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The customer voice, also known as Voice of the Customer (VoC) , is at the core of any successful customer experience (CX) program. It refers to the customers’ needs, wants, and expectations as it pertains to a company’s products or services. MORE
In preparation for the upcoming Customer Contact Week, CCW shared their special report on journey mapping with me. The post Journeys are for Action, not Maps appeared first on Heart of the Customer. MORE
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world. MORE
Voice of the Customer Voice of the Customer Analytics Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Customer Experience customer engagement optimization Customer Feedback Employee Satisfaction customer centricity customer engagement customer focus MORE
Image courtesy of Pixabay Do you feel like you're not making the progress in your customer experience transformation efforts that you thought/hoped you would by now? Lots of effort has been put forth to improve the customer experience, with no apparent improvements. MORE
Journey mapping is a fantastic tool to break down silos by creating a shared view of the customer experience. appeared first on Heart of the Customer. This is ironic. Except when it isn’t. The post Journey mapping is still happening in silos. MORE
As our book gains traction, readers tell us they appreciate our focus on starting journey mapping by targeting an identified business problem and using this to drive customer-focused change. The post Develop a Killer Metric to Drive CX Action appeared first on Heart of the Customer. MORE
Image courtesy of reynermedia Trying to ensure the customer gets the attention she deserves within your company? Striving to make yours a customer-centric company? How does the customer become the center of attention for your organization? MORE
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. MORE
The Heart of the Customer blog is a place where we share our insights on journey mapping, offer best practices based on our experiences, and share CX practitioner interviews – and we don’t normally place promotional items here. MORE
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world. MORE
Picture your customers, darting across the water on jet skis, able to make quick water-spray turns to their heart's content. What I’m saying is, in this age of customer fluidity and freedom, your turning radius is not ideal. Use customer and employee feedback to make minor corrections. MORE
Unforgettable is a customer experience education program, focused on delivering fresh content weekly to give business leaders what they need to succeed in a customer-driven, digitally-disrupted world. But have you considered measuring Voice of the Process? MORE
Motivating Customer Experience Improvement. If you’re a customer experience leader, that duality is important to understand. Making Meaning Out of Customer Centricity. more often in your customer experience strategy can help you develop empathy for every party involved. MORE
Many organizations today want to effectively embed the voice of the customer into daily activities—their effectiveness will largely depend on how well the senior executive team embraces the CX effort. In fact, if I had to select a single characteristic of a truly customer-centric company, this would be it. In my new blog for Customer Think , I discuss concrete examples of how executives set the tone for other employees to follow. MORE
The post How Journey Mapping Differs from Traditional Market Research appeared first on Heart of the Customer. We find a lot of confusion in the marketplace around journey mapping. MORE
It occurs to me that the scourge of the customer-centric fad is customer surveys. It seems to me that just about every large organisation that I deal with asks me for my feedback … Continue reading "Make Life Easier By Asking Only One or Two Questions of Your Customers". Customer Insight (inc VoC) Customer Service Customer-Centricity customer surveys listening listening to customers Two questions to ask your customers Voice of the Customer MORE
appeared first on Heart of the Customer. What is journey mapping? That may seem like a strange question from a blogger whose title is “Mapper-In-Chief,” but there’s so much confusion on the topic that it’s a question that needs to be asked. MORE
Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that. MORE
We’re early in Customer Experience (CX) capability development, and I absolutely love it! Some actually hinder the goal of improved CX – to create loyal customers who love […]. The post Stop Bribing Your Employees for Good NPS Scores appeared first on Heart of the Customer. MORE
NPS is a metric that is used to measure customer loyalty and satisfaction. ” A Promoter is a customer who responds with a nine or a ten. A Detractor is a customer who responds with a six or under. It serves as an overarching measurement of customer sentiment, streamlining customer satisfaction and loyalty into a tangible metric. Furthermore, it provides a reliable benchmark for customer experience teams to work towards. MORE
In the customer experience domain, KPIs provide insight based on consumer data. Collecting tangible consumer statistics aides CX teams in building stronger programs based on customer needs. So, what are the most popular customer experience KPIs across the board? According to Lumoa’s “The State of the Customer Experience” survey, these are the top six in descending order [1]. NPS can also help to predict future revenue based on customer sentiment. MORE
I was asked recently to provide a couple (of what a reader called “See Spot Run”) blogs concerning must-have and must not do elements of a successful customer experience business. This week I will focus on the Don’ts of Customer Experience and next week the Do’s. MORE
Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that. MORE
Australian National tyre retail chain Beaurepaires uses inQuba’s real-time Customer Experience (CX) management solutions to enable them to know what their customers really want – and how to give it to them. MORE
Note: We’re celebrating the upcoming launch of our new book “How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Customer Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change,” by Mapper-In-Chief Jim Tincher and B2B Practice Lead Nicole Newton. The post Who’s the Right Customer to Map? MORE
Are the people in your organization empowered to do what’s right for the customer? Your employees have a wealth of knowledge into what customers do and do not prefer. MORE
In this post, we’ll talk about how that theory applies to customer experience. Customer experience strategy should be approached in the same way. Great customer experience takes a lot of work. It just means that the customer only sees the result. MORE
Marlanges Simar is the Director of Customer Experience at Prime Therapeutics (Prime) managing their CX (Customer Experience) Architect team. I interviewed her to better understand their role, and how they help Prime improve the customer experience. MORE
Image courtesy of micahb37 Is the customer and his experience ingrained in your organization's DNA? A while back, I wrote a post titled, What the Hell is Customer Experience? In other words, what the hell is customer experience? what would the customer say? MORE
One pillar of the brand experience that is especially influenced by employee engagement is customer support, especially within your organizational call-center. Additionally, US consumers report that being passed between agents is the most frustrating aspect of a customer service experience.[4] MORE
3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI. If your recipe for customer experience ROI does not call for 3 types of action, it will probably flop. Here's the recipe: 1) Micro Customer Experience Action. Retained customers may or may not offset the investment. (C) MORE
Recently, Aberdeen Group and Verint recorded a webcast on the Next-Generation Back Office: Satisfy Customers & Drive Efficiency. Aberdeen research found that errors and delays in back-office processing were the number two cause of customer dissatisfaction. Customer experience is moving into the back office’s purview. Next-generation back offices balance customer centricity with operational efficiency,” states Minkara. MORE
Michael Lawder, SVP, Customer Care, Samsung Electronics America Both these speakers began their […]. The post What Wells Fargo (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from Samsung appeared first on Heart of the Customer. “Who knows what happened to us two years ago?” MORE
This request comes from a good place, a desire to educate the company about the customer’s journey, but after a few questions, it quickly falls […]. The post It’s not Necessarily a Design Issue appeared first on Heart of the Customer. Customer Centric Culture Change Customer Experience Customer Journey Map Customer Personas CX vision Voice of the Customer brainstorm brainstorming customer journey customer voice CX CX tip journey map journey mapping MORE
When it comes to the profession that Customer Experience has now become, one of the most important and significant competencies required by all organisations is that of measurement. Failure to measure sufficient ‘voices’! Failure to measure the true ‘end to end’ customer journey. MORE
In this second part of a two-part series, I continue detailing some important ways to ensure that your company is putting the customer at the center of all it does. In Part 1 of this two-part series, I left off with Step 3: Outline the Customer Lifecycle. MORE
Have you noticed that your customers have changed? 79% of customers say they want brands to demonstrate that they care before they will consider a purchase. They have raised the bar on how they view customer experience. The kind of service that takes the customers’ breath away! MORE
Customer-Centric Marketing: Step-Up Performance Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing is necessary, yet far from sufficient — from customers’ and investors’ perspectives. Examine the gap between aiming at the customer and elevating the customer. MORE
Know the definition of customer experience insanity? Sadly, this is a concept that voice of the customer and customer experience professionals are quite familiar with. I spoke at an event last week on the topic of disrupting voice of the customer programs. MORE
This post, written by Heart of the Customer Project Manager Corey Pawlak, is the first in a week-long series about some of the ways journey mapping differs from traditional market research. MORE
GetFeedback
MARCH 20, 2019
The customer voice, also known as Voice of the Customer (VoC) , is at the core of any successful customer experience (CX) program. It refers to the customers’ needs, wants, and expectations as it pertains to a company’s products or services.
CX Journey
APRIL 3, 2019
Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that.
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CX Journey
APRIL 3, 2019
Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that.
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.
PeopleMetrics
AUGUST 25, 2015
Picture your customers, darting across the water on jet skis, able to make quick water-spray turns to their heart's content. What I’m saying is, in this age of customer fluidity and freedom, your turning radius is not ideal. Use customer and employee feedback to make minor corrections.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world.
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ClearAction
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Customer-Centric Marketing: Step-Up Performance Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing is necessary, yet far from sufficient — from customers’ and investors’ perspectives. Examine the gap between aiming at the customer and elevating the customer.
Verint
AUGUST 21, 2017
Many organizations today want to effectively embed the voice of the customer into daily activities—their effectiveness will largely depend on how well the senior executive team embraces the CX effort. In fact, if I had to select a single characteristic of a truly customer-centric company, this would be it. In my new blog for Customer Think , I discuss concrete examples of how executives set the tone for other employees to follow.
inQuba
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Australian National tyre retail chain Beaurepaires uses inQuba’s real-time Customer Experience (CX) management solutions to enable them to know what their customers really want – and how to give it to them.
Heart of the Customer
JUNE 19, 2019
As our book gains traction, readers tell us they appreciate our focus on starting journey mapping by targeting an identified business problem and using this to drive customer-focused change. The post Develop a Killer Metric to Drive CX Action appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Verint
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
Recently, Aberdeen Group and Verint recorded a webcast on the Next-Generation Back Office: Satisfy Customers & Drive Efficiency. Aberdeen research found that errors and delays in back-office processing were the number two cause of customer dissatisfaction. Customer experience is moving into the back office’s purview. Next-generation back offices balance customer centricity with operational efficiency,” states Minkara.
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Heart of the Customer
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Journey mapping is a fantastic tool to break down silos by creating a shared view of the customer experience. appeared first on Heart of the Customer. This is ironic. Except when it isn’t. The post Journey mapping is still happening in silos.
Smarter CX
MARCH 29, 2019
Unforgettable is a customer experience education program, focused on delivering fresh content weekly to give business leaders what they need to succeed in a customer-driven, digitally-disrupted world. But have you considered measuring Voice of the Process?
Heart of the Customer
APRIL 29, 2019
The post How Journey Mapping Differs from Traditional Market Research appeared first on Heart of the Customer. We find a lot of confusion in the marketplace around journey mapping.
Heart of the Customer
JUNE 10, 2019
Michael Lawder, SVP, Customer Care, Samsung Electronics America Both these speakers began their […]. The post What Wells Fargo (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from Samsung appeared first on Heart of the Customer. “Who knows what happened to us two years ago?”
Heart of the Customer
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Marlanges Simar is the Director of Customer Experience at Prime Therapeutics (Prime) managing their CX (Customer Experience) Architect team. I interviewed her to better understand their role, and how they help Prime improve the customer experience.
Heart of the Customer
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
appeared first on Heart of the Customer. What is journey mapping? That may seem like a strange question from a blogger whose title is “Mapper-In-Chief,” but there’s so much confusion on the topic that it’s a question that needs to be asked.
Heart of the Customer
APRIL 3, 2019
Note: We’re celebrating the upcoming launch of our new book “How Hard Is It to Be Your Customer? Using Customer Journey Mapping to Drive Customer-Focused Change,” by Mapper-In-Chief Jim Tincher and B2B Practice Lead Nicole Newton. The post Who’s the Right Customer to Map?
Heart of the Customer
JANUARY 10, 2019
In preparation for the upcoming Customer Contact Week, CCW shared their special report on journey mapping with me. The post Journeys are for Action, not Maps appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Heart of the Customer
APRIL 30, 2019
This post, written by Heart of the Customer Project Manager Corey Pawlak, is the first in a week-long series about some of the ways journey mapping differs from traditional market research.
Heart of the Customer
MAY 9, 2019
The Heart of the Customer blog is a place where we share our insights on journey mapping, offer best practices based on our experiences, and share CX practitioner interviews – and we don’t normally place promotional items here.
Wired and Dangerous
APRIL 15, 2019
Have you noticed that your customers have changed? 79% of customers say they want brands to demonstrate that they care before they will consider a purchase. They have raised the bar on how they view customer experience. The kind of service that takes the customers’ breath away!
Heart of the Customer
DECEMBER 4, 2018
We’re early in Customer Experience (CX) capability development, and I absolutely love it! Some actually hinder the goal of improved CX – to create loyal customers who love […]. The post Stop Bribing Your Employees for Good NPS Scores appeared first on Heart of the Customer.
Heart of the Customer
OCTOBER 25, 2018
This request comes from a good place, a desire to educate the company about the customer’s journey, but after a few questions, it quickly falls […]. The post It’s not Necessarily a Design Issue appeared first on Heart of the Customer. Customer Centric Culture Change Customer Experience Customer Journey Map Customer Personas CX vision Voice of the Customer brainstorm brainstorming customer journey customer voice CX CX tip journey map journey mapping
CX Journey
MARCH 8, 2017
Know the definition of customer experience insanity? Sadly, this is a concept that voice of the customer and customer experience professionals are quite familiar with. I spoke at an event last week on the topic of disrupting voice of the customer programs.
PeopleMetrics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
Motivating Customer Experience Improvement. If you’re a customer experience leader, that duality is important to understand. Making Meaning Out of Customer Centricity. more often in your customer experience strategy can help you develop empathy for every party involved.
Maz Iqbal
JUNE 8, 2017
It occurs to me that the scourge of the customer-centric fad is customer surveys. It seems to me that just about every large organisation that I deal with asks me for my feedback … Continue reading "Make Life Easier By Asking Only One or Two Questions of Your Customers". Customer Insight (inc VoC) Customer Service Customer-Centricity customer surveys listening listening to customers Two questions to ask your customers Voice of the Customer
PeopleMetrics
APRIL 9, 2015
In this post, we’ll talk about how that theory applies to customer experience. Customer experience strategy should be approached in the same way. Great customer experience takes a lot of work. It just means that the customer only sees the result.
Verint
MAY 19, 2017
Voice of the Customer Voice of the Customer Analytics Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Customer Experience customer engagement optimization Customer Feedback Employee Satisfaction customer centricity customer engagement customer focus
Michelli Experience
MAY 15, 2018
I was asked recently to provide a couple (of what a reader called “See Spot Run”) blogs concerning must-have and must not do elements of a successful customer experience business. This week I will focus on the Don’ts of Customer Experience and next week the Do’s.
Verint
APRIL 12, 2017
Are the people in your organization empowered to do what’s right for the customer? Your employees have a wealth of knowledge into what customers do and do not prefer.
CX Journey
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Image courtesy of reynermedia Trying to ensure the customer gets the attention she deserves within your company? Striving to make yours a customer-centric company? How does the customer become the center of attention for your organization?
ijgolding
MAY 23, 2016
When it comes to the profession that Customer Experience has now become, one of the most important and significant competencies required by all organisations is that of measurement. Failure to measure sufficient ‘voices’! Failure to measure the true ‘end to end’ customer journey.
CX Journey
JUNE 22, 2017
In this second part of a two-part series, I continue detailing some important ways to ensure that your company is putting the customer at the center of all it does. In Part 1 of this two-part series, I left off with Step 3: Outline the Customer Lifecycle.
CX Journey
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Image courtesy of Pixabay Do you feel like you're not making the progress in your customer experience transformation efforts that you thought/hoped you would by now? Lots of effort has been put forth to improve the customer experience, with no apparent improvements.
CX Journey
JANUARY 26, 2016
Image courtesy of micahb37 Is the customer and his experience ingrained in your organization's DNA? A while back, I wrote a post titled, What the Hell is Customer Experience? In other words, what the hell is customer experience? what would the customer say?
Second to None
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
NPS is a metric that is used to measure customer loyalty and satisfaction. ” A Promoter is a customer who responds with a nine or a ten. A Detractor is a customer who responds with a six or under. It serves as an overarching measurement of customer sentiment, streamlining customer satisfaction and loyalty into a tangible metric. Furthermore, it provides a reliable benchmark for customer experience teams to work towards.
Second to None
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
In the customer experience domain, KPIs provide insight based on consumer data. Collecting tangible consumer statistics aides CX teams in building stronger programs based on customer needs. So, what are the most popular customer experience KPIs across the board? According to Lumoa’s “The State of the Customer Experience” survey, these are the top six in descending order [1]. NPS can also help to predict future revenue based on customer sentiment.
ClearAction
AUGUST 29, 2015
3 Types of Customer Experience Action Essential to ROI. If your recipe for customer experience ROI does not call for 3 types of action, it will probably flop. Here's the recipe: 1) Micro Customer Experience Action. Retained customers may or may not offset the investment. (C)
Second to None
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
One pillar of the brand experience that is especially influenced by employee engagement is customer support, especially within your organizational call-center. Additionally, US consumers report that being passed between agents is the most frustrating aspect of a customer service experience.[4]
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