March, 2018

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Delivering Customer Experiences that deliver Value

CloudCherry

In any field, there are people who ‘claim’ to be good and then there are those that are actually good. The same holds true for businesses. You might think that your business is delivering great experiences to customers, but are customers actually finding value in it? Also, is your business able to measure tangible value from it? By value, I mean more referrals, repeat business, higher revenue, and greater profitability.

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Bad Feedback Is the Best Feedback. Are You Listening For It?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

As an employer, you need to provide oodles of feedback to employees to ensure they know what they’re doing, what they’re supposed to be doing, what they’re doing well and what they could be doing better. Bad feedback from employees and customers alike provides a way to prevent little annoyances from becoming reasons for good people to leave you.

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Ready or Not: AI Customer Service Will Change Your Business and Brand

BlueOcean

Say hello to the future: the robots are right here. Artificial intelligence is flipping all kinds of traditional business models on their heads. In the customer support space, AI is changing the customer experience for better or for worse depending on the elegance of your deployment. And the new world of AI is creating out-of-this-world efficiencies for businesses who are leveraging it effectively.

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Uncovering the “why” delivers higher research ROI for CX leaders

Alida

Note: This article is part of our ROI Matters series , which explores the value of research ROI to C-suite executives and leaders in product innovation , customer experience, marketing and customer insight. . It’s not enough to treat the symptoms of an illness—you need to understand the cause. Similarly, customer experience (CX) and market researchers must look beyond just fixing individual transactions and in-the-moment interactions with consumers to effectively demonstrate the return-on-invest

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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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Defining the Chief Patient Experience Officer Role at Cedars-Sinai Hospital

Customer Bliss

How do you define patience experience in a hospital? In today’s episode, I speak with Alan Dubovsky , Chief Patient Experience Officer at Cedars-Sinai , who talks about how a hospital stint in his youth led to a lifelong obsession with healthcare; specifically, how you get doctors, nurses, and employees to work together. Still relatively new to his role at Cedars-Sinai, Alan walks us through the steps he took to define his position and lead a patient experience transformation throughout the hosp

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The Top 5 Women Customer Experience Influencers [Infographic]

CloudCherry

Over the years, women have played an immense role in shaping Customer Experience. They’ve been at the forefront of creating processes and policies that have helped numerous companies drive loyalty, retention as well as profitability. And what better way to celebrate Women’s day than by giving a shout out to some of the women who have been highly instrumental in defining this CX space.

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What Drives Loyalty Really? Do You Want a Car with Four Wheels or Good Service?

InMoment XI

Everybody who conducts surveys and collects customer feedback with the objective of measuring or improving Loyalty or Customer Satisfaction will at least consider “identifying drivers”, if not executing a method to do so. There are many ways to identify the drivers of an outcome metric such as Loyalty or CSAT. Some are more common, some. View Article.

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The Top Three Motivators for Any Generation

CX Accelerator

Originally published on ICMI Blog Does your contact center resemble an episode of "The Walking Dead?" Whether or not you've reached zombie apocalypse levels of engagement, all customer service leaders must be intentional to win the hearts and minds of our staff. The "why" behind our efforts will ultimately determine the quality and consistency of work.

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5 things we learned developing customer personas

Alida

Better customer experiences drive repeat business—but how do you deliver a great experience without knowing your customers first? For many companies, the first step to providing a more seamless and personalized experience at scale is to create customer personas. Vision Critical is no exception. Our customer experience team recently embarked on an exercise to create our own personas.

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Frost Radar: Voice of Customer Analytics, 2024

Understanding and improving your customer experience (CX) can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Choosing the right voice of customers (VoC) solution is a critical step to elevating CX. Frost & Sullivan researched more than 50 leading VoC vendors, analyzing both their “innovation index” and “growth index” to independently select the top 10 performers in each of these categories.

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8 Thought-Provoking Interview Questions Every Chief Customer Officer Candidate Should Ask

Customer Bliss

Are you considering applying for the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO)? If so, you’ve probably already worked in customer experience leadership in some capacity, and have a reasonably clear concept of what an organization is looking for in a CCO. You may have a good idea of the kinds of questions you’ll be asked during your interview: your experience, philosophy, and the style of leadership you’ll bring to the organization, and are prepping for that.

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The Real Reason Men Aren’t Eco-Friendly

Beyond Philosophy

On our Intuitive Customer podcast , Professor Ryan Hamilton and I have been talking about the ways that customers are irrational in their decision making, often focusing on things that seem irrelevant. I came across an excellent example of this in a Scientific American article about men and the environment. We men, it seems, aren’t as good at being environmentally friendly as women are.

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The Top 5 Women Customer Experience Influencers [Infographic]

CloudCherry

Over the years, women have played an immense role in shaping Customer Experience. They’ve been at the forefront of creating processes and policies that have helped numerous companies drive loyalty, retention as well as profitability. And what better way to celebrate Women’s day than by giving a shout out to some of the women who have been highly instrumental in defining this CX space.

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The Future of AI is Here! Are You Making It Meaningful?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Dear future robot overlords, Please read this first. I’m on your side! I promise. Mostly. With a few exceptions. Thanks for going easy on me, -Jeannie. What a great time to be alive! We live in an age of constant discovery around artificial intelligence and the amazing ways we are sure to use it. When it comes to customer experience, there is no doubt AI is already impacting the way we do business, and I’m not just talking about hospitality bots.

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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The 3 M’s For Improving Customer Experience SUCCESSFULLY

Customer Guru

Written by Vivek Jaiswal | Co-founder, Customer Guru. What are the three most critical things an organization should do to achieve sustained customer experience improvement? I am regularly asked about the top three things an organization should implement in order to improve customer experience sustainably. The answer isn’t simple because improving customer experience takes time and there is no shortcut to it.

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How Hong Kong’s top brands lead with relationships

Alida

At Customers for Life, a recent Vision Critical event in Hong Kong, we immediately felt the grandeur, magnificent presence and ambience of the flagship Mandarin Oriental (MO) hotel in Central Hong Kong as soon as we stepped in. With more than 200 leaders in insight, innovation, marketing and customer experience in attendance, the luxurious MO was the perfect location for the sold-out, informative event.

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7 Leaders in Finance and Tech Share What They Wish They Knew Before Embarking on Their CX Journey

Customer Bliss

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel,” is a great quote from Maya Angelou, that Claudiu Coltea , EVP and Head of Customer Experience for Citizens Financial Group, shared while answering the pay-it-forward question, that I ask in every podcast interview, “what do you know now that you wish you knew then?

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How To Manage Expectations

Beyond Philosophy

Have you been on a flight recently and found that you arrived at your destination a little early? I have, but I never thought much about it until I heard this NPR report. A Tufts University researcher named Silke Forbes thought it odd that she arrived 30 minutes early on a flight from Cleveland to Washington. She had taken the same flight a few years before, but it had taken less time back then.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Customer Experience in Crisis! How do you revive it?

CloudCherry

Believe it or not, companies aren’t doing a great job at Customer Experience. Forrester’s 2017 CX Index for UK companies has revealed that customer experience quality has declined for most companies and verticals. The report even goes on to state that customers’ expectations will outpace companies’ ability to evolve and adapt.

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Why Your Customer-Centric “Breakthrough” Is Not Working

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Once upon a time, there was a leader. Maybe she looked like you and had your role. Or maybe he was the CEO. That leader had an epiphany about customer-centric culture. If we focus on customers, we will be a better organization. We will create happier employees who care deeply about those we serve. We will have legions of fans. Our revenue will increase.

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Expert Round-up: How to Achieve a Higher Customer Satisfaction Level

ProProfs Chat

Whenever you plan to open up a business, what’s the first thought that strikes you? Do you plan on achieving a certain goal in a specific period? Do you wish to achieve great profits and start gaining a good head start over other newbies in the market? Or do you plan to open a business with an objective of expanding it on a global level? Lot of speculations to keep up with, isn’t it?

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4 Ideas for Driving Customer Promotion via Customer Service

Customer Guru

The days when a customer service (CS) team was strictly responsible for handling complaints from customers are long past. In this new market, your CS team has to handle plenty more than unruly and unhappy customers. Besides handling complaints, it also needs to focus on an even bigger role by taking the lead in sculpting an amazing customer experience, which ultimately cultivates high customer satisfaction that will also create customer promotion through additional recommendations and referrals

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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CX Wisdom You Need to Know From 6 Leaders in B2B Organizations

Customer Bliss

If you’re leading customer experience work within an organization, one of the keys to success is to listen to others. Whether you’ve been doing this work for years or are just starting, listening and gaining feedback has to be an ongoing part of the process. The CX leaders who have been guests on my podcast, always stress the importance of maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders in order to advance the work.

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Which Department Handles Customer Experience? All of Them.

ShepHyken

Loyalty can be measured and it can be monetized. The sales & marketing departments may get customers in the door. Why not have a loyalty department that will keep them coming back through the door? — Shep Hyken (@Hyken) March 17, 2018. That’s a tweet I posted based on an article I wrote not that long ago. Ian Spindley ( @IanSpindley ) responded with the following comment: As far as you know, has #industry always called it sales & #marketing (just because it flows/sounds better)?

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Customer Experience in Crises! How do you revive it?

CloudCherry

Believe it or not, companies aren’t doing a great job at Customer Experience. Forrester’s 2017 CX Index for UK companies has revealed that customer experience quality has declined for most companies and verticals. The report even goes on to state that customers’ expectations will outpace companies’ ability to evolve and adapt.

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How to Stop Blaming and Start WINNING at CX

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Are you treating customer experience like a sport? Are people in your organization who deliver the experience expected to start “winning at CX” in some way? If customer experience becomes a competition, either amongst your internal teams or worse, then the customer is the guaranteed loser. What do I mean about CX as competition? Think about your own organization.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr