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Beyond Understanding: Why Customer Insight Still Struggles to Become Action
There is a moment in a customer insight presentation that can feel like progress. The evidence has landed. Leaders recognise the problem. Around the table, people agree that something needs to change. Then the meeting ends.
Clare Muscutt leads a conversation on how customer understanding turns into action. Stephanie Linville, Erika Styles, and Alyona Medelyan share what needs to happen before the organisation is ready to take ownership of a customer problem.
Responsible CX by Design: What Are We Teaching Our Systems to Optimise For?
In a presentation originally delivered as a closing keynote for Amazon Web Services customers and technology, Founder and CEO Clare Muscutt examined what happens when organisations optimise for internal targets without deliberately designing the outcomes customers need.
As AI gains authority to make decisions and take action, she argued, those choices require much closer scrutiny.
Her central question: what are we teaching our systems to optimise for?
Why Better Journeys Depend on Better-Designed Organisations
A journey map can make a broken experience visible. It cannot make the organisation change. That distinction sat at the centre of our second panel at the Women in CX EMEA UnConference 2026 in London.
Journey mapping and management have transformed how organisations understand the people they serve. Yet customers continue to experience delays, repetition and disjointed service even when every function involved is meeting its own targets.
Our conversation therefore moved beyond the design of the journey itself. What must change in the organisation behind it?
Why So Many Women Struggle to Put Themselves Forward for Recognition
A woman can lead a difficult transformation, change how her organisation understands its customers or create better conditions for employees—and still hesitate when someone suggests nominating her for an award.
Sometimes, she simply does not know how to explain what she contributed without feeling as though she is taking credit away from the team. The problem extends beyond awards. The ability to communicate your contribution affects promotion decisions, professional reputation, speaking invitations and access to new opportunities.
Why Customer Insight Still Fails to Become Action
Organisations know more about their customers than ever before. Yet customers still encounter the same failures year after year, despite the wealth of insight available through data, research, complaints and frontline knowledge.
The real challenge is turning insight into action. Customer problems compete with strategic priorities, budgets, risk obligations and organisational boundaries, making leadership decisions and commitment essential to creating meaningful change.
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