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My Take on Qualtrics X4 2024 and the AI announcements

My Take on Qualtrics X4 2024 and the AI announcements
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Qualtrics X4 Summit is the most attended customer and employee experience event. Close to ten thousand people join Qualtrics X4 each year in Salt Lake City. To be honest, I regret not adding it to my “conference circuit” sooner. This was my second time, and again it’s definitely been

Alyona Medelyan PhD
Alyona Medelyan PhD

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5 Text Analytics Approaches: A Comprehensive Review
5 Text Analytics Approaches: A Comprehensive Review
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Are you receiving more feedback than you could ever read, let alone summarize? Maybe you’ve used Text Analytics methods to analyze free-form textual feedback? These methods range from simple techniques like word matching in Excel to neural networks trained on millions of data points. Here is my summary to

Feedback Analysis
The best dating apps 2018 ranked - which one finds you the big love?
The best dating apps 2018 ranked - which one finds you the big love?
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I can’t deny feeling like channelling Carrie Bradshaw, as I sit in front of my MacBook, feverishly typing this post, sipping on my black coffee and thinking back to past dating experiences. Well, Carrie did not have the luxury of using the plethora of dating apps we do today.

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Does it matter which customer experience metric you choose?
Does it matter which customer experience metric you choose?
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Are you responsible for measuring the progress in improving customer experience? If yes, I’m sure you needed to come up with a rationale on which metrics to choose for this: Is it an all ubiquitous Net Promoter Score (NPS), the traditional customer satisfaction CSAT, or a more recent invention

Customer Experience
Learn the 4 pillars of successful survey design [video]
Learn the 4 pillars of successful survey design [video]
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Are your surveys not performing well? Are you sending costly surveys but getting little response? Thorough planning is key to executing a successful survey. If you missed our popular webinar “Learn the 4 pillars of successful survey design”, catch the recording here. Here, you’ll learn how to get the

Part 5: What is Thematic Analysis (plus our secret sauce on how to make it work even better)
Part 5: What is Thematic Analysis (plus our secret sauce on how to make it work even better)
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Over the past few weeks, we’ve reviewed several Text Analytics approaches to feedback analysis: word spotting in Excel, manual rules, text categorization, and topic modelling. Now, it’s time for Thematic Analysis. All of the former approaches mentioned have disadvantages. In the best case, you’ll get OK results

How to make the most out of YC Startup School
How to make the most out of YC Startup School
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Last year, in 2017, my co-founder signed us up for the YCombinator’s Startup School (SUS). 10 weeks later, our lives had changed completely. We were admitted into the YC’s core program, moved to Silicon Valley and were growing faster than we could onboard customers. This year, YCombinator launched

How to combine science and emotion for customer experience success [video]
How to combine science and emotion for customer experience success [video]
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If you missed our recent webinar with customer experience expert Maurice Fitzgerald and Alyona Medelyan, CEO of Thematic, check out the highlights here. Maurice is former VP of Customer Experience at HP, author of 4 books on customer experience strategy and the Net Promoter Score. Alyona talked to Maurice about

Customer Experience
Why invest in the Net Promoter Score?
Why invest in the Net Promoter Score?
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Are you wondering whether to invest in the Net Promoter Score (NPS) to improve your customer experience? The debate is rife amongst NPS evangelists and those who are more doubtful, so here I share some examples of companies who have invested in NPS and made real improvements. (In this post,

AI & NLP
8 leadership strategies to create a high performing team
8 leadership strategies to create a high performing team
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As a business leader, you want a high performing team that is there no matter what. Needs no drilling, committed to the job, and constantly learning and improving. Many leaders, regardless of industry, would agree that having the right attitude is more important than technical skills, in a lot of

Part 4: Topic Modelling, an approach to Text Analytics
Part 4: Topic Modelling, an approach to Text Analytics
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This is the 4th article in my series of Text Analytics posts explaining popular approaches to feedback analysis. Last week, we talked about text categorization, a Machine Learning approach that requires training data. We concluded that it can’t detect emerging themes in people’s feedback and that it’s

Feedback Analysis
Focus on critical Voice of Customer issues - do more with less
Focus on critical Voice of Customer issues - do more with less
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How do you focus on just the critical issues when you’re analyzing VOC insights? Here, we look at the Pareto principle. This is part 4 of our blog series from our webinar “5 practical ways to influence managers for Voice of Customer (VOC) success”, by myself and Dr. Alyona

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Part 3: Text Categorization, an approach to Text Analytics
Part 3: Text Categorization, an approach to Text Analytics
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Let’s bring some clarity to the messy subject of Advanced Text Analytics, the way it’s pitched by various vendors and data scientists. This is the 3rd of a series of 5 posts, where I explain what’s popular and what’s possible. If you haven’t read my