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.

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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.

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SurveyGizmo

MARCH 15, 2021

For the first part of last year we all tried to adjust as best we could, suddenly being thrust into remote workplaces, non-stop Zoom meetings, managing our kids’ at-home learning while working, keeping our families safe, and trying to keep employees engaged while trying to stay engaged ourselves.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

CX leaders today face a long list of challenges, including adapting to a dynamic market environment and ensuring every stakeholder, supervisor, and employee in the business is aligned with the customer-centric vision. Companies focusing on CX see their revenue grow 1.7 But, leaders, take a deep breath!

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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

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ECXO

JUNE 11, 2023

Customer Experience = Seeing + Being + Doing Customer Centricity is the umbrella for concepts like Customer Experience, Customer Intimacy, Customer Advocacy, Customer Loyalty, etc. The purpose of a large multinational: “To put a Smile on our customers’ faces today and tomorrow.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage Government 122

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.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Leaders often have the customers in mind when they have these ideas. They want to do the right thing, but they get caught up in the idea of the moment instead of investing in truly customer-centric ideas for their long-term strategy. Blog Customer Experience Featured Opinion customer engagement leadership linkedin marketing'

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Horizon CX

APRIL 1, 2024

Customer experience maturity is a way of measuring an organization’s ability to design and deliver a consistently positive customer experience. These characteristics may include: Customer-centric culture: The organization has a culture that is obsessed with the customer and focused on meeting their needs.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage 130

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 16, 2015

DISCLAIMER: The CX Feud is a game in which 150 customer experience professionals took our assessment about the presence, or absence, of customer centricity practices in their organizations. When it comes to customer experience activities and commitment, leaders appear to be: 1. "All On your marks…. Let's start ….

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Customer Centricity Leadership Data Net Promoter Score 48

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.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Handbook Social Media 110

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Identify the Company’s Goals Before you start looking for people or draft your CX strategy, your first step should be to clarify and understand the wider objectives of your organization. What does the company want to achieve? And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

CSM Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2023

Calabrio, the workforce performance company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin Jones as CEO. Kevin succeeds Tom Goodmanson, Calabrio’s current CEO who is leaving after successfully leading the company for the past 15 years. I am excited to see how Kevin moves the company forward.”

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Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Last week I attended the Arizona State University, Center for Services Leadership (CSL) Compete Through Service Symposium. I was impressed by what the CSL is doing to equip future customer service/experience leaders. One of the speakers was Mike Gathright, Director Americas Customer Services at Amazon.com. Listen to customers.

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Secrets to Customer-Centric Business Growth Lynn Hunsaker. A potter’s wheel makes a great metaphor for customer-centered business. Sharing the vision, walking the talk, and nurturing the ecosystem are foundational musts for customer-centered business. If not, re-design it! Innovation — Creating Mutual Value.

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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.

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Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Every each of them answered the following questions: How do you see the future of customer experience? What are, in your opinion, the top challenges in customer experience that companies should be aware of in 2018? Companies do marketing, sales and CRM – the customer does the experience!

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Integrity Solutions

APRIL 28, 2021

What actions can you take to both increase employee engagement and create a customer retention strategy that moves more of your customers from “satisfied” to “loyal”? One of the key tenets of a customer retention strategy is that it relentlessly focuses on value creation. A 5-step roadmap to get you started.

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Customer Retention Strategy Net Promoter Score Employee Engagement 90

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Emotional Engagement and Customer Centricity. How to Drive Customer and Employee Engagement for a Better Customer Experience. They discuss strategies for building customer centricity and emotional engagement. That means spending time on the frontlines of customer service.

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Maz Iqbal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Let’s assume that for the purposes of this conversation that when I use the term customer-centricity I am pointing towards a specific behaviours which show an organisation as being attuned and responsive to the needs of their customers – their core customer base. How did it go? Or are you?

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Customer Centricity Case Study Leadership Employee Engagement 79

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2023

That’s why the foundational work of defining CX at your organization — through a CX Mission Statement and CX Success Statement — is so critically important to accomplishing real change and delivering on real outcomes through customer experience. Customer experience will happen whether or not you talk about.

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Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 2, 2015

You’re going to have to face them sooner or later if you’re trying to build a customer-centric culture. How do you get them to care about company goals? Before you bang your head on your mahogany desk, maybe you should ask yourself another question: Why should your employees care? The Power of Customer-Centric Goals.

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CX University

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

So even before we talk about customer centricity, or about the change your customers and employees want, we need to discuss moose hunts. What on This Good Green Earth Is a Moose, and How Does It Keep My Business from Becoming More Customer-Centric? The trick is to empower employees to help you change.

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Customer Centricity Airlines Policies Course 67

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. If you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee.” Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

But if you’re not careful, these steps may sabotage customer experience, leading to more customers complaining, leaving, then telling their 10 zillion Twitter followers why your company (and you) stink! Watch out for these sneaky ways typical business methods lead to customer defection. Never dealing with customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2016

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. In the consumer world, satisfaction has only incidental proven connection to customer experience and behavior, and engagement has similar challenges for employees (and customers). That is what the scope of employee ambassadorship helps to provide.

Leadership 60

Leadership Engagement Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 60

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. Was HP a customer focused organisation at that time? However, towards the end of the 90’s, HPs leadership changed.

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inmoment

APRIL 30, 2020

The first, the inner loop (which you can read more about here ), is what we just mentioned—interacting with customers one-on-one to listen to and act upon their feedback. Closing the outer loop, by contrast, refers to making customer centricity and continuous improvement the beating heart of any organization.

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PeopleMetrics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

“I am available to the employees brave enough to enter my office and interrupt me.”. These unspoken social interpretations are a big part of employee engagement and culture. They influence whether employees share their honest opinions or guard them. Cultural Shifts Need Leadership. Prioritizing change.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2016

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Earl Sasser, and Leonard Schlesinger in 1994 in Harvard Business Review, and in a 1997 book by the last three authors, can essentially be explained as follows: It is a theory of business management which links employee satisfaction to customer loyalty and profitability.

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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.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 22, 2014

I recently had the opportunity to hear Derrick Hall, CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks , speak at the Arizona State University, Center for Services Leadership (CSL) Compete Through Service Symposium. Hall was extremely passionate about customer experience. The Diamondbacks use several mechanisms to engage employees.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 25, 2019

This conversation is great for leaders interested in learning how to develop a solid base for customer and employee experience within their organization and then expound upon that framework. . Get Senior Leadership to Understand Your CX Plans. He put together a one-page roadmap and brought it to the senior leadership team.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Does the tone and messaging match your customer experience mission? Re-write your company’s job postings. Do they to reflect a customer-centric culture? Consider your hiring methods and make sure they align with your customer experience mission. Do they say thank you in more than a boilerplate way!?

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience eBook Employee Engagement 306

Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

These 30 top blogs cover a wide variety of CX-related topics, from creating a customer-centric culture to refining the contact center or delivering personalized experiences. With an entrepreneurial background, Adam has seen firsthand the impact of CX on companies of all sizes. Adam Toporek . Adrian Swinscoe . Bill Quiseng .

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Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

ClearAction

MAY 27, 2013

Customer-Centricity Goes Beyond Customer Experience Management Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience management is necessary, yet insufficient. Traditionally, organizations have managed customer experience with a mindset of how the company is doing, in order to grow revenue. What Exactly is Customer-Centricity?

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