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What really makes customers happy?

ijgolding

A customer NEED is something that is very important (rather than just desirable) and that is a necessity or a basic requirement – an airline getting you to your chosen destination on time, for example. Your ability to give customers what they WANT will enable your organisation to differentiate itself.

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Report: Lessons in CX Excellence, 2015

Experience Matters

Here’s the executive summary: This year, we chose eight organizations as finalists for Temkin Group’s 2014 Customer Experience Excellence Award. Finalists are Activision Customer Care, Aetna, Crowe Horwath LLP, Dell Inc., EMC Corporation, Texas NICUSA, The Results Companies, and TouchPoint Support Services.

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SaaS Customer Experience Starts in the C-Suite

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Annie has been specializing in the field of Customer Experience Management for over ten years, but has dabbled in lots of different parts of business. She has spoken at several conferences over the years on B2B and B2C social strategies and online reputation management.

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Achieving A Single Customer View Through Cross-Channel Data Integration

CX Journey

Image courtesy of dsearls Today''s post is a modified version of a post I originally wrote for Confirmit in March 2013. What steps are you taking to create a single view of the customer so that you can deliver a more-personalized customer experience? How do we achieve that single view of the customer? Don’t worry!

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Business-to-Business Customer Experience Advice Highlights

ClearAction

Business-to-Business Customer Experience Advice Highlights. Business-to-business customer experience management has certain complexities and advantages that need to be well understood by practitioners and vendors alike. Business-to-Business Customer Experience. Advice This Past Year. Highlights.

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“1 slide, 1 beer, and the CEO:” How Jim Harwood kick-started Farm Bureau’s CX program

Qualtrics

In 2013, Farmers Insurance set up a cross-functional leadership group – all of us vice presidents – and I was going to be the CX guy,” says Jim. “I They need to own their results and touchpoints, but be armed with the right tools to improve their numbers.”. A 6-month trial that turned into four years.

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Using B2B VoC to Transform Customer Experience

ClearAction

This does not jibe with the objectives mentioned above: 80% intend to improve processes and 63% intend to improve customer-centricity. Often it’s because of the way we start our customer experience management efforts. But it’s better to start with a change management plan. Why is there a gap? Don’t delay.

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