Reinventing Customer Experience
Staying connected with consumers in today’s rapidly evolving digital world is crucial. So, how do companies deliver personalized experiences while meeting customers where they want to be engaged? On “Reinventing Customer Experience”—the first in a series of podcasts from ZS called “Impact Stories”—ZS’s Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth chat with digital, analytics, technology and customer experience leaders from various industries and organizations to understand how they are engaging their customers. Each episode covers a variety of topics, from how companies are transforming their customer experience programs and how they’ve adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic to how they see digital engagement evolving in the future through the use of tools such as AI.
Episodes
19 episodes
Reinventing Customer Experience: Jason Morris of Nordstrom
Nordstrom is a U.S. luxury department store chain known for its high-end clothing, shoes, accessories and exceptional customer service. Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth discuss customer engagement, omnichannel, AI, personalization and digital acq...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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23:19
How Schneider delivers with tech, AI and personalization with Shaleen Devgun
Schneider is best known as a leading provider of truckload, intermodal and logistics services. Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth meet with Shaleen Devgun, the company’s executive vice president and chief innovation and technology officer. They dis...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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26:23
How Lumen Technologies transforms telecom customer experiences with Ryan Asdourian
Lumen Technologies is a global telecommunications company that provides communications, network services, security, cloud solutions and managed services through its extensive fiber optic and copper networks. Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth explo...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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30:51
The power of proximity: Robert Wolcott on the future of customer experience
Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth get a glimpse of the future as presented by Professor Robert Wolcott, author of “Proximity: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life.” For Wolcott, the ability to delive...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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41:08
How Wayfair uses AI to continuously improve customer experience with Fiona Tan
Furniture retailer Wayfair is known for creating market-leading experiences. Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth talk with Chief Technology Officer Fiona Tan about how Wayfair is integrating AI to personalize the shopping experience from online to i...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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38:52
S2 Ep. 4 - Reinventing Customer Experience: Joe Wheeler, author of The Digital-First Customer Experience
On this episode of the “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth discuss digital-first customer experience with Joe Wheeler, CEO of Bluemvmt. A published author on modern business strategies, Joe dives into how a...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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41:44
S2 Ep. 3 - Reinventing Customer Experience: Raghu Iyengar of Wharton AIAB
Raghu has been a professor of marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 17 years. His teaching interests fall into two domains primarily; pricing and social influence. Raghu has worked on multi-part pricing...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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44:39
S2 Ep. 2 - Reinventing Customer Experience: Jenny Wolski of Petco
We are thrilled to have Jenny Wolski, SVP, Omnichannel Experience at Petco, join us in this episode. At Petco, Jenny leads enterprisewide programs targeted at evolving retail strategy and operations, strengthening omnichannel services, and enha...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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26:56
S2 Ep. 1 – Rosewood Hotel Group’s Lucy Werner
On this episode of our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS principals Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth chat with guest speaker Lucy Werner, SVP, Commercial at Rosewood Hotel Group. Lucy shares how Rosewood is transforming its operations...
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S1 Ep.10 - IHCL Taj's Veetika Joshi Deoras
On this episode of our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS principals Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth chat with guest speaker Veetika Joshi Deoras, VP of Brands, Marketing and Data at Indian Hotels Company (IHCL). Veetika shares how AI...
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S1 Ep. 9 - Forrester's Brandon Purcell
On this episode of our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS principals Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth chat with Brandon Purcell a VP, principal analyst at Forrester, about the evolution of the customer experience over the past six and ...
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S1 Ep. 8 - Goldman Sachs' Harit Talwar
On this episode of our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS principals Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth chat with Harit Talwar, former chairman of consumer business (Marcus) and partner at Goldman Sachs. Learn how Goldman Sac...
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S1 Ep. 7 - Panera's Meenakshi Nagarajan
On this episode of our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS principals Arun Shastri and Gopi Vikranth chat with Meenakshi Nagarajan, SVP, recurring revenue and loyalty at Panera.Listen as they discuss the role of personalization...
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S1 Ep. 1 - Walmart's Suresh Kumar
On the inaugural episode from our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS Principal Arun Shastri and Associate Principal Gopi Vikranth chat with Suresh Kumar, global chief technology officer and chief development officer at Walmart, about...
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S1 Ep. 2 - United Airlines' Michelle Brown
On this episode of our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS Principal Arun Shastri and Associate Principal Gopi Vikranth chat with Michelle Brown, vice president of digital products and analytics for United Airlines, about how digital ...
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S1 Ep. 3 - Choice Hotels International's Sarah Searls
On this episode of our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS Principal Arun Shastri and Associate Principal Gopi Vikranth chat with Sarah Searls, chief customer officer for Choice Hotels International, about how the COVID-19 pandemic ha...
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S1 Ep. 4 - Citi's Murli Buluswar
On this episode from our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS Principal Arun Shastri and Associate Principal Gopi Vikranth chat with Murli Buluswar, head of analytics, U.S. consumer bank, for Citi, about how the financial giant uses di...
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S1 Ep. 5 - Sweetgreen's Daniel Shlossman
On this episode from our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS Principal Arun Shastri and Associate Principal Gopi Vikranth chat with Daniel Shlossman, senior vice president of digital and growth for Sweetgreen, about the restaurant cha...
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S1 Ep. 6 - University of Chicago's Pradeep Chintagunta
On this episode from our “Reinventing Customer Experience” podcast, ZS Principal Arun Shastri and Associate Principal Gopi Vikranth chat with Pradeep Chintagunta, Joseph T. and Bernice S. Lewis distinguished service professor of marketing at th...
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