Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Forrester

MARCH 6, 2015

Hundreds if not thousands of leading corporations have created chief customer officer (CCO) positions in recent years to help them become more customer-centric. Customer Experience' Now US federal government agencies are toying with the idea of adding CCO positions and four have already taken the plunge.

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Alida

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Balancing budget constraints, departmental priorities and revenue growth against customer success can be a challenge, even for the most seasoned of executives. As the newly appointed chief customer officer at Vision Critical, Kelly Hall is well aware of these challenges. It’s simple; we are nothing without our customers.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 7, 2015

As more companies enlist the titles of Chief Customer Officer and Chief Digital Officer, the convergence becomes ever more interesting. One of the most challenging aspects of customer experience is setting boundaries around duties within organizations. Put customers front and center. Do they know?

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Jim Iyoob, Chief Customer Officer at Etech Global Services. His YouTube channel is a fantastic source of inspiration about customer experience and customer centricity in a digital world. Tom Hinds, SVP Customer Engagement at Advocate Aurora Health. Follow on LinkedIn. Follow on LinkedIn.

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Thematic

JULY 1, 2018

If you missed our webinar “Customer-centric leadership – Lessons from Jeanne Bliss, catch the recording here! Jeanne Bliss, CEO, Customer Bliss: She’s not only driven a 95% loyalty rate at Land’s End and Microsoft, but also written successful books including “Chief Customer Officer 2.0”

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

Follow on LinkedIn Blake Morgan, Customer Experience Futurist, Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker Blake has been studying customer experience for over 15 years and has flown to the far corners of the earth to find out what is the secret sauce of the world’s most customer-centric companies.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 6, 2022

Congratulations on becoming the new chief customer officer of the organization. The biggest challenge you will face as the new chief customer officer is that the customer situation has shifted dramatically in the last couple of years. Questions the new chief customer officer must ask themselves.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

I had the pleasure of reading Jeanne Bliss’s new book, Chief Customer Officer 2.0 , and can’t wait to tell you why you should read it! Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate.

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Alida

JUNE 16, 2016

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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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This is why more businesses are appointing Chief Customer officers to focus on customers. As per Gartner , 90% of companies now have a CCO with customer experience and success as the core responsibility. In this blog, we attempt to understand evolution, its implications, and whether it will stick.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 7, 2022

With the continuous evolution of the CX domain on the bottom line, a new role has emerged to assist enterprises in setting up the next level of CX expectations – the Chief Customer Officer (CCO). But the question is still: What exactly do CCOs (Chief Customer Officer) in this relatively new executive position do?

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

When it comes to customer success, there are various roles in an organization. If you have been following SmartKarrot’s blogs then you would find that we have written many blogs on different roles. But this blog is specifically about Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Supervising all customer-facing teams.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

Organizations across a wide range of industries are creating positions like Chief Customer Officer and Customer Experience executive. They’ve realized the importance of investing in the overall experience of customers, and that doing so generates phenomenal business results. Stay current.

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Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

You read blog posts and research articles if you want to learn more about a specific topic. For example, there are plenty of good customer experience books to read if you want to learn more about customer experience. To help you out, we have listed our top 10 must-read customer experience books.

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Gainsight

MARCH 1, 2024

In this blog, we asked four remarkable female leaders in CS about their predictions and foresight into the future of this pivotal field. Maranda (VandenBroek) Dziekonski Chief Customer Officer, Swiftly Years in CS: I have been in a customer-facing position for over 20 years now.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2023

Customers scrutinizing expenditures will not have the luxury of sticking around with vendors where value is not returned multiple fold. Customer Success and a customer-centric framework are the key elements in this equation. The role of chief customer officer moves into the limelight.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Amanda is a highly experienced customer experience consultant, adviser, and writer. She has helped organizations of all sizes and sectors transform themselves into customer-centric ones. His areas of expertise, among others, are customer acquisition, customer development, and customer loyalty. ” 29.

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Totango

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your customer success team structure forms the organizational backbone supporting your CS strategy. A well-designed structure can help you streamline your operations for greater efficiency to deliver your customers better results. What Roles Are on a Customer Success Team? Cultivate a Customer-centric Brand Image.

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Alida

JULY 16, 2018

Special guest speaker Christine Corbett, Group Chief Customer Officer at Australia Post shared the story of the creation of the Chief Customer Office at Australia Post and its role to ensure the customer is the centre of everything they do. Listening to customers and taking action.

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Eptica

AUGUST 19, 2020

However, while businesses know they need to be customer-centric, achieving it consistently is not always easy. By making this group responsible for the entire customer experience it provides focus to CX initiatives, and the resources to drive deep and lasting change. What would my mother think about this?

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2022

Customer-centricity is the need of the hour for B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) companies. It is considered the only way to provide a positive customer experience and improve customer loyalty. It needs more than simple customer service. Key C-Suite roles required to make a customer-centric executive team.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 21, 2022

Customer-centricity is the need of the hour for B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) companies. It is considered the only way to provide a positive customer experience and improve customer loyalty. It needs more than simple customer service. Key C-Suite roles required to make a customer-centric executive team.

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The biggest challenge is aligning the organization towards the goal of customer centricity. While companies are making their biggest investments in technology to improve customer experience, they should be prioritizing organizational re-alignment over everything else. Coaching mid-management on customer experience.

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Amity

APRIL 25, 2016

Alex helps VC-Funded startups and F100 companies optimize, leverage and accelerate their Customer Success teams. The Glide Consulting Blog. Every Thursday he publishes a new blog post about his wins, fails and lessons learned along the way. The Groove Blog. VP of Customer Success and Business Operations - Gainsight.

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Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Make customer service part of company goals and vision: Review your company goals, objectives, and vision to ensure that your commitment to customer service is reflected in them. Their success metrics should have a clear customer focus, and their leaders should care about customer experience.

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Tricia Morris

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

In a September 2014 CMO Council Report titled Mastering Adaptive Customer Engagements , survey results show that most brands need something to sharpen their competitive edge: • Only 14% of respondents rated the customer-centricity of their organization as high; and only 11% believe their customers would say the same.

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Answer Dash

JUNE 27, 2018

She is one of the foremost experts on customer-centric leadership and the role of the Chief Customer Officer. A consultant and thought leader, Jeanne Bliss guides C-Suite and Chief Customer Officer clients around the world toward earning the right to business growth and prosperity, by improving customers’ lives.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Totango’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Karen Budell recently joined an episode of the MarTech podcast to discuss the importance of the partnership between marketing and customer success and explain why Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) should have a seat next to CMOs at the C-suite table.

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CCO Council

MAY 20, 2014

If the CFO posts a family vacation snapshot on the company blog is Wall Street going to raise earnings expectations? While there are benefits, whether you choose to blog or personally participate in social media is irrelevant. Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Customer Engagement Customer Insight'

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Bold360

JANUARY 19, 2017

Founder and President of CustomerBliss, Jeanne Bliss is one of the foremost experts on customer-centric leadership. She was the first known CCO (Chief Customer Officer) at Microsoft as well as other corporations, pioneering this role. We love her recent blog on what CX will look like in 2017. Bill Quiseng.

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SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Adam Toporek is an internationally-recognized Customer Experience Expert, Keynote Speaker, and Customer Service Trainer who helps organizations transform their relationships with their customers through better strategy, training, and communication. She is now Chief Customer Officer at ClearAction Continuum.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Sonia Bhatia Salmin, Ex-Head of Customer Experience at Piramal Pharma Solutions, shares her thoughts on the importance of CX, and how she led Piramal Pharma Solutions into becoming one of the most customer-centric pharmaceutical companies in India. It was here that I exactly understood what customer experience really is.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 4, 2017

Over 150 customer experience professionals completed a PeopleMetrics online assessment about the presence, or absence, of customer-centric practices in their organizations. In our blog, we commented on the slow progress revealed by the trends in this data , with few disciplines improving over time.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

I can’t overemphasize the importance of building maps with real customer intelligence, not just internal opinions. You need to keep a pulse on the various players in a customer account who have a say in purchase decisions. About the guest author.

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CustomerSuccessBox

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In this blog, we bring you to a few of those Customer Success leaders, our very own mentors, and popularly known influencers. He is a world-renowned Customer Success growth expert, consultant, and thought leader, Lincoln is one of those celebrated earliest evangelists for Customer Success. Lincoln Murphy.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Good customer retention strategies: Proactively prevent churn. Promote customer loyalty. Are more cost-effective than acquiring new customers. Blog Posts: Boost Your Customer Retention Strategy. What is a Customer Retention Rate and How Do I Calculate It? See How Gainsight Can Improve Customer Retention.

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