Author: Geoff Spick

Acquisition Stampede Sees CX and EX Companies Acquire AI or Features

The merger and acquisitions inbox at CXM exploded into life this week ahead of major earnings report season (led by Accenture’s massive AI earnings). It highlights the growing drive for businesses to acquire AI, or AI firms to add features...

Adobe Partners With Medallia To Integrate AI Agents with Sentiment Data

If our recent news isn’t heavy on new AI announcements, it is typically about a tie-up, as software vendors seek to add fresh smarts and better insights for users from AI knowledge providers. Adobe’s Experience Manager Platform was recently...

Freshworks’ AI Handbook Shows the Impact of AI Service on the Employee Experience

Freshworks’ new ebook, “The CIO’s handbook for maximizing ROI and business impact of AI” is a free download helping leadership understand the value of the AI when it comes to IT service and improving the employee experience. Offering to...

Liferay Talks IT and Ops Partnerships at Gartner’s Innovation Summit

Gartner events are coming along like buses at the moment, with the recent London apps and innovation summit packed with partners and showing where digital businesses are headed. At the event, Liferay’s Bernard McCloskey, Director of Technology Partnerships took to...

EXA Winner Octopus Energy Keeps Fighting for A Greener Customer Experience

In the battleground of the energy provider market, there’s fierce competition to keep ahead of, and in, the news. Driving customer and prospect interest is a key part of any vibrant business. And recent UK EXA-award winner Octopus Energy continues...

Endless Cookie Alerts May Vanish as The EU Sees A Crumb of CX Sense

A blight on every browser, a pain for all businesses keeping up with the latest diktats, and annoying for the entire online universe. Confirming our cookie settings (again, and again, and again) has been a royal pain since the EU...

The True Value of AI Revealed in Healthcare CX Automation

If you recall the chatbot era across the late 2010s-early 2020s, there was a rush of hype, hope and excitement. Then, a deafening silence as vendors and end-user businesses kept quiet on the end results, until sufficient data crept into...

Dishoom Spices up the EXA25 Awards, Wins Best Employee Experience Journey

The UK Employee Experience Awards (#UKEXA25) might be heavy on big business and digital companies, with weighty expectations. But there were plenty of nominees at the Hilton Hotel event to add some delight and surprise to proceedings. One such winner was...

Cracker Barrel Results Highlight the Cost of Rebranding Gone Wrong

The pressure from marketing teams or agencies, year after year, for a rebrand, refresh or restyle is a constant in most larger companies. The chance to evolve, widen the audience, or reach out to Gen-Z can sound like a compelling...

Work Platform monday.com Expands AI-Powered Agents, CRM Suite and Enterprise Capabilities

Rolling out a raft of new features at its Elevate New York event, monday.com continues to building on its AI foundation, with a new agent builder, monday agents, and three new AI capabilities, monday magic, monday vibe, and monday sidekick....