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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Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

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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Customer Centricity Company Insurance Travel 66

Blake Morgan

MARCH 21, 2023

What does it take to build a disruptive, customer-centric company? It starts with customer-centric leaders. Aside from a strong digital experience, what sets Betterment apart is its customer-centric leadership. Customer-centric leaders ensure there’s a continuous feedback loop within the organization.

Leadership 59

Leadership Customer Focused Customer Centricity How To 59

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

Follow on LinkedIn Agnes So, Head of Customer Support & Engagement at HotDoc Based in Melbourne, Agness is passionate about creating exceptional customer experiences through lean teams, self-service, and training. Brad teaches courses on customer strategy and management, customer service leadership, and CX leadership.

Customer Service 207

Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 207

ECXO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is Proud to Present Karen Jaw-Madson – Innovator in ‘Culture Your Corporate Culture’ speaking about Connecting Culture, CX and EX for Impact When? Which is passionate about Conversational AI to empower every person and every organization to achieve more.

Culture 52

Culture Connections Contact Center Leadership 52

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. What exactly is employee-centricity ?

Customer Centricity 90

Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Culture Employee Engagement 90

Horizon CX

MARCH 25, 2019

In customer-centric organizations, issues are resolved with the customers’ best interests in mind. Great customer experience is an organization-level pursuit. CX leaders worth their salt are steadfast in cultivating customer-centric practices and a culture that puts the customer first.

Leadership 113

Leadership Customer Centricity Employee Engagement Effort Score 113

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. It’s up to CX leaders to clearly communicate about these connections for their organization.

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ROI CEM Net Promoter Score Customer Experience 260

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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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 52

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. As I have committed my experiences, thoughts and knowledge to writing, several common themes and ‘connections’ have risen to the surface.

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Customer Centricity Communication Culture Customers 171

Russel Lolacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with speaker and Police Chief of the Mountain View Police Department Chris Hsiung on how communication and creating connection within an organization can improve workplace culture. A frequent speaker and writer on engagement. . How to look at onboarding for building connection.

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Culture Connections Leadership Communication 98

Blake Morgan

AUGUST 29, 2023

Contact centers are the bridge that connects your customers to your brand and allows them to feel engaged and heard. I talked to Naomi Wheeless, the Global Head of Customer Success at Square, about the management and leadership strategy required to modernize and run a customer-centric contact center.

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Contact Center Leadership Strategy Management 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 11, 2023

However, many customer experience (CX) initiatives fall short of achieving their desired outcomes due to a lack of proactive leadership and strategic planning. “We’re going to be customer-centric !” This intentional success is THE missing piece in many customer experience management programs.

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Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Leadership Customer Centricity 110

ijgolding

MARCH 20, 2017

In this, my exclusive column for CustomerThink, I continue to explore in detail my perspective on seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric. Last month I wrote about the importance of experiencing what it FEELS like to be a customer AND an employee.

Engagement 164

Engagement Customer Experience Customer Centricity Tips 164

Blake Morgan

AUGUST 8, 2023

From their insights, United Airlines created the shared purpose of connecting people and uniting the world. And because employees were involved in creating that shared purpose, they have buy-in and are more engaged. Oscar says talking to customers is a crucial responsibility of any leader, especially the CEO.

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Airlines Customer Focused Leadership Travel 52

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The event brought in senior leadership from analytics, CX, insights, and VoC programs from 44 different brands, all with the common goal: sharing how integrated CX is making groundbreaking changes to their companies, customer experiences, and the market as a whole.

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Hospitality Call Center Retail NPS 260

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at how integrated CX and other AI-powered tools are shaping hotel experiences—and how the best hotels and resorts are leveraging this winning combination to provide intelligent, customer-centric experiences that grow sales and foster loyalty. They expect instant engagement—any time of day. Salesforce.

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Hotels Guest Experience Travel Chatbots 260

Horizon CX

APRIL 4, 2019

As CX professionals, we are largely compelled to align with our respective organization’s sales and marketing functions and for good reason—they are generally the ones carrying out the strategy and business goals established by leadership and guiding the rest of the organization forward. Sound familiar?

Customer Centricity 100

Customer Centricity Sales Communication Customers 100

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 12, 2018

That leader had an epiphany about customer-centric culture. If we focus on customers, we will be a better organization. And a few months later, people are rolling their eyes when a colleague says “remember how we’re supposed to be focused on the customer?” Once upon a time, there was a leader.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Culture Training 137

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. Customer engagement should be of the utmost importance when it comes to daily company operations.

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Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Effort Score 59

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). Servant Leadership. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

Leadership 60

Leadership Engagement Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 60

Thematic

APRIL 12, 2023

Additionally, the workflow or UI is not intuitive enough, or else not designed in a way that customers actually do the work! Another example is getting your executive leadership team to call detractors. We had our NPS scores feeding into a Slack channel, and when the CEO saw a zero, he’d follow up directly with the customer.

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Customer Centricity Culture Company Omni-Channel 62

ShepHyken

MARCH 19, 2021

She introduces a few female customer service speakers and shares their advice for women pursuing leadership roles in CS/CX. In the wake of International Women’s Day, it’s beyond time to talk about a pivotal issue in customer service: the lack of representation of women in leadership roles. COO at ultimate.ai

Leadership 85

Leadership Self Service Customer Service Trends 85

Horizon CX

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Reduced Customer Loyalty: Customers are more likely to remain loyal to businesses that make them feel valued and respected. However, perfunctory service erodes customer loyalty by failing to establish meaningful connections and rapport. Celebrate successes and share best practices to inspire and motivate others.

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Culture Customer Centricity Customer Satisfaction Loyalty 130

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 121

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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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Social Media Consulting 110

ECXO

MAY 14, 2024

This new perspective emphasizes the importance of human connections, emotions, and experiences in every transaction, whether it’s between businesses or directly with consumers. Why the Shift to H2H Matters Emotional Engagement: Consumers and business partners are no longer satisfied with impersonal transactions.

B2C 52

B2C B2B Leadership Culture 52

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

Totango

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Becoming customer-centric —putting the customer’s needs and interests at the center of your goals and processes—is impossible without customer data. You need customer data to track progress toward goals, deliver on promises, and continually upgrade your product. Customer feedback. Engage Proactively.

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Customer Centricity Data Case Study Lifetime Customer 59

ijgolding

AUGUST 9, 2017

A perennial problem for any Customer Experience Professional around the world is to find an effective way to engage people with the significance of the subject. Whilst many profess to ‘get’ Customer Experience (CX), they tend to do so instinctively, intuitively and accidentally. Communication. Collaboration. Influencing skills.

Engagement 226

Engagement Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 226

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Tom Hinds, SVP Customer Engagement at Advocate Aurora Health.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

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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Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

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

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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Communication Tips Customer Journeys Customer Experience 304

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. On your marks…. Let's start …. The CX Feud!

Customer Centricity 48

Customer Centricity Leadership Data Net Promoter Score 48

Lumoa

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Happiness-Contributing Experiences: Create and deliver meaningful and life-enriching products and services that make customers and employees feel empowered. When your approach to customer experience incorporates these three elements, customers and employees come away feeling pleasant and enriching emotions.

Competitive Advantage 208

Competitive Advantage Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 208

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 27, 2021

Consider what customer-centric brands are doing to earn customer loyalty. These foundational steps will help with the big picture, but you still have the power to improve customer experience incrementally. Aim for quick wins to gain trust and buy-in from leadership throughout your organization. Step 2: Improve.

Customer Journeys 291

Customer Journeys Customer Experience Culture Sports 291