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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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Shareholder or Customer First? The difference between Tesco and Amazon

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As someone who spends every working day influencing organisations to focus on people (customers and employees), I am always intrigued that the reporting of business performance seems to spend more time empathising with shareholders than it does with customers and employees.

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Ryanair – the brand we can now learn to love

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Equally as many millions of consumers were prepared to put up with the ‘no service’ proposition and until recently, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary revelled in the financial returns that this strategy delivered. Grateful to have an amazing advocate of the financial benefits of improving Customer Experience.

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The cost of NOT focussing on Customer Experience

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Wanting proof of the real financial benefit of a CX focused strategy is a very common requirement of those who run businesses – and so it should be. Only recently I wrote about an experience a friend of mine was (and still is) having with BT – it was the perfect example of the RANDOM or UNINTENTIONAL Customer Experience.

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‘Customer excellence is here: it’s just not very evenly distributed yet’. The Nunwood 2014 UK Customer Experience Excellence Report

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The quote is in fact the very first line of the executive summary of this years Nunwood UK Customer Experience Excellence Report – a report that should be essential reading for any customer experience professional in the UK.

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With customer experience design, functional is good. But don’t stop there – by Beth Richardson

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Journey mapping helps to clear the mist, so you can design interactions with purpose, which meet their true goals and deliver the total experience. Like me, Beth is a Customer Experience Specialist and proud to be a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP).

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The Customer Experience ‘7 Year Itch’! A frank and honest assessment of the CX profession

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I first became aware of job roles containing the words, ‘Customer Experience’ in the early noughties. However, it was not until 2011, with the creation of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA), that the role became officially recognised as a profession.