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Practical notes on AI-moderated interviews, qualitative analysis and customer research. How to talk to more of the right users, trace every finding back to who said it, and decide with confidence.
Stakeholder Interviews for Organizational Diagnostics (When a Survey Score Is Not Enough)
Stakeholder interviews for organizational diagnostics when a survey score flattens contradictions. Interview capacity, not a new EX platform.
AI Readiness Assessment vs Quiz: What Stakeholder Interviews Actually Answer
An AI readiness assessment is not a quiz or a maturity score. Stakeholder interviews show where adoption stalls, and they are not a free assessment tool.
How to concept test a product pack, claim, or message this week
A one-week plan for testing a pack, a claim, or a message: one decision, 15 to 30 interviews, and quotes back in 48 to 72 hours.
Voice Analytics for Call Centers: Stop Counting Keywords and Start Finding What’s Breaking Customers
Voice analytics for call centers should reveal why customers call, what causes repeat contacts, and which product fixes reduce demand. Learn the research-led framework.
Healthcare Customer Experience Is Lost Between Visits—Not in the Exam Room
Healthcare customer experience breaks down at referrals, results, billing, and follow-up. Learn the research framework that reveals why patients lose trust and how to fix it.
Customer Experience ROI: The Formula Leaders Trust (and Why NPS Is Not Enough)
Learn how to calculate customer experience ROI by linking journey friction to conversion, retention, support costs, and revenue with a practical, evidence-backed framework.
Voice of Customer Sentiment Analysis: Why “Positive” Feedback Still Predicts Churn
A research-led guide to voice of customer sentiment analysis that reveals the hidden trust, effort, and adoption risks behind positive, neutral, and negative feedback.
End User Experience Management: Why Your CX Dashboard Misses the Friction That Causes Churn
A practical end user experience management framework for finding the hidden product friction behind churn, low adoption, support volume, and misleading CX scores.
Speech Analytics for Call Centers: Stop Tracking Keywords and Start Finding What Drives Calls
Learn how to use speech analytics for call centers to uncover root causes, reduce repeat contacts, improve customer experience, and turn call recordings into actionable product insights.
Customer Service Voice: The Hidden Reason Your “Helpful” Support Still Frustrates Customers
Learn how to create a customer service voice that sounds human, earns trust, reduces repeat contacts, and reveals the customer problems your metrics miss.
9 Voice of the Customer Best Practices That Prevent Expensive Product Mistakes
Use these voice of the customer best practices to turn messy feedback into sharper product, UX, marketing, and retention decisions—without chasing the loudest requests.
Voice of the Customer Six Sigma: The VOC-to-CTQ Method Most Teams Get Wrong
Learn how to use Voice of the Customer in Six Sigma to create customer-backed CTQs, avoid misleading survey data, and run DMAIC projects customers actually feel.
Onboarding UX Best Practices That Actually Increase Activation (Not Just Checklist Completion)
Discover onboarding UX best practices that reduce drop-off, shorten time to value, and reveal why users abandon your product before they activate.
What an Interview-Led AI Readiness Audit Is (vs. Security 'AI Audit' Slideware)
Searching 'AI audit'? Most results are security compliance slideware. Here's what an interview-led AI readiness audit actually is, and why it's different.
Change Readiness Assessment: Interview Protocol Before You Roll Out Another Listening Platform
Change readiness assessment through an interview protocol, not another listening platform or a quiz. Hear where alignment breaks before a new EX survey.
Stakeholder Interviews for AI Discovery Sprints: A Fixed-Fee Week-1 Plan
A fixed-fee AI discovery sprint lives or dies on week-1 stakeholder interviews. Here's the plan, and what happens once interview volume outgrows hand capacity.
AI Readiness Assessment vs. AI Maturity Assessment: The Week-One Interview Protocol
AI readiness assessment and AI maturity assessment aren't the same audit. Here's the week-one interview protocol that separates them.
When the Sold AI Readiness Audit Needs More Stakeholder Interviews Than Your Team Can Run by Hand That Week
Interview-led AI readiness audits hit a stakeholder-interview ceiling fast. Here's the week-1 protocol and what overflow capacity changes.
Psychographic Market Segmentation: Stop Building Personas That Don’t Predict Buying
Learn how to build psychographic market segmentation that explains real purchase decisions, reveals customer motivations, and improves messaging, product strategy, and conversion.
Win-Loss Interviews: Turning Closed Deals Into Product Insight
Win-loss interviews reveal why deals were won or lost. Learn who to interview, what to ask, and how findings should shape product and GTM.
How to Run a JTBD Interview (Jobs to Be Done)
A JTBD interview uncovers the job a customer hired your product to do. Learn the switch-interview format, timeline technique, and forces of progress.
Empathy Interviews: Asking Better Questions in the Discovery Phase
Empathy interviews help teams understand user needs before proposing solutions. See how they work in design thinking and continuous discovery.
Cognitive Interviewing: A Technique for More Accurate Research
Cognitive interviewing uses mental reinstatement and multiple recall passes to get more accurate answers. Learn the technique and how to apply it.
The Mom Test: How to Ask Better Customer Interview Questions
The Mom Test is a framework for asking customer interview questions that avoid false positives. Learn its 3 rules and how to apply them.