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One of my favorite questions was about my "Shark Tank sales pitch" about the CXO role: Why does a company need a customer experience executive? Image courtesy of GMC Who needs a customer experience executive? What does this person do? What are the critical success factors for this role? What advice is there for future customer experience executives? Those are just some of the questions addressed in an eBook I wrote - and GMC Software released - about six weeks ago. MORE
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Your response… “ It’s against company policy ” for me to do that… Continue reading… The post I Don’t Care if it’s Against Company Policy appeared first on Steve DiGioia and was written by Steve DiGioia. Customer Interaction against compay policy company policy MORE
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The fifth of my customer experience competencies is one-company accountability, leadership, and culture. Each week on my podcast , a different CCO-level leader talks about this one-company leadership culture. One-company executive leadership: The key questions. MORE
Enough with the tired old pitch from consultants about things like: “Why 7 out of 10 strategy implementations fail” or: “The top 5 reasons why companies improve things customers don’t care about” (I wrote that one so I am throwing myself under the bus as. MORE
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In 1984, as I lead the customer experience strategy at Lands’ End, I helped map the company’s customer journey and identify 267 touchpoints, narrowing that list down to the key 15 that were most critical to our customers. MORE
Amazon says on its Investor Relation’s page: We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company for four primary customer sets: consumers, sellers, enterprises, and content creators. Companies who lead in customer service don’t legislate it with policies and procedures – they live it. MORE
What’s wrong with this company? They come to their new job with rose-colored glasses and all of a sudden think that their new company does everything wrong. “I’m Continue reading… The post What’s Wrong With This Company? Management what's wrong with this companywhy do they do things like this? This original article was written by Steve DiGioia. That’s not the way it’s supposed to be? Why do we need to do this? I can’t work this way. MORE
Many companies that claim to offer good customer service in reality are grounded in an operations’ mentality with rules and policies that allow for little flexibility, preventing them from rising above anything more than average or satisfactory. MORE
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