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Is the Chief Customer Officer a Worthwhile Addition to the C-Suite?

Retently

But taking customer satisfaction lightly can be dangerous too. Some studies from 2016 suggest that poor customer service costs businesses up to $62 million per year. trillion per year when their customers leave – and that’s only in the US. Well, that’s where the Chief Customer Officer comes into play.

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Embedding Customer Centricity: The Customer Experience Jigsaw Puzzle

ijgolding

How many customer segments should we have? Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. What is fascinating about the questions I am asked, is that more often than not, most organisations have started their journey to becoming Customer Centric. How many people should we have in our CX team? I could go on.

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Is 2015 the Year of #CX?

CX Journey

. #1 Customer Experience will become the major differentiator In the news: According to Deloitte , 82% of brands perceive customer experience as a competitive differentiator. By 2016, 89% of companies surveyed by Gartner plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience. And this number is only rising.

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Why Go Digital? Because Your Customers May Already Be There

CCO Council

A recent HBR article described a 2016 study examining the forecast rate of digital disruption. My personal conversations with chief customer officers (CCOs) confirm that B2B industries are not far behind. Executives expect digital disruption to be the most severe in B2C industries, particularly in media.

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2016 Customer Service Trends: Empowering All Employees to Serve the Customer

Tricia Morris

We’ve all heard the saying “customer service is the new marketing,” but with 89% of companies expected to compete mostly on the basis of customer experience in 2016 (compared to just 36% in 2010)*, it’s not just marketing where customer service makes an impact. Beyond Knowledge: Insights.

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Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020

SurveySensum

Lynn Hunsaker started her career as chair of a 20-country, 6-division task force designing customer satisfaction methodology as a manager in the Strategic Planning department at then-Fortune-250-ranked Sonoco Products. She is now Chief Customer Officer at ClearAction Continuum. LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link].

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Top 50 Customer Service Leaders – Best Customer Experience Influencers

Storyminers

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. Annette was named one of “The 100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter” by Business Insider and is regularly recognized by companies around the world as a top influencer in Customer Experience. Aimee Lucas.