Customer Experience Strategy
Not sure where to start? Our advisory practice helps you assess your environments, map what needs to change and build a clear plan.
Customers expect seamless, personalized experiences every time. When you don’t meet them, customers go elsewhere. In order to pull ahead, you need to anticipate needs before they arise, connect every touchpoint and turn every interaction into a memorable, revenue-driving moment.
Accenture is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Services, positioned furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis.
Accenture is named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Experience Build Services 2025 Vendor Assessment.
Accenture is named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Experience Design Services 2025 Vendor Assessment.
An AI-powered contact center uses intelligent automation and agentic AI to handle customer interactions across voice, chat and digital channels — resolving more queries automatically and routing complex issues to the right person faster. Platforms work together to reduce wait times, improve first-call resolution and give your team real-time customer context.
CRM implementation gets the platform in place — the right configuration, data migration and user adoption. CRM transformation goes further: it rethinks how your sales, service and marketing teams work, connects your CRM to the rest of your stack and uses AI to surface insights your team can act on. We do both, and we don’t hand off after go-live.
Most disconnected customer experiences happen because contact center, CRM and field service run on separate platforms that don’t share data. We integrate across all three, so your service agents, sales team and field technicians all work from the same customer record. The result is faster resolution, fewer repeat contacts and a better experience.
Timelines vary depending on the complexity of your environment, the number of integrations required and how much customization is needed. For most engagements, we work in 3-6 month cycles designed to deliver visible outcomes quickly, rather than waiting for a big-bang go-live. We’ll give you a clear timeline before you commit that’s based on yor actual data and environment, not a generic estimate.
Yes. Existing systems are often the right place to start. Many experience gains come from better integration and smarter use of what’s already in place, not wholesale replacement. We assess your current setup, identify where the gaps are and recommend the path that delivers the most impact with the least disruption. Sometimes that means augmenting what you have. Sometimes it means replacing it. We’ll tell you which makes sense for you based on what you’re trying to accomplish.
The most meaningful customer experience metrics tie directly to business outcomes — customer satisfaction scores, first-call resolution rates, churn reduction, sales cycle length and revenue per account. We establish baseline measurements at the start of every engagement so you can see exactly what’s changed. Before any program begins, we show you what results look like on your actual data.
Sources
¹ Accenture, Customer Service on the Brink: Course Correct Now for Future Growth, 2025.