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Embedding Customer Centricity: The Customer Experience Jigsaw Puzzle

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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 Experience Professionals: Why We Do What We Do

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BM: Generally, the customer engagements I’m proudest of are those where the value of becoming more customer-centric has been amply demonstrated and I’ve “converted” sceptics within the company. KS: Becoming the CX professional I am today didn’t just happen overnight. IG: Experience, experience, experience.

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Understanding the Employer Journey — The Employee Engagement Loop

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Last week I had a fascinating conversation with a peer of mine – a fellow Customer Experience Professional. James Dodkins is as passionate about transforming organisations to become sustainably customer centric as I am. The six steps are as follows: Step 1 – Attract. What do I mean by the ‘right employees’?

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Transformational Leadership – the key to unlocking the competencies of Customer Experience Professionals

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If you have followed my writing for a while, you will be very much aware that I am very proud and passionate Customer Experience Professional (CXP). One of a growing number of ‘specialists’ in the newly recognised professional field, this group of skilled, experienced practitioners is growing in number on a weekly basis.

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Customer Centric Culture – putting theory into practice

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So simply talking about Customer Experience means nothing. To be a CUSTOMER CENTRIC organisation, requires something completely different – something that completely changes the mindset of people within a business. To be a Customer Centric Organisation requires a business to have a Customer Centric CULTURE!

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How to Gain Leadership Buy-In for Customer Experience: A Guide for CX Change Agents

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I speak with customer experience professionals every day. Some of them have fancy, customer-focused titles like Chief Customer Officer or Vice President of Customer Experience. Others have more common org chart regulars, like Chief Marketing Officer or Voice fo the Customer (VoC) Director.

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How Getting Recognition and Building Authority Can Advance Your Customer-Centric Culture 

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My seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric, have allowed me to share my experiences, thoughts, case studies, successes and failures observed over the last twenty three years, helping organisations and practitioners to put the customer (and employees) at the centre of their respective universes!