Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

5 Customer Convenience Considerations (Before You Change Anything!). Before you start innovating, remember what customers want, and how to deliver it on their terms! Customer or Company Mission? 13 Tough Questions to Skyrocket Customer Experience Improvement. 5 Most Awful Customer Experience Solutions of All Time.

2015 300

2015 Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping Touchpoint 300

Customer Bliss

JUNE 2, 2016

What are the customer focus competency recipe cards and what are they based on? Today, I wanted to quickly talk about customer focus competency recipe cards, which are available on this site. I get asked often what they are or what that means, so I thought a quick post clarifying customer focus competency would be in order.

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Customer Focused Download Leadership Customers 135

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

They don’t care enough to invest in customer experience evaluation and improvement. Their company mission is not customer-focused, and they don’t care if your day is ruined. They care enough to continually look for ways to improve and innovate for their customers. They care if your day was ruined.

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Hotels Social Media Innovation Consulting 231

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The idea of being a provider of customer service that happened to sell shoes gave us the idea that service is our big differentiator and a real asset.". Blueprint for customer-centricity. , Kay Phelps , Director of Product Marketing at Edify says, “Tony Hsieh provided extraordinary leadership and was a role model for great CX.

Books 266

Books Return on Investment Magazine Culture 266

Customer Bliss

MAY 10, 2019

How does a logistics company shift its gears to become more customer-focused? In today’s episode, Scott Allison , the Chief Customer Officer of DHL ’s supply chain, shares some strategies and tactics around communicating the brand’s message, telling the customer story, and improving employee and customer experience.

Customer Focused 31

Customer Focused Chief Customer Officer Social Media 2013 31

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

However, for a business to most effectively leverage the competencies of CXPs, it is vital that they are supported by a critical and powerful ingredient – transformational leadership. An organisations approach to Customer Experience will live or die on the strength of transformational leadership. So… are you ready?!!!

Customer Experience Professionals 119

Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity 119

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Amazon’s approach is to hire the world’s brightest minds and to create an environment where they can invent and innovate the customer experience. ” That is true in customer focused companies and not in others. Habit #4: The customer experience is researched and measured, and then the data is applied.

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Customer Focused Airlines Culture E-support 96

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. Lean into Your Customers. million people in the state.

Chief Customer Officer 195

Chief Customer Officer Engagement Call Center Leadership 195

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The idea of being a provider of customer service that happened to sell shoes gave us the idea that service is our big differentiator and a real asset.". Blueprint for customer-centricity. , Kay Phelps , Director of Product Marketing at Edify says, “Tony Hsieh provided extraordinary leadership and was a role model for great CX.

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Books Return on Investment Magazine Culture 182

TechSee

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Encourage employees to escalate customer concerns promptly. Leadership Commitment Set clear expectations for customer-focused behavior at the leadership level. Regularly communicate the importance of customer satisfaction to all employees.

2025 124

2025 Customer Experience Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score 124

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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Customer Experience Culture Leadership Consulting 225

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.

Chief Customer Officer 137

Chief Customer Officer Leadership Innovation Financial 137

TechSee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Contact center leadership must think strategically and find sustainable call center cost reduction strategies that do not compromise the quality and efficiency of the brand’s service. Instead, contact center leadership should focus on three key areas that have been proven to cut costs effectively over the long term while improving CX.

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Call Center Contact Center Average Handle Time Measurement 196

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

When leaders want to change these cultures, they realize it requires greater work than just announcing that it’s time to think about customers more. How can you create a customer-first culture? You just mix in some leadership and toss in a splash of data, then top it with some team-building exercises.

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Culture Lifetime Customer Customer Centricity Communication 251

Customer Bliss

JUNE 22, 2020

These conversations span across a range of industries but tend to have an overarching theme that comes back to the importance of leadership bravery. These experts have all spent time enacting behaviors, either within their own companies or the companies of others, that consider the well-being of their employees, customers, and partners.

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Leadership Healthcare Books Feedback 200

Customer Bliss

MAY 19, 2016

I did want to create a quick blog post about customer experience competencies, however. I came to these competencies over 30 years of observing customer-focused growth engines that worked — and many that didn’t work. Here’s the essential overview: Customer experience work is often tremendously reactionary.

Customer Experience 171

Customer Experience Social Media Leadership Books 171

Micah Solomon

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The maintenance engineer—inspired by your leadership—has now provided genuine service that anticipates the customer’s needs. This extraordinary level of service is a highly reliable path to winning customer loyalty–and if that’s your goal, it’s essential that it become the rule, rather than the exception, at all levels of your company.

Leadership 68

Leadership Customer Service Seminar Hospitality 68

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Decline: Without growth, you risk becoming irrelevant to your customers. Nelson feels that a mature business starts to decline when its leadership stops listening to their customers. Innovation must take place to keep both the product and the customer experience relevant. Experience innovation is the secret.

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Entertainment Reference Innovation Customer Service Training 117

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.

Chief Customer Officer 185

Chief Customer Officer Leadership Hotels 2016 185

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This week we feature an article by Dan Martin, Chief Executive Officer of Xpress Global Systems , an organization focused on innovation, efficiency, and scalability of shipping and distribution of flooring products. He shares the four key areas that lead to elevated customer experiences while growing rapidly.

Customer Experience 149

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 2021 Transportation 149

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 23, 2016

Darryl Speach is a serial customer experience practitioner and change agent. He’s had leadership roles at New York Life, the Disney Institute, and Greystone and Company. Salmon and the “Destination Postcard” I often refer to customer experience work as being a salmon, i.e. swimming upstream. Episode Overview.

Chief Customer Officer 0

Chief Customer Officer Culture Leadership Insurance 0

Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

From his LinkedIn: Strategic marketing leader with proven history of team development, brand building, revenue growth, vision, innovation and customer-focused marketing solutions for B2C and B2B audiences. Robert worked hard to understand, define, and ultimately explain the various customer segments. About Robert.

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Chief Customer Officer B2C 2016 Leadership 160

InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

The best customer experience quotes can be a great source of inspiration for leadership teams and entire organizations looking to drive their CX transformation. Every team or department, from marketing and sales to customer support and product development, has a stake in the customer experience.

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 195

Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

She’s a bit of a geek when it comes to analyzing customer data and loves turning insights into better experiences for customers. After landing on Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2007, Rachael left New York City for Silicon Valley to be closer to the heart of technology innovation. Assessing The Work To Be Done.

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Peter Lavers

MARCH 17, 2015

There’s a view that ‘real’ innovation is all about anticipating what customers will want before they even know that they want or need it. It is also a sad fact that many executives see innovation as about sexy new ‘techy’ products, winning share, and opening new markets (i.e. retention). OUTSIDE-IN.

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Innovation Customer Experience Effort Score Airlines 89

Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Your goal as CCO is to unite the leadership team in delivering one-company customer experiences and connecting the delivery to business growth. This will require the removal of survey score addiction and a shift in leadership thinking. Your opportunity is to gain leadership’s attention to this simple definition of success.

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ROI Customer Experience Leadership Metrics 135

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

The higher up in the organization, the further away from dealing with customers directly. It’s easy to believe your brand is thinking of customers when in reality the leadership simply isn’t ever asked to do so. This led leaders to have quarterly, short-term visions instead of long-term, customer-focused strategies.

Customer Experience 225

Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping Net Promoter Score Measurement 225

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. For some seasoned executives who think more about product, price, and process, this customer focus is scary. They may push back.

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Chief Customer Officer 2017 Leadership Customers 197

CX University

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The joint venture’s mission is to cultivate CX leadership and mastery, enabling businesses to thrive in an increasingly customer-centric marketplace. About HBC Asia Pacific: Founded in 2003 by Dr. Sidney Yuen, HBC is a professional services firm that delivers advisory and customer-focused solutions to its clients.

Net Promoter Score 114

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience 2003 2022 114

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A customer just looking to pick up a carton of milk sees the layout as inconvenient. So, what ideas do we make in our businesses that are more profitable and inwardly focused versus customer focus? Why Is Identity So Important In Today’s Customer Experience? by Matt Seeley. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Article 2019 Customer Service Customer Centricity 96

One Millimeter Mindset

MAY 4, 2022

Our goal is a more innovative and realistic professional framework for the future. Many of us are exquisitely customer-focused on serving others. Professional Innovation | Cross Functional Leadership | Complex Problem Solving | Speaker, Consultant, Coach |. Sound familiar?

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Consulting Innovation Leadership Presentation 90

ShepHyken

APRIL 22, 2019

My Comment: If you want the service culture in an organization to change, it must start at the top with leadership. As Bill Patterson, Salesforce Service Cloud’s GM and Executive VP would say, “Never before has it been more important to rid the world of bad customer service experiences.” by Mohamed Latib, Ph.D. . (CX

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Article 2019 Customer Service Competitive Advantage 84

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Who is listening to them and encouraging them to innovate around service? Customer service AND CX leaders need to create channels for that type of communication. All leaders should feel very connected to the voice of the customer. But embracing that tension means innovating to the best possible solution.

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Customer Service 2017 Social Media Innovation 181

Win the Customer

JANUARY 4, 2016

The decision sparked continued discussions around internal employee management practices, leadership, and results-oriented performance. The customer experience management practices in place today are part of this shift towards focusing on excellence and investing in talent management. The Time for the Experience Impact is Now.

Customer Experience 93

Customer Experience Leadership Customer Relationship Management Customer Centricity 93

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

He is an author of Moments of Magic®, The Loyal Customer, The Cult of the Customer, The Amazement Revolution, Amaze Every Customer Every Time, Be Amazing or Go Home, and The Convenience Revolution and a creator of a customer service training program, Customer Focus , aiming to help clients build a customer service culture and loyalty mindset.

2020 132

2020 Customer Experience Magazine Consulting 132

Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2016

If you don’t show those achievements, your boss will start pushing back — and then it’s more about surveys and checkmarks and less about customers as assets. Customers as assets with leadership recipe cards. I’ve created “customer-centric recipe cards” right here on this site.

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2013 Leadership Customers Customer Centricity 129

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company. Competition is great for Customer Experience.

Net Promoter Score 110

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Social Media CEM 110