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Make the Complicated Simple

ShepHyken

When I’m asked to give a customer experience keynote speech , one of the points I like to make is the importance of simplifying the complicated. And we must do the same in business. Customers don’t want or like complication, confusion, or friction. The concept of simplicity is financially powerful.

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Rebellion at Dollar General! A Challenge to CX Strategies?

CX University

Companies increasingly recognize that employee experience can be positive, powerful, and influential in engaging customers. Pink (2009) states that when employees have a purpose in their work, are provided with opportunities to develop mastery in what they do, and have autonomy, they will be engaged.

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Four of the Most Successful Employee Engagement Strategies Also Drive Customer Experience

CX University

Vast amounts of data support the symbiotic relationship between engagement and satisfaction, between businesses and customers. A 2005 study concluded that work engagement is linked to performance and customer loyalty (Salanova, Agut & Peiró, 2005). focuses employees at all levels on the customer, and 3.

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Customer Success Technology Buyer Guide

ClearAction

Customer Success Technology Buyer Guide Lynn Hunsaker Customer success technology is sure to grow in importance and array. Especially in hard times like the 2009 global financial crisis and the 2020 global pandemic, demand for tech skyrocketed. Why We Expect a Lot from Customer Success Technology Why?

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Attract the Right Candidates by Building and Defining a Strong Company Culture: a Netflix Case Study

Customer Bliss

Treating customers with dignity and respect starts with treating employees the same way. In 2009, Netflix made cultural history when then chief talent officer Patty McCord and CEO Reed Hastings created a 124-page PowerPoint document entitled “Netflix Culture: Freedom & Responsibility.” Hiring is frenzied with nearly 11.3

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Frugality meets Accuracy: Cost-efficient training of GPT NeoX and Pythia models with AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning

The project was awarded 2009 National medal of Technology and Innovation. After a brief stint as an AI engineer at a financial hedge fund, Dr. Mamidala joined the Annapurna labs focusing on Large Language model training. He was a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2009. He founded StylingAI Inc.,

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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for the Week of August 7, 2023

ShepHyken

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 25 Ways to Proactively Spot Your Customers’ Pain Points by Call Centre Helper Magazine (Call Centre Helper Magazine) When struggling to deal with customer demand, a lot of contact centres try to recruit more people.