Event

Seminar: Customer Experience & Gamification in the Digital Era

Thanks to this seminar, you will be able to understand, design and implement innovative customer experience and journeys, with a human-centered approach and with the purpose of creating and capturing value. You will discover how to create and reinforce engagement thanks to behavioral design and gamification. You will benefit from examples and proven technique applications to improve your customer experience and design captivating journeys.

This seminar is organised by HEC Liège Executive Education and the Digital Lab.

Program

  • 08:45 Day 1 - Welcoming participants
  • 09:00 ▶ Introduction: Focus on customer experience ▶ Overview: experience economics and customer experience ▶ Scope and applications of customer experience in marketing ▶ Why and how to visualize customer experience (overview)
  • 10:45 ▶ Digitizing the customer experience ▶ Forming working groups and choosing topics ▶ Theories relevant to understanding consumer behavior and its link to technology ▶ Persona creation exercise
  • 14:00 ▶ Technologies and storytelling ▶ Focus on different technologies and how they fit into the organization ▶ Focus on (digital) storytelling and its impact on the customer experience
  • 15:15 ▶ Workshop: improving customer experience (digital) ▶ Presentation of the customer experience visualization toolkit ▶ Group mapping of (digital) customer experience ▶ Debriefing of group work, pooling and first draft of solutions
  • 16:45 Debrief of the first day
  • 17:30 End of day 1
  • 08:45 Day 2 - Welcome / Ice Breaker 'What kind of player are you?
  • 09:00 ▶ Engagement and gamification ▶ Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivation ▶ Player's Journey - Identification/Avatarization ▶ Persona avatarization exercise
  • 11:15 ▶ Player's Journey and 8 ways to score engagement ▶ Onboarding - How to sublimate the beginning of a customer relationship ▶ Onboarding exercise ▶ The 8 player profiles and 8 ways to score engagement ▶ Customer journey scoring exercise
  • 14:00 ▶ Game mechanics and gameplay ▶ Storytelling and epic sense ▶ Achievement path ▶ Social influence ▶ Application exercise of the above 3 levers
  • 15:45 ▶ Game mechanics and gameplay ▶ Possession ▶ Surprise, rarity, impatience ▶ Unpredictibility ▶ Fear of missing out, fear of losing ▶ Exercise applying the above levers
  • 16:45 Final debrief
  • 17:00 End of day 2

Speakers

  • Laurence Dessart

    Laurence DESSART

    Professor in the Marketing and innovation department group of HEC Liège
  • Dominique MANGIATORDI

    Digital marketing entrepreneur and gaming enthusiast

Laurence Dessart is a professor in the Marketing and Service Innovation group at HEC Liège. She has worked in the online marketing sector in Shanghai for an advertising network and holds a PhD in marketing from the University of Glasgow (UK). Her research focuses on digital and social media marketing, consumer behavior and brand management.

Dominique Mangiatordi is a digital marketing entrepreneur and gamification enthusiast, founder of the digital agency Globule Bleu and today CEO and founder of ØPP, the first start-up studio dedicated to gamification. Dominique advises small and large companies on user engagement, helping managers to integrate new techniques and the game dimension into their customers’ lives and points of contact.

For more information on the seminar, visit the HEC Liège Executive Education website.