Most corporations leaned into digital applied sciences to fortify their buyer expertise (CX) in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, whose tailwinds accelerated collaboration between IT departments and enterprise traces like by no means earlier than.

Manufacturers that tailored their journeys to accommodate buyer preferences for digital channels all through the pandemic have thrived. Their widespread denominator? Fifty-three p.c of main corporations mentioned that prospects anticipate them to usually innovate with extra related merchandise, based on Accenture analysis.

Signet Jewelers earned plaudits for providing video gross sales consultations to its prospects and wonder model Estee Lauder doubled down on augmented actuality (AR) to allow customers just about “attempt on” make-up. Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger model PVH boosted ecommerce gross sales by prioritizing ship-from-store capabilities and cellular web site conversion, whereas Ralph Lauren digitized its retailer experiences.

For some IT leaders, corralling buyer sentiment about digital touchpoints is important in lowering info siloes, a thorny challenge for a lot of companies.

RFPIO CIO AJ Sunder scours social media and inside exchanges between prospects and staff within the firm’s CRM system, the higher to tell enterprise friends about how the corporate’s merchandise are touchdown with prospects. “The CIO’s function is to ensure these processes are correctly built-in,” says Sunder, who can also be co-founder and chief product officer of the SaaS firm.