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Customer Experience Dynamics

Ensuring Sales, Marketing and Commerce Are Fully Aligned to Deliver a Consistent Experience

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Overview

There is little question that today’s customers, across both B2B and B2C journeys, have a heightened expectation for relevance, context and personalized experiences, regardless of channel or circumstance. This has placed added pressure on sales, marketing and commerce executives to align on a comprehensive customer experience strategy that goes beyond “customer-centricity” buzzwords. It requires action—and actionable intelligence—that enables micro-moments of customer delight that can yield more profitable experiences.

The CMO Council, Selling Power and SAP Hybris have joined together to assess and benchmark the state of alignment, partnership and collaboration across sales, marketing and commerce executives as the customer experience mandate takes hold. The final report will feature insights into customer experience strategy, how it has taken shape in organizations and where opportunities lie to enhance functional partnership in execution.

The findings of this study will be exclusively revealed at the Customer Experience Summit, being held on May 16, 2017, in Orlando, Florida, in conjunction with SAPPHIRE NOW. For more information, please visit https://cmocouncil.org/thought-leadership/events/2121.

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After surveying 20,000 consumers from fourteen countries and eighteen industries, we have discovered that customer experience metrics are improving, but those gains are fragile amidst economic global uncertainty. Our most recent research lays out a 2026 roadmap for organizations to rebuild trust through reliability and transparency.

Source: Qualtrics

Perhaps you don’t have a customer experience focus at the most senior level of the organization. Maybe you have defined your values and purpose but they are not translated into an actionable plan to bring them to life. Or perhaps your efforts are not supported by the organization’s infrastructure to make them sustainable. This is where a customer experience strategy advisor could help you establish an effective customer experience strategy.

Source: Service Brand Global

Customer expectations have never been higher. Today, it takes more than great products or slick marketing to win. Buyers want personal, seamless, and lightning-fast experiences - across every interaction. And if they don’t get them? They leave.

Source: Super Office

60% of consumers say social content, recommendations, or communities influence how they discover new brands, with search increasingly used for subsequent validation.

Source: Deloitte

Your clients want speed, personalization, and self-service. Increasingly, they decide whether to trust and book you before they ever reach your website. That’s why the small service businesses that win in 2026 are the ones that appear where decisions happen: inside search results, social feeds, local maps, and community spaces. They communicate clearly, remove unnecessary steps, and make booking feel effortless.

Source: Reservio

Forrester predicts that AI will slash the number of customer service jobs in half by 2030. Organizations that receive a high volume of lower-complexity inquiries will see the greatest reduction in staff.

Source: Customer Experience Dive

Why do strong engagement numbers still leave CMOs feeling uneasy? Because platform metrics measure attention, not memory — and a brand can generate high interaction while remaining completely replaceable in the buyer's mind.

Source: CMS Wire

Organizations with mature governance frameworks are even more likely to roll back customer-facing AI agents, a Sinch survey found.

Source: Customer Experience Dive

Organizations with mature governance frameworks are even more likely to roll back customer-facing AI agents, a Sinch survey found.

Source: Customer Experience Dive

Emerging technologies – particularly AI and agentic AI – are accelerating the evolution of customer expectations. What customers expect is no longer linear or predictable; it changes by context, moment, and intent. As a result, customer experience (CX) has evolved from a strategic priority into a primary driver of growth.

Source: Cagemini
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