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 Journeys 130

Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Automotive Fashion 130

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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.

Leadership 259

Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 259

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

If you have followed my writing for a while, you will be very much aware that I am very proud and passionate Customer Experience Professional (CXP). One of a growing number of ‘specialists’ in the newly recognised professional field, this group of skilled, experienced practitioners is growing in number on a weekly basis.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

Let’s talk about customer satisfaction. . In customer experience (CX) terms, we often dismiss Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) measurement as too simple. Measuring just a piece of this journey can seem short-sighted or not as powerful as other CX metrics, like Net Promoter Score (NPS). What does it really mean?

Metrics 273

Metrics Customer Journeys How To Customer Satisfaction 273

SurveySparrow

JUNE 21, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, the role of a Customer Experience Consultant, often shortened to CX consultant, is becoming increasingly significant. They strive to ensure every customer-brand interaction is as positive, memorable, and impactful as possible. Please enter a valid Email ID.

Consulting 52

Consulting Metrics Customer Journeys Customer Experience 52

Horizon CX

APRIL 30, 2024

Organizational Transformation: The Role of Customer Experience Professionals Introduction Organizational transformation is often perceived as an elusive goal, reserved for C-suite executives with immense power and influence. That may be true in many instances, but the reality is more nuanced.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage Culture Customer Experience Professionals 130

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? The course then reviews the 14 tenets (or guiding principles) of customer success.

Course 98

Course Customer Journeys Customer Success Consulting 98

ijgolding

MARCH 20, 2018

Today I am absolutely delighted to share my interview with passionate Customer Experience Professional, Kathy van de Laar – enjoy… Ian. While I was there, the agency started working with something called experience-based branding. When I look back on it, this was for me the start of customer experience.

Customer Journeys 152

Customer Journeys Culture Customer Centricity Contact Center 152

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. As the Head of Customer Support and Engagement at HotDoc, she is responsible for leading the customer support and engagement strategy.

Customer Service 207

Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 207

Strativity

AUGUST 5, 2014

Strativity Group is pleased to announce our September 16, 2014 webcast, Next Generation Customer Journey Mapping, featuring Bruce Temkin, a world authority on customer experience, with Lior Arussy, president of Strativity Group. Customer journey mapping is a critical step in customer experience transformation.

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Customer Journeys Tools Case Study Customer Centricity 40

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The words customer-centric and silos do not sit happily in the same sentence. Silos harm culture and damage customer experiences. Just in the last two weeks, eight Head of Customer Experience job vacancies have appeared on LinkedIn. And they hold businesses back. Specialist roles in their own right.

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Resources Customer Journeys Customer Experience Customer Centricity 145

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Forrester, Oracle, and others predict plenty of customer experience challenges for the near future. Anxiety is ramping up for senior leaders focused on customer experience, and it’s not difficult to understand why. First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience.

Customer Journeys 250

Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

CloudCherry

MARCH 19, 2018

You might think that your business is delivering great experiences to customers, but are customers actually finding value in it? Merely investing in a Customer Experience Management tool doesn’t suffice. To get started in that journey, mapping your initiatives with outcomes is a pre-requisite.

Customer Experience 247

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Lifetime Customer Financial 247

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 14, 2020

If you have a journey map, I hope you are using it. COVID-19 and the ongoing fallout from it — remote teams, changing budgets, new family dynamics — are competing for your attention, but don’t let your journey map collect dust right now. Why Journey Maps Matter Now More Than Ever.

Customer Journeys 374

Customer Journeys How To Course Touchpoint 374

GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

We used to get so excited to talk about the Voice of the Customer (VoC). It sounds so appealing to really hear the customer in their own voice, to understand their intentions and understandings. How to set up your Voice of the Customer (VoC) program for success. Understand the journey. Gather your champions.

Customer Journeys 230

Customer Journeys Effort Score Net Promoter Score How To 230

Kerry Bodine

JUNE 11, 2017

For the better part of a decade, I’ve had courtside seats to the evolution of two interrelated disciplines: customer experience and service design. Similarly, one of the top aims of service design is to create effective, easy, and enjoyable experiences for customers, citizens, students, or whomever a particular service is designed for.

Customer Experience 240

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Professionals Advertising 240

Chattermill

MAY 12, 2019

Top 20 Books Every Customer Experience Professional Needs to Read Now. Customer Experience. We’ve also picked up a ton of insights by making our way through lots of books written by Customer Experience Guru's. Customer Experience Books. by Sam Frampton. on 13 May 2019. And obvious.

Customer Experience Professionals 56

Customer Experience Professionals Customer Experience Hotels Net Promoter Score 56

CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2018

The good news is, more and more company leaders are starting to get that they need to focus on the customer experience; the bad news is, many – most – are still struggling with the concept , choosing instead to focus on sales, metrics, and maximizing shareholder value. The crazy thing is that they think that they are customer focused.

Customer Centricity 173

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals Metrics 173

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 30, 2024

Get ready to navigate the cutting-edge of customer experience (CX) with Jeannie Walters and special co-host Michelle Morris – Associate Director of CX Business Transformation at Verizon Connect. Discover how this innovation could transform the checkout experience, tackle theft, and what it means for customer engagement.

Government 143

Government Customer Experience Professionals Contact Center Connections 143

GetFeedback

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Focusing on your customers will result in increased loyalty, more positive word-of-mouth referrals, and higher spend from your best customers. It costs five times more to sell to a new customer than to sell to a happy one. If your CSAT metric is 60%, that means 40% of your customers are at risk of defection.

ROI 195

ROI Customer Satisfaction How To Effort Score 195

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To help you amp up your Customer Success management skills here’s a breakdown of our top recommendations for courses to consider taking. Customer Success Management Fundamentals. Course Description: New to customer success management (CSM)? The course then reviews the 14 tenets (or guiding principles) of customer success.

Course 52

Course Customer Journeys Customer Success Consulting 52

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is the relationship of a customer with a business at all touchpoints during the period of the customer journey. It is widely said that customer experience is the next battleground for organizations. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

CloudCherry

MARCH 19, 2018

You might think that your business is delivering great experiences to customers, but are customers actually finding value in it? Merely investing in a Customer Experience Management tool doesn’t suffice. To get started in that journey, mapping your initiatives with outcomes is a pre-requisite.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Lifetime Customer Financial 150

ijgolding

JANUARY 14, 2019

In 2018, the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) celebrated its 7th birthday. In 2011, the creation of the CXPA saw the competencies and capabilities practiced by those working in the field of customer experience as a profession for the first time. I am (or have been) a fan of KLM for many years.

Customer Experience 246

Customer Experience Airlines Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 246

Storyminers

MAY 8, 2017

In the last decade, many brands have used customer experience processes and perspectives to complete corporate turnarounds and experience make-overs. They all use the six customer experience pillars. However, change is happening so fast (tech, customer desires, partners, organizational structures, etc.)

Customer Journeys 190

Customer Journeys Innovation ROI Customer Experience Professionals 190

CX Journey

MAY 24, 2017

Quite simply: without employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee engagement and experience and the customer experience has been proven. Employees are critical to the customer experience, which is critical to the success of the business. How do we sell the concept to them?

Engagement 154

Engagement Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 154

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Continuing with our list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience (CX) influencers (experts, consultants, and authors), we are sharing a few names of leaders leaders that every CX enthusiast must follow and take inspiration from. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

Failing customer experience initiatives are keeping business leaders up at night. According to an Accenture-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, only seven percent of business leaders think that their company’s shopping experience exceeds customer expectations. Failure to listen to customers.

Customer Experience 196

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score Chief Customer Officer 196

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2015

We agree and believe that customer experience is a reflection an organization’s culture and operating processes. We saw a surge of interest in the topic of culture in 2015, and we expect even more executives to begin the long-term journey of culture change in 2016. Customer Journey Designing.

Trends 120

Trends Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customer Connectedness 120

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Clients of all types turn to our company to make sure their customers receive a high level of service excellence. But as some of you may already know, pursuing customer experience mastery can sometimes mean aiming at a moving target. But did you know that we’re currently living in The Age of the Customer?

Customer Experience 177

Customer Experience Contact Center Culture Study 177

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

CCXP exam (Customer Experience Professional Certification) competencies are a guide to highly profitable customer experience management. Pulling together all of this, you create your customer experience strategy. Professional certification is not a walk in the park. CCXP Struggles.

Customer Journeys 62

Customer Journeys Study Customer Experience Professionals Financial 62

Kayako

APRIL 15, 2019

We had the pleasure of hosting customer service and experience expert, Shep Hyken earlier this month for a half hour Q&A session on why customer experience matters so much and what businesses must do to create the best experiences for their customers. ” – Shep Hyken. .

Customer Experience 169

Customer Experience Self Service Hospitality Customer Journeys 169

ijgolding

DECEMBER 30, 2014

As we approach the last 24 hours before the end of 2014, I feel it is time to reflect on the last twelve months in the world of Customer Experience. Twelve months is not a particularly long time in the context of a lifetime of experiences, yet it is remarkable what progress can be made in 365 days. JD Williams. Virgin Media.

Customer Experience 214

Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Customer Journeys Training 214

ijgolding

AUGUST 1, 2016

Customer personas; buyer personas; call them what you will – businesses (notably marketing functions within them) have been creating and using this visual and descriptive method to ‘bring customers to life’ for many years. The world of Customer Experience is at risk of following the same rocky road.

Customer Journeys 120

Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals Customers Tools 120

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

We work with Customer Experience (CX) professionals around the world and train them on how to go about implementing CX programs. The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. If you consider Customers transactions, guess what?

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2016

When it comes to the profession that Customer Experience has now become, one of the most important and significant competencies required by all organisations is that of measurement. If this is the case, determining exactly WHAT it is that needs to be ‘fixed’ to improve customer perception is challenging (and sometimes impossible).

Measurement 148

Measurement Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customers 148