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How to Gain Leadership Buy-In for Customer Experience: A Guide for CX Change Agents

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

I speak with customer experience professionals every day. Some of them have fancy, customer-focused titles like Chief Customer Officer or Vice President of Customer Experience. Others have more common org chart regulars, like Chief Marketing Officer or Voice fo the Customer (VoC) Director.

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Putting customers at the heart of strategy: Q&A with Vision Critical Chief Customer Officer Kelly Hall 

Alida

Balancing budget constraints, departmental priorities and revenue growth against customer success can be a challenge, even for the most seasoned of executives. As the newly appointed chief customer officer at Vision Critical, Kelly Hall is well aware of these challenges. It’s simple; we are nothing without our customers.

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7 Reasons for Failure When Adopting a Customer First Strategy

C3Centricity

It is vital that each employee thinks customer first and ensures that every action and decision they make is customer centric. One easy way to do this is to ask this question at the end of every meeting: “what would our customers think of the decision we just made?”

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10 Questions New Chief Customer Officers Must Ask Themselves

SmartKarrot

Congratulations on becoming the new chief customer officer of the organization. The biggest challenge you will face as the new chief customer officer is that the customer situation has shifted dramatically in the last couple of years. Questions the new chief customer officer must ask themselves.

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ChurnZero’s 10 Customer Success Leaders to Watch in 2021

ChurnZero

With their visibility elevated, Customer Success leaders stepped up to carry the weight of their fellow revenue-driven teams and prove their value within the broader organization. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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Q&A: How Your Organization Can Achieve a Customer-First Transformation

ChurnZero

The challenges to becoming a customer-centric company are not easy to overcome alone. It takes a village to raise a customer-centric company. Your entire organization must invest in rallying around the customer. Q&A Recap: Speakers: Abby Hammer, Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero.

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Is Your Company Serious About Customer Success? Here’s How to Find Out

Gainsight

Sometimes finding out if they’re walking the talk is as easy as asking a leader what their definition of a customer-centric company is and getting them to provide real-world examples of what they’ve done that makes them customer-centric. Oh wait, let me add one more: Is CS incentivized on growth in addition to sales?”.