When you’re thinking about starting a journey mapping exercise, creating personas, or just learning about your customers, gathering qualitative data is a great starting place. There are two primary data gathering approaches: Quantitative data allows for calculation and measurement. Common types of quantitative data gathering include surveys, experiments, and measurable observations. Qualitative data is used […]
Customer Experience
The ROI of Soft Skills Training in Healthcare Customer Care
It’s no secret that, for organizations to be successful, a healthy focus on the bottom line is critical. That goes for healthcare and life sciences organizations as well. Because of this, many organizations focus on ”hard skills” when training their patient support, customer care, or contact center employees. Hard skills are those teachable skills that […]
Why is Web Accessibility Important?
Whether you build websites or pay someone else to do it, web accessibility is a recommended best practice that is often overlooked. Did you know that according to the Colour Blind Awareness Organization, as many as 1 in 200 women and 1 in 12 men are color blind? Or, that according to the CDC, 1 […]
Why and How Raising Digital Maturity is the Goal of Digital Transformation
Many people have tried to sum up what “digital transformation” means. For the most part, it’s defined as using digital technologies to create or modify processes, culture, and customer experiences to be more effective and competitive. However, this definition doesn’t address how to measure the effectiveness of a business’ efforts to digitally transform itself, nor […]
Dark Mode and Digital Accessibility: Who it Helps and Without it, Who it May Hinder
If you only knew the power of the Dark Side mode… Ok, it might be a slightly altered quote from Darth Vader, but you get the point. Dark mode can be very powerful indeed for those who require it and those that it just makes viewing convenient. Let’s take a few minutes to talk about […]
Personalization and Relevant Search with Coveo for Adobe
You need personalization and relevant search. Marketing is no longer about convincing a customer to buy. It’s about helping them buy. And to be seen as an expert, companies need to deliver the information each customer needs. Technology that can seamlessly deliver personalized, targeted content is the Holy Grail. Whether your visitors browse or search, […]
Don’t Sell – Understand Your Customers’ Needs to Buy! 8 Steps to Integrating Audience Insights
The available data we marketers have at our fingertips at every moment is monumental. Even three years ago, understanding your customers was much harder than today. But the mountains of PowerPoint decks and vlookup-filled spreadsheets don’t necessarily tell you what your customers need and want from your products and services. That’s where we can leverage […]
Best Practices For Planning Your Next Healthcare Journey Map
We recently discussed how journey maps can be leveraged across organizations to create a holistic, patient-centered experience (if you missed it, you can learn more about ‘Activating Journey Maps Across your Healthcare Organization’). But before you can activate journey maps, you must create them. The following these best practices for planning your next healthcare journey […]
Patient Experience Beyond the Digital Front Door
Once healthcare consumers make it through your digital front door, are they experiencing your organization and care at the level you aspire to deliver? To improve consumer experience, healthcare organizations are heavily investing in digital. Increasingly though, payers, providers, and healthcare service leaders are evaluating broader strategies to improve patient experience and build brand loyalty. […]
The Value of Empathy in Debt Collections
Monday, February 21st marks the beginning of Empathy Week. Empathy Week was founded in London in 2019 as an initiative to use storytelling through film to cultivate empathy among school children. During Empathy Week, students are shown one short film each day that showcases a unique human experience. The films’ themes are interlaced into lessons, […]
Sing It With Me: What’s the Mask Mandate Got To Do With Wealth Management?
Mask mandates are being lifted across the country. California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Oregon, Illinois, and Rhode Island have announced plans to lift their statewide mask mandates or school mask mandates, and more states have indicated they will revisit mask requirements in the near future. If you have been holding back on making investments to […]
Your Guide to Healthcare Journey Maps
Healthcare is undergoing a retail revolution as businesses like Amazon, CVS, Walgreens and others increasingly disrupt how patients receive care. Patients, in turn, expect greater ease and transparency in healthcare, and they’re exercising their rights to choose the health systems that provide the greatest ease in navigating their healthcare needs. How can you, as a […]