ijgolding

APRIL 19, 2016

There are a number of things that comprise the characteristics of great Customer Centric leaders – courage; vision; passion; authenticity; humility; belief; are just some of them. Most business professionals work in ‘legacy’ businesses – ones that have existed for a significant amount of time and are used to a certain ‘way of working’.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Strategy Customer Experience Customer Centricity 120

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Jim Iyoob, Chief Customer Officer at Etech Global Services. Jim Iyoob is responsible for Etech’s strategy, marketing, business development, IT, program implementation, operational excellence, and product development across all Etech’s existing lines of business. Tom Hinds, SVP Customer Engagement at Advocate Aurora Health.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

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. To explain this further, Annette suggests: I think when employees hear leadership talking about the customer, that’s really important.

Customer Centricity 59

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Effort Score 59

CX Journey

MAY 24, 2017

If your employees aren't engaged with your improvement efforts - or engaged overall with the organization - it will be very difficult for them to delight your customers and deliver the experience they expect. Employees are critical to the customer experience, which is critical to the success of the business.

Engagement 154

Engagement Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 154

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Anxiety is ramping up for senior leaders focused on customer experience, and it’s not difficult to understand why. According to Forrester’s 2020 Predictions , 1 in 4 customer experience professionals will lose their job this year. Image credit: Forrester. It’s time to build some bridges.

Customer Journeys 250

Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

He has extensive experience in retail, wholesale, franchising, and small business and has a strong belief in positive customer experience. She has over 16 years of experience in areas of market research, program management, marketing, instructional design, and training. Aimee Lucas Follow @Aimee_Lucas.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Although I was not there when it was posed, it is extremely likely that the question was laid down as a challenge – to either ask for justification as to why the business should keep focusing on CX or to find a way to stop doing so altogether.

Customer Experience 208

Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity. Your experience will be very transactional. Every detail is customer-focused; it’s in the DNA of the organization.

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 17, 2018

The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) 2018 Insight Exchange offered CX experts and professionals of all kinds, various titles and comfort levels a few days to learn, connect and get inspired. The long, painful process of turning the idea of customer-centricity into a reality was a consistent drumbeat.

Leadership 161

Leadership Culture Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 161

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Over the last twenty years, Customer Experience as a strategic way of working has steadily increased in prominence. In that time, more and more businesses of all shapes and sizes across multiple industries have ‘dipped their toe in the water’ of Customer Experience. The big question is why?

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Company Customer Centricity Strategy 120

Kustomer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Podcasts are no longer just a nice addition to your content and marketing strategy — they’re a necessity. Not only should businesses be considering podcasts as part of their own marketing strategies, but they should also be utilizing the wealth of insights in podcasts to evaluate and improve their own customer experiences.

Customer Experience 105

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Competitive Advantage Hospitality 105

Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

At Customer Guru, we firmly believe that the only way more Indian businesses can become sustainable and globally competitive is by focusing on Customer Experience (CX). Thus, we are dedicated to spreading this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

Customer Centricity 94

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 94

CX Journey

AUGUST 26, 2014

Getting leadership buy-in and helping them understand that the sooner the focus is placed on the customer experience, the sooner the business will benefit is an everyday challenge for customer experience professionals. It will briefly describe the experience you plan to deliver.

Customer Experience 185

Customer Experience Management Government Customer Journeys 185

Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

At Customer Guru, we firmly believe that the only way more Indian businesses can become sustainable and globally competitive is by focusing on Customer Experience (CX). Thus, we are dedicated towards spreading this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

Customer Centricity 79

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 79

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Kate is the VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester and serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. She is a renowned expert on customer relationship management (CRM), customer service strategies, and ROI. He specializes in customer experience strategies, customer service engagement, and loyalty.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Maneesha Pednekar is currently working as the Director – Quality for Atos in India and drives initiatives on Quality & Customer Experience. She is a Certified Customer Experience Professional from the CXPA (US). Especially, driving Quality and Customer Experience initiatives is very close to my heart.

Customer Centricity 60

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 60

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2017

Usually (although not exclusively) the domain of men and women working for organisations in senior roles, the ‘rolling eye phenomenon’ often occurs when someone like me, a Customer Experience Professional, starts to talk about anything related to the Customer Experience.

Customer Experience 227

Customer Experience Financial Customers Insurance 227

CX Journey

AUGUST 28, 2015

As customer experience professionals, we have no shortage of work. Or are we spinning our wheels, doing tactical things, and looking like we're making improvements - when, in reality, we're applying bandaids and simple fixes rather than making/doing meaningful overall process improvements and customer experience redesign work.

Roadmap 80

Roadmap Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Culture 80

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

We’ve developed a diagnostic instrument to help companies measure their culture based on that premise—to put numbers around the types of things people do when no one is looking, and in particular, the types of things that support customer-centricity. Storytelling), or “We hire people who care about the customer.”

Culture 80

Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2016

The ability of a company to robustly and continuously capture a ‘fact based’ understanding of how capable they are of meeting customer needs and expectations is critical if they have a desire to achieve customer focused success. The post Customer Experience Measurement – Why it is Vitally Important BUT Badly Done!

Measurement 148

Measurement Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customers 148

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity. Your experience will be very transactional. So the questions are, how Customer-centric are you and how do you know?

Customer Experience 60

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 60

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity. Your experience will be very transactional. So the questions are, how Customer-centric are you and how do you know?

Customer Experience 60

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 60

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This will push more aggressive change driven by Customer Experience professionals. Organizational alignment will be most critical – both internally and to the market and customer expectations. Never underestimate the customers expectation in CX. Once the customer had a positive CX, it will set a new benchmark.

Customer Experience 160

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 160

ijgolding

APRIL 29, 2016

It is always a huge pleasure and often humbling for me to meet fellow Customer Experience Professionals. As well as being remarkably reassuring that I am not the only customer focused ‘nutcase’, I learn a considerable amount too! More on Customer Centricity at www.customercentricity.org.

Fashion 120

Fashion Social Media Retail Consulting 120

ijgolding

JANUARY 24, 2017

Time after time, representatives of organisations stood in front of me and my fellow judges and brilliantly described how the customer was core/central to the strategy of the business. Customer Experience continues to gain momentum across the globe – yet talk and rhetoric means nothing to customers, employees and shareholders.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Transportation Banking Customer Journeys 120

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Fortunately, the profession that customer experience has become is steadily building a burgeoning number of just such people. Let’s start with my tip number 1: Tip 1 – Make customer experience a priority for the whole company! Tip 2 – Embed a customer experience framework.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Culture Tips Strategy 120

Wootric CX Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These authors, speakers, thought-leaders and dedicated customer experience professionals have all helped contribute to the widespread adoption of CX, not just as a strategy, but as a higher goal. Why we love David : He’s VP of Customer Insights at Ancestry.com. Why we love Augie: He’s the Sr. Bruce Temkin.

Customer Journeys 67

Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals Chief Customer Officer 67

Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

As some companies grow, they purposely change their shift from customer focused to bottom line focused. For those that are interested in staying focused on the customer, it is more important than ever to hire the right people that fit the customer focused culture. Long term that can be a mistake.

Industry 100

Industry Culture Metrics Customer Centricity 100

ijgolding

MARCH 10, 2016

I speak and write regularly about the increasing addition of the word ‘customer’ to the typical vocabulary of business leaders. So simply talking about Customer Experience means nothing. To be a Customer Centric Organisation requires a business to have a Customer Centric CULTURE!

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Experience Professionals Communication 120

CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

Those are marketing tools and are too high level for customer experience design. Customer experience professionals require a lot more detail at a micro level in order to understand the pain points and to, ultimately, fix them. Align the organization.

Customer Journeys 146

Customer Journeys Exercises Touchpoint Culture 146

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Adam Toporek is an internationally-recognized Customer Experience Expert, Keynote Speaker, and Customer Service Trainer who helps organizations transform their relationships with their customers through better strategy, training, and communication. LinkedIn: [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. Arie is a Customer Insight, Customer Strategy, Customer Lifecycle Management, and Innovation Independent Consultant.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

" Additionally, customer experience insights should be woven into strategies, organization structure, processes, policies, hiring and promotion criteria, training and performance assessment, and the general psyche of the company. And you're aligning the company to focus on value that's rewarded by customers.

Customer Journeys 48

Customer Journeys ROI Policies Customers 48

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. Arie is a Customer Insight, Customer Strategy, Customer Lifecycle Management, and Innovation Independent Consultant.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Focused on customer happiness, Anika is passionate about developing and maintaining good relationships with customers. She has helped several companies grow and scale their business by developing streamlined customer success processes and successful customer retention strategies. Anita Toth. Annette Franz.

Customer Success 21

Customer Success Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity 21

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Through his blog, workshops, and keynote presentations, Swinscoe emphasizes the importance of customer-centricity in bridging the gap between help and experience. is an internationally recognized customer experience consultant. Evan Shumeyko is the director of Client Experience Strategy, BNY Mellon.

Customer Service 10

Customer Service Social Media Customer Centricity Tips 10

ShepHyken

JULY 8, 2019

If you’ve been following my work, you know how important the concept of easy and convenient is as a customer experience business strategy. If you’re in the customer care world and haven’t attended the CCW conference, this article may entice you to attend their next event. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

Customer Service 116

Customer Service Social Media Customer Experience Professionals Customer Care 116