Writing for Forbes CMO Network, Bruce D. Temkin, Forrester's vp and
principal analyst, offers the firm's "Three Golden Rules Of Customer Experience": 1. Obsess about customer needs, not product features. 2. Reinforce the brand with every interaction, not just
communications. 3. Treat customer experience as a competence, not a function. Then he details what Forrester calls a voice of the customer (VoC) program that contains four elements: Listen, Interpret,
Respond and Monitor.
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Over in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Helen Walters blogs that one surprising finding of the survey is that "consumers don't dig Apple iTunes." For all its game-changing innovation, it finished at No. 46 in terms of user experience. "ITunes can be confusing, overwhelming and often less than entirely elegant," Walter writes. "As such, it really doesn't live up to the sophistication of the company's other lauded design and branding elements."
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