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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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The question was a precursor to defining why Customer Experience needs good, strong leadership. This month, I want to ask three connected but altogether different questions: What do you do if the organisation you work for or with does NOT have strong customer focused leadership?

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Customer Centricity Leadership Customer Focused Customer Experience Professionals 148

Help.com

OCTOBER 13, 2014

A customer-centered company culture is overwhelmingly resistant to being knocked off by your competition. At Apple, insiders credit much of the company’s success in retailing to the cultural fit Apple looks for and inspires in its personnel. So what really protects a company culture from knockoff artists?

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ShepHyken

APRIL 10, 2019

To protect him from the backlash he’s concerned about, we’ll change his name to “protect the innocent,” as the saying goes, just in case someone from his company reads this. As part of his onboarding process, Bob was put through customer service training. He learned about how to treat the company’s customers with dignity and respect.

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Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He observed that call centers catered to Fortune 500 and 1000 companies. Frederick thought, “How about a BPO business focusing on the economy’s unsung heroes: small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs)? He recalls the early days when the company operated from a home office. It is where the spark of innovation ignited.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2018

In today’s lively chat with Sue, we talk about her customer service experience and leadership that paved the way for her success in transforming the CX culture at Newegg, a multi-billion dollar company that has been customer-focused since its inception. Customer Experience Leadership Means Being a Team Player.

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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. How can you create a customer-first culture? The Ideal Customer Journey.

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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.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 2, 2016

It’s called The Human Duct Tape Show because CCO work often is akin to being a form of human duct tape — and if you want really actionable insights and plans in terms of how people broke down silos and stitched together cross-functionality in the name of the customer in huge companies, those episodes all have some great examples.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

We’ve talked before on this blog about the need to be a customer-focused CEO. But since CEOs are often the major decision-maker within an organization, it’s important to understand the decision-making styles of customer-focused CEOs. 2 Decision-Making Style: They Guide Company Behavior With Decisiveness.

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Blake Morgan

APRIL 25, 2023

Is your leadership strategy guided by data or simply a shot in the dark? Internal insights and customer feedback are essential to building an effective customer-focused leadership strategy. Diana Brown, SVP of Sales Operations and Customer Experience at XPO, involves leaders with the data through feedback loops.

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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?

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Michelli Experience

JANUARY 26, 2016

Whenever I consider offering customer experience consulting services for a prospective business client, I interview senior leadership and ask a lot of questions that get at motivation and their perceived purpose for the potential partnership. Declare It – Once you have your leadership destination in mind, make it public.

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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.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 16, 2016

I talked a bit about this in my book Chief Customer Officer 2.0 , but when discussing the idea of accountable leadership in terms of developing a customer-first, customer-obsessed culture, it all comes down to three major themes (which can further be broken down into a series of actions). Proving it with actions.

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Blake Morgan

MARCH 13, 2023

Looking to be customer-centric? Companies with female CEOs aren’t just more profitable —they also tend to lead in customer experience. Women thrive in customer-centric roles. Although women are still underrepresented in leadership positions, tides are changing to include more women in the C-suite.

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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.

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Blake Morgan

MAY 31, 2022

That customer-first mindset is at the core of Spindrift, from the products that are created to the messages that are shared. . Here are three ways Bill Creelman practices customer-centric leadership: . He leverages a core group of passionate customers. Taking on established beverage companies is a tall order.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 10, 2016

Optimizing customer feedback is one of the most straightforward ways to gain momentum for customer focus. You only need to engage active leadership listening and direct the organization to hear your customers’ stories. Leadership Listening Recipes. GIVE PERMISSION: Enable cross-company collaboration.

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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.

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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. Measurement.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

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. Creating a Customer-Focused Process. We call this type of map, Moment Mapping ®.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 21, 2016

Nick is the CCO of Esri, which is the world’s second-largest privately-held technology company. This creates a new set of challenges for the CCO role — in publicly-held and traded companies, many executive decision-making concepts are beholden to share price and investor relationships. Digging Into The Data.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

My work is definitely focused on for-profit organizations and much of what I do helps largish companies make more money. “Creating fewer ruined days for customers.” Whether it’s as individuals or representing a company, we are human. . appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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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

Customer Bliss

APRIL 5, 2016

When working with companies on developing customer-focused growth cultures, I often get asked about this idea of a company core values list. It seems that every company has a core values list, but oftentimes the words used are similar — and they can be words that mean many different things to different people.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 12, 2016

We talked about several key topics, including: The rise of the chief customer officer. 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.

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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. Jack Welch believed in people – employees AND customers. Here are some of Jeff’s most famous quotes: A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

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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?

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

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. Amazon put a stake in the ground by announcing its hope to be the world’s most customer-centered company. Are they perfect?

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Customer Focused Company Airlines Culture 40

Customer Bliss

MARCH 30, 2016

In order to understand how customer-focused companies design processes for listening to customers, we need to start by thinking about the three types of listening: Unaided or volunteer listening. Normally, this occurs through channels such as traditional customer service, the website, and social media.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Most organizations do not fully understand, or leverage, the key linkages and relationships between customer experience and employee experience/behavior. The questions in these ‘new age’ employee surveys address such key areas as:: – Organizational stakeholder-centric leadership.

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ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

However, for a business to most effectively leverage the competencies of CXPs, it is vital that they are supported by a critical and powerful ingredient – transformational leadership. An organisations approach to Customer Experience will live or die on the strength of transformational leadership. Problem solving skills.

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InMoment XI

MAY 24, 2022

These signposts, or markers, represent the points along the path, or the trajectory, employee experience has taken, as companies become more mature in a) how they consider employee contribution, in other words the importance attached to it, and b) what role, or roles, employees have in enterprise culture, strategy, and business outcomes. #1:

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Even several years before the pandemic began, The American Customer Satisfaction Index found the overall ratings slipping, even with brands most recognized for high levels of customer service. . It’s not like companies purposely provide poor customer service. The company can’t keep up. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Micah Solomon

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The author, Micah Solomon, is an author, consultant, influencer, keynote speaker, and trainer in customer service, customer experience, customer service culture, and hospitality. The standard level of customer service at most modern companies is reactive. Here are three ways to reach Micah: email, chat, web).

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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.

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