Customer Bliss

MARCH 14, 2017

Diane has been working since the early 1980s, serving in a number of transformative customer experience roles. She was SVP of Worldwide Customer Solutions at Endeca, SVP of Services and Support at Enterprise Mobile, Chief Customer Officer at Bullhorn, and now CCO of Brainshark (following a stint as SVP, Customer Care) at the same company.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 18, 2016

In the past 35 years leading customer experience transformation, it has become increasingly apparent that a crucial role of customer leadership executives (The Chief Customer Officer, The Chief Marketing Officer, The Customer Experience Officer) is to unite the company to achieve customer-driven growth.

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ijgolding

JUNE 16, 2015

Even if your company does not yet have a ‘Chief Customer Officer’ or ‘CCO’ it is unlikely to be long before they do! Competency Three: Build a Customer Listening Path – Seek input and customer understanding, aligned to the customer journey.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In my new Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. I recorded this video on my way back from a customer session, where we spent two hours just defining the first version of the customer journey stages. Want to see more videos from me?

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The following post is an excerpt from my book: Chief Customer Officer 2.0. These stories come from CCOs who have faced numerous challenges, yet persevered in pushing their metaphorical “rock up the hill” by uniting their leadership teams, working through challenges, and ultimately achieving success in doing so.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As increased emphasis falls on customer experience to impact loyalty, customer experience executives (CCOs, CXOs) must take a leadership role in driving company culture through actions that improve CX—in order to achieve customer-driven growth. Elevate customer growth/loss as a success metric of the business.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

She spent 27 years in different leadership roles at Dow Corning, ultimately becoming the Vice President of Customer Experience and Customer Service. From Carol’s own LinkedIn: Customers interface with suppliers across hundreds of touch-points. Episode Overview. Carol Pudnos is one of those. The first is clarity.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 18, 2018

When you gather feedback from customers and frontline staff, you have to identify what the challenges are and get to the root of the problem. Know Your Customer Growth, Loss, and Retention. Kathy mentioned that a major takeaway she got from my book, Chief Customer Officer 2.0 , is the importance of understanding your customer growth.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 13, 2023

Do you have a Chief Customer Officer? Where this vital function should sit in their organizational structures is the lingering question of customer experience management. This reflects a dedicated commitment to the customer experience, and it can be a powerful statement to both customers and employees.

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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). Click To Tweet.

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Horizon CX

JUNE 10, 2022

The customer journey map (CJM) is a useful and crucial tool to help businesses uncover and visualize the experience their customers have when interacting with the brand from the customer’s point of view. That last underlined phrase underscores the criticality and validity of the customer journey.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Seek Input and Understanding, Aligned to the Customer Journey. Competency 3 unites your organization to build a “one company” listening system constantly refreshing with multiple sources of quantitative, qualitative, and experiential feedback to tell the story of your customers’ experience, guided by the customer journey framework.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. It unites the organization in building a framework for “Earning the Right” to Customer Asset Growth.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2019

“I am a bridge builder and I really like that aspect of my role,” says Yamini Rangan , chief customer officer at Dropbox , a SaaS company that offers file storage and collaboration solutions to both individuals and companies. Yamini tells that her leadership teams and C-Suite are all invested in being customer-focused.

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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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Retently

JULY 28, 2023

Well, that’s where the Chief Experience Officer comes into play. CXO stands for Chief Experience Officer. People might also refer to this position as Chief Customer Officer, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Chief Client Officer, or Chief Customer Service Officer.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 3, 2018

Have you listened to The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show ? From customer journey maps , to defining the CCO role , B2B CX , Startup CX , and more – you’re sure to find wisdom to guide your customer experience transformation or improvement needs. CX Leadership Lessons Learned.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 11, 2018

As we start off 2018 with the focus of continuously improving customer experience work, talking about the role of the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) is a great place to start. 4 Culprits That Hinder Customer-Driven Growth. #1. Future annual planning : Should start with the framework of the customer journey.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 4, 2017

However, one exception to this stagnation in activities exists: the practice of customer journey mapping. On average, in 2014, one-third of participants (32%) said that their organization had practiced customer journey mapping as part of their customer experience improvement efforts. mark or memory.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

These teams thrive when C-suite leadership plays an active role in guiding the build-out of the “beta” versions of these competencies. We typically divide up the leadership team, assigning them by competency. You will be facilitating quarterly customer journey and annual planning reviews.

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CloudCherry

MARCH 8, 2019

In-depth neuroscience researches tell us that there are biological differences in the way a woman and a man would think but that does not prove men and can soar higher than women in leadership capabilities. She is specialized at guide leaders and businesses to earn customer-driven growth and development. Jeannie Walters.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 6, 2022

Congratulations on becoming the new chief customer officer of the organization. The biggest challenge you will face as the new chief customer officer is that the customer situation has shifted dramatically in the last couple of years. Questions the new chief customer officer must ask themselves.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

As a result, Customer Success leaders continue to increase their prominence and power within the organization. Our recent Customer Success Leadership Study showed that 61% of respondents reported a Vice President and above as being the highest leader in their Customer Success organization in 2021 – an increase of 7% from the previous year.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Demystify the role of the Chief Customer Officer. The role becomes clear as facilitator that unites leaders to make decisions to improve customers’ lives and drive growth. Only after you established a reliable experience and gained the confidence of your customers, can you move to deepen a personal relationship. #1.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 23, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of calls from recruiters for very, very high-level CX leadership roles. Look at leadership decisions that have been made. Get to Know the Leadership Team.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2021

With their visibility elevated, Customer Success leaders stepped up to carry the weight of their fellow revenue-driven teams and prove their value within the broader organization. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Demystify the role of the Chief Customer Officer. The role becomes clear as facilitator that unites leaders to make decisions to improve customers’ lives and drive growth. Only after you established a reliable experience and gained the confidence of your customers, can you move to deepen a personal relationship. #1.

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InMoment XI

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While many companies have added a seat at the table for a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) or Chief Experience Officer (CXO) in recent years, we still see most CX functions report to either marketing (the CMO) or operations (the COO). Every organization, leadership dynamic, employee culture, and business is different.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The Chief Customer Officer role will evolve as you progress through the phases of the Customer Experience Maturity Map. Achieving clarity for your role and leadership’s required involvement. Successful Chief Customer Officers need to deliberately build a plan of action in the early years.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 28, 2016

Customer asset measurement is about knowing what customers actually did to impact business growth versus what they say they might do via survey results. The role of the Chief Customer Officer is not to build and ‘pitch’ to the leadership team what these metrics are.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Q&A Recap: 2021 Customer Success Leadership Study Results Revealed. With each passing year the Customer Success industry matures and meets new challenges along the way, and this year has been in many ways just as challenging as the last. Speakers: Abby Hammer , Chief Customer Officer, ChurnZero.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The role of the customer leadership executive is to engage leaders and the organization to want to be a part of one-company storytelling and prioritization of actions to earn the right to customer-driven growth. The power in converge moves you towards one-company, customer-driven leadership.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 4, 2018

Have you recently become a chief customer officer? If you’re taking on a CCO role in a company, there’s a lot of work that has to be done to get your customer experience program off the ground and running. Spend time defining what each of these customers are. Get leadership involved.

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Gainsight

JUNE 3, 2021

The key to driving Executive alignment is understanding and utilizing the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) role, and that is what you will find in Gainsight’s Eight Great Playbooks. “To Does the CCO own the entire customer journey? Are you shocked? I hope not. Is tension in the workplace a good thing? Come join us!

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Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

CX programs require strategy and leadership from the top. Jeanne Bliss, co-founder of the Customer Experience Professionals Association, says a chief customer officer (CCO) needs to lead the charge. To remove silos, business leaders need to identify all the teams that interact with the customer.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In this episode, Anahita Reilly walks us through her customer experience maturity map and actions to unite the leadership team, map the customer journey and drive transformation. Anahita Reilly is the Chief Customer Officer for the U.S. Meet Anahita, CCO and Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.

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