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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Kayako

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

When you think about businesses that are known for providing extraordinary customer service like Zappos, Amazon or Chick-Fil-A, they share a common trait. They’re obsessed with their customers. How do you build a customer-oriented culture? Make everyone interact with customers. Reward great customer service.

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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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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. A customer-centric organisation.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to begin at the beginning, build your case, and create a coalition of customer-focused leaders. First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience. If Net Promoter Score (NPS) is your metric, then get to know where you stand and where you’ve been.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

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. Jeff is truly obsessed with customer service. Follow on LinkedIn.

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ECXO

MARCH 21, 2023

Journey Map Your way to Customer Experience Maturity in Just 8 Steps + 12 with CX and EX Customer experience culture is a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors that a company adopts in order to create a customer-centric culture. Based on the company ‘’mindset’’ and approach. In the end, everything is connected.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Before truly focusing energy on the customer, the XGS team has had to focus on the most important asset of all: its people. Through a variety of surveys and feedback forums, XGS realized that we had some work to do to create an internal culture that drove employee engagement and satisfaction. Closing the Operational Gap.

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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. He offers a European perspective on employee and customer engagement and customer focus and shares interviews with top CX leaders. . Annette Franz

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In an era of agent turnover, budget cuts, and fleeting customer loyalty, it’s useful to explore the evolution of quality management from its traditional, compliance-focused roots to a modern, customer-centric approach. But why stop there? Here are some steps to help you get there.

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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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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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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. The purpose is to shift to a simple understanding of the overall success achieved when a company earns customer-driven growth. They need proof.

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Strategy Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Leadership 193

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Is customer experience worth it? C-level leaders want to know if customer experience (CX) is worth the investment. Customer-focused employees across marketing, sales, HR, and other departments want to know if new CX initiatives are worth pushing for. How to invest in Customer Experience. You need to act on them!

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CX Journey

JULY 12, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay A fish rots from the head down - and so does your culture. in your organization - or any organization - start with the leadership team. That's how cultures are created. That's how cultures are sustained. That's how cultures are transformed. Culture is like the wind. They'll get it.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 29, 2020

That engagement is more than just satisfaction—it’s about an emotional connection with your customers. There are three components involved in getting everyone in an organization aligned: leadership, culture and talent. In order for leaders to be truly customer-centric, they must be immersed in the customer experience.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

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!” He promotes the idea of becoming more customer-focused. And that’s all.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 19, 2019

If live chat and chatbots are part of your customer service strategy, read this article. Creating Company Culture to Strengthen Customer Service Agent Support by Cassandra Vincent. Nevadas) There are ways to strengthen customer service agent support resulting in quality work and reducing churn. In many ways, it really is.

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ClientSuccess

AUGUST 30, 2018

Notably, Carine Clark , CEO of Banyan , presented at last year’s premier customer success leadership event in Sundance, Utah, and her message was both powerful and practical. In her CS100 Summit session, Carine shared her ideas of the top customer success leadership characteristics.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. So how can you lead by example to make the experience better for your customers, regardless of where you are on the org chart?

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You can fast-track your customer experience (CX) maturity with gigantic financial gains, as I learned when we faced a customer crisis early in my career. Within the first two years, we saved enormous time and money for employees, customers, partners and investors. In fact, technology deployment requires full-time management.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 23, 2016

Darryl Speach is a serial customer experience practitioner and change agent. He’s had leadership roles at New York Life, the Disney Institute, and Greystone and Company. Salmon and the “Destination Postcard” I often refer to customer experience work as being a salmon, i.e. swimming upstream. Episode Overview.

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CloudCherry

JANUARY 21, 2020

By staying in touch with customer expectations, companies can win more business and reduce trouble spots in the customer journey. VoC leaders also see an uptick in customer and employee engagement metrics. Identifying essential CX metrics and tracking them regularly can help programs stay on course.

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Effort Score Feedback Net Promoter Score Survey 195

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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CX Journey

JUNE 5, 2019

In this two-part series, I will provide my thoughts on why customer experience transformation efforts stall or slow. In part one, I'll focus on those reasons attributed to company leadership; in the second part, I'll outline reasons associated with employees and operations. Customers actually know when the focus is silo'd!

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Leadership Culture Resources ROI 137

Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A Chief Customer Officer is successful when he or she can simplify how the organization works together to achieve customer-driven growth, engage the leadership team and connect the work to a return on investment. Whatever you decide, driving customer profitability isn’t going to be a walk in the park. Stew over them.

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Chief Customer Officer Return on Investment Leadership Customers 141

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This theme is supported by resources such as Customer-Focused Communication, Journey Mapping Facilitation Skills, and CX Maturity Roadmap & Playbooks. FREE MODULE The post Leading Customer Experience as a Team Sport appeared first on Experience Leadership.

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Sports Customer Experience Handbook Case Study 71

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In the quest to improve the customer experience and customer loyalty, it is helpful to consider the ‘cultural habits’ of successful service organizations, such as: Disney, Apple, Southwest Airlines, Wegmans, Nordstrom, and Amazon. Their cultural habits are not merely lip service; it’s how they do business.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 12, 2019

Monica shares that she found her purpose doing customer experience work, and after creating a new customer-driven culture in her prior position at JEA (an electric utility company), she was looking forward to leading a CX transition from the ground up. Look at operational metrics and gap analysis. How timely are we?

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

From his LinkedIn: Strategic marketing leader with proven history of team development, brand building, revenue growth, vision, innovation and customer-focused marketing solutions for B2C and B2B audiences. Robert worked hard to understand, define, and ultimately explain the various customer segments. One-Company Leadership.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 8, 2017

With a track record in transformational leadership, Stephen has built a reputation for leading and implementing successful customer focused, innovative and profitable initiatives. He also regularly writes and speaks at global conferences on subjects ranging from customer experience, innovation, marketing and leadership.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

The higher up in the organization, the further away from dealing with customers directly. It’s easy to believe your brand is thinking of customers when in reality the leadership simply isn’t ever asked to do so. This led leaders to have quarterly, short-term visions instead of long-term, customer-focused strategies.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. Encourage cross-functional collaboration to deliver seamless customer experiences.”

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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. They are not profit-centred.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 52

Clarivate

APRIL 9, 2019

CFN along with Starkey team members built the customer journey map, validated the touchpoints with customers, created a Customer Experience Promise, and identified key metrics to be included in Starkey’s monthly CX Scorecard. The benefits from this project far exceeded Starkey’s expectations.

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Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

As some companies grow, they purposely change their shift from customer focused to bottom line focused. For those that are interested in staying focused on the customer, it is more important than ever to hire the right people that fit the customer focused culture. Keep focused on the people.

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Industry Culture Metrics Customer Centricity 100

ijgolding

APRIL 19, 2017

“Strategy needs to be a balance between what the business wants and what the customer wants. Creating that balance would mean that the strategy does not just focus on business driven metrics (revenue, profit, cost etc.), but also customer driven ones (loyalty, satisfaction, effort etc.…).

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