For CEOs, improving customer experience ranks around fifth on their list of priorities for this year, lagging behind recruiting and retaining talent and increasing efficiency. Curiously, CEOs were much more concerned with meeting “customer expectations,” as if those expectations don’t include a good experience. Marcum-Hoftstra University surveyed over 250 CEOs and other senior executives.

It barely feels like news when industry giants add AI features, since that’s what they’re expected to do. But lots of people use their products, so their announcements are probably of higher interest than most. With that in mind, let’s note that Adobe has just announced general availability of agents for audience creation, journey orchestration, experimentation, journey insights, website optimization and agent support.