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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Customer Bliss

JULY 18, 2017

Brian Lillie joined Equinix in August 2008 and has been focused on building business value through strategic and innovative product development and information technology initiatives. Prior to these roles, Lillie held several leadership roles in the U.S. That’s this episode. About Brian. The CIO to CCO transition.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 8, 2017

With a track record in transformational leadership, Stephen has built a reputation for leading and implementing successful customer focused, innovative and profitable initiatives. He also regularly writes and speaks at global conferences on subjects ranging from customer experience, innovation, marketing and leadership.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 13, 2015

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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! Tell the story of customers’ lives. Competency Four: Proactive Experience Reliability & Innovation – Know before customers tell you, where experiences are unreliable.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

How do you make health care more personal and customer-focused? This is a topic that comes up in my interview with Antoinette Taranto , Chief Customer Officer at The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. The presenting sponsor of The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show is Customerville.

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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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Alida

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Balancing budget constraints, departmental priorities and revenue growth against customer success can be a challenge, even for the most seasoned of executives. As the newly appointed chief customer officer at Vision Critical, Kelly Hall is well aware of these challenges. We must do the same with our customers.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As we head further into 2022, it’s apparent that companies are picking up steam and looking ahead to the future of their experience practices (customer experience, employee experience, and beyond). He explains that it’s about caring what needs to be done today in order to keep a customer or employee. Know Your Guardrails.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The guests on my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show can certainly vouch for that sentiment. Build a customer listening path : this unites multiple sources of customer feedback to tell the story of customers’ lives by stage, as they experience you/your organization.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. If a customer churns before the payback period is met, it’s a financial net loss.

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BirdEye

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’re excited to announce that we have a new Chief Customer Officer: Walt Weisner. Walt has spent more than 20 years working to delight customers at Silicon Valley’s most successful companies. Walt has previously led Customer Operations at companies like RingCentral and WebEx.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In my conversation with Isabella Lau , who has held the hybrid role of both CMO & CCO at Manulife Hong Kong for over 7 years, we discuss this emerging expanded role, how Isabella is driving both brand, operational, and cultural leadership – and why her unique background in both operations and marketing prepared her for success.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Manu Steijaert, McDonald’s Executive Vice President and Global Chief Customer Officer. McDonald’s Corporation has appointed Manu Steijaert, a McDonald’s veteran, as its first Global Chief Customer Officer. He will be leading a new Customer Experience team.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. At Lifesize, she was initially VP of Customer Care.

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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

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. Competency 2: Align Around Experience.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Tish Whitcraft is what we call a serial Chief Customer Officer, or CCO. In her mind (“in her humble opinion”), it’s a mix of the newly-established CCO role and the long-tenured COO, or Chief Operating Officer, role. Episode Overview. She leads OpenX’s operations and partner experience.

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CloudCherry

DECEMBER 1, 2018

As Bain and Co writes, “Employee promoters power strong business performance because they provide better experiences for customers, approach the job with energy?which and come up with creative and innovative ideas for product, process and service improvements.” Why does customer experience leadership need to come from the top?

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Those are: Customers as assets. Build a customer listening path. Proactive experience reliability and innovation. One-company leadership, accountability, and culture. Many of these ideas are contained in Chief Customer Officer 2.0 Align around experience. and my other books and speeches.

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CloudCherry

JULY 31, 2019

Ideally, you’ll have a chief customer officer (CCO) to lead and champion CX at the C-suite level. In time, as CX proves its merits, a path to centralized CX leadership will become available. What sets those innovators apart? CX innovators work hard to rally the organization behind customer needs.

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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

JUNE 30, 2016

I’ve been doing customer experience strategy and customer-facing, customers-as-growth-engines work for north of 30 years now. I named my podcast The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show for just that reason: in this work, you’re typically the ‘duct tape’ of your organization.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 7, 2016

Calkins makes a key point about companies pursuing growth here: It’s not enough just to look for opportunities and innovations and new ideas, you’ve got to find the ones that are going to turn into profitable opportunities and, ultimately, into cash flow and growth coming from those. Growth is really about the customer.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I’m excited to be back with new episodes of the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. In today’s episode, I have an engaging and enlightening conversation with Craig Langlois , the Chief Experience Officer at the Berkshire Museum in beautiful Berkshire, Massachusetts. CX #EmployeeExperience Click To Tweet.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As CX leaders and in our own lives, we’ve seen that sometimes, finance companies can be a little late to the customer experience train, so I think you’ll enjoy today’s conversation, as I speak to Samantha Paxson , Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer for Co-op Financial Services.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

She has seen that through her actions of being a leader and inspiring her team to showcase the best parts of themselves, there’s a stronger internal culture of enthusiasm, excitement, innovation, and ownership. The employees are ultimately happier, which creates happy customers. This was a major improvement within their culture.

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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

MARCH 22, 2018

In this episode, Claudiu , who has over 15 years of customer-centric leadership from multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, and consulting, shares his strategy for transforming customer experience within an organization. From Chief Information Officer to Chief Customer Officer with Brian Lillie.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 28, 2020

Today, I share their key takeaways from my interviews with Aisling Hassell , VP of Community Support at Airbnb , Chelsie Rae Lee , Chief Revenue/Customer/Innovation Officer at SnackNation , and Barbara C. Morton , Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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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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Oracle

MARCH 12, 2021

Customer Experience (CX) leadership is more important than ever before. According to Zendesk’s Customer Experience Trends 2021 report , half of customers say that CX is more important to them now than a year ago. Discover more leadership quotes in our Women in Tech interview series.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2017

We’ll run through these now as relates to your customer strategy. Customer strategy: Commit. It’s about gaining leadership clarity and commitment to what you’re going to do. If you don’t have the buy-in, your customer strategy is dead from the jump. Customer strategy: Unite and build.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Engaged employees aren’t just satisfied with their working conditions and pay, they want to go above and beyond, to innovate and advance the company’s goals. Hilton seems to be creating an environment where employees can become what our Thought Leadership Principal Michael Lowenstein, PHD, CMC, calls an “employee ambassador.”

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