Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2021

If you want your organization to truly have its own customer-centric “way,” it’s time to get specific about creating a customer-centric culture. Six Ways to Actively Build a Customer-Centric Culture: 1. Assure your customer experience mission is defined and communicated.

Customer Centricity 190

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Government 190

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Thanks to a fun report from CCW , Customer Contact Week, and some clever customer experience pros (and prose – ha ha,) there is a discussion around leadership buzzwords we should have. We aim for an exceptional “journey” for our customers but are only referring to marketing. And I agree. Is that odd?

Leadership 283

Leadership Culture Customer Centricity Report 283

ClearAction

JANUARY 8, 2024

Insights Utilization Rate Drives Growth Through Customer-Centric Organizations Lynn Hunsaker Customer-centric organizations use experience insights as the basis for each work group’s thinking and actions. Centric means aligned : customers’ well-being is the center of every decision).

Customer Centricity 62

Customer Centricity ROI Policies Chief Customer Officer 62

Playvox

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Ask people to name three companies known for their customer-centric approach to business, and there’s a good chance some common names will surface: Nordstrom, Apple, Trader Joe’s, Patagonia, and others frequently come to mind. What do they have in common? What’s their secret? But why stop there?

Customer Centricity 83

Customer Centricity Contact Center Management Customer Satisfaction 83

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Thanks to a fun report from CCW , Customer Contact Week, and some clever customer experience pros (and prose – ha ha,) there is a discussion around leadership buzzwords we should have. We aim for an exceptional “journey” for our customers but are only referring to marketing. And I agree. Is that odd?

Leadership 227

Leadership Culture Customer Centricity Report 227

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Your answer is probably directly connected to how engaged your leadership team has been with you, and how much they take personal ownership of this work with you. Leadership Must Have Consistent and United Behaviors. The leadership team must model new behaviors in how they lead. Behavior 1: Unite the Leadership Team.

Leadership 238

Leadership Chief Customer Officer Culture Customer Centricity 238

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Having a customer-centric mindset, as those of us within the Customer Experience profession tend to have, I’m particularly concerned about how we respond to those recommended measures intended to help mitigate viral transmissions—physical distancing, masks, sanitizers, vaccinations, etc. Spears Center for Servant Leadership Inc.

Leadership 130

Leadership Measurement Groups Customer Experience Professionals 130

InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

The best customer experience quotes can be a great source of inspiration for leadership teams and entire organizations looking to drive their CX transformation. According to research: Companies that earn $1 billion annually can expect to earn, on average, an additional $700 million within 3 years of investing in customer experience.

Customer Experience 260

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 260

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Art of Selling CX: Convincing Skeptical Senior Leaders on Customer Experience Success Introduction In the dynamic landscape of customer experience (CX) management, the journey extends beyond strategic implementation; it’s a constant process of persuasion and selling ideas, especially to senior leadership.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Automotive Fashion 130

CX Journey

APRIL 3, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that. What is customer-centricity? How will it make her feel?

Customer Centricity 150

Customer Centricity Exercises Customers Culture 150

Horizon CX

JUNE 2, 2020

Those might at first appear to be two leadership extremes and to some degree they are but unfortunately, they’re more common within business than we’d probably like to admit. Leaders in general, but especially those that are leading in Customer Experience roles, are in a challenging position today made even more difficult by the pandemic.

Leadership 130

Leadership Culture Strategy Customer Experience Professionals 130

Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

Ineffective Leadership: Leadership plays a crucial role in driving and sustaining organizational transformation. Leadership alignment and competence are vital for setting the direction, creating a sense of urgency, and inspiring and engaging employees throughout the transformation journey.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Leadership Culture Customer Experience Management 130

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 1, 2019

Scott realized that DHL is a great business but didn’t believe that the company communicated it well enough. Scott wanted to develop the business values and use them as a guide for creating a mission/purpose for employees, something that communicated the value of the business rather than what they actually do. .

Customer Centricity 165

Customer Centricity Social Media Leadership Customer relationships 165

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

Follow on LinkedIn Blake Morgan, Customer Experience Futurist, Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker Blake has been studying customer experience for over 15 years and has flown to the far corners of the earth to find out what is the secret sauce of the world’s most customer-centric companies.

Customer Service 207

Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 207

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. What is fascinating about the questions I am asked, is that more often than not, most organisations have started their journey to becoming Customer Centric. Starting an organisations Customer Experience transformation is hard – something I have written about in the past.

Customer Centricity 263

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

Horizon CX

MARCH 25, 2019

In customer-centric organizations, issues are resolved with the customers’ best interests in mind. Great customer experience is an organization-level pursuit. CX leaders worth their salt are steadfast in cultivating customer-centric practices and a culture that puts the customer first. Do they listen?

Leadership 113

Leadership Customer Centricity Employee Engagement Effort Score 113

ijgolding

JULY 4, 2017

Only recently, I wrote about Jeff Bezos and why I believe he is a, if not the, role model customer centric leader. ‘Did you know that Amazon have actually embedded 14 leadership principles into the way they work? For reasons unbeknown to me, the fact that Amazon have 14 leadership principles had completely passed me by.

Leadership 152

Leadership Customer Centricity Fashion Retail 152

SurveyGizmo

JUNE 9, 2021

Brandi was previously CTO at KPA where she led their digital transformation and created a fully integrated journey for their more than 10,000 enterprise customers. Prior to KPA, Brandi had senior technology roles at Level 3 Communications and Location3 Media. Alchemer serves more than 15,000 global customers and 30% of the Fortune 500.

Leadership 98

Leadership Customer Centricity NPS Feedback 98

ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

I often say that if I were to be given £5, or $5 for every time a member of the C-Suite stated that ‘customer centricity’ was ‘very important’ to their business, I would be a VERY rich man – but is it actually true! Organisations having a dedicated resource to champion their Customer Experience cause 10%.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customers Leadership 120

Horizon CX

APRIL 4, 2019

As CX professionals, we are largely compelled to align with our respective organization’s sales and marketing functions and for good reason—they are generally the ones carrying out the strategy and business goals established by leadership and guiding the rest of the organization forward. Create a sales liaison role.

Customer Centricity 100

Customer Centricity Sales Communication Customers 100

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 11, 2023

However, many customer experience (CX) initiatives fall short of achieving their desired outcomes due to a lack of proactive leadership and strategic planning. There needs to be a focus on intentional strategy, clear goals, effective communication, employee empowerment, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Leadership Customer Centricity 110

PeopleMetrics

MAY 13, 2020

As the world of work continues to change in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, communication skills are increasingly seen as the crucial glue that holds a company together. Working remotely , uncertainty in the workplace and disconnection from colleagues mean that communication in the workplace must be more effective than ever.

Employee Experience 116

Employee Experience Communication CEM e-support 116

Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group report, Creating and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture. Here’s the executive summary: Temkin Group defines culture as how employees think, believe, and act, and if an organization wants to differentiate its customer experience, it must address each one of these areas.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Culture Report Case Study 120

CX Journey

APRIL 3, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that. What is customer-centricity? How will it make her feel?

Customer Centricity 80

Customer Centricity Exercises Customers Culture 80

Blake Morgan

AUGUST 29, 2023

Contact centers are the bridge that connects your customers to your brand and allows them to feel engaged and heard. I talked to Naomi Wheeless, the Global Head of Customer Success at Square, about the management and leadership strategy required to modernize and run a customer-centric contact center.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Leadership Strategy Management 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 12, 2018

That leader had an epiphany about customer-centric culture. If we focus on customers, we will be a better organization. Department leaders begin to envision ways they can improve their customer’s experience. The internal communications team sends a video of the speech to employees all over the globe.

Customer Centricity 137

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Culture Training 137

Blake Morgan

JULY 18, 2023

           From Chief Experience and Chief Customer Officers to Customer Experience leaders, more companies are creating customer leadership roles. These positions can greatly impact customer-centricity, but they bring a common question: where do you start?

Leadership 52

Leadership Chief Customer Officer How To Customer Centricity 52

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With the advent of omnichannel customer experience programs and increasing customer demands, effective call center management has become more challenging and pivotal than ever before. It requires a harmonious blend of leadership, technology, and a customer-centric mindset to succeed in this dynamic landscape.

Call Center 260

Call Center Strategy Management First Call Resolution 260

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In the first 30 days of his role, his responsibility was to build a path to develop internal customer-centric behavior. . Get to the people down in the trenches, the service reps and managers – hear from them, what do they know and see when they interact with customers every day?

Culture 197

Culture Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Company 197

ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2020

She shares tips on how to create an effective customer-centric company culture. There’s a lot of talk about customer-centricity and customer-centric organizations, but what does that really mean? If your business is customer-centric, those things are the least of your worries. Leadership.

Customer Centricity 81

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Leadership 81

InMoment XI

MARCH 1, 2023

Avoid Causing Foreseeable Harm to Customers: Organisations must provide clear and accessible information to their customers about their products and services, including any risks associated with them. This includes communicating in plain language and avoiding jargon or technical terms that customers may not understand.

Financial 260

Financial Consumers Customer Centricity Meeting 260

Thematic

APRIL 12, 2023

Additionally, the workflow or UI is not intuitive enough, or else not designed in a way that customers actually do the work! Another example is getting your executive leadership team to call detractors. We had our NPS scores feeding into a Slack channel, and when the CEO saw a zero, he’d follow up directly with the customer.

Customer Centricity 62

Customer Centricity Culture Company Omni-Channel 62

InMoment XI

JULY 12, 2022

Enacting this approach will also enable your frontline employees to provide a far superior experience to customers. This strengthens brand connection and creates a customer-centric culture. Finding relevant and actionable insights in your data will motivate your employees to act upon Experience Improvement opportunities.

Contact Center 529

Contact Center Metrics Customer Centricity Culture 529

Kustomer

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Annette Pedroza to learn about building a customer centric culture. Success Starts with Leadership. Listen Now: Listen to “Anntte Pedroza | Building a Customer Centric Culture” on Spreaker.

Customer Centricity 59

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Effort Score 59

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It is difficult to deny that these three terms are becoming increasingly visible in the language of business: Customer Service. Customer Experience. Customer Centricity. However… this is where the link to the last ‘customer’ term comes in. It is not an easy thing to do.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Service Customers 120

Horizon CX

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The root causes – a lack of skills and training among frontline employees, a problem that stems from deficiencies in leadership and supervision. The Unseen Dilemma At the heart of this issue lies a paradox: frontline employees, often blamed for subpar customer experiences, are victims of inadequate training and support.

Leadership 130

Leadership Training Loyalty Customer Centricity 130

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

You must absolutely believe that enabling an organisation to be more customer centric is the ‘right thing to do’ – right for the customer; right for the employee; and right for the shareholder. Not only that, the Customer Experience is not the responsibility of a CXP – it is the responsibility of the WHOLE ORGANISATION.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120