CSM Magazine

MAY 23, 2023

Expansion of Leadership Accelerates Development and Delivery of Products for Customer Success. Calabrio , the workforce performance company, today announced the appointment of Joel Martins as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), spearheading Calabrio ONE’s true-cloud Artificial Intelligence (AI)I solutions and customer-centric innovation.

Innovation 52

Innovation Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 52

ijgolding

JULY 4, 2017

In the vast majority of cases, I have used these businesses as a way of bringing to life global best practice in the field of Customer Experience Management. Only recently, I wrote about Jeff Bezos and why I believe he is a, if not the, role model customer centric leader. Fourteen leadership principles seems like a lot!

Leadership 152

Leadership Customer Centricity Fashion Retail 152

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

By leveraging new technologies such as computer vision , virtual visits and self-service AI-driven solutions, companies have a huge opportunity to turn customers into brand advocates. This list is an homage to the business leaders and influencers pushing the envelope when it comes to innovation in customer experience.

Customer Service 251

Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On Thursday, January 25th, we hosted the “Changing The Game” event in Austin, TX—a crucible for innovative ideas and game-changing strategies to address the consumer market in 2024 and beyond. What’s particularly remarkable is that their expansive operation of over 600 locations and reviews is managed by a lean team of two.

Hospitality 260

Hospitality Call Center Retail NPS 260

SurveyGizmo

MARCH 15, 2021

For the first part of last year we all tried to adjust as best we could, suddenly being thrust into remote workplaces, non-stop Zoom meetings, managing our kids’ at-home learning while working, keeping our families safe, and trying to keep employees engaged while trying to stay engaged ourselves. What exactly is employee-centricity ?

Customer Centricity 90

Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Culture Employee Engagement 90

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 11, 2023

However, many customer experience (CX) initiatives fall short of achieving their desired outcomes due to a lack of proactive leadership and strategic planning. “We’re going to be customer-centric !” This intentional success is THE missing piece in many customer experience management programs.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Leadership Customer Centricity 110

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

Return on Investment 266

Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 266

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 23, 2024

CX leaders today face a long list of challenges, including adapting to a dynamic market environment and ensuring every stakeholder, supervisor, and employee in the business is aligned with the customer-centric vision. Understanding Customer Experience Management (CEM) Let’s start at the beginning.

ROI 143

ROI CEM Net Promoter Score Customer Experience 143

CX Centric

OCTOBER 4, 2021

CX-Brussels in collaboration with CX-Centric hosted an event on CX Leadership which was on the 9th of September 2021. The online event was predominantly attended by Belgian-based Customer Experience professionals from most insurance companies. Jonathan then touched on the 8 key pillars of digital transformation.

Leadership 52

Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity Roadmap 52

Gainsight

MAY 31, 2023

Gainsight CS and Gainsight Digital Hub (formerly inSided), have earned awards in several categories from leader in Community, Experience Management, Momentum, Enterprise, Mid-Market, and Best Relationship. Gainsight CS, the company’s customer success platform, has earned accolades from G2 in two different categories.

Leadership 52

Leadership Gamification Analytics Customer Satisfaction 52

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 growth-generating strength of your customer experience efforts hinges on how customer-centered your business is. Innovation — Creating Mutual Value.

Customer Centricity 74

Customer Centricity Sports Policies Culture 74

CX Journey

JUNE 17, 2019

I continue to outline why customer experience transformation efforts stall or slow. In the previous article , I focused on those reasons attributed to company leadership; in this article, I'll outline reasons associated with employees and operations. Ultimately, it’s all on leadership.) Customers change.

Customer Experience 148

Customer Experience Management Culture Customer Centricity 148

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 13, 2023

Where this vital function should sit in their organizational structures is the lingering question of customer experience management. The Standalone CX Department Some organizations have embraced the importance of CX by creating a standalone department, often headed by a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) or a Chief Experience Officer (CXO).

Customer Experience 162

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Culture Customer Centricity 162

Magellan Solutions

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Imagine the opportunities that 24/7 hotel management brings to your establishment. The Essence of 24/7 Hotel Management 24/7 hotel management takes center stage, creating exceptional guest experiences. Defining 24/7 Hotel Management At its essence, 24/7 hotel management goes beyond usual time constraints.

Hotels 52

Hotels Management Hospitality Guest Experience 52

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

Return on Investment 182

Return on Investment Culture Customer Centricity Ecommerce 182

NobelBiz

APRIL 2, 2024

They serve as centralized hubs for managing multichannel interactions, voice calls, emails, chats, social media, and more. With a focus on efficiency, scalability, and innovation, Enterprise Contact Center Solutions empower businesses to deliver seamless and personalized experiences to their customers.

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Self Service Omni-Channel CRM 105

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.

Leadership 110

Leadership Chief Customer Officer Handbook Social Media 110

TechSee

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Heading into 2023, service leaders recognize the need to improve both their customer experience and the need for technological innovations to do so. Multiple studies have shown service leaders are focusing on improving customer centricity, personalization, and customer experience. Technology Challenges.

Innovation 124

Innovation Customer Centricity Technology Leadership 124

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Discover the transformative power of AI in shaping customer experiences as Maria Villablanca, CEO of the Future Insights Network, joins us to break down the evolving relationship between supply chain management and customer satisfaction.

Case Study 143

Case Study Leadership Customer Satisfaction Meeting 143

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

You must absolutely believe that enabling an organisation to be more customer centric is the ‘right thing to do’ – right for the customer; right for the employee; and right for the shareholder. Not only that, the Customer Experience is not the responsibility of a CXP – it is the responsibility of the WHOLE ORGANISATION.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

SurveySparrow

JUNE 30, 2023

Here comes the customer experience manager —a talented individual who turns interactions into priceless memories. In this blog, we will embark on a fascinating exploration of the customer experience manager’s world, understanding their responsibilities, strategies, and impact. Who is a Customer Experience Manager?

Customer Experience Management 52

Customer Experience Management Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Management 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 15, 2023

That’s why the foundational work of defining CX at your organization — through a CX Mission Statement and CX Success Statement — is so critically important to accomplishing real change and delivering on real outcomes through customer experience. Customer experience will happen whether or not you talk about.

Communication 304

Communication Tips Customer Journeys Customer Experience 304

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 22, 2023

Discloser: This article uses affiliate links to LinkedIn Learning Most companies say they want to provide a great experience for their customers. They might even proclaim to put customers first or be customer-centric. The goal, however, is to meet customers wherever they are and on their terms. That’s not true.

Customer Experience 143

Customer Experience Effort Score Course Feedback 143

NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Companies that have not engaged in training their managers’ interpersonal abilities will fall behind the competition. Turnover rates and reasons for leaving already reveal the influence of the manager-employee relationship and it’s not always about performances and numbers. How to develop Conscious Leadership?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Leadership Self Service Contact Center Software 52

Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In my conversation with Isabella Lau , who has held the hybrid role of both CMO & CCO at Manulife Hong Kong for over 7 years, we discuss this emerging expanded role, how Isabella is driving both brand, operational, and cultural leadership – and why her unique background in both operations and marketing prepared her for success.

Leadership 0

Leadership Marketing Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer 0

Doug Leather

APRIL 23, 2014

In a recently published article (MIT Sloan Management Review – How to Become a Sustainable Company)the authors point to a study that supports the view that ‘high sustainability’ companies significantly outperformed their counterparts over an 18 year period in terms of both stock market and accounting criteria, such as return on assets and return (..)

Customer Centricity 46

Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage Government Customer Relationship Management 46

Wired and Dangerous

JANUARY 10, 2017

The company was famous for its profit at any cost mentality and had indicated a desire to become more customer-centric with a long-term view. Opt-out means a current customer is sold a product or service they did not request and is required to proactively let the company know they did not want the product or service.

Innovation 70

Innovation Social Media Customer Centricity Call Center 70

ECXO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The European Customer Experience Organization (ECXO) is Proud to Present Karen Jaw-Madson – Innovator in ‘Culture Your Corporate Culture’ speaking about Connecting Culture, CX and EX for Impact When? Design of Work Experience and is a luminary in organizational excellence.

Culture 52

Culture Connections Contact Center Leadership 52

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.

Customer Centricity 54

Customer Centricity Customers Consumers Culture 54

Doug Leather

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’m also a firm believer that the greatest opportunities for business today lie with business model innovation – i.e. finding new ways to create, deliver and capture value. The Challenge of Growth – Value Innovation. Value innovators do not accept their industry conditions as given. Customers are a finite resource.

Customer Centricity 54

Customer Centricity Strategy Competitive Advantage Innovation 54

CX Journey

JUNE 17, 2019

” I continue to outline why customer experience transformation efforts stall or slow. In the previous article , I focused on those reasons attributed to company leadership; in this article, I'll outline reasons associated with employees and operations. Ultimately, it’s all on leadership.) Customers change.

Customer Experience 83

Customer Experience Management Culture Customer Centricity 83

Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

As Nick explained in a recent conversation with Lee Weiner , Chief Innovation Officer at Rapid7, there was no direct path to the top early in all their careers. Early in 2020, Lee Weiner became the Chief Innovations Officer at Rapid 7, a leading global technology and security services company based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Innovation 52

Innovation Leadership Customer Centricity Sales 52

Doug Leather

APRIL 30, 2014

Customer-Centric? Yet he was adamant he had ‘customer-centricity’ under control. A refusal to really understand what customer-centricity is all about. And what really agitates me is a verbal commitment made to developing themselves as an internationally recognised exemplar of customer experience.

Customer Centricity 49

Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage Customer Relationship Management Leadership 49

ijgolding

MAY 6, 2020

This is a post about customer experience (CX) transformation – about the incredible work being done by a bank in Eastern Europe in their quest to become sustainably customer centric. Budapest Bank had actually started its customer experience program at the end 2015. customer insight. governance. measurement.

Banking 233

Banking Customer Experience Customer Centricity Strategy 233

ijgolding

JANUARY 28, 2018

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’?

Employee Engagement 196

Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 196

Doug Leather

MARCH 11, 2014

What company doesn’t want to be customer-centric? It’s highly unlikely that any executive wakes up in the morning and makes a statement along the lines of – “Customer-Centricity is not important to us and we shouldn’t consider it!”. The most important stakeholder in almost all cases is the customer.

Customer Centricity 60

Customer Centricity Measurement Net Promoter Score Effort Score 60

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Top challenges for providers are (a) to be smarter than competitors about customers’ realities, (b) to rally all functional areas to improve customers’ realities, (c) to make customer-centred management a way of life. It’s more than just digital.

Customer Experience 324

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324