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Why online communities are growing—and how you can get more from them

Alida

To appreciate just how dominant they have become, consider these stats: According to Forrester Research’s 2015 Customer Lifecycle Journey report, 81 percent of companies now have community-type support channels—a steep increase from 2012’s 67 percent figure. Companies need instantaneous feedback and insight.

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Passion for Product and “The Boss” Led Lee Weiner, Chief Innovation Officer at Rapid7 to the Top

Gainsight

As Nick explained in a recent conversation with Lee Weiner , Chief Innovation Officer at Rapid7, there was no direct path to the top early in all their careers. Early in 2020, Lee Weiner became the Chief Innovations Officer at Rapid 7, a leading global technology and security services company based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Why shopper insight is a valuable ingredient for CPG companies

Alida

According to the Harvard Business School, 95 percent of new products fail in the CPG market, while McKinsey found that 94 percent of executives are not satisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Between 2012 and 2015, top food manufacturers in the U.S. That means being more customer-centric, data-savvy and insight-driven.

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Top Five Predictions for Customer Listening in 2020

CSM Magazine

Likewise, for companies to be truly customer-centric, customer feedback and insights must be embedded company-wide: from HQ to frontline teams. We’ve seen many businesses realise that, no matter how golden their customer insights are, if they’re stuck in a spreadsheet in the data department, they’re of no business value.

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CEO’s Guide to Growth Through Ease of Business & Ease of Work

ClearAction

Further growth in revenue and profitability is achieved through enterprise-wide anticipation of customers’ reactions: Preventing occurrence of customer issues is known as ’embedding customer-centricity DNA’ throughout your company’s culture. Sustainable revenue growth is stimulated by customer experience innovation.

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What a Customer First Strategy Is (And what it’s not!)

C3Centricity

He spoke about the differences between customer focus and customer centricity and the often times confusion between the two terms. That is why I tend to speak about customer first rather than customer centricity these days. What a Customer First Strategy is not. Data #Customer #CEX Click To Tweet.

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Customer Experience Influencers You Must Follow – Part 2

Customer Guru

Lincoln is a Customer Success Consultant, keynote speaker and co-author of the book “Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue”. He believes that customer success is the way to make customers stick to the brand longer, buy more and advocate for them.