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Getting Company Culture and Operations Right, and Keeping Them Right: What It Really Means to Be Stakeholder-Centric This Labor Day

Beyond Philosophy

A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.” The author had several suggestions for building customer-centricity. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., when making decisions.

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5 Facts to End the ROI Debate on Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

. < [link] > “The ‘moment of truth’ in customer service.” February 2006. The Value of Customer Experience, Quantified. www.mckinsey.com. 26 August 2014.

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“U.S. Employee Engagement Reaches Three-Year High.” Where Customer Experience and Value Delivery Are Concerned, Shouldn’t We Ask: ‘So What?’

Beyond Philosophy

Employee engagement’ has many meanings and interpretations, but relatively little of it has to do, by conceptual definition, specifically with impact on customer behavior. Employee Engagement Reaches Three-Year High.” Where Customer Experience and Value Delivery Are Concerned, Shouldn’t We Ask: ‘So What?’

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Announcing my first book: The Hidden Power of Your Customers

Customers Rock!

This book has actually been a long time in the making – not so much from the perspective of how long it took to write it (see The Story below) but from the perspective that I have had this book in mind since before I began this blog in December of 2006. In fact, one of the reasons I started Customers Rock!

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CX Initiatives: What if Employees Are Not On Board?

Beyond Philosophy

What I witnessed was a manager brow-beating a check-out clerk in front of customers because he only had one promotional button on his shirt. If the manager had ever seen Office Space, the lessons of negative employee experience and dopey company rules were lost on him. Republished with permission from CustomerThink.com.

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Is ‘Being Human’ With Customers A New Concept? And, Does It Create Emotional, Experiential, Social and Financial Value?

Beyond Philosophy

Just on the basis of comparison to the S & P 500, the public companies singled out by Firms of Endearment returned 1,026 percent for investors over the 10 years ending June 30, 2006, compared to 122 percent for the S & P 500, more than an 8 to 1 ratio. Bottom line: Being human is good for the balance sheet as well as stakeholders.