Horizon CX

JUNE 2, 2020

Those might at first appear to be two leadership extremes and to some degree they are but unfortunately, they’re more common within business than we’d probably like to admit. Leaders in general, but especially those that are leading in Customer Experience roles, are in a challenging position today made even more difficult by the pandemic.

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Leadership Culture Strategy Customer Experience Professionals 130

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

If you are like most companies, you probably think that you put the customer at the center of everything you do. There are some critical things that the most customer centric companies do differently than the average company. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. But do you? Please tell us how we are doing!

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Culture Customer Centricity Leadership Consulting 88

ShepHyken

JANUARY 29, 2024

This episode of  Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken  answers the following questions and more:    What are the challenges in creating a more customer-centric culture? How can leaders support employees in executing customer-centric initiatives?

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Leadership 93

Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

An organizational transformation refers to a significant and intentional change in the structure, processes, culture, and strategic direction of an organization. Transforming an entire organization requires addressing multiple factors simultaneously, such as strategy, structure, processes, culture, and people.

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Customer Centricity Leadership Culture Customer Experience Management 130

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2020

You can have a great philosophy, deliberate strategy, and cunning tactics to inspire customer-driven growth, but if you don’t change your culture, they won’t work. Changing the culture within your organization is vital if you want to deliver a Customer Experience that fosters customer loyalty and retention.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 23, 2019

Changing Culture, Mindsets, and Behavior How do you design a people-centric culture? It’s definitely a culture shift, a mindset shift, and a behavior shift for most companies! Let’s start with a definition of culture. My favorite definition is Herb Kelleher’s: "Culture is what people do when no one is looking.”

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Culture Leadership Customer Centricity Airlines 94

ECXO

MAY 11, 2023

Everything they do is built around their customers. In other words, they are truly customer-centric. Businesses with a customer focus are relentless in finding new ways to create value. ’ And being able to organise around your customers pays. They know that CX maturity is not an end game.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 52

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Building a Customer-centric Culture From the Frontlines to the C-suite. Shep Hyken interviews Diane Hopkins, Certified Experience Economy Expert, CEO of ExPeers Consulting and author of Unleashing the Chief Moment Officers. The company’s leadership needs to be aligned with its customer experience goals.

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Customer Centricity Culture Exercises Leadership 120

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

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.

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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.

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Customer Centricity Sales Communication Customers 100

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

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Bad leadership leads to bad Customer Experience. To have a great Customer Experience, you have to have great leadership. The hutch represented all the constraints built up in the call center culture. The team were much more comfortable hanging out in these constraints than finding a way to do more for customers.

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Call Center Leadership Culture Consulting 88

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 14, 2015

The same can be said of customer centricity. Customer centricity doesn’t happen overnight. If you want to build a customer-centric culture at your company, then you’d better be able to live with process and incremental improvement. Buy-in from leadership is the keystone here. Commit to Change.

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Customer Centricity Culture Case Study Leadership 48

Micah Solomon

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

As a corporate culture consultant and as a speaker, I hear clients frequently voicing this concern. Without a consciously created culture, your business leadership won’t last past the moment that you leave the building. How to make a customer-centered culture happen. Name recognition?

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Consulting Culture Customer Centricity Airlines 40

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

More brands will (and should) bring up customer feedback to the decision-makers in the company, and with the help of some new amazing technologies we’re changing the way businesses see their customers. It’s not about software or a number – if you focus only on the NPS score you will never deliver the game-changing customer experience.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324

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

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

ECXO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Professional services (PS) and consulting is critical to client experience. From a client perspective firm offering CX-related PS / consulting – in enterprise technology, telecoms, electronics, and beyond – are superficially similar. Embedding a client focus starts with your culture. There’s a lot of jargon in CX. The reason?

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Consulting Competitive Advantage Culture Touchpoint 94

Customer Guru

APRIL 3, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

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Customer Centricity Strategy Customer Experience Management 90

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.

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Customer Centricity Employee Experience CEM Culture 114

Second to None

APRIL 4, 2019

Company culture is a fluid concept from top to bottom. Culture is outlined by leadership, executed by management and embraced by employees. When leaders emphasize work culture, it becomes a priority for managers. Leaders set the tone for the culture of accountability on a daily basis. Sharing is Caring.

Culture 83

Culture Engagement Leadership Customer Centricity 83

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. In order for leaders to be truly customer-centric, they must be immersed in the customer experience.

Customer Centricity 74

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Employee Engagement 74

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.” The author had several suggestions for building customer-centricity.

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Culture Company Customer Centricity Travel 83

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. A former teacher and economist, Adrian is now a consultant, author and speaker. Denise is a skilled speaker, author and brand leadership expert.

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Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer Centric Listening Lynn Hunsaker. Listen to your customers’ experiences at the highest levels in your company to set customer-centricity standards. There’s no substitute for fresh unvarnished customer stories in aligning your culture to customers’ values and concerns.

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Customer Centricity Customers Consumers Culture 54

Zeisler Consulting

AUGUST 11, 2021

Recently I wrote about a friend of mine, a Chief Customer Officer who was struggling with breaking through to her leadership colleagues the importance of taking action to improve the organization’s CX. And culture programs will fall pretty flat if there’s not visible follow-through. That’s not how it works.

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Chief Customer Officer Leadership Customer Centricity Culture 93

Bill Quiseng

MARCH 15, 2022

As I was writing my latest book, Built to Win , I wanted to be sure to incorporate the notion that it’s important to design a customer-centric culture because there are clear outcomes to doing so. Culture (and certainly not one that puts the customer at the center of the business) isn’t just fluff. It’s tangible.

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Culture Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage Hospitality 103

ShepHyken

MARCH 18, 2022

In this article, she shares how leaders create, sustain, and transform their team’s culture. It means that the problem starts at the top, with your leadership team. Your culture rots from the head down, too. in your organization – or any organization – start with the leadership team. . Guess what? Wells Fargo.

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Culture Leadership Customer Centricity Examples 64

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Those that have excellent experiences, the kind that makes their brand name a household one, demonstrate actual customer-centricity in their CX. In our global Customer Experience Consultancy, we developed a Customer Experience Assessment model called Naive to Natural to determine a company’s level of customer centricity.

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Company Customer Centricity Leadership Consulting 160

NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

How to develop Conscious Leadership? The development of emotional intelligence leads to conscious leadership. Conscious leadership applies the notion of awareness to corporate management. Internal cohesiveness is characterized by positive leadership, a common vision, and values. But make no mistake.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Leadership Self Service Contact Center Software 52

Zeisler Consulting

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

But just what a CCO is sometimes feels foreign, even though the responsibilities are pretty simple to analogize to other leadership roles in any organization. When it comes to the CCO functional responsibilities, they fall into three categories: the Voice of the Customer (VoC) program, Process Engineering (PE), and Customer-centric culture.

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Chief Customer Officer Leadership Customer Centricity Effort Score 93

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

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Customer-centric cultures are built from the top and the bottom within an organization. Encouraging employees to do the wrong thing for short-term gains or report half-truths to avoid the wrath of a boss will inevitably lead to bad behavior toward customers. Worry about your guys. Worry about your guys.”

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Employee Engagement Social Media 304

Maz Iqbal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

It looks like they hired a bunch of smart consultants. What did these smart consultants do. The consultants sought to understand the work context of the receptionists at InterLodge. In this case, the consultant spend a month observing and talking with receptionists at various hotels. What did the consultants uncover?

Customer Centricity 100

Customer Centricity Hotels Case Study Customer Satisfaction 100

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 17, 2018

Leadership is starting to catch up, but their understanding of CX varies greatly! Organizational leadership is beginning to realize that CX requires investment. Cultural transformation is never easy. The long, painful process of turning the idea of customer-centricity into a reality was a consistent drumbeat.

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Leadership Culture Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 161

Zeisler Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

He and his leadership team talked a good game about Customer centricity, and the rest of the team seemed (at least from his perspective) to be on board with that. The organization led by the CEO above has a (albeit not necessarily robust) Voice of the Customer program.

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Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Survey 72