Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 30, 2016

Co-creation sessions, customer journey workshops and customer-focused innovation summits can sound so sexy and intriguing. We envision a group working cohesively, rolling up their collective sleeves to create an improved customer-centric culture and earn long-term loyalty from customers.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 6, 2017

Service culture is the holy grail for many organizations. It’s the secret sauce of those companies we hold up as the role models of customer-centricity. Companies like Rackspace or Safelite are well-known disruptors in their industries simply because they focus like crazy on their customers. We can ALL do this.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 15, 2019

Defining and managing your customer service culture is a significant issue for many organizations. Today we share some important considerations for establishing your customer service culture as well as the best practices of the leading customer service organizations. Then, you implement it.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. So how can you lead by example to make the experience better for your customers, regardless of where you are on the org chart?

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. When I thought about it, there were some common telltale cultural signs organizations share that indicate where their focus lies. How do people talk about customers at the organization?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 1, 2015

And when this package travels beyond Bodybuilding.com’s control and into the care of a shipping company, it’s kind of like saying “You can keep us happy by keeping our customers happy.”. Customer-focused. It’s not about being the best at what they do, it’s about the experience the customer has with the brand.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

When I thought about how I recognized it, I found that organizations that did not commit to customers had some shared company culture cues that indicated where their focus was. The ideas behind this discovery later became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 31, 2016

On Tuesday night, he apologized to his employees, acknowledging that the scandal not only hurt customers, but employees as well. Fixing a Broken Culture. Sloan admitted that the bank will hire ‘outside culture experts’ to help them figure out where they went wrong. As an outside culture expert, I say, ‘Good move’.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. As the third in our series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer centricity, let’s look at: Customer Strategy. Hiring Customer-Ready Employees.

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InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Even consultants and professional HR associations like the Society for Human Resource Management have determined that even high-level satisfaction doesn’t necessarily mean closer connection to the employer or greater employee performance. How aligned they are with the company’s overall business goals and culture. What keeps them there.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 6, 2021

An Amazing Customer Experience, Guaranteed . How to Get Customers to Gain Trust and Confidence in Your Brand. Shep Hyken interviews Jeff Toister , a customer service author, consultant, and trainer. They discuss how making or breaking promises effects the customer experience. . Top Takeaways: .

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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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ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer Centric Culture Lynn Hunsaker. What Does it Mean to be Customer-centric? To have the customer’s best interests as the focus of your attention — not to be pre-occupied in your own interests at the customer’s expense. There’s a myth that talking often to your customers (sales, service, surveys, etc.)

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 23, 2016

Speach serves as Chief Customer Officer, leading strategy for the Greystone customer experience effort across all business lines. Salmon and the “Destination Postcard” I often refer to customer experience work as being a salmon, i.e. swimming upstream. You need to do a culture crystallization exercise with employees.

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ShepHyken

JULY 5, 2021

They may even make you rethink how you email your customers. 7 ways leaders can model great customer service by Jeff Toister. Toister Solutions) You have to walk the talk if you want your employees to be customer-focused. Something simple as a login should never create friction for your customers.

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InteractionMetrics

JANUARY 7, 2025

The Power of Personas and Critical Moments Effective journey maps focus on key customer personas and highlight the “moments of truth”the interactions that have an outsized impact on the customers experience and loyalty. Employee-Focused Goals: Attracting and retaining top talent by addressing employee needs and engagement.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

From my perspective, at least, experiences that drive customers’ emotional brand trust and bonding can be both shaped and sustained. That’s largely a function of organizational culture, customer-focused processes – – and the direct and indirect contribution of employees through ambassadorship behavior.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Your Customer Experience reflects your company culture. Companies that design their experiences around Customers’ wants and needs have cultures that are Customer focused. We have an assessment that determines how Customer-focused an organization is called Naïve to Natural.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Whatever the case is for your organization right now, I can tell you this: The most Customer-centric organizations have quite different answers than the majority of companies. When we look at the answers, we often determine whether a company is more Customer-focused or more product or internally focused.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

He is the author of ‘Be Your Customer’s Hero’, the founder of the popular Customers That Stick® blog, the Co-Host of the Crack the Customer Code podcast, and the creator of multiple virtual training courses on customer service and experience. LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The whole world is focusing on customer service and customer experience this week! So I urge you to ask if your CX and customer service leaders are truly working together. Is it time to reach out to your customer-focused counterpart and create an alliance? Are you a leader in your organization?

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

I talk a lot about Customer-centricity of organizations. We use a model called Naïve to Natural that measures how an organization is oriented toward Customers, with the Naïve not having a Customer focus and the Natural having the most Customer focus. He also leads his Customer-centric culture by example.

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Help.com

OCTOBER 13, 2014

A customer-centered company culture is overwhelmingly resistant to being knocked off by your competition. At Apple, insiders credit much of the company’s success in retailing to the cultural fit Apple looks for and inspires in its personnel. That service is based on a corporate culture. Micah Solomon guest post: .

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Enterprises typically focus on employee satisfaction or engagement, in the belief that high levels in either area will directly drive customer loyalty. Our research and consulting experience has shown that employee satisfaction and engagement have rather incidental connection to customer behavior. Employee life cycle.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Consider this way-too-typical scenario: Marcus decides one day to stand in front of his employees and request in no uncertain terms how everyone needs to be more customer-focused. “Help customers love our company and brand more!” He promotes the idea of becoming more customer-focused. And that’s all.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

Continuing with our list (in alphabetical order) of customer experience (CX) influencers (experts, consultants, and authors), we are sharing a few names of leaders leaders that every CX enthusiast must follow and take inspiration from. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach. John DiJulius Follow @JohnDiJulius.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 23, 2016

Changing the name doesn’t change the leadership or the customer centricity of an organization. It will still be the same leaders, people and poor culture that has led Time Warner to have this unenviable reputation. Needless to say, they failed to address my frustration at feeling undervalued by them as a customer.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 17, 2017

In our customer experience consultancy, we spend a lot of time educating people about the components of a great customer experience. If customers just had a gadget that could do more or electronic kiosks they could play with in the store, or a virtual reality app – well, then the customer experience would be great.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Or they might have several channels that interact with Customers, but they are separate and many times conflicting. What channels are available to Customers and how are they selected? Companies that lack a Customer focus often only have one channel they dictate the Customer uses.

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Michel Falcon Experience

OCTOBER 10, 2014

. It was in 2007 that I set a goal to become a customer experience consultant and keynote speaker. I recognized that the companies we admire have made a premeditated effort to put their customers at the core of their business. I knew that I needed to first cut my teeth before I became a consultant and keynote speaker.

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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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CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Sally Mildren, CEO Clarity PX & Boss Lady Consulting. Many leaders do in fact think they are supporting Customer Experience in their organization. Budget, personnel, structure, culture, organizational habits, and lack of demonstrable progress impact sustained operational commitment to customer experience.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As CEO and co-founder of MarketCulture Strategies , he, like everyone he associates with, is on a mission to get companies to understand the importance of customer culture: Ian. This led to me spending a lot of time in my clients stores, observing customers and how they interacted with both the products and the employees.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.” If customer-centric culture-building and customer-focused initiatives were the only end goals, perhaps these approaches would be sufficient.

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