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The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX

#542: Forging Boundless Experiences with Humans + AI with JP Gownder, Forrester

The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX

The Agile Brand

Business, Marketing

4.9113 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The adoption of AI into customer experiences, and marketing efforts is happening—rapidly. But it’s not enough to just slap AI onto an existing interaction. Success lies in how humans plus AI work together to create what my guest today calls boundless experiences.


Today, from the Forrester CX Summit North America, we are thrilled to have JP Gownder, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, with us to discuss the crucial alignment of customer experience, digital experience, and marketing.


J. P. Gownder is a vice president and principal analyst on Forrester’s Future of Work team. He covers the impacts that technology and human factors jointly have on the future of work. He helps clients design strategies that drive productivity, collaboration, and effective hybrid work. His research also covers how technologies like devices, collaboration software, extended reality and the metaverse, and artificial intelligence and automation reshape the future of how and where we work, what our jobs look like, and how we can drive productivity, collaboration, and the employee experience.


Previous Work Experience

A prolific writer and speaker, J. P. has written articles for publications such as Mashable, Information Week, ComputerWorld, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. He has also been quoted in The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Wired, and many other publications, and he has appeared on NBC television, Bloomberg television, Voice of America, National Public Radio, and other media outlets.


Education

J. P. graduated from Harvard University with a BA (magna cum laude) and an MA in political science. He also conducted research at the Harvard Business School.


RESOURCES


Forrester website: https://www.forrester.com

Access Forrester's Generative AI Essential for CX Leaders

Press Release: Forrester's 2024 US Customer Experience Index: Brands' CX Quality Is At An All-Time Low


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0:00.0

The Agile Brand.

0:02.0

Welcome to season 6 of the Agile Brand, where we discuss marketing technology and customer experience trends, insights, and ideas with enterprise and technology platform leaders.

0:18.0

We focus on the people, processes, data, and platforms that make brands successful, scalable, customer-focused and

0:25.0

sustainable. This is what makes an agile brand. I'm your host, Greg Kielstrom,

0:29.5

advising Fortune 1000 brands on Martek, marketing operations, and CX, best-selling author and speaker.

0:36.2

The Agile Brand Podcast is brought to you by Tech Systems, an industry leader in full-stack technology

0:41.4

services, talent services, and real world application.

0:45.0

For more information go to teek systems.com.

0:49.0

Before we get started, I wanted to let you know that my latest book,

0:52.8

Priority is Action, Seven Principles for Better Strategies, Decisions,

0:56.4

and Outcomes is now available.

0:58.4

In it, I give ideas and insights for leaders and teams that need to make meaningful

1:02.1

progress on their priorities.

1:04.0

After all, our priorities are what we do, not what we say we'd like to do.

1:08.0

You can find priorities action on Amazon or learn more on my website, Greg Kilstrom.com. Now let's get on to the show.

1:16.7

The adoption of AI into customer experiences and marketing efforts is happening rapidly,

1:21.7

but it's not enough to just slap AI onto an existing interaction.

1:25.8

Success lies in how humans plus AI work together to create what my guest today calls

1:30.8

boundless experiences.

1:32.7

This is certainly something we heard about a lot

1:34.6

at the recent Forrester CX summit, North America,

1:37.1

in Nashville.

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