{"id":10564,"date":"2018-02-08T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.say-u.com\/?p=10564"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:34:40","slug":"trends-in-customer-profiles-which-are-now-central-to-the-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/tendencias-a-figura-do-cliente-e-hoje-central-ao-negocio\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Ignore\" the trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span id=\"ext-gen1134\">Trends: The customer is now central to the business.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10567\" src=\"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rubrica-marta-final.png\" alt=\"Marta&#039;s Final Column\" width=\"828\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1134\">Trends show that we view an organization negatively if it does not place the customer at the center of its business vision\u2014in the way it conceives and develops that vision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"ext-gen1134\">But do we really understand what the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/rockcontent.com\/br\/blog\/experiencia-do-cliente\/\"><em><span id=\"ext-gen1136\">customer experience<\/span><\/em><\/a> (CX)? <\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1134\">This is just an interesting clich\u00e9 and a good one <em><span id=\"ext-gen1137\">sound bite<\/span><\/em> Is it just for a presentation, or does it truly shape the organization\u2019s experience and the relationship it builds with its audience?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An organization that fails to incorporate basic CX concepts into its strategy risks having any focus on trends and innovations merely divert attention away from structured opportunities to strengthen the brand\u2019s relationship with its audience. This does not mean you should stop getting excited about emerging technologies and tools. What you must not do is lose sight of the fact that building a relationship with customers and meeting their expectations is a long-term effort.<\/p>\n<p>The real trends in CX will be just as relevant a year from now as they are today: understanding customers, grasping their needs and perceptions, identifying challenges, and defining opportunities\u2014always with an eye toward improving satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1134\">This proposal is easier to outline than to implement, as the systems already in place, the organizational structure, and the short-term goals pose additional obstacles to its implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span id=\"ext-gen1134\">No trend can be useful to an organization that does not understand the basic principles for ensuring the success of its CX strategy. <\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1134\">No amount of artificial intelligence customization can fix a website that doesn't provide information relevant to its audience. There is no <em>chatbot<\/em> that improves customer feedback, even if the product or service isn't relevant. It's unlikely that an augmented reality app will improve the relationship with an audience that has lost confidence in the brand's ability to deliver on its promises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You don't need to assert yourself as a <em>early adopter<\/em> to improve its relationship with its customers.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen1134\">Trends help identify possible directions and solutions, but nothing can replace the implementation of a well-thought-out and structured plan, supported by data and metrics, led by <em>insights<\/em> and puts the customer at the center of its decisions, actions and positioning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That is why increasing the focus on CX in 2018 isn't exactly a trend, but rather a shift in <em>mindset<\/em> to make the necessary commitment to efficient and effective processes that increase our focus on the customer. Easy, isn't it?!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marta Gon\u00e7alves,<\/p>\n<p>Managing Partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/\">SayU Consulting<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tend\u00eancias : A figura do cliente \u00e9 hoje central ao neg\u00f3cio. As tend\u00eancias mostram-nos que olhamos negativamente para uma organiza\u00e7\u00e3o que n\u00e3o fa\u00e7a do cliente o centro da sua vis\u00e3o de neg\u00f3cio, do modo como o pensa e como o desenvolve. &nbsp; Mas compreendemos realmente o que \u00e9 e o que implica o conceito de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[10,575,576,440,122,233],"class_list":["post-10564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prexperts","tag-comunicacao","tag-early-adopter","tag-insights","tag-say-u-consulting","tag-tendencias","tag-website"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18823,"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10564\/revisions\/18823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/say-u.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}