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COVER STORY Customer Experience Trends: Positioning Your Brand For Disruption By Carolyne Gathuru The recently concluded customer service week saw customer experience innovation at unprecedented levels with activities designed to wow customers delivered with orchestrated precision. Given that customer experience is and will continue to be the new corporate battleground, customer delight stemming from convenience, access and personalization are the brand strategy buzzwords. 50 MAL27/18 ISSUE Know Your Customer as a strategy for both customer excellence and risk management has become very basic, and should no longer be spoken about in isolation, but the building block upon which more complex systems are constructed to gather, analyze, create models and track trends, to make more informed marketing and customer experience decisions.