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Is The Way We Are Going About Customer Acquisition and Retention Dead Wrong?

Maz Iqbal

While an automated phone system may improve an organisation’s operational efficiencies, it rarely improves the customer experience. If insanity is doing the same stuff over and over and expecting a different result then it occurs to me that many of us who are working on the Customer stuff can be labelled insane.

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What Does It Take To Shift To A Human-to-Human Way Of Doing Business?

Maz Iqbal

Filed under: CRM , Culture , Customer Experience , Customer Philosophy , Leadership / Change / Transformation , Uncategorized Tagged: CRM , customer experience , customer service , human to human , quality , strategy. I wish you well and look forward to being in communication after the holiday.

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Customer / Leadership: What Is The Access To Cultivating Greatness?

Maz Iqbal

Or the customer journey mapping? What about your investments in CRM systems and other technologies (e.g. IVR) have they taken you to the heights of sales effectiveness and/or customer service delight? Let’s not forget the VoC feedback- has that unlocked the door to customer loyalty riches?