# Ep. 67 - Insights 11 - How CX metrics can hide a broken customer experience Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-experience-edge-7117779/ep-67-insights-11-how-cx-metrics-can-hide-a-broken-customer-experience Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-experience-edge-7117779/ep-67-insights-11-how-cx-metrics-can-hide-a-broken-customer-experience.md Podcast: [The Experience Edge](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-experience-edge-7117779) Published: 2026-03-18T06:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/experienceedge/episodes/Ep--67---Insights-11---How-CX-metrics-can-hide-a-broken-customer-experience-e3gj3k3 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/fb8746cc/podcast/play/117066819/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-17%2F420215294-44100-2-9ec4495ddbeaa.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-experience-edge-7117779/episodes/ep-67-insights-11-how-cx-metrics-can-hide-a-broken-customer-experience Duration seconds: 629 ## Resource In this Insights episode, Jochem van der Veer challenges the common belief that improving customer experience requires more data, dashboards, and AI, revealing instead how a lack of shared context across teams leads to misaligned decisions. While organizations optimize performance using advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, they often operate on different versions of reality, creating fragmented customer journeys and inconsistent outcomes. As AI accelerates decision-making at scale, this misalignment becomes a critical risk, making shared context-not more data-the true foundation for effective customer experience strategy. In this video: Why fragmented context-not lack of data-is the real bottleneck in CX How teams create “local truths” that distort decision-making What AI actually does when your underlying structure is misaligned Why defining where signals live in the journey changes everything How shared context turns metrics into meaningful, connected insight When optimization becomes dangerous because the problem isn’t real If every team is right-but the outcome is wrong-what reality is your organization actually operating in? Follow Jochem on LinkedIn: Learn more about Journey Management with TheyDo : #CustomerExperience #JourneyManagement #ServiceDesign #CXStrategy #OrganizationalDesign #DecisionMaking #AIinBusiness #CustomerInsights #BusinessTransformation #ProductStrategy #ExperienceManagement #DataStrategy #Leadership #DigitalTransformation ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-experience-edge-7117779/episodes/ep-67-insights-11-how-cx-metrics-can-hide-a-broken-customer-experience/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-experience-edge-7117779/ep-67-insights-11-how-cx-metrics-can-hide-a-broken-customer-experience.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.