Highlights:
Rewiring Customer Experience for the Agentic Era
7/14/26
Source:
McKinsey & Company
Approaches

The same capabilities that once distinguished CX leaders are becoming the minimum requirement for success. Experience-led growth is no longer novel; it is table stakes. AI provides a tool for organizations to drive durable competitive advantage.
But many organizations have so far achieved only limited success. That’s because they are layering AI on top of fragmented journeys, optimizing steps rather than decisions and allowing handoffs to break context. Most CX programs continue to treat the customer journey as the unit of design. But customers experience the business through decisions in motion: what offer is shown, what policy is applied, what help is triggered, and when a human steps in.
Without redesigning the underlying workflows and decision rights, AI simply scales what already exists, including inconsistency.
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