Category: Today’s pick

Celebrating the Glitz and Glamour From the International Customer Experience Awards 2025

Starting at a tangent, depending on who you believe, businesses with a strong sense of customer belonging enjoy a five-to-six times revenue growth rate compared to others. Purely coincidentally; the impossibly, effortlessly, glamourous Italian couple leaving the Park Plaza London...

The Case for Human Judgment in AI-Powered Customer Experience

Customer service leaders have spent years chasing automation as the answer to scale and cost pressures. Despite rapid advances in AI, the customer experience data tells a different story, one that shows where technology stops and human judgment must step...

The Judges’ View from the International Customer Experience 2025 Awards

This week, a global stampede of businesses, all leading exponents of customer experience, will descend on London. Destination, the award ceremony of the International Customer Experience 2025 Awards. The judging took place last week, with over 300 judges presiding over...

Airbnb’s AI Speeds Customer Service, Boosts Profits, Plans for Real World Impact

Airbnb announced revenue up 10% for its latest quarter, driven by 133.6 million nights and seats booked, up 9% from a year ago. Within the app and company’s system, AI is playing a larger role in boosting those numbers, and...

Increasing Restaurant Spend Per Head in a Tough Economy: Changing Mindset and Strategy

Achieving resilience through a difficult economy and growing out of it on the other side is not an easy feat. Sure, some restaurants and pubs strike it lucky. They seem to have that holy-grail location and solid customer base; a...

Top 5 Insights from New Metrics at EXP KSA

In October, CXM attended the New Metrics CX event in Saudi Arabia. Here are some of the key learnings Saudi Arabia is a region that has moved from talking about customer experience to now delivering it at scale. That evolution was...

Is Overcommunication the New CX Crisis?

The constant ping of offers, updates, and “urgent” alerts may be doing brands more harm than good. Every brand wants a piece of your attention, but most people have already tuned out. According to CSG’s 2026 State of the Customer Experience...

AWS and OpenAI Sign Record $38B Cloud Deal, the Largest in AI History

OpenAI is moving a major chunk of its computing muscle to Amazon Web Services, marking one of the largest cloud deals ever signed in artificial intelligence. The $38 billion, multi-year partnership gives OpenAI access to AWS’s newest supercomputing infrastructure and...

How EXP KSA is Redefining the Experience Movement in the Middle East

Featuring insights from Mohamed Debouk, CEO of New Metrics Saudi Arabia has entered a defining phase in its transformation journey. One where experience has become central to how organizations deliver value, earn trust, and drive growth. That transformation took center stage at EXP KSA,...

When Busyness Isn’t Progress: What Is Fauxductivity?

In many offices, and increasingly, in home offices too, there’s a familiar rhythm to modern work. People dart between meetings, reply to messages the moment they land, and stay visible online long after official hours. On paper, it appears to...