How Netflix re-engineerd Resilience - Elasticity Gap
September 25, 2025
In my new essay, How Netflix Re-Engineered Resilience: The Elasticity Gap, I explore what boards and senior leaders must learn from Netflix’s rebound, and how CX becomes the first and truest stress test of organizational resilience.
From Feelings to Funds: Valuing Customer Experience with Experience Market Value
Augustus 31, 2025
Imagine, for a moment, that every customer touchpoint had a stock price. Each time a customer engaged with your brand, visiting your website, speaking to an agent, opening an invoice, returning a product, that interaction would be listed on a market board with a visible valuation
Experience Market Value
Augustus 18, 2025
Introducing the framework of Experience Market Value which treats every CX touchpoint as a tradable asset with volatility, risk-adjusted return, and dynamic market valuation
Missing the moment: why organizations are (too) late to AI Disruption and how CX can adapt through Ambidexterity
Augustus 6, 2025
This article explores why companies struggle to adapt to AI disruption and how Customer Experience (CX) can evolve through ambidexterity and elasticity to drive growth.
The CMO’s Comeback? It Might Finally Work, if We Understand the Elasticity of CX
June 22, 2025
Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed repeated attempts to bring the CMO back into the strategic core. And yet, time and again, they’ve been sidelined, either edged out by Chief Growth Officers, overwhelmed by tech transformation, or boxed into “brand” instead of business.
AirBnb - A reinvention that exemplifies the essence of Experience-Driven Growth Model
June 12, 2025
AirBnb, long heralded as a Silicon Valley success story, suddenly found itself fighting for survival. What followed, however, was not simply a recovery, it was a reinvention, and one that exemplifies the essence of Experience-Driven Growth Model as outlined in The Elastic Future of CX (Burggraaf, 2025).
CX promised growth. Loyalty. Differentiation
May 31, 2025
The problem isn't that CX doesn't matter. It does. But CX has struggled to prove it matters enough when times get hard. It has failed to embed itself into the financial and operational DNA of the enterprise. It’s been marketed as mission-critical but managed like a soft program. And as a result, it’s become disposable.
The elastic future of CX
May 25, 2025
In a world where customer expectations evolve faster than business models can keep up, many organizations still treat Customer Experience (CX) as a secondary function, an afterthought behind sales, operations, or marketing. But the reality is clear: customer experience, when designed strategically, is not a cost center. It’s a growth engine
CX - Diminishing Returns
February 25, 2025
CX as a Strategic asset rather than a Cost center – the concept of CX Diminishing returns and how to find the tipping point (spoiler alert, NPS is not a good indicator)….
CX - Driver for competitive advantage
August 19, 2024
Products and services can be copied or improved upon by competitors, but a well-executed Customer Experience strategy builds long-term relationships that are resilient to competitive pressures. Read more why CX is a crucial strategic element for organizations.
How to overcome the CX Paradox
December 11, 2024
Customer Experience (CX) has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business strategy, driven by its potential to enhance customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy (Lemon & Verhoef, 2016; Homburg et al., 2017). And most of the organizations invest heavily in designing seamless and memorable experiences to differentiate themselves in competitive markets.
Ambidextrous innovation
August 11, 2024
Competitive advantage grows fundamentally out of value an organization can create for its buyers that exceeds the organizations cost of creating it. Value is what buyers are willing to pay, and superior value stems from offering lower prices than competitors for equivalent benefits or providing unique benefits that more than offset a higher price
CX - A boardroom topic
July 2, 2024
CX has become a critical topic in boardrooms. Discover why CX is a key strategic priority for organizations aiming for long-term success and how it directly impacts financial results. So, don't dash CX first if things go different
Granularity in Customer Experience
July 11, 2023
When breaking down customer experiences, there are three categories. An expected experience, a live perceived experience and a memorized experiences. A bit of an open door probably, but it is important to understand the customers expected experience otherwise you will be quite off when preparing and delivering to the customer.