Customer Bliss

JULY 14, 2016

Short post this week as I’m in the middle of moving, but I wanted to take a few seconds and discuss leadership accountability as relates to customer experience. In the writings and speeches I’ve done, I commonly refer to this as “one-company leadership.” Leadership accountability. Silo heads (i.e.

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Leadership Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Metrics 153

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.

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Books Magazine Return on Investment Culture 266

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

Here are some ways you can educate and empower yourself to be the customer experience champion you want to be. There are now zillions of books (that’s a lot) focusing on customer experience. There are plenty of groups on LinkedIn focused on customer experience, and some of them are great and some of them are not-so-great.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Leadership 287

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Brian Cantor, Managing Director, Digital at Customer Management Practice.

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Customer Service Contact Center 2022 Magazine 251

Integrity Solutions

APRIL 16, 2021

Building a customer-centric culture is more challenging than you might initially think. But every organization has the ability to build a strong customer-centric culture- and it doesn’t have to be complex. A strong, vibrant customer-centric culture is an organic and natural strength that cannot be compromised.

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Customer Centricity Culture Competitive Advantage Customers 117

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

Follow on LinkedIn Blake Morgan, Customer Experience Futurist, Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker Blake has been studying customer experience for over 15 years and has flown to the far corners of the earth to find out what is the secret sauce of the world’s most customer-centric companies.

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2023 Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity 207

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 12, 2018

That leader had an epiphany about customer-centric culture. If we focus on customers, we will be a better organization. And a few months later, people are rolling their eyes when a colleague says “remember how we’re supposed to be focused on the customer?” Once upon a time, there was a leader.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journey Mapping Culture Workshop 137

PeopleMetrics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It comes from psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis , and it compares your emotional, automatic mental processes to an elephant—lumbering, inflexible, and massive. If you’re a customer experience leader, that duality is important to understand. Making Meaning Out of Customer Centricity.

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Leadership Customer Experience 2006 Customer Centricity 120

Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 13, 2015

CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. For both inspiration and answers regarding the best and most effective approaches to apply, I turned to trailblazing ideas of the two “Fathers of Servant Leadership”, Max De Pree and Robert Greenleaf. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., Scott Peck.

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Leadership Customer Centricity Airlines Workshop 111

Customer Bliss

MARCH 16, 2016

I talked a bit about this in my book Chief Customer Officer 2.0 , but when discussing the idea of accountable leadership in terms of developing a customer-first, customer-obsessed culture, it all comes down to three major themes (which can further be broken down into a series of actions). Proving it with actions.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Culture Metrics 165

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. The reason you are delivering the Customer experience you do today is because of the way the organization is.

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Customer Centricity Employee Experience CEM Culture 114

Joe Rawlinson

JANUARY 19, 2017

The most successful businesses and brands typically follow the same path when it comes to leadership. If your employees and company culture are a priority to you, your customers and their experiences will be a priority to your employees. Leadership Guidance is Key. Getting Your Hands Dirty.

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Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Call Center 107

Customers That Stick

JANUARY 7, 2020

What better way to start off the new year and new decade — a decade that I hope will be marked by incredible improvements in customer experience design, thinking, and execution — than by taking a look at one of the most essential ingredients of customer experience: leadership. The Culture/Experience Connection.

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Customer Centricity Culture 2019 Customer Experience Design 88

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Top Takeaways: The key to transforming companies into customer-centric organizations lies in adopting a customer experience mindset. True customer loyalty extends beyond transactional interactions and loyalty programs. Building authentic, emotional customer relationships can lead to loyalty and increased revenue.

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Customer Centricity Culture Loyalty Programs Loyalty 91

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. It’s notable that, at this more evolved and advanced stage of enterprise customer-centricity, complaints are thought of more in terms of a life cycle component, and recovery is more of a strategy than resolution: Customer Obsession. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Customer Centricity Banking Airlines Customers 111

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. So any change in CX must include and address the Customer centricity of the organization.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Defining these areas implies knowing what the Customer’s Expectations are. Most organizations know what their Customer rational expectations are. How this is done and why it’s important are well known to all involved in the most Customer-Centric companies. What might have been enough last year, is not enough this year.

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Customer Expectations Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 167

InMoment XI

AUGUST 2, 2023

NPS Best Practices Tip #2: Build a Customer-Centric Culture A customer-focused culture is essential, where processes align with customer-centricity, making it a systematic approach rather than mere aspiration. Book your meeting today We look forward to discussing how we can support your growth and success.

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NPS Customer Centricity Culture Automotive 195

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.

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Books Magazine Return on Investment Culture 182

Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

Although it makes sense to search for information online where you can find up-to-date answers to specific questions, what about getting a more comprehensive understanding by reading a book about the topic. For example, there are plenty of good customer experience books to read if you want to learn more about customer experience.

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Books Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management 88

BlueOcean

JUNE 27, 2024

What Happens to CX When the Whole Company Is Aligned Customer experience is a front-and-center topic for the contact center… but excellent CX depends on the entire organizational culture. She argues that these elements must work together seamlessly, much like a symphony, to create lasting customer loyalty and advocacy.

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Customer Experience Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 156

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Those that have excellent experiences, the kind that makes their brand name a household one, demonstrate actual customer-centricity in their CX. In our global Customer Experience Consultancy, we developed a Customer Experience Assessment model called Naive to Natural to determine a company’s level of customer centricity.

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Customer Centricity Leadership Consulting Culture 160

ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

As recently as June 2015, I wrote a review of the new offering from Chief Customer Officer ‘guru, Jeanne Bliss – (Chief Customer Officer 2.0) The book has been designed to specifically do the following: ‘Inspire’ – through the sharing of stories and their underlying customer centric philosophy.

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Books Brands Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer 91

Doing CX Right

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Leadership article originally published in Forbes, Sept 2020. Happy employees fuel happy customers. This statement may sound strange but it is true and dependent on great leadership. A common question is how can leaders create a customer-centric culture with engaged, motivated employees? They go hand in hand.

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Leadership Culture Customer Centricity 2020 97

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 30, 2015

Mariano’s leadership clearly understands the experience for the customer goes way beyond putting the lid on the soup. Leadership at this particular store saw it as important, and I’m betting it’s a consistent experience at other stores, too. Empowered Employees Outshine "By the Book" Service.

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2013 Customer Service E-support 2014 252

Customer Bliss

JULY 21, 2016

United leadership is important. I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983 (wow), and united leadership — which I regularly call one-company leadership in my books, speeches, and my five competencies — is as important as anything else. (If United Leadership: Necessary to move from talk to action.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Document Metrics 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.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

ijgolding

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Whilst I do not proclaim to be a shining example of leadership myself, I am constantly looking for new ideas, knowledge and inspiration that will help me to become ever more effective in my specialism. Stephen described how last Christmas he attempted to book a table at a beachside restaurant for his extended family.

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Customer Centricity Leadership Entertainment Customers 85

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.

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Customer Focused Customer Centricity Customer Journey Mapping 2015 153

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I have written five books to date and will soon deliver number six. It occurred to me that I have learned a few things writing these books. 2: Create the backbone of the book. Because of this fact, it becomes essential to create a backbone for the book. In this way, nearly all of my books end up becoming collaborations.

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Books Social Media Communication Customer Centricity 97

GetFeedback

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

2: 3 Ways To Inspire Your Team To Provide Standout Customer Experience. David Nour is the author of ten business books, a leadership advisor and executive coach. article, David describes how to leverage the value of relationships in the customer experience journey. and in the process, being more customer-centric?is

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2019 Article Net Promoter Score Financial 210

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 14, 2015

CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. For both inspiration and answers regarding the best and most effective approaches to apply, I turned to trailblazing ideas of the two “Fathers of Servant Leadership”, Max De Pree and Robert Greenleaf. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., Scott Peck.

Leadership 79

Leadership Customer Centricity Airlines Workshop 79

Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 22, 2016

However, once these requirements are met, the positive impact to business outcomes and sustainable organic growth should prove the importance of customer-centric initiatives and drive the business forward to a new operational and strategic model. Overcoming these obstacles is by no means an easy feat!

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InMoment XI

APRIL 3, 2023

So at the recommendation of my supervisor, I read two books that you’re probably familiar with: The Ultimate Question 2.0 I started to understand customer experience. The case studies in the books made sense. And using customer experience to drive business outcomes felt common sense. and Outside In. NPS made sense.

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Touchpoint Customer Centricity NPS Feedback 195

Customer Bliss

MAY 9, 2018

Uniting the leadership team in the purpose of delivering one-company experiences and connecting it to business growth occurs with my clients when we can simplify the “why” behind this work in a manner that they can stand behind and communicate as their own. Pivotal Leadership Shift: Elevate Customers as Assets.

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ROI Customer Experience Leadership Measurement 245

InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at how integrated CX and other AI-powered tools are shaping hotel experiences—and how the best hotels and resorts are leveraging this winning combination to provide intelligent, customer-centric experiences that grow sales and foster loyalty. Consumers are using their mobile devices to browse and book hotels.

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Hotels Guest Experience Travel 2023 195

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 23, 2015

Daniel Pink is a host of Crowd Control and wrote several books on human behavior. Celebrating the launch of this new eBook, I am hosting a LIVE webinar focusing on what it takes to evoke the best emotions from your Customer Experience and the vital role of the conscious and subconscious experience with real-world examples.

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CEM Books Webinar Leadership 126