Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

Customer experience leaders are often told to “create a better customer experience” with little more than a pat on the back and an annual customer survey. There is a lack of understanding around what customer experience really is, and perhaps more importantly, what it takes to deliver it.

Strategy 225

Strategy Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 225

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

An organization’s process tells me a great deal about how Customer-centric they are. 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.

Customer Focused 153

Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 9, 2015

What’s your customer experience mission? I have introduced the idea of customer experience to many people. When we get right down to it, they have a tough time determining what should be included in the customer experience mission. How do you want customers to experience your brand?

Customer Focused 110

Customer Focused Multi-Channel Customer Centricity Social Media 110

PeopleMetrics

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Antsy for Customer-Centric Cultures. For example, independent research shows that customer focus plays a role in employee engagement. In company-centric cultures, 22% of employees are engaged, and four percent are fully engaged. What does that say about us, dear humans?

Employee Engagement 48

Employee Engagement Customer Centricity Engagement Culture 48

ijgolding

JANUARY 17, 2017

In my exclusive column for CustomerThink in October 2016, I shared my ‘top tips’ for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. In November 2016 I did so with tip number 1 – how to make Customer Experience a priority for the whole company – you can read it here.

Customer Experience 168

Customer Experience How To Customer Centricity Tips 168

NICE inContact

MARCH 26, 2019

Most contact centers share a goal of delivering excellent customer service. Disjointed policies, processes, technology and practices can all be obstacles en route to excellent customer service. Stage one — Customer-Negligent: An organization that fails to value customers as vital assets and doesn’t consider CX a priority.

Customer Experience 152

Customer Experience Contact Center Policies System 152

ClearAction

MAY 27, 2013

Customer-Centricity Goes Beyond Customer Experience Management Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience management is necessary, yet insufficient. Traditionally, organizations have managed customer experience with a mindset of how the company is doing, in order to grow revenue.

Customer Centricity 77

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management 77

Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

In Customer Experience, we often hear about transformational change as one of the descriptors of those within the discipline and many CX professionals have fashioned and even subtitled themselves as organizational change agents. What is the role of a Customer Experience Manager in leading organizational transformation?

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Leadership Culture Customer Experience Management 130

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This week we feature an article by Tanya Ahmed, a Digital Marketer of Vantage Circle , a cloud-based employee engagement platform. She writes about what customers expect from companies in 2021 and what they actually get. In this post, we shall compare five customer expectations in 2021 to their reality.

Customer Experience 97

Customer Experience Self Service Advertising Customer Expectations 97

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.

Customer Centricity 110

Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Customer experience has been a buzzword for several years and is only heating up. Many companies experience numerous challenges in the ares of customer experience transformation. We talked with the leading customer experience experts to find out what CX professionals should pay attention in the coming years. “CX

Customer Experience 160

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 160

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Secrets to Customer-Centric Business Growth Lynn Hunsaker. A potter’s wheel makes a great metaphor for customer-centered business. The potter focuses first on foundational stability, then shaping, then fine-tuning. Each of these keys has 4 success factors, summarized below as bullet points.

Customer Centricity 74

Customer Centricity Sports Policies Culture 74

CX Journey

MAY 24, 2017

Quite simply: without employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee engagement and experience and the customer experience has been proven. It's real, and your employees matter! Let employees choose if your company is the kind of company they want to work for.

Engagement 154

Engagement Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 154

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Being Customer-Centric requires rewarding those that contribute to Customer-Centricity. Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. Focusing on rewarding these, however, is not conducive to Customer Centricity.

Net Promoter Score 118

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is the relationship of a customer with a business at all touchpoints during the period of the customer journey. It is widely said that customer experience is the next battleground for organizations. Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 2, 2015

You’re going to have to face them sooner or later if you’re trying to build a customer-centric culture. Before you bang your head on your mahogany desk, maybe you should ask yourself another question: Why should your employees care? Or the number of applicants who come via employee referral. How do you get them in line?

Employee Engagement 48

Employee Engagement Culture Engagement Customer Centricity 48

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?

Chief Customer Officer 132

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 132

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

All the little parts along the way in your experience are what make a Customer experience Customer-Centric. Putting the Customer first in everything you do applies to every part of your organization, from the way you greet them to the way you bill them. Why Systems Matter to Your Customers.

Net Promoter Score 120

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience How To CEM 120

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2017

Usually (although not exclusively) the domain of men and women working for organisations in senior roles, the ‘rolling eye phenomenon’ often occurs when someone like me, a Customer Experience Professional, starts to talk about anything related to the Customer Experience.

Customer Experience 227

Customer Experience Financial Customers Insurance 227

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

A satisfied employee can pretty much be described as one who is relatively happy or more than complacent about their day-to-day job experience: the work, pay, benefits, possibilities for growth, promotions and possibly more – – like training, work environment, and reward and recognition.

Employee Engagement 68

Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Apart from being a lovely chap, like many people in the global Customer Experience (CX) community, he is as passionate and enthused about developing knowledge and education around CX competencies as I am. It did not take long for me to start becoming interested in the customer service elements of the business.

Culture 264

Culture Measurement Customer Centricity Hotels 264

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

One of my clients has done an excellent job in the last couple of years improving their customer experience. They focused their attention on the customer-facing teams at first. That would leave one group with a customer-centric mindset and the rest without one. NICE Systems, Inc., and Fred Reichheld.

Net Promoter Score 78

Net Promoter Score Engagement Effort Score Customer Centricity 78

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2015

A recent article by a major employee research and engagement consulting organization led with the above headline. They were reporting on results of their national workforce tracking poll, the highlight of which was that employee engagement had risen 1.2% Those question are: 1) Really? correlation.

Employee Engagement 60

Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Experience Effort Score 60

ClearAction

JANUARY 4, 2020

CEO’s Guide to Growth through Customer Experience Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience engagement is a growth strategy. Customer experience originated when the first people on earth bartered: it’s essentially a law of nature — not something that was invented in recent decades.

Engagement 48

Engagement Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Employee Engagement 48

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Continuing with our list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience (CX) influencers (experts, consultants, and authors), we are sharing a few names of leaders leaders that every CX enthusiast must follow and take inspiration from. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 12, 2016

Earl Sasser, and Leonard Schlesinger in 1994 in Harvard Business Review, and in a 1997 book by the last three authors, can essentially be explained as follows: It is a theory of business management which links employee satisfaction to customer loyalty and profitability. Customer Loyalty on the other hand has two definitions.

Employee Engagement 60

Employee Engagement Connections Engagement Loyalty 60

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

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). If you do not BELIEVE in the significance that Customer Experience can have on every stakeholder involved in an organisation, you are unlikely to cut it as a CXP.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

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. His blog, Customers That Stick, features interviews with top CX leaders and answers common customer-related questions. . Adrian Swinscoe .

Case Study 96

Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

Michel Falcon Experience

OCTOBER 10, 2014

It was in 2007 that I set a goal to become a customer experience consultant and keynote speaker. I recognized that the companies we admire have made a premeditated effort to put their customers at the core of their business. Being a capitalist, I focus my attention on customer experience because of revenue and profits.

Customer Experience 143

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Effort Score 143

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. That means spending time on the frontlines of customer service.

Customer Centricity 73

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Employee Engagement 73

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Customer Experience Articles. Customer experience articles. Tools, techniques, and case studies catalyze your customer experience management success. Peruse ClearAction articles, podcasts and webcasts, and ask how these best practices can be customized to your specific needs. Customer Centricity.

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Employee Engagement Social Media 48

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. As the third in our series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer centricity, let’s look at: Customer Strategy.

Net Promoter Score 163

Net Promoter Score Strategy Customer Centricity CEM 163

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

Organizations across a wide range of industries are creating positions like Chief Customer Officer and Customer Experience executive. They’ve realized the importance of investing in the overall experience of customers, and that doing so generates phenomenal business results. But how can YOU make that happen?

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

What is Customer Experience Ecosystem? Recent snafus caused by faulty customer experience ecosystem management include United Airlines dragging a paying customer out of his seat and off the plane per a random drawing of passengers to make room for a flight crew to fly on that overbooked flight. Lynn Hunsaker.

Customer Experience 76

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customers Customer Experience Management 76

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

As companies focus inward to understand how to achieve their customer experience goals, the term “engagement” is often used interchangeably with “culture.” The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. That means employees answer questions from the “I” perspective.

Culture 80

Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 25, 2015

Waffling on the investment in a formal customer experience management solution. What are some of the symptoms of customer experience woes? No one knows if customer issues get resolved. To develop a consistently good customer experience, employees need to be encouraged to take responsibility of customers.

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Employee Engagement Customer Centricity Feedback 48

ijgolding

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Over the last few weeks, I am saddened to confirm that I have been on the receiving end of some shocking customer experiences. Only recently, I wrote a post describing my shambolic experiences in Zimbabwe and South Africa. The most customer centric organisations in the world recognise and very much appreciate this fact.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Airlines Customer Centricity Customers 120