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Deutsche Bank Private Bank is building an AI academy for 20,000 staff·Cognizant is putting 25,000 people behind OpenAI delivery·SUTD is opening CoLab so people build with AI, not only know it·ANZ is putting Banker Academy graduates onto the frontline·CelcomDigi is asking Huawei to co-design how its people learn·Singapore is measuring its AI training by what officers change, not courses finished·Canva is reshaping a fifth of its roles to get back to small, empowered teams·Go1 is putting OpenAI Academy courses inside the corporate learning catalogue·Why Your AI Program Isn't Delivering Business Outcomes·Kier is judging its Oxford programme by what leaders take back·HSBC is building an AI institute in Hong Kong to bring 200,000 staff along·Services Australia is growing its staff AI trial to 2,000 people, one thumbs up at a time·Deutsche Bank Private Bank is building an AI academy for 20,000 staff·Cognizant is putting 25,000 people behind OpenAI delivery·SUTD is opening CoLab so people build with AI, not only know it·ANZ is putting Banker Academy graduates onto the frontline·CelcomDigi is asking Huawei to co-design how its people learn·Singapore is measuring its AI training by what officers change, not courses finished·Canva is reshaping a fifth of its roles to get back to small, empowered teams·Go1 is putting OpenAI Academy courses inside the corporate learning catalogue·Why Your AI Program Isn't Delivering Business Outcomes·Kier is judging its Oxford programme by what leaders take back·HSBC is building an AI institute in Hong Kong to bring 200,000 staff along·Services Australia is growing its staff AI trial to 2,000 people, one thumbs up at a time·
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Customer Experience

CX transformation dies on SharePoint. The version that works is one page on a wall with an owner.

The longer take lives on the customer experience hub.

Customer Experience

ANZ is putting Banker Academy graduates onto the frontline

First 20 graduates of the Business and Private Bank Banker Academy are now Associate Relationship Managers after a four-week residential with Melbourne Business School. The programme scales hard in 2027 as ANZ aims to lift banker numbers by up to 50 per cent by 2030.

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Klarna put a person back beside the chatbot

In May 2025 Klarna told CX Dive that cost had weighed too heavily on customer service and that a customer should always be able to reach a person. The assistant was still taking two-thirds of the chats.

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Customer Experience

AI empathy maps skip the interview

Rachel Krause at Nielsen Norman Group shows why the notes have to come from sessions, tickets and visits. A tool can cluster research a team has already collected, and that is the job she gives it.

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Customer Experience

Stop asking customers what they want

Jakob Nielsen's rule for customer research is to watch the task. Stated preference predicts only about a quarter of whether a design works.

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