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Saving the Great British Pub Through CX

For generations, pubs have been at the heart of community life in the UK; our TV soap operas revolve around fictional, but iconic, locals: The Rover’s Return, The Queen Vic, and The Woolpack. These exist at the hub of community...

Beating the Great British Queue With Technology

In today’s age of instant gratification, consumers are used to getting what they want, when they want. Every interaction we have with a brand is expected to be quick, seamless and personalised for our convenience. Despite this, the average Briton can spend...

Five Proven Pain-Free Ways to Motivate your Team

Working with people is great, but taking care of a whole team requires much more work than you can imagine. Thankfully, we live in a time when employers pay a lot of attention to making their employees happy, satisfied, more...

Mövenpick Ibn Battuta Gate Appoints new General Manager

Mövenpick’s Ibn Battuta Gate Dubai has appointed a new General Manager to oversee the five-star hotel.Ian Rydin, originally from Sweden, has three decades of expertise in the hospitality industry where he recently served as the General Manager and District Director...

Great Expectations: How Experiences With Customer-Centric Companies Shape our Standards

New technologies are transforming businesses at a rapid pace and elevating the services on offer to consumers. In the past ten years alone, the way consumers select and receive services has changed dramatically thanks to developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...

What do Amazon and Social Housing have in common? It’s the customer

The very nature of social housing means customer service in the sector can be a more complex affair than in others. In a market which spans local authority homes and independent housing associations, what is the benchmark for customer experience...

Trust through transparency: how marketers can take advantage of GDPR

The one-year anniversary of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now fast approaching.  Since its introduction in May 2018, we as a nation have become more ‘data aware’ than ever before. The maximum fine for not complying with...

Moving to a Collaborative Unified Communications World: A Migration Strategy for Customer-facing Businesses

Organisations of all shapes and sizes are looking to migrate from traditional PBX telecoms platforms to unified communications (UC) environments, integrating their contact centre for greater collaboration. The market is growing robustly. A recent report by Global Market Insights estimated...

Winners Announced: UK Employee Experience Awards 2019

Wednesday 15th May was the biggest and most successful UK Employee Experience Awards in Awards International history! More than 300 finalists gathered at the Park Plaza Riverbank in London to compete for a series of coveted prizes and share best practice...

Make Sure your CX is Switched on During the Big Switch-Off

In 2015, British Telecom (BT) announced it would be switching off the UK’s legacy PSTN and ISDN networks by 2025, forcing all customers to shift to IP-based VoIP (Voice Over IP) and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) telephony services. Rather than...