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Five Questions To Answer for Customer Journey Mapping Success

Heart of the Customer

Successful customer journey maps drive customer-focused change like improving customer experience, developing a new way to deliver value to customers, or reducing the cost to serve current customers. The reason?

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10 Customer Service Trends to Watch in 2016

Tricia Morris

Jeanne Bliss: Chief Customer Officer Author and CXPA Co-founder. Sumair Dutta: The Service Council Chief Customer Officer and Former Aberdeen Customer Experience Analyst. Annette Franz: Certified Customer Experience Professional, CX Journey Author and CXPA Board Member.

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The cost of NOT focussing on Customer Experience

ijgolding

However (there is always one of those), Customer Experience Professionals all around the world, still seem to be fighting a justification battle – fending off attack from those who do not believe in the value of CX as a strategic priority, or from those who do not believe that any ongoing investment is required to sustain a focus on it.

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Customer Experience in the Gulf Region – A Story of Continuous Improvement!

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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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Embedding Customer Centricity: The Customer Experience Jigsaw Puzzle

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Customer journey maps of all shapes and sizes are adorning many a conference room wall. Enough customer personas have been created by businesses to launch a new country! I am immensely proud to be part of a wonderful community of committed, passionate, driven professionals.

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How to Engage Employees in Your Customer Experience Strategy

CX Journey

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. But what tools do we give to employees to prepare them to deliver a great customer experience?

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The Customer Experience Hokey Cokey! Why do companies find it so hard to commit to CX?

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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.