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CCO Forum 2017: Why you need a Chief Customer Officer

Customer Bliss

This post originally appeared on the CCO 2017 website. In today’s dynamic business environment, the one thing that should be of constant importance is the value of the customer as the lifeline of any organisation. Corinium: How would you describe the evolution/progression of the Customer Experience in the last 12 to 18 months?

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Best of the Podcast: The Process of CX Hiring and Transformation at Volkswagen Group Australia

Customer Bliss

This year, I’ve had the opportunity to interview a multitude of CX leaders on my podcast, The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show. I’m thankful to have interviewed over 40 leaders who are transforming customer experience within their organizations — some are even creating shifts in their respective industry.

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Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer, With Amy Downs – CB32

Customer Bliss

Amy Downs is the Chief Customer Success & Happiness Officer at Lifesize, a company enabling communication and collaboration among many mediums (their slogan is “connecting people to make their workplace great” ), was quite interesting. At Lifesize, she was initially VP of Customer Care. The ROI is there.

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Customer Success is Changing: Top SaaS CEOs Reveal What’s Ahead

ChurnZero

Customer Success drives a double benefit in the ROI.”. Mehta also discusses the evolution of the customer lifecycle and how in the old world the focus was directed at acquisition (Marketing and Sales) and post-sale support. “In Lastly, Mehta points to the expanding career opportunities for leaders in Customer Success.

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Change the Game in Five Minutes Series: Garin Landry Transformed Customer Success at Planview

Gainsight

Our Chief Customer Officer, Ashvin Vaidyanathan , talks to customer success trailblazer Garin Landry in this conversation. Garin is the Insight Strategy Manager for Customer Operations and Strategy at Planview , a global leader in work and resource management (WRM). Ashvin: Hello, Garin!

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Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020

SurveySensum

Lynn Hunsaker started her career as chair of a 20-country, 6-division task force designing customer satisfaction methodology as a manager in the Strategic Planning department at then-Fortune-250-ranked Sonoco Products. She is now Chief Customer Officer at ClearAction Continuum. LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link].

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Understanding the Joint Success Plan: A Tool for Outcome-Based Customer Success Management

ChurnZero

This is a guest blog post by Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic. A J oint Success Plan is a simple but powerful tool for outcome-based customer success management. It’s designed to help solution providers align with their customers’ business goals and objectives.