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Adobe Reinvents Its Customer Experience

May 3, 2016 | Gerald (Jerry) C. Kane | Managing Technology

Developing a successful strategy for managing customer experience and creating a great experience for employees at the same time can be a big headache, especially for large companies. In this interview, Donna Morris, executive vice president of customer and employee experience at Adobe, discusses how the company's unique approach generates value and goodwill internally and externally. She is interviewed by Gerald C. (Jerry) Kane, associate professor of information systems at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and guest editor for MIT Sloan Management Review's Digital Leadership Initiative.

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