The final step in the CMS price transparency legislation is due January 2024 and requires that health plans ensure that their members have access to accurate cost of care tools that show total procedure costs for an episode of care. These 3 major shifts will happen operationally due to price transparency: The “Plan Design […]
Digital Experience
Know Your Customer, Grow Your Business: The Significance of Customer Strategy and Segmentation in Retail
Despite surviving both the Great Depression and the Great Recession, not even enduring luxury retail giant Nieman Marcus could escape COVID-19’s interruption of indoor shopping. When Neiman Marcus emerged from bankruptcy after a tumultuous 2020, the company smartly pivoted towards a new plan for targeting consumers. The 115-year-old luxury retailer would laser-focus on their most […]
Overcome Barriers to EV Sales with Customer Experience Excellence
Overcoming Barriers The barriers to entry for electric vehicles (EV) feel overwhelming for most Americans. Not only are current models priced well above the average consumer’s financial ability, but they also require home charging and accessibility to public charging stations that are yet to be mainstream. When consumers invest in EV and home charging stations, […]
Preview: Future Digital Finance 2023
Today’s banking customers are far more complex than they once were. The experiences made standard by revolutionary players like Amazon and Uber have contributed to a drastic shift in customer expectations, across all industries. Customers have grown accustomed to the convenience and visibility made possible using elevated technologies and data insights. In fact, the Future […]
Optimizely Content Delivery API
Optimizely Content Delivery API To build Optimizely pages and blocks on a website, we use C# MVC razor helpers in the Optimizely Content Management System (CMS). Now, we can utilize CMS in a headless manner using the Optimizely Content Delivery API, meaning that all pages and blocks are produced by reading JSON data returned from […]
Improve the User Experience and Engagement When Online Vehicle Shopping with AI Virtual Assistants
Written in collaboration with Amanda Klinge We have seen a major shift in how consumers shop for products online. From groceries to luxury goods, people rely heavily on the information readily available thanks to the convenience of their personal devices. Over the past few years, one industry stands out due to a notable shift […]
Why Customer Care Is the Heart of Your Healthcare Organization
For healthcare and life science organizations, the folks on the front lines manning the phones, answering customer questions and solving issues make a major impact on the patient experience. And for those in sales, marketing, product development, and operational roles, this team can also make a major impact on how to optimize that patient experience. […]
Going Multilingual in Sitecore Part 4: Multiple Languages in SXA
Welcome back to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. It’s been a while since I’ve worked on a site that had content in multiple languages. I was thankful to my 2019 self that I had written these articles. Back then, I was using Sitecore 8.X. Today I am using Sitecore 10.X with SXA. While most of the […]
Headful or Headless AEM? Why not both with Hybrid? – Part 2
Previously I presented a common situation where an engineering team might push for Headless AEM and covered why, in my opinion, a Hybrid solution is a better approach. I discussed how Content Fragments, Experience Fragments, and Sling Model Exporters are used in combination to deliver the Headless side of the AEM experience. In case you […]
10 Steps to a Successful SEO Audit: A Proven Checklist
Are you looking to enhance your business’s online presence? We all turn to search engines to find products and services; your website must rank as high as possible in search engine results pages (SERPs). According to a recent study by Forbes, “93% of online experiences begin with a search engine.” This makes it clear that […]
Why Customer Data Platform is your Enterprise’s Golden Ticket to Business Growth
Today, more than ever, businesses require a direct relationship with their customers across all touchpoints. A Customer Data Platform can help marketers organise their data, improve audience segmentation, manage campaigns, enhance digital experience, streamline cross-channel marketing orchestration and optimise customer analytics. However, the sheer amount of time and effort needed to collect, separate, and segment […]
Headful or Headless AEM? Why Not Both with Hybrid?
It’s not uncommon when facing a new problem, to fall back on a tried-and-true solution. Then, suddenly remember why the team moved off of that solution in the first place. Recently, I’ve seen this trend with engineering teams and a desire for multichannel content. A Common Case for Headless Content on AEM Let’s set the […]