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The Authenticity challenge: 25 marketing, CX and innovation takeaways from the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit

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Earlier this week, more than 400 professionals in marketing, customer experience, innovation and research gathered in Chicago for the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit. The two-day annual conference featured keynotes and presentations by some of the world’s leading customer-centric brands.

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Customer Experience Professionals: Why We Do What We Do

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BM: Generally, the customer engagements I’m proudest of are those where the value of becoming more customer-centric has been amply demonstrated and I’ve “converted” sceptics within the company. KS: Becoming the CX professional I am today didn’t just happen overnight. IG: Experience, experience, experience.

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11 Customer Experience Trends for 2016 (The Year of Emotion)

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With this post, I’m declaring 2016 “ The Year of Emotion.”. As you can see in our video Driving CX Transformation , customer-centric culture requires mastering four CX core competencies : Purposeful Leadership , Compelling Brand Values , Employee Engagement , and Customer Connectedness. Effort Metric Expanding.

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Embedding Customer Centricity: The Customer Experience Jigsaw Puzzle

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Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. What is fascinating about the questions I am asked, is that more often than not, most organisations have started their journey to becoming Customer Centric. Starting an organisations Customer Experience transformation is hard – something I have written about in the past.

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7 things you should know about Customer Intelligence Summit keynote speaker Jeanne Bliss

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If you work in customer experience (CX), you probably already know Jeanne Bliss. A thought leader in CX even before this practice became mainstream , Bliss is an author and a rexpected expert on customer-centric leadership. Here are our top seven reasons: She pioneered the emergence of the chief customer officer role.

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Closing the insight-driven competency gap

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According to CMO.com way, back in 2016, 63% percent of CEOs saw rallying their organizations around the customer as one of the top three investment priorities for the year. Today, customer centricity, or some notion thereof, has become the strategic posture of almost every profitable company in existence.

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How market researchers can thrive in the age of faster and cheaper

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Get your copy of the e-book and catch Ray Poynter’s presentations at the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit to learn more. In my upcoming presentations at the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit in Chicago and London , I’ll be sharing actionable tactics on how to thrive as a modern market researcher. .

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