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Customer Experience Professionals: Why We Do What We Do

ijgolding

KS: My foray into the CX discipline came about in 2004 quite by chance when, after years of serving in customer-facing roles, I received an offer I couldn’t refuse—to manage the Voice of the Customer program of a US-based B2B organization. This post originally appeared on the CXPA Blog on November 10, 2016.

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CX vs. UX: The Yin and Yang of Customer Loyalty

InteractionMetrics

Before this, products were primarily designed based on whatever the engineering team wanted to build, not what the customer wanted, needed, or was able to use functionally. Founded in 2004, Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design broke down Design Thinking into five distinct phases: Empathize : Understand your customer.

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Statistics: Is This Big Data’s Biggest Hurdle?

Bob Hayes

.” While the number of searches for “big data” and “analytics” has increased, the number of searches of “statistics” has decreased steadily since 2004. Statistics and statistical thinking helps people understand the importance of data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting of results.

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Top 50 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Storyminers

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. His new book Hooked on Customers (April 2014) reveals the five habits of leading customer-centric firms. Annette Franz.

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Top 50 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Storyminers

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. His new book Hooked on Customers (April 2014) reveals the five habits of leading customer-centric firms. Annette Franz.