sales, and Service: How Alignment Powers Customer Journey Orchestration

The era of separate teams chasing their own dashboards is over. Today, customers expect continuity. They want to be known, not reintroduced at every touchpoint, which puts marketing, sales, and service on a single, shared line of sight.  When those functions...

Shadow IT in 2026: Risks, Real Examples, Shadow AI and the ROI of Fixing It

A sales rep pastes a confidential transcript into an AI summarizer five minutes before a client call. It saves them time, the meeting goes well, and later someone in compliance discovers the recording has been fed into a third-party model...

The Modern IVR System Isn’t a Phone Menu – It’s a CX Strategy

For years, people treated the IVR System like aging infrastructure. It was necessary, a little annoying, and probably ripe for retirement, but the obituary was premature. What used to be a simple “press 1” traffic director has quietly evolved into...