Some of last week’s less positive stories look like they could turn into long-running sagas, but there’s still some good ones amongst the purveyors of low-level annoyance – including a cautionary tale from the school of rock on how I let my own ‘customers’ down…
Month: February 2017
Recycle, reuse, remix, repeat – be daringly (un-)original
Albert Einstein is credited – perhaps inaccurately – with the saying ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results’ and this received wisdom inhibits us, I think, from trying something the same, albeit with a different twist.
When I set up this site I was initially unsure whether
My week in CX #2
It’s been a good week for my own experiences as a customer covering everything from pubs to running, although not at the same time. Let’s start with the running…
Runner’s needs met?
Lately I’ve been dogged by a pain in my heel, most noticeable when running and I think I can attribute it to some otherwise super-comfortable running shoes I bought from Runnersneed last year. A brief internet search just now – which I normally avoid because of the risk of early-onset hypochondria – reveals
Valentine’s Day – not just for cynics
It’s Valentine’s Day, which we all know is the annual effort by the chocolate industry to fill in the gap between Christmas and Easter over-indulgence by buying over-priced confectionery involving heart shapes and red wrapping. Or it’s the flower industry getting a lift before Mothers’ Day. Or it’s the card industry still trying to be relevant in the era of e-cards and… well, you get the drift: it’s a feast day for cynics. Or is it? For the customer experience-obsessive it’s a day of wonder –
My week in CX
Beginning a regular review of my own good, bad and indifferent customer experiences, in the past week. If this seems like an unnecessary insight into my fabulous life then apologies but, as Socrates almost said, ‘the unexamined customer experience is not worth having’. Here we go with some highlights and lowlights…
Frank Zappa, innovation and ridicule
YouTube is a wonderful thing if you like to be distracted by random stuff from people that you like. Whilst rehearsing a choir part from a YouTube track by my local community choir the other night the suggested videos list threw up a thoroughly cringeworthy appearance by Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show on 4 March 1963. Cringeworthy it may be but it illustrates the way genuine innovators can often come up against ridicule when their ideas first appear.