Technology: The Fall Guy

Most IT projects that do not enable business capabilities mandated by the business strategies will fail. The blame, however, is usually attributed to the technology, which is simply an enabler and not the driver! If this reflects your company, there is reason for introspection and review of the process leading to capital IT investments.

How was Your Consumer Experience?

Measuring customer satisfaction has been a core strategy for retailers trying to improve it and they do it in all possible ways. Most depend on asking consumers questions about their latest interaction with the retailer and how well it went.

Temkin Ratings now brings us a new term: Consumer Experience, more accurately reflecting what the retailers have been trying to measure. Temkin defines consumer experience along the three dimensions of functional, accessible, and emotional parts of the interaction.