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Customer Experience Dissertation

Posted by Anonymous on 10/16/2013 at 9:38 AM ET 50 Points
Hi everyone!

I am currently doing my dissertation on the customer experience in relation to the hospitality industry.

I am reading lots around the subject and am thinking of writing about the key attributes of creating a successful or memorable experience and am using a specific venue in my area as a case study for this.

What am I looking for help with is who I should interview about this and what I should be looking to find out. I work for the company and have lots of resources.

My initial thoughts are to speak to past and future clients with regards to what they think is important when creating a customer experience and asking past clients if they think a memorable experience was created and if not what they could do to improve?

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance!
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  • Posted by Mike Steffes on 10/16/2013 at 10:41 AM Accepted
    "doing my dissertation on the customer experience" Yes, customers, good place to begin.
    Determine their likes...and impressions of what fell short. Then talk to managers, owners, and equipment suppliers to determine the limits of what could be done or made available to increase customer satisfaction.
    This process could give you the existing situation, problems with it, and some ideas about what could be done to help solve those problems/improve those experiences; or at least knowledge of why those issues exist.
    That should be enough of the picture to start writing. Then, use the contacts you've just made to help fill-in the gaps as the appear.
  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on 10/16/2013 at 10:43 AM Accepted
    I'd suggest trying to understand what specific experience was designed and then measuring that specifically. Memorable doesn't equal favorable, and people's memory of things may be quite different from their initial impression.
  • Posted by Gary Bloomer on 10/16/2013 at 8:03 PM Accepted
    In the hotel niche my top recommendation is that you contact Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre https://www.jdvhotels.com.

    Either contact his media manager (Debra Amador 415-235-2708 debra@mindfulpr.com), or risk connecting with him via DIRECTLY through Facebook, or Twitter https://www.facebook.com/chipconleyauthor. https://twitter.com/ChipConley

    Outline who you are, what you're writing to him about, ask if you might arrange a meeting with
    him OR, failing that, a SHORT, TIMED telephone interview. https://chipconley.com

    Write FIVE questions that get to the meat of the matter. As which of his staff would be good connections. Read his book (which is called PEAK), and do so BEFORE you contact him, and go from there. Learn more here: https://peakorganizations.com

    Good luck to you.

    OR ... failing ALL THIS, drop me a line and I'll send you an mp3 recording of an hour-long interview he did with an associate of mine three years ago.



  • Posted by Gary Bloomer on 10/16/2013 at 8:04 PM Member
    ... that ought to be "Ask which of his staff would be good connections."

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