Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 7, 2016

Whilst emotions are important and account for over 50% of a Customer Experience, understanding how to stimulate and evoke emotions at the subconscious and psychological level is the latest thought leadership in our field. Predictive analytics are key to improving Customer Experience in 2016. My Prediction .

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 7, 2016

Whilst emotions are important and account for over 50% of a Customer Experience, understanding how to stimulate and evoke emotions at the subconscious and psychological level is the latest thought leadership in our field. Predictive analytics are key to improving Customer Experience in 2016. My Prediction .

Employee Engagement 60

Employee Engagement Insurance Exercises Analytics 60

Tricia Morris

JANUARY 4, 2016

A new year brings resolutions to change or improve in ways that matter, and for brands and organizations, customer service is always a key focus. I don’t think that this endeavor will be completed in 2016, but those who have bought in to the importance of service will look to: 1. Why Will This Have an Impact in 2016? “A

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Trends Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Self Service 40

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done? They are not the first senior leadership team of a company to ask a question along these lines – they are very unlikely to be the last. Take a second to digest that information.

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CX Journey

AUGUST 16, 2017

It's been a year or more since I've written about the ROI of customer experience. Always good to revisit this topic because it is such a hot one for customer experience professionals. Companies with high or improving scores had higher stock returns than their competitors and outperformed market indexes.

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Kerry Bodine

JUNE 20, 2015

I’ve compiled the following list of conferences spanning a variety of topics — like CEM, service design, customer loyalty, customer success, and contact centers — that should be of interest to a wide range of customer experience professionals. Customer Success Association’s Customer SuccessCon Europe.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Temkin Group, a leading customer experience firm, has published its annual list of customer experience trends. As a part of these publications, Temkin is calling 2016 “The Year of Emotion.” ” Here are the 10 customer experience trends to watch in 2016: 1.

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ijgolding

APRIL 5, 2016

A few days ago I published an interview I recently conducted with a company called ReachForce. The very first question they asked me was “How did you become so passionate about customer experience management?” ” It is a question that I do not recall ever being asked before. It is really quite remarkable.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

If you have not yet guessed, the Hokey Cokey has actually become the perfect analogy for the way organisations around the world are attempting to put Customer Experience at the forefront of their strategic thinking. Over the last twenty years, Customer Experience as a strategic way of working has steadily increased in prominence.

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Tricia Morris

JANUARY 25, 2016

Notes speaker and New York Times bestselling customer service author Shep Hyken in Microsoft’s 10 Customer Service Trends to Watch in 2016 , “Self-service is trending strong. Customer forums where people post questions and customers, rather than company employees, post answers are also becoming popular.

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Alida

JUNE 16, 2016

A thought leader in CX even before this practice became mainstream , Bliss is an author and a rexpected expert on customer-centric leadership. As we recently announced, Bliss is one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit in Chicago. Her blog is widely recognized as one of the top blogs on CX.

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ijgolding

JANUARY 4, 2017

When it comes to the world of Customer Experience, business people and Customer Experience Professionals all around the world will be thinking of and dreaming about, a more customer centric 2017. During 2016, I did at times feel like a stuck record (remember those!), Education, education, education!

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Kerry Bodine

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve compiled the following list of conferences spanning a variety of topics — like CEM, service design, customer loyalty, customer success, and contact centers — that should be of interest to a wide range of customer experience professionals. March 6 – 8, 2016. Media Companies. July 4 – 5, 2017.

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Alida

APRIL 26, 2018

According to CMO.com way, back in 2016, 63% percent of CEOs saw rallying their organizations around the customer as one of the top three investment priorities for the year. Today, customer centricity, or some notion thereof, has become the strategic posture of almost every profitable company in existence.

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ijgolding

JANUARY 15, 2016

In my experience, there are three main behaviours displayed by organisations that almost see Customer Experience more as ‘fiction’ rather than ‘fact’ – those behaviours are: 1. The Know It All’ – this type of company does not think it needs to ‘do’ Customer Experience because ‘we already do it’; or ‘we do not need to do it’.

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Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

According to an Accenture-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, only seven percent of business leaders think that their company’s shopping experience exceeds customer expectations. Twenty-five percent admit that their company isn’t meeting expectations at all. CX is a huge business opportunity.

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Natalie Petouhof

JANUARY 19, 2016

Tweet I’m here with my colleagues, Holger Mueller @holgermu and Doug Henschen @ DHenschen , covering the #OracleCloud Summit 2016 in NYC at the Waldorf Astoria @ WaldorfNYC. BTW the Waldorf Astoria has great customer service!!!). It’s something I’ve been on a soapbox for years. This is something that is so important.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 11, 2017

It appeared on their blog in August, 2016. I'm often asked about the future of customer experience: What does it look like? What will companies focus on this year? What are the latest tools to help companies improve the experience? Companies are sitting on a goldmine of data. Which tools?

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ijgolding

JANUARY 24, 2017

It has also been evident for many years that the region has been increasingly focused on delivering great customer service – not just a great product. Thus, the term ‘customer service’ is not new. Yet despite this, a demonstrable understanding and application of Customer Experience has not been as obvious.

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Quadient

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As a Customer Experience focused company with rapidly expanding software businesses, the Quadient team spends a lot of time analyzing our clients' journeys with our products and services, as well as the journeys of their customers that our software supports. When the Journey is the Destination, Quadient is a Leader.

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Alida

AUGUST 8, 2016

Get your copy of the e-book and catch Ray Poynter’s presentations at the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit to learn more. In my upcoming presentations at the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit in Chicago and London , I’ll be sharing actionable tactics on how to thrive as a modern market researcher.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In 2016, I am already scheduled to work in North America and the Middle East as well as continuing my efforts in Europe and Africa. In all cases, I have been asked to work with; talk to; teach; cajole; people from the C-suite to the front line; in understanding the importance of Customer Experience.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 2, 2019

It's about time that companies start focusing on the employees. As I always say, "Quite simply, without employees, you have no customer experience." And if your employees aren't having a great experience, neither will your customers. Traditionally, customer experience professionals are thought to have no budget.

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CX Journey

MAY 24, 2017

It appeared on their blog on August 29, 2016. Quite simply: without employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee engagement and experience and the customer experience has been proven. Let employees choose if your company is the kind of company they want to work for.

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Comm100

MARCH 8, 2017

Connect with this customer service expert on Twitter today to make sure that your company doesn’t miss out! Her Twitter sports articles about Millennial trends, and is a hot spot for information on what companies can do to appeal to Generation Z and Millennial consumers. Chelsea Krost. ChelseaKrost. Marsha Collier. CarlaJohnson.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Aligning what the customer wants to what the business wants will then give your organisation a chance to piece all of its valuable activity together to get to the ultimate prize – an embedded Customer Centric culture. I am immensely proud to be part of a wonderful community of committed, passionate, driven professionals.

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CX Journey

MAY 3, 2016

This is a modified version of that post, which appeared on their blog on March 30, 2016. The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) was established in 2011 to support and to advance the customer experience profession, to set standards for the profession, and to increase the visibility of these long-unsung heroes.

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Tricia Morris

MARCH 14, 2016

. – Microsoft Global State of Multichannel Customer Service Report. • The average consumer interacts with customer service 65 times a year. • 76% of consumers say they view customer service as the true test of how much a company values them. Want to Learn More About Customer Service & Retention?

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ijgolding

MAY 3, 2016

It is a joy to write about Customer Experiences that quite literally WOW us; that send tingles down our spine; that can sometimes bring a tear to the eye. The 1 st May 2016 was my Grandma’s 102 nd birthday. One particular customer touched by a magical moment was so moved; he decided to reinvest some funds into the company.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

But if they are doing all that, why do customer still report, in large part, that their experience of most brands is not up to snuff? What I discovered is that there are two groups of people that think about customer / digital experience, but in very different ways. So how could that be? DrNatalie Petouhoff.

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Maru/HUB

JUNE 12, 2018

In an interview with our CEO in 2016, he noted “the problem we will face going forward is that survey burden is real”. But, in a world where we feel we need to know everything about our customers, what makes for a well-designed customer survey that will give organisations the feedback that they can make actionable?

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CX Journey

MAY 12, 2016

Know the difference, especially when customer experience professionals talk about the importance of empathy to the customer experience. Granted, it is now 2016, but empathy is equally important, if not more so. In 2014, Bruce Temkin noted that empathy would be the CX word of the year.

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Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

At Storyminers, we are grateful for the acknowledgement, and we realize the real credit goes to the professionals on the front lines of the daily challenge to win support for the ideas that will positively change companies and deliver more value to customers. Thought leaders come in all shapes and sizes. Aimee Lucas.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

At Storyminers, we are grateful for the acknowledgement, and we realize the real credit goes to the professionals on the front lines of the daily challenge to win support for the ideas that will positively change companies and deliver more value to customers. Thought leaders come in all shapes and sizes. Aimee Lucas.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Founder & CEO of Beyond Philosophy LLC, Colin is recognized as a world thought leader in customer experience. Colin is an accomplished Speaker, a renowned Best-Selling Author, and a Co-Host of a successful podcast, The Intuitive Customer. She led CX company-wide for 11 years at Applied Materials. LinkedIn : [link].

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Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Tricia Morris

JANUARY 11, 2016

“Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.” ” ~ Richard Branson. Beyond Knowledge: Insights.

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ijgolding

JUNE 25, 2017

When I first conceived the idea for the article I wrote in my exclusive CustomerThink column in October 2016, I did not think I would be able to continue writing about the subject matter, seven months later! Customer experience professionals need to be able to use every tool in their armoury to make these words a reality.

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