ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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? How can a CEO become a stronger customer focused leader, assuming he or she realises the need and is willing to try?

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Customer Centricity Leadership Customer Focused Customer Experience Professionals 148

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

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience. He is the co-founder and director of Genroe, a consultancy that specializes in Net Promoter®, customer feedback management, data analysis, and customer experience management. Bruce is widely regarded as a customer experience visionary.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

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 17, 2018

Today I am absolutely delighted to share my final interview with Genevieve Bruketa-Baskovic – an amazingly well travelled Customer Experience Professional who is passionate about doing everything she does with the customer in mind – enjoy…. Tell us a little bit about your working background: Genevieve.

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Travel Hotels Customer Experience Feedback 164

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 259

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Kate is the VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester and serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. She is a renowned expert on customer relationship management (CRM), customer service strategies, and ROI. One of her most notable research works was Forrester’s Customer Experience Management Maturity Model.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

If an organisation is to invest any time, resource and investment into the way it manages its interests, then it is quite right to have an understanding of the return on investment into all approaches taken. So the next time you are asked the million dollar question – ‘what is the benefit of our focus on CX?’

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Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

Oracle

MARCH 11, 2020

She’s the founder and president of CustomerBliss and the Co-Founder of The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA). She pioneered the role of Chief Customer Officer and has held it at 5 of the world’s largest brands. CX tech is all about creating unforgettable experiences – online and in person.

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Customer Journeys Technology Chief Customer Officer Video 83

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! Stephen is a published author of several books in the UK and US.

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Fashion Social Media Retail Consulting 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. We want it all.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

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 94

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

They include the following: What is the definition of the type of Customer Experience you want to deliver? Do you have a person or team of people responsible for managing the Customer Experience for your organization? Where does your experience stop? Why or why not? Where does it start?

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

It’s a time when customer experience professionals take extraordinary care to thank customers — and employees who make a difference in customer experience (CX). 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

Steve DiGioia

DECEMBER 5, 2016

As some companies grow, they purposely change their shift from customer focused to bottom line focused. For those that are interested in staying focused on the customer, it is more important than ever to hire the right people that fit the customer focused culture. Long term that can be a mistake.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

Padnekar, 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 79

ijgolding

JANUARY 24, 2017

Even though I have never quite managed to turn my visits into vacations, I have always found the people I have met and the places I have seen, to be immensely welcoming, accommodating and interesting. The big winner of the awards I had the privilege of being part of last week was the customer – consumers and businesses alike.

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Customer Experience Transportation Banking Customer Journeys 120

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

CX Journey

AUGUST 28, 2015

As customer experience professionals, we have no shortage of work. Or are we spinning our wheels, doing tactical things, and looking like we're making improvements - when, in reality, we're applying bandaids and simple fixes rather than making/doing meaningful overall process improvements and customer experience redesign work.

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Roadmap Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Culture 80

CX Journey

MAY 5, 2015

I'm blogging today from the Customer Experience Professional Association's (CXPA) Insight Exchange in San Diego. A quick synopsis of her presentation: Customer Experience leaders are responsible for proactively enabling and embedding customer-focused decision making in their organizations.

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Strategy Customer Journeys Customer Experience Government 80

Wootric CX Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These authors, speakers, thought-leaders and dedicated customer experience professionals have all helped contribute to the widespread adoption of CX, not just as a strategy, but as a higher goal. Why we love Angus: He’s the Customer Experience Manager at Sendoso and prides himself in “helping people connect the old fashion way.”

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Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals Chief Customer Officer 67

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

Prompts might include: “We know who is responsible for the customer.” Management), “We share stories about customers.” Storytelling), or “We hire people who care about the customer.” But both areas are essential for the customer experience professional and for organizational leadership.

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Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

SurveySparrow

JANUARY 28, 2020

Unfortunately, there are a lot of CX consultants out there who will tell you that you can drive change by gathering your teams and having them imagine that they’re customers, then throwing around a few Post-it Notes and brainstorming ways to improve the experience. One thing we share, though, is a thirst for knowledge. Great title!

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Effort Score Customers 52

Tricia Morris

DECEMBER 18, 2015

This year’s lineup of contributors includes: • Bill Patterson: Microsoft General Manager of Service Engagement. Jeanne Bliss: Chief Customer Officer Author and CXPA Co-founder. Sumair Dutta: The Service Council Chief Customer Officer and Former Aberdeen Customer Experience Analyst.

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Trends Chief Customer Officer Customer Service eBook 40

Clarabridge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Asking an objective, third-party (not the salesperson’s manager, for instance) to follow up and ask how things are going can provide a way for customers to feel heard without hurting. Don’t say “How’s it going with Fred as your account manager?” Understanding customers helps you stay leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

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Analytics Wireless Customer Experience Professionals Feedback 40

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

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. Over the last twenty years, Customer Experience as a strategic way of working has steadily increased in prominence.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

They include the following: What is the definition of the type of Customer Experience you want to deliver? Do you have a person or team of people responsible for managing the Customer Experience for your organization? Where does your experience stop? Why or why not? Where does it start?

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 60

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

They include the following: What is the definition of the type of Customer Experience you want to deliver? Do you have a person or team of people responsible for managing the Customer Experience for your organization? Where does your experience stop? Why or why not? Where does it start?

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 60

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

More brands will (and should) bring up customer feedback to the decision-makers in the company, and with the help of some new amazing technologies , we’re changing the way businesses see their customers. This will push more aggressive change driven by Customer Experience professionals.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 160

CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

Those are marketing tools and are too high level for customer experience design. Customer experience professionals require a lot more detail at a micro level in order to understand the pain points and to, ultimately, fix them. How will you manage the improvements going forward? Align the organization.

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A lot of research has been done which makes the general point that great customer experiences drive long-term profitable growth. These macro proof points have been sufficient for many organizations to initially invest in customer experience initiatives—this has been great for customer experience professionals and the overall CX space.

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Measurement Case Study Comparison Customer Experience Professionals 65

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

This post takes on the third key: Apply Insights Everywhere: Application to front-line employees and customer touch-points, and conversations about how to un-silo processes and information are huge steps forward, yet insufficient if you seek to maximize business results. Inspire Voice of the Customer Actions: 12 Ideas.

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Customer Journeys ROI Policies Customers 48

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. Aimee Lucas is an experience management researcher, advisor, trainer, and speaker. Her areas of expertise include market research, program management, marketing, instructional design, and training.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

His best-selling book in 2016 is called: How to Wow: 68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing. Aimee Lucas is an experience management researcher, advisor, trainer, and speaker. Her areas of expertise include market research, program management, marketing, instructional design, and training.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Brenda Lynn Dichoso – Head of Customer Experience Performance Management at PT Smartfren Telecom. Brenda Lynn Dichoso is a customer experience executive with direct vertical market experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex customer care operations in a telecom set-up.

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Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Customer Bliss

JULY 7, 2016

That has been my intention behind my books, blog, speaking and work as co-founder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association. Here’s a picture of the Northern Lab: Customer Experience Podcast Lessons: Journey-Mapping, Specifics, And Guiding Others. Fearlessly, with no holds barred.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Insurance 141

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Customer Experience Statistics: 7 Formulas You Need to Know by Brianna Langley. CMSWire) As a customer experience professional, do you have to be a trained statistician?Thankfully, As we all know, statistics play a big role in measuring customer satisfaction and tracking progress over time. Thankfully, no.

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