Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

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. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Today’s video is an excerpt from a keynote speech, The 5 Leadership Competencies of Beloved Companies , which I recently presented at Cult the Gathering. . ” Did You Honor Your Customer?

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Again, this is about moving away from silo-by-silo, survey-by-survey, controlled-and-owned metrics. Present information from multiple sources by stage of experience: This is the true game-changer, as issues and opportunities now shift to always being in reference to customers. Build one-company categorization of issues.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I speak with customer experience professionals every day. Some of them have fancy, customer-focused titles like Chief Customer Officer or Vice President of Customer Experience. Others have more common org chart regulars, like Chief Marketing Officer or Voice fo the Customer (VoC) Director.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

Here are the five competencies that I have successfully worked around the world with organizations to deliver – to develop a business growth strategy – and a customer-driven growth engine: In this Competency, the work is to align leaders to make a defining performance metric – the growth or loss of your customer base.

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CX Journey

MARCH 17, 2015

I joined Bob, along with Jeanne Bliss, in the first webinar to discuss Creating Actionable Insight from a Customer Listening Engine. Jeanne talked about the role of the Chief Customer Officer, while I ran through my Six Steps to Turn VoC into Action. customer experience metrics voc voice of customer'

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 19, 2017

So, the first solution is this: you need to think about your customer-centric strategy as crawl, walk, run. There are milestones along the way ( much more on this in Chief Customer Officer 2.0 ). . Determine who the customer(s) is. Figure out metrics that would show that customers’ lives are improving.

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Customer Bliss

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The following post is an excerpt from my book: Chief Customer Officer 2.0. In this “My Rock, My Story,” Aisling Hassell , Head of International Customer Experience at Airbnb , shares how her team works together in the customer listening process to establish a baseline before setting targets for metrics goals.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Mary spontaneously goes to driver-organized meetups because she wants to show up, connect, and be present for what’s happening with the drivers. Mary believes that when you’re present and authentically engaged with employees (or contractors), it’s more beneficial than looking through data on spreadsheets and being on conference calls.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 17, 2018

He had to ask, “How do you define a customer metric that is valid and useful for your company?” ” and by asking that, Brian united the C-Suite behind a customer asset metric that was important to them, measuring EBITDA, Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 12, 2016

This view enables a focused prioritzation of actions to earn the right to customer-driver growth. The role of the Chief Customer Officer is to engage leaders and the organization to want to be a part of “one company” story telling. and focused prioritization of actions to earn the right to customer-driven growth.

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Customer Bliss

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Some other sources of assistance were: The Customer Experience Professionals Association , Delivering Happiness by Tony Sheih, and my very own, Chief Customer Officer (and no, I did not ask her to plug me during the interview, I’m ever so thankful that she did read it though!). People in the c-suite love it.”

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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).

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 3, 2018

Rob Markey is a partner at Bain & Company and leads the customer strategy and marketing practice. In this episode, we talk about the evolution of both customer experience as a holistic experience and of the chief experience officer and chief customer officer roles over the past few decades.

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Customer Bliss

JANUARY 12, 2016

This view enables a focused prioritzation of actions to earn the right to customer-driver growth. The role of the Chief Customer Officer is to engage leaders and the organization to want to be a part of “one company” story telling. and focused prioritization of actions to earn the right to customer-driven growth.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 16, 2018

On today’s episode, we’re talking to Lee Roquet , the Chief Customer Officer at Yellowfin , a B2B SaaS company that provides a business intelligence analytics platform. Understanding your company’s power core is a first crucial step in knowing how to proceed with your customer experience agenda.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 10, 2018

And why does the customer room work? Because rather than the CCO dissecting information, making decisions, and presenting to leaders to sell them priorities to work on, leaders make the decisions as a team. In the customer room, the outcomes of the competencies are presented by the stage of experience.

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 12, 2019

With the understanding of this driving force, it’s up to the council to then act on the following: How do the customers rate us in this regard? Look at operational metrics and gap analysis. How are they communicating with customers? You need to know how you’re performing. How timely are we? And that was so impressive.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 16, 2018

More organizations are adding the chief customer officer role to their C-Suite, and being responsible for bringing on this new high-level executive is no easy feat. Especially in the early stages, make suggestions for meetings and events that the CCO should present at, participate in, or be invited to.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 5, 2016

Cross-functional teams and the ‘three-hump camel’ In my book Chief Customer Officer I refer to these cross-functional teams as building a “three-hump camel.” And my podcast show is examines and provides you with from-the-trenches examples of how they do it and challenges they face.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 16, 2016

Continuing to explore customer experience leadership in many different sectors of business, my podcast today is with Dave Nelson, the Chief Customer Officer at Armstrong Relocation & Companies, a very large family-owned business that provides moving and relocation services as the agency for a national moving company brand.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Augie Ray is the Research Director in customer experience for Marketing and CX leaders at Gartner. He advises Fortune 500 businesses on customer-centric CX strategy, goals, metrics, and procedures. He has tremendous experience in social media marketing and customer experience management. Bill Quiseng Follow @billquiseng.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 21, 2016

If you want a deeper dive, I’d consider my book Chief Customer Officer 2.0. If you say “We love our customers!” ” and then you release products before customers have given feedback to make your sales quarter? Well, then … you don’t love customers. You love sales metrics.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

1 – Look Deeper than Surface-Level Metrics. When starting out in her role as Vice President and CXO, Samantha spent a lot of time with the sales team at events and quickly learned from them that the Co-op’s products and services weren’t up to par with customer needs. Co-op Financial is essentially a B2B, to C company.

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Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When presenting his feedback to leaders, it was important to do so in a conversational way. To Bob, sharing feedback through slide presentations wouldn’t be relatable to his audience. Ground customer feedback in real stories. Be specific around what makes a difference to the customers. Metrics are key.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

CEO - C hief Customer Office Council. Curtis founded the Chief Customer Officer Council™, the first peer-led advisory group for CCOs. The Council has helped its members create customer-centric cultures as well as drive profitable customer engagement. Chief Customer Officer - Gainsight.

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In the coming years, I am certain that brands will be competing with each other to deliver better customer experience and that customers would flock to the brand that does a great job at it. Building accountability towards customer experience – appoint a Chief Customer Officer.

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Help Scout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At Workshop — a tool built to improve company culture through open and efficient internal communication — Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer Derek Homann is focused on using customer service as a differentiator. Tip #8: Report on customer service metrics at company meetings. The same is true with metrics.

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ClientSuccess

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Featuring real-world CSMs with real-world challenges, CSM From the Trenches offers a case study-like look at customer issues and presents an actionable solution to these common situations. The 2020 Customer Success Trends Toolkit. Everyone loves a good toolkit, especially customer success managers.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many members of the C-suite continue to put the customer experience as a brand’s top priority, the challenge of creating a customer-first model lies in the lack of tools, siloed data and misalignment on job ownership.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The themes today centered around Human-First Customer Success and Transforming Customer Centricity. Human-First Customer Success. The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic. And… Scene.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 10, 2020

While our 2020 Customer Success leaders watchlist below includes long-time Customer Success champions, we’re excited to see several prominent SaaS companies welcome their first-ever Chief Customer Officer to their C-suite roster—a promising sign for the unlimited potential of a career in Customer Success. .

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Top 5 Customer Success Takeaways from Chief Customer Officers USA. Our very own CCO, Abby Hammer, had a part of the action and was one of the presenters and spoke on- How to Drive Operational Excellence Through Data-Driven Customer Success. In this webinar, we will discuss how to: 1.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

” Do the CX metrics in place ladder up to the core business metrics? In addition to enhancing the customer experience, are you looking at retention rates and lead conversions? Continue to maintain the balance of improving customers’ lives and proving ROI.

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Eptica

JUNE 17, 2016

One of the key points raised is that while senior managers now understand the importance of customer experience , many are unsure where to start when it comes to improving what they offer to consumers. In this post I’m going to talk about each of them based on Eptica’s own experiences of working with customers across the world.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 17, 2022

It requires a genuine understanding of your customer cohorts and their goals, perceptions, and needs. To share how to choose, track, and act on effective onboarding metrics, ChurnZero Customer Success Enablement Team Lead Bree Pecci joined CSM Practice for a drill-down into customer-centric onboarding.

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