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HOW DHL BECAME MORE CUSTOMER-FOCUSED, WITH CCO SCOTT ALLISON

Customer Bliss

How does a logistics company shift its gears to become more customer-focused? In today’s episode, Scott Allison , the Chief Customer Officer of DHL ’s supply chain, shares some strategies and tactics around communicating the brand’s message, telling the customer story, and improving employee and customer experience.

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Are Your Customers Persona Non Grata?

CX Journey

Source: Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Research, 2013 Amazon is really a great example of a customer-focused, customer-centric company. Actually, the better phrase, their phrase, is "obsessed over customers." The customer is an afterthought. The customer is not an outcome. The customer is an input.

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How food retailers can compete against Amazon’s Whole Foods and European grocers

Alida

“If you have a customer-centric culture, that cures a lot of ills,” Bezos said in an interview in 2013. Let’s say you’re the leader in a particular arena, if you’re competitor-focused and you’re already the leader, then where does your energy come from? Retailers should take up Bezos’ advice immediately. .”

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of February 22, 2021

ShepHyken

Here’s why the experts think empathy is the key to customer experience by Kate Rogerson. Comm100) Buzzwords come and go in the customer experience world, but while we lose our patience with most, there are some that rightfully stick around. In 2013, Forrester Research landed on one such phrase – the ‘age of the customer’.

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Customer Experience Commitment – 2016 Customer Centricity Research Findings

ijgolding

When it comes to the subject of Customer Experience, there are many questions I would like to know the answer to. Describe up to three things (in your own words) that are either enabling your organisation to focus on Customer Experience or not (as the case may be)! ENABLE people to have a customer focused mindset.

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Top 50 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Storyminers

Barry Dalton is a Customer Experience strategy and CX technology leader with accomplishments in designing and implementing strategy and technology architecture across Marketing, Sales & Service with a particular industry focus on Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, and Technology. Leslie O’Flahavan.

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Why is customer service constantly so bad in the UK?

Vonage

According to The Institute’s latest UK Customer Satisfaction Index (UKCSI) some of the biggest frustrations that customers have relate to the speed of complaint handling and the attitude and abilities of staff. Under these two metrics, organisations are still scoring, on average, lower than they were in 2013.