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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. Mistake #2: Linking metrics to business outcomes. So where does it all go wrong?

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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

While many studies suggest that increased employee engagement leads to improved business results in aggregate, a deeper look at the data suggests that this may not always be true at an individual level. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive.