Lumoa

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The topic of customer experience has been trending throughout this year. More and more companies put a customer at the centre of their business operations. Customer experience and engagement are already changing the way businesses work covering larger and larger industries. State of CX - where are we going?

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Analytics Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 273

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The question was a precursor to defining why Customer Experience needs good, strong leadership. This month, I want to ask three connected but altogether different questions: What do you do if the organisation you work for or with does NOT have strong customer focused leadership? I use the word ‘ecosystem’ intentionally.

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Customer Centricity Leadership Customer Focused Customer Experience Professionals 148

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

When asked, ‘how does a prospect or customer interact with your brand?’ customer service calls. Try listing all the touchpoints where your brand interacts with your customer. Customer Service Calls. Customer Service Chats. In-store experiences: kiosks, price check, etc. advertising.

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Touchpoint How To Customer Experience Professionals Advertising 187

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

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Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

When asked, ‘how does a prospect or customer interact with your brand?’ customer service calls. Try listing all the touchpoints where your brand interacts with your customer. Customer Service Calls. Customer Service Chats. In-store experiences: kiosks, price check, etc. advertising.

Touchpoint 173

Touchpoint How To Customer Experience Professionals Advertising 173

ijgolding

APRIL 19, 2016

There are a number of things that comprise the characteristics of great Customer Centric leaders – courage; vision; passion; authenticity; humility; belief; are just some of them. Trying to change the way a business works; the way a business thinks; is one of the most challenging things any business professional can do. I could go on!!

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Customer Experience Professionals Strategy Customer Experience Customer Centricity 120

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.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As I continue to develop my Customer Experience Specialism around the globe, a number of questions are continually raised by the people I meet. How many customer segments should we have? Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. Customer journey maps of all shapes and sizes are adorning many a conference room wall.

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Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2018

The good news is, more and more company leaders are starting to get that they need to focus on the customer experience; the bad news is, many – most – are still struggling with the concept , choosing instead to focus on sales, metrics, and maximizing shareholder value. The crazy thing is that they think that they are customer focused.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals Metrics 173

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done? Only recently I wrote about an experience a friend of mine was (and still is) having with BT – it was the perfect example of the RANDOM or UNINTENTIONAL Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

Kustomer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Not only should businesses be considering podcasts as part of their own marketing strategies, but they should also be utilizing the wealth of insights in podcasts to evaluate and improve their own customer experiences. Customer experience (CX) professionals have to make a concerted effort to keep up with the ever-changing CX field.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Competitive Advantage Hospitality 105

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2020

Forrester predicted that one in four Customer Experience Professionals will lose their job in 2020. Why are so many Customer Experience professionals facing the ax this year? If you’re going to have a job improving Customer Experience, you should first define which parts of your experience drive value.

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Return on Investment Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Consulting 178

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Forrester, Oracle, and others predict plenty of customer experience challenges for the near future. Anxiety is ramping up for senior leaders focused on customer experience, and it’s not difficult to understand why. First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

Kayako

APRIL 15, 2019

We had the pleasure of hosting customer service and experience expert, Shep Hyken earlier this month for a half hour Q&A session on why customer experience matters so much and what businesses must do to create the best experiences for their customers. ” – Shep Hyken. .

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Customer Experience Self Service Hospitality Customer Journeys 169

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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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Automotive Fashion 130

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.

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Customer Experience Financial Customers Insurance 227

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. That’s great!

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

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.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

CX Journey

AUGUST 26, 2014

As you can imagine, this process was intriguing to me, since it applies quite nicely to the challenges we face as we struggle to implement changes to/for the customer experience within our organizations. I think this is a critical component for change management for the customer experience.

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Customer Experience Management Government Customer Journeys 185

ijgolding

JANUARY 24, 2017

From the first time I arrived in Abu Dhabi in 2012, to the my most recent trip to Dubai last week, it has always been clear that the region has a strong desire to satisfy – and often wow – the customer. As a customer, there is so much to be impressed by – whether you be in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar or Saudi Arabia.

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Customer Experience Transportation Banking Customer Journeys 120

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. Employees are critical to the customer experience, which is critical to the success of the business. How do we sell the concept to them?

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Engagement Strategy Customer Experience Customer Journeys 154

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 8 Ways to Enhance Your Call Center Customer Experience by Eric Sims (CustomerThink) In today’s business landscape, providing an exceptional customer experience is essential to the success of any company.

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Customer Service Call Center Ecommerce Call Center Experience 62

ShepHyken

APRIL 8, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. To Provide the Best Customer Experience, Be Proactive by Frank Konkel. NextGov) “Be where your customers are” and other helpful tips from customer experience professionals.

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Customer Service Hotels Hospitality Government 100

ijgolding

APRIL 29, 2016

It is always a huge pleasure and often humbling for me to meet fellow Customer Experience Professionals. As well as being remarkably reassuring that I am not the only customer focused ‘nutcase’, I learn a considerable amount too! Is what customers need from us really that complicated.

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Fashion Social Media Retail Consulting 120

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. If this is the case, determining exactly WHAT it is that needs to be ‘fixed’ to improve customer perception is challenging (and sometimes impossible).

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Measurement Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customers 148

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

We work with Customer Experience (CX) professionals around the world and train them on how to go about implementing CX programs. The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 17, 2018

The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) 2018 Insight Exchange offered CX experts and professionals of all kinds, various titles and comfort levels a few days to learn, connect and get inspired. They rarely have full visibility into the customer journey. It’s inspiring!

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Leadership Culture Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 161

ijgolding

MAY 17, 2018

‘Customer What? The honest and practical guide to customer experience’ was published at the end of April 2018. How on earth did you end up working in the field of Customer Experience?! Did your project management roles expose you to the significance of Customer Experience? Genevieve.

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Travel Hotels Customer Experience Feedback 164

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Advancing Customer Experience Expertise in CX Month optimizecx. Customers are the lifeblood of everyone’s food on the table. No matter what your income source is, it’s fueled by customers. CX Day is in the first week of October, founded by the Customer Experience Professionals Association ( CXPA ).

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Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals ROI B2C 48

Forrester

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Here''s an objection I sometimes hear when I talk to people about how improving customer experience can boost business performance: "Sure, it sounds great for glam industries like automotive or fashion. to speak at Forrester''s Forum for Customer Experience Professionals EMEA in London on November 17 and 18, 2014.

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Customer Experience Automotive Fashion Advertising 87

Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Businesses across the land champion their great service and the positive experience given to their throngs of loyal customers. They tout the benefits of their product and how they tend to the specific needs, wants and desires of their customers. Keep focused on the people. Shep Hyken. Long term that can be a mistake.

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Industry Culture Metrics Customer Centricity 100

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? I've seen several posts lately about CX being all talk and no action - that it's a lot of effort to pull off a customer experience transformation (and no doubt, it is!)

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Employee Experience Culture Policies Customer Experience Professionals 116

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

So what on earth has this got to do with the subject of Customer Experience?! If you have not yet guessed, the Hokey Cokey has actually become the perfect analogy for the way organisations around the world are attempting to put Customer Experience at the forefront of their strategic thinking.

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Customer Experience Company Customer Centricity Strategy 120

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

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 160

Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Maneesha Pednekar is currently working as the Director – Quality for Atos in India and drives initiatives on Quality & Customer Experience. She is a Certified Customer Experience Professional from the CXPA (US). Especially, driving Quality and Customer Experience initiatives is very close to my heart.

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Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 60

Oracle

MARCH 11, 2020

Female pioneers in CX technology have been shaping the field since the earliest days and continue to create change and exciting new experiences, technology, and ideas. Today, women in CX are driving innovation, rethinking what the customer experience means, and bringing these insights to new industries and audiences.

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Customer Journeys Technology Chief Customer Officer Video 83

SurveySparrow

JANUARY 28, 2020

SurveySparrow, the maker of widely celebrated online survey software , was recently fortunate enough to chat with Jim Tincher, one of the most respected voices in the Customer Experience (CX) industry as well as founder and Mapper-in-Chief at Heart of the Customer. So let’s jump in! So let’s jump in! Jim: You bet!

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Effort Score Customers 52