Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Customer Experience Leaders Have a Global Customer Focus. Even after over a decade of helping small and large businesses alike, I still meet leaders who believe that Customer Experience is just about so much call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. Share the best stuff! Do this more often!

Customer Focused 208

Customer Focused Customer Centricity Call Center Communication 208

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2021

Sometimes the customer-focused “way” is seen as a brand within a brand. The Disney Way” or “Zappos Culture” is shorthand for that relentless view to prioritize customers, their wellbeing, and their goals. Six Ways to Actively Build a Customer-Centric Culture: 1. In a word, it all comes back to the culture.

Customer Centricity 190

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Government 190

ijgolding

MAY 17, 2017

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Although I have never met him, or worked for his company, perhaps my biggest business hero of all – especially from a customer experience perspective, is the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.

Customer Centricity 181

Customer Centricity Leadership Competitive Advantage Sports 181

InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

The best customer experience quotes can be a great source of inspiration for leadership teams and entire organizations looking to drive their CX transformation. According to research: Companies that earn $1 billion annually can expect to earn, on average, an additional $700 million within 3 years of investing in customer experience.

Customer Experience 260

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 260

InMoment XI

AUGUST 2, 2023

In our latest report, State of Customer Experience: 2023 UK Consumer Study in partnership with NPSx by Bain & Company, we uncovered the differences between industries and brands and how each brand represents certain values. The true value lies in taking decisive action based on the insights gathered from customers.

NPS 260

NPS Customer Centricity Tips Automotive 260

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Art of Selling CX: Convincing Skeptical Senior Leaders on Customer Experience Success Introduction In the dynamic landscape of customer experience (CX) management, the journey extends beyond strategic implementation; it’s a constant process of persuasion and selling ideas, especially to senior leadership.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Automotive Fashion 130

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

How do you transform the culture and operations of your company to benefit the lives of your customers? Determine What Your Customers Value and What Makes Them Happy. Sami and his colleagues in the C-Suite wanted to know what customers really thought of American Bath Group. What did they value? What made them happy?

Culture 197

Culture Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Company 197

ECXO

MAY 11, 2023

You’ll also probably know that the most successful companies go beyond offering quality products and services, and competitive prices, to design experiences that differentiate their brand and create emotional connections with customers. Everything they do is built around their customers. Let’s continue.

Customer Centricity 52

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Customers will spend more, stay longer and tell their friends about the brand. If metrics like retention rate, lifetime customer value, and new leads from referrals are important to your company, then great customer experience is too. Customer experience suffers, and customers lose faith in the overall brand.

Culture 251

Culture Company Lifetime Customer Customer Centricity 251

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 1, 2019

In addition to focusing on things that needed to get fixed, Scott wanted to know how they could improve things that were already going well and make them better. Scott realized that DHL is a great business but didn’t believe that the company communicated it well enough. Be customer-focused (centricity).

Customer Centricity 165

Customer Centricity Social Media Leadership Customer relationships 165

ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

I often say that if I were to be given £5, or $5 for every time a member of the C-Suite stated that ‘customer centricity’ was ‘very important’ to their business, I would be a VERY rich man – but is it actually true! Organisations having a dedicated resource to champion their Customer Experience cause 10%.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customers Leadership 120

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

Customer Focused 275

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

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. Starting an organisations Customer Experience transformation is hard – something I have written about in the past.

Customer Centricity 263

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

Blake Morgan

JULY 18, 2023

           From Chief Experience and Chief Customer Officers to Customer Experience leaders, more companies are creating customer leadership roles. These positions can greatly impact customer-centricity, but they bring a common question: where do you start?

Leadership 52

Leadership Chief Customer Officer How To Customer Centricity 52

ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2020

She shares tips on how to create an effective customer-centric company culture. There’s a lot of talk about customer-centricity and customer-centric organizations, but what does that really mean? If your business is customer-centric, those things are the least of your worries.

Customer Centricity 81

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Leadership 81

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Many companies seeking to improve their Customer Experience (CX) understand the importance of putting the customer at the center of everything they do. Not all companies have this problem though. There are nine orientation areas that we use to determine a company’s customer centricity level.

Company 160

Company Customer Centricity Leadership Consulting 160

Russel Lolacher

MARCH 2, 2022

Annette Franz , and that new book is Built to Win: Designing a Customer-Centric Culture that Drives Value for Your Business. I’m extremely excited to further learn from her and, I have no patience, so we had a discussion about what it takes to build a customer-centric organization that I wanted to share with you.

Customer Centricity 59

Customer Centricity Omni-Channel Culture Leadership 59

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

An organization’s process tells me a great deal about how Customer-centric they are. Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus.

Customer Focused 153

Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2017

Over the last few months, I have been exploring in detail my perspective on seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric. If you have an aspiration to lead or be part of a sustainably customer centric organisation, then you must master the art of COMMUNICATION! “If

Customer Centricity 171

Customer Centricity Communication Culture Customers 171

Kustomer

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Annette Pedroza to learn about building a customer centric culture. Success Starts with Leadership. Improving CX Through Company Assessment. Are their employees open to change?

Customer Centricity 59

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Effort Score 59

Customer Bliss

APRIL 12, 2016

Why every company should strive to implement customer-centric leadership. Adopting and holding to customer-centric practices. How to still value customers in times of economic/business downturns. The Need For Customer-Centric Leaders.

Chief Customer Officer 100

Chief Customer Officer Company Customer Experience Customer Centricity 100

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It is difficult to deny that these three terms are becoming increasingly visible in the language of business: Customer Service. Customer Experience. Customer Centricity. Customer Services is NOT Customer Experience. However… this is where the link to the last ‘customer’ term comes in.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Service Customers 120

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It starts with leadership defining who you are as an organization and what you stand for. Daily meetings involving all team members, regardless of their position, help to unify the company’s culture and values. Using tools like Net Promoter Scores (NPS) to measure customer and employee experiences provides valuable insights.

Net Promoter Score 88

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Culture Employee Experience 88

Customer Bliss

JULY 21, 2016

United leadership is important. I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983 (wow), and united leadership — which I regularly call one-company leadership in my books, speeches, and my five competencies — is as important as anything else. (If United Leadership: Necessary to move from talk to action.

Leadership 100

Leadership Chief Customer Officer Customer Journeys Metrics 100

Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, there are plenty of good customer experience books to read if you want to learn more about customer experience. To help you out, we have listed our top 10 must-read customer experience books. Customer service is not a department. This is a book for everyone in any position in any organization.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management Customer Centricity 236

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. Customer Focus. It’s notable that, at this more evolved and advanced stage of enterprise customer-centricity, complaints are thought of more in terms of a life cycle component, and recovery is more of a strategy than resolution: Customer Obsession.

Customer Centricity 60

Customer Centricity Omni-Channel Company Banking 60

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

Return on Investment 266

Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 266

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Customer Management Practice is the analyst, advisor and industry network that helps companies turn customers into raving fans. Follow on LinkedIn.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

C3Centricity

MAY 11, 2020

By now, every CEO knows that a stronger customer focus is the answer to many of their business challenges. Why therefore do so many companies still struggle to adopt a customer-first strategy and culture? The CEO has stated it as a company objective but has not detailed what nor how the organisation will change.

Strategy 194

Strategy Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer CRM 194

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

Customer Centricity 110

Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Secrets to Customer-Centric Business Growth Lynn Hunsaker. A potter’s wheel makes a great metaphor for customer-centered business. The potter focuses first on foundational stability, then shaping, then fine-tuning. Regularly assess what’s at-odds or in-harmony with your customer experience objectives.

Customer Centricity 74

Customer Centricity Sports Policies Culture 74

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

You must absolutely believe that enabling an organisation to be more customer centric is the ‘right thing to do’ – right for the customer; right for the employee; and right for the shareholder. Not only that, the Customer Experience is not the responsibility of a CXP – it is the responsibility of the WHOLE ORGANISATION.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

Leadership 110

Leadership Chief Customer Officer Handbook Social Media 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I’m often asked how or where a company should start improving CX. Consider this way-too-typical scenario: Marcus decides one day to stand in front of his employees and request in no uncertain terms how everyone needs to be more customer-focused. “Help customers love our company and brand more!

Net Promoter Score 547

Net Promoter Score How To Customer Centricity Metrics 547

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. The reason you are delivering the Customer experience you do today is because of the way the organization is.

Customer Centricity 114

Customer Centricity Employee Experience CEM Culture 114

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

Return on Investment 182

Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 182

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As CEO and co-founder of MarketCulture Strategies , he, like everyone he associates with, is on a mission to get companies to understand the importance of customer culture: Ian. My fascination with the ‘customer interface’ was born! Was HP a customer focused organisation at that time?

Culture 264

Culture Measurement Customer Centricity Hotels 264