Blake Morgan

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The autonomous vehicle arm of GM thrives where many others have fallen because of a singular focus on driving innovation for customers and saving lives. Chief Communications Officer Kristine Boyden says a deep commitment to the mission of changing a broken status quo keeps employees engaged in the work and driven to produce great results.

Customer Focused 59

Customer Focused Innovation Employee Engagement Connections 59

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Employee Experience is Critical, and Smart Organizations are Taking Notice. Employee experience has been called “the new customer experience” and “the answer to customer experience” in more than one article. First Impressions: The Candidate Experience.

Touchpoint 162

Touchpoint Employee Experience Customer Experience Brands 162

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

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 100

Customer Experience Self Service Advertising Customer Expectations 100

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.

Customer Centricity 263

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

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

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The future of customer experience is decided. We asked 15 experts with world reputation in Customer experience the same question and the results might surprise you. Every each of them answered the following questions: How do you see the future of customer experience? Probably not.

Customer Experience 324

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This week we feature an article by Dan Martin, Chief Executive Officer of Xpress Global Systems , an organization focused on innovation, efficiency, and scalability of shipping and distribution of flooring products. He shares the four key areas that lead to elevated customer experiences while growing rapidly. Voice of Customer.

Customer Experience 139

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Self Service Effort Score 139

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

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The job descriptions for a customer experience leader vary between tactical analyst and strategic overlord. Defining just what a customer experience leader does can be tricky. But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Did we find out?

Customer Experience 225

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Culture Leadership 225

Heart of the Customer

JUNE 28, 2017

Customer experience (CX) is about change. They see their role as being on the outside, there to show the business what the customers really […]. The post Three steps to create customer-focused change appeared first on Heart of the Customer. I wrote about this last week.

Customer Focused 87

Customer Focused Customers Customer Experience Employee Engagement 87

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. The Power of Customer-Centric Goals.

Employee Engagement 48

Employee Engagement Culture Engagement Customer Centricity 48

CloudCherry

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And, on this week’s ‘ Sweets of CX’Podcast , Eric Ullman – Customer and Employee Experience Strategist and owner of CX Alchemy – offers some delectable advice on the subject. Customer Experience, I believe, starts with a combination of customer understanding (What are our customers telling us?

Customer Journeys 186

Customer Journeys B2C B2B Employee Engagement 186

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 31, 2015

As some of you who follow this blog may know, I took the CXI® magnifying glass with me to South By Southwest Interactive this month to scout for customer-focused themes within the latest tech trends. New ways to gather data and offer personalized experiences should add up to better customer experiences and smarter marketing.

Technology 110

Technology Customer Experience Social Media Trends 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.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

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 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

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

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. It’s a simple concept, really.

Net Promoter Score 118

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

Verint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.

Employee Engagement 32

Employee Engagement Engagement Contact Center Software 32

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

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The job descriptions for a customer experience leader vary between tactical analyst and strategic overlord. Defining just what a customer experience leader does can be tricky. But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Did we find out?

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Culture Leadership 110

Innovative CX

AUGUST 10, 2021

In 2013, Oracle conducted a research study among executives regarding the state of their customer experience initiatives. While I’m hopeful a lot has changed in the past 8 years, I fear it hasn’t as organizations continue to struggle with integrating customer and employee experience strategies fully into their DNA.

Connections 59

Connections Customer Experience Average Handle Time Contact Center 59

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

ShepHyken

AUGUST 18, 2023

He writes about how AI technologies support customer satisfaction and employee well-being. In today’s fast-paced business landscape, providing exceptional customer service is paramount to the success of any organization.

Customer Satisfaction 62

Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Exceptional Customer Service Employee Engagement 62

Service Untitled

JANUARY 10, 2011

These kinds of business decisions can affect the remaining employee’s ability to stay positive and not focus on the negative. Employees need to be actively engaged so they can add value to the organization. The customer experience can be significantly affected when employees are not engaged.

Employee Engagement 71

Employee Engagement Engagement Leadership Culture 71

Verint

AUGUST 17, 2017

At the end of 2016, I conducted 20 interviews with customer service professionals who were members of the National Association of Call Centers (NACC). The responses were remarkably similar—18 of the 20 customer service professionals I interviewed voiced their concern over what can be broadly categorized as employee engagement.

Contact Center 30

Contact Center Employee Engagement Engagement Gamification 30

delighted

DECEMBER 14, 2020

2020 required many companies to pivot their internal and external customer processes to provide convenience and safety. Switching to a more virtual world has sparked the need for customer feedback on updated customer experience (CX) strategies to ensure that all adjustments are as friction-free as possible.

Strategy 63

Strategy Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Effort Score 63

Innovative CX

APRIL 1, 2021

The “it” is a better customer experience. I wish I could say this was an exception to my typical experiences with organizations. A streaming TV provider sends an email informing its subscribers their bills are increasing by 35% but only provides chat, no phone calls, for customer inquiries. Unfortunately, it isn’t.

Customer Experience 59

Customer Experience Policies Hotels Insurance 59