Customer experience consulting services

Transform the front office into a connected, intelligent system driving smoother customer interactions, higher conversion and revenue growth

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Orchestrating smarter experiences with agentic AI

Today’s customers judge you by their last best experience and expectations continue to soar. Yet most enterprises still operate with fragmented data and disconnected marketing, sales, commerce and service teams, weakening customer relationships through inconsistent experiences.

To compete, organizations must reinvent the front office, modernizing how customer-facing teams work together with AI, data and orchestration to connect the customer lifecycle. IBM Consulting® designs and deploys cutting-edge front office solutions across complex value chains, aligning operating models to turn customer experience strategy into a lasting competitive advantage. We orchestrate end-to-end, customer-centric experiences at speed, continuously optimize performance and ensure new ways of working scale and stick.

Capabilities
Set your CX strategy

We assess your customer experience across marketing, sales, commerce and service to identify friction, data gaps and growth opportunities. We pinpoint where AI, automation and smarter workflows can increase conversion, reduce cost-to-serve and strengthen customer loyalty.

Design and build connected experiences

We design and build seamless customer experiences across the front office. We combine industry expertise, engineering and composable, AI-ready platforms to connect data and workflows, enabling faster launches, better personalization and higher business impact.

Optimize front office performance

Continuously improve customer engagement and performance with real-time customer feedback, analytics and experimentation. We help teams adopt AI-enabled processes and new ways of working so customer-centric improvements scale across the organization.

AI accelerators for customer experience

IBM Consulting is an AI-powered delivery platform that supercharges our front office and CX consulting expertise with 200+ specialized assistants. This tool helps us accelerate solution delivery, driving profitability and business success through smarter, faster execution and higher-quality outcomes.

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An open source development and orchestration framework that transforms how businesses design, develop and manage exceptional customer experiences. Built on a scalable, composable architecture, it streamlines journey creation using microservices, reusable assets and data-mapping capabilities.

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Combines the power of generative AI with best practices and expertise gained from years of IBM experience into a state-of-the-art suite of tools. These instruments are designed to help you deliver commerce transformation projects, faster and with better outcomes.

A comprehensive workflow and governance platform that ensures a consistent application of the IBM Garage® methodology for digital transformation projects. It leverages gen AI to prioritize, align and track critical transformation initiatives to maximize outcomes.

Strategic partnerships

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Adobe

With more than 20 years as an Adobe consulting partner, IBM helps clients design and deliver personalized, content-rich experiences that strengthen customer loyalty and trust.

Insights

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Explore how consumer use of AI in shopping is driving the rise of agentic commerce.
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Reimagine how AI, platforms and people come together to serve the customer.
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AI-powered execution turns fleeting moments into measurable lifetime value.
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How to go from bottlenecks to breakthrough ROI. A study in partnership with Adobe and AWS.

Meet our experts

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Rich Berkman
VP and Senior Partner, Global Customer and Commerce Offering Leader, IBM Consulting
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Billy Seabrook
Senior Partner, Global Chief Design Officer, Experience Strategy and Design Offering Leader, IBM Consulting
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Rosane Giovis
Customer Service Transformation and Operations Offering Leader, IBM Consulting
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Pierre Charchaflian
VP and Senior Partner, Global Adobe Offering Leader, IBM Consulting
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Mary Rowe
VP and Senior Partner, Global Salesforce Offering Leader, IBM Consulting
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Shantha Farris
Global Customer and Commerce Strategy Leader, Customer Transformation, IBM Consulting

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