Open World CX: Customization Beats Personalization When You Need Customers to Stick

Open World CX: Customization Beats Personalization When You Need Customers to Stick

Personalization is what you infer. Customization is what customers choose. If you want durable engagement, treat preferences as a first-class product surface, not a settings page…

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Expert Mode: The Case for a Journey Management Reboot

Let’s be candid. The term “customer journey” has become one of the most ubiquitous phrases in the modern marketing lexicon. We map them, we analyze them,…

#763: Pega CTO Don Schuerman on how AI can pay down tech debt and accelerate digital transformation

#763: Pega CTO Don Schuerman on how AI can pay down tech debt and accelerate digital transformation

Today, we’re going to talk about moving beyond the hype we’re so used to hearing about AI and into the practical, high-impact world of agentic AI.…

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Expert Mode: Compounding the Impact of Marketing with Agentic AI

The concept of a “compound marketing engine” represents this evolution, promising a paradigm shift in how marketers operate and achieve results.  Instead of linear, campaign-based approaches,…

CustomerThink: Using customer journey orchestration to create memorable moments

CustomerThink: Using customer journey orchestration to create memorable moments

This article was written by Greg Kihlström for CustomerThink. Simply offering a high-quality product or service is no longer enough to set your business apart from…

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Expert Mode: The Customer Brain Behind National Australia Bank’s Human-Centered Engagement Strategy

At enterprise scale, customer experience orchestration can become an unruly beast—particularly when you have to balance millions of customers, dozens of engagement channels, and thousands of…

MarTech: The power of customer data across the journey: Acquisition

MarTech: The power of customer data across the journey: Acquisition

This article was written by Greg Kihlström for MarTech. Understanding customer needs allows us to improve our offerings and build lasting, mutually beneficial relationships. This results…

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Expert Mode: How Generative AI is Rewriting the Rules of Customer Journey Planning

In a time when marketers are told to “move fast and personalize everything,” the pressure to build meaningful, measurable customer journeys—before the competition even drafts wireframes—has…