Eye-popping innovation for top-notch service Ebay’s new retail store (an effort with the until now on-line only Rebecca Minkoff store) didn’t just make me turn my head, it made me look twice. MORE

Earlier this week, more than 400 professionals in marketing, customer experience, innovation and research gathered in Chicago for the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit. Take advantage of new methodologies in research innovation. Use consumer insight through the product innovation cycle. MORE

With creativity, passion and award-winning know-how, Jackie supports service-orientated organizations and helps to improve their guest experience through innovation, engagement, and empowerment. Episode overview. MORE

Here are samples of things different organizations are doing to find, attract and hire the people they need: Zappos offers new employees payments equivalent to one month’s salary to leave. This helps ensure that those who stay truly want to be there. MORE

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Every customer interaction your organization handles provides implicit and/or direct insight into processes, products, policies, services, customers and the external environment. MORE

Customer data, feedback and market research can still help guide your next innovation. The post 3 Ways to Let Customers Guide Your Greatest Innovation appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting. MORE

How do you drive innovation within your organization? Burkan says the following are classified as the edge: lost customers , rogue employees , fringe competitors , and fringe suppliers : he claims they are your best source of information to drive innovation. MORE

As a service company, how do you approach innovation? Recent research by The Service Council indicates that the service industry in general could be doing more to drive innovation. Astea and The Service Council presented the findings of that research in our recent webinar, “ Redefining Service Innovation: It’s Time for a Change.”. In many companies, innovation resources are targeted at new product development. Where is innovation needed? MORE

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Image courtesy of Skley How does customer experience fuel innovation? Innochat is a weekly Twitter chat (Thursdays, 9am PT) about innovation and covers a wide range of topics and angles. If you love talking innovation, make time for this chat every Thursday. MORE

This requires that we develop new and innovative approaches to consistently take our customers breath away. You take your car in for regular maintenance and your body in for a physical exam. Women get a mammogram; men get a PSA check. MORE

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When we think about innovation, we often associate it with white lab coat-wearing scientists or nerdy technologists working on the next big thing. Innovations need to redesign things that every employee does every day in every action. MORE

Customers have a new voice in innovation. I had an opportunity to interview James Bell, Head of Consumer Affairs for General Motors , about how they gather feedback and use it to create new innovations. The Chicago Auto Show, now in its 107th year(!), MORE

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Ignite and engage employee innovation this way. People, not process, create and innovate! The post Leadership Reawakening: People Not Processes Create & Innovate appeared first on KateNasser.com. Employee Engagement Hot Topics and New Bits inspiration Leadership collaboration creativity employee engagement Innovation leaders people skills procedures process driven silos TeamworkLeaders, is your organization process driven. Even addicted to process? MORE

Recently, I did a radio interview with Conston Taylor of Business Innovators. You’ll hear thoughts on customer expectations and the importance of making customer service a priority. MORE

Home audio brand Sonos, for instance, recently opened a “listening boutique” store, where customers can experience the company’s innovative products in person. Business Strategy Innovation Customer Experience omnichannel retail MORE

We’ll have more to share from this later this week, but for now, we wanted to share an observation about innovation. Is innovation so forward-looking you can’t rely on customer feedback? Or should customer feedback be what drives everything, including innovation? MORE

Customer Delight Customer Experience Service Innovation customer delight High Point University is a private college in High Point, North Carolina. When Dr. Nido Qubein assumed the presidency in 2005, he shifted the focus to the experience of their customer—the student. MORE

As the 2016 Visionary Award winner for product innovation , Wolverine Worldwide has strategic insight that other brands should consider when incorporating customers into the development cycle. As I mentioned, we try to infuse consumer perspective throughout the process of innovation. MORE

It’s an irrefutable fact that digitization has rapidly moved on from being somewhat of an innovative trend to becoming a core organizational competency. It’s a vital, enterprise-wide strategy affecting every dimension of the operation and driven by the necessity to add intrinsic and measurable value - as perceived by the customers - to the organization’s products or service offerings. What’s more, the strategic direction and on-going support is ideally driven by the Executive team. MORE

Image courtesy of Celestine Chua Do you think that the speed of innovation is too fast for your customers? Only 30% of respondents believed that improving people's lives was a catalyst for change/innovation, and only 24% felt innovation was driven by a desire to make the world a better place. MORE

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We filed the clever set of rules away but recently dusting them off for a fresh look at innovative service. Innovative service seeks the road less traveled in the pursuit of ingenious and novel. Innovative service is scrappy and provocative. This week we celebrate Memorial Day. MORE

Eye-popping innovation for top-notch service. Mike’s favorite assignments are ‘Store of the Future’ and ‘Sustainable CX Innovation Platforms’. Blog Customer Engagement Customer Experience customer service Featured Recent News connected consumer innovation linkedin MORE

We walked into the Marriott Windsor, Connecticut on a Monday about 8:20pm after a two hour flight from Atlanta to find a crowd at the Front Desk. Looking for dinner we headed directly to the restaurant and requested our favorite server, Lacey. MORE

I want to bring up an interesting example of customer experience innovation that has been discussed (but not directly) in recent weeks. BTW, the overall idea of “customer experience innovation” is obviously very far-reaching, and numerous books have been written on it. MORE

Ready to make your travel life easier? I need your help. If you are a regular traveler to or from regional airports that employ the diminutive CRJs and Embraers then you are familiar with the dreaded carry-on “gate check” procedure due to their limited overhead baggage capacity. On the surface, this seems great. You mean I don’t have. View Article MORE

But, the largest issue is the impact on innovation. Innovation requires an atmosphere of trust. Fostering innovation takes leaders who live their work with the kind of values that would make their mother’s smile and their children proud. MORE

I was watching an episode of Shark Tank recently when Mark Cuban said, after one of the entrepreneurs failed miserably in attempting to lure a Shark to invest in part because of a gross over-valuation: First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots. Innovate. MORE

Can you innovate and fulfill better? Create a culture of innovation that allows employees to be creative and entrepreneurial. Don't stifle new ideas and innovation. Don't be content with what you're doing today; always be innovating and improving. MORE

Is Service Innovation Treated with the Same Diligence as Product Innovation? Service innovation is becoming a major source of competitive advantage, regardless if you are a pure service business or a manufacturer, yet many companies are not focusing on innovation with the same intensity as product innovation. Steps organizations can take today to pursue service innovation as an ongoing process and focus. MORE

We believe this year will be remembered in years to come as one in which people in the world of work embraced the spirit of innovative service – consistently providing customers with a unique and unexpected customer experience creation. Thank you for following our innovative service blog. MORE

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Leaders, are these leadership innovation blocks happening to you & your business teams? The post Leadership Innovation Blocks: Are These Happening to You? Many are not so obvious. Checklist fr The People Skills Coach™. MORE

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​Innovative companies face a unique challenge: if the customer fails at using the technology, the company is to blame. They’ll blame the innovator even if they only logged in once. They’ll blame the innovator even if they never fully implemented the program. MORE