CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

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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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Kustomer

APRIL 8, 2021

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast , Gabe Larsen is joined by Stacy Sherman from Schindler Elevator Corporation and Vikas Bhambri from Kustomer to discuss why the employee experience matters just as much, if not more than the customer experience. TRANSCRIPT.

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GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

Design a customer-centric culture. Always start with the culture; everything else flows from here. Has it been deliberately designed to be customer-centric? Focus on the employee experience. A natural follow-on from culture is to consider the employee experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

According to the global leaders, that’s because: They deliver excellence customer service. They have stated publicly they want to be the “ Earth’s most customer centric company. ” How employee engagement affects their rank: A recent article on BusinessInsider.com points out that Amazon’s cloud computing business earned $3.8

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The article in the NY Times tells a story of an employee culture where workers are never off the clock. (Oh Simply put: if Amazon’s workplace culture is despotic as the NY Times article said it is, then their product and the resulting Customer Experience would be, too. Or maybe one of the employees at Wal-Mart.

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CX Journey

JANUARY 23, 2019

It appeared on their blog on May 8, 2018. While customer experience strategies and transformations must include a priority focus on the employee experience, they often don’t. Many companies believe they can improve the customer experience without improving the employee experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.” The author had several suggestions for building customer-centricity. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”. How can you work with others to build new, customer-centric processes and ways of working if they don’t really understand what you’re trying to do? Customer-centricity can be embedded in many places in a company’s strategy. okay… so what do you actually do ?”. “Oh,

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CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

As companies focus inward to understand how to achieve their customer experience goals, the term “engagement” is often used interchangeably with “culture.” The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. Prompts might include: “We know who is responsible for the customer.”

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CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”. How can you work with others to build new, customer-centric processes and ways of working if they don’t really understand what you’re trying to do? Customer-centricity can be embedded in many places in a company’s strategy. okay… so what do you actually do ?”. “Oh,

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 13, 2019

So how do you get happy employees and how does it affect Customer Experience? You must design an Employee Experience that enables the Customer Experience you want to deliver. Several different ways exist for an Employee Experience program to go wrong. Lowenstein teaches on this subject.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. As the third in our series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer centricity, let’s look at: Customer Strategy.

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SurveySensum

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Meet Neha, a talented employee who consistently met targets. Despite this, her job satisfaction plummeted due to a lack of recognition and support, resulting in a negative employee experience. This scenario underscores the critical link between employee satisfaction and overall organizational success.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

According to the global leaders, that’s because: They deliver excellence customer service. They have stated publicly they want to be the “ Earth’s most customer centric company. ”. How employee engagement affects their rank: A recent article on BusinessInsider.com points out that Amazon’s cloud computing business earned $3.8

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. The reason you are delivering the Customer experience you do today is because of the way the organization is.

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GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

Two customers can view the same experience in completely different ways due to many factors that influence their interpretation of events — their upbringing, cultural background, motivations, and much more. That’s why most companies struggle to meet the expectations of their customers.

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Strativity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Support the results of experience-oriented recruiting and decruiting practices by immersing your employees in a culture of delight. Employee experience is the sum total of the supporting environment enabling employees to perform. What else can we do to delight customers?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. The reason you are delivering the Customer experience you do today is because of the way the organization is.

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CX Journey

MARCH 29, 2017

It was published on their blog on April 26, 2016. I recently came across some research conducted among customer experience (CX) practitioners that found that their #1 challenge this year is creating a customer-first culture. You know by now, of course, that the employee experience drives the customer experience.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

She is an internationally recognized customer experience thought leader, coach, keynote speaker, and author of Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business). Let me start by defining employee experience.

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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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OpinionLab

JULY 15, 2016

Involve employees to build a CX culture. Forrester CXNYC also put significant emphasis on aligning CX efforts with internal corporate culture. Our customer Citi outlined in their main stage presentation how a customer-centric culture is helping them to consistently implement cross-channel CX.

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CX Workout - Ideas Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

2) Misunderstanding the True Voice of Customers and Employees. 3) Little connection between the Employee Experience and Customer Experience. As many of our CX, EX, UX, and Data peers understand, each of these roles must report directly to the CEO who has a total vision of customer centricity.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Let’s be very sensitive to the pressures our customers may be feeling, and do everything we can to individually and collectively exceed their expectations.”. I talk a lot about Customer-centricity of organizations. He also leads his Customer-centric culture by example. Does your CEO get it, too?

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In a September 13 th Wall Street Journal article, CEO John Stumpf said that the bank didn’t have a bad culture, but that it has been working to weed out bad employee behavior. Pronouncements like that should reflect a customer-centric culture, ambassadorial employee behavior, and positive customer perception.

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Doing CX Right

JUNE 27, 2020

What does great leadership look like to build a customer-centric business culture? Transcription shared from Engati’s Business Blog: What role does the employee experience play in relation to fostering a great customer experience? Watch my video interview below.

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Alida

APRIL 27, 2018

Here are 10 practical takeaways from leading chief customer officers (CCOs) and customer experience (CX) leaders in Australia: 1. “CX can’t happen unless the employee experience is there,” said Cassandra Goodman , general manager, experience transformation , Australian Unity.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 28, 2015

This is effectively the culture of the organization. Save the wisecracks for your blog. If you enjoyed this post, you might be interested in the following blogs: Are You Working for the Right Company? Hiring Customer Ready Employees. Are You Making These Mistakes with Your Employees Today. Request feedback.

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Doing CX Right

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you have not launched a business and do not have customers yet, then co-create a journey map with your target audiences (also referred to as personas). There are plenty of resources on the internet to guide you through the process, including my blog, DoingCXRight.com. Respect customer intelligence. Knowledge is power.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Changing your culture is never an easy task. Your culture is the way it is because of the way the organization is. Inc.com has an excellent article by Shawn Murphy listing 10 common mistakes that you should avoid when building your culture. The problem is sales-based comp plans focus on the organization, not the Customer.

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SuiteCX

JANUARY 29, 2021

Our customer advocate really was the walking and talking voice of the customer, as she had come from 13 years in the call center. What she needed were better tools to help her analyze our VOC more efficiently, but the topic of tools will have to wait for another blog post. She could close the loop in her sleep!

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Strativity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Support the results of experience-oriented recruiting and decruiting practices by immersing your employees in a culture of delight. Employee experience is the sum total of the supporting environment enabling employees to perform. What else can we do to delight customers?

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It appeared on their blog on March 19, 2015. Treat employees better than customers." In business, the debate is: who comes first, the customer or the employee? The answer is more obvious than it might seem: it must be the employee, even if it's just slightly more first than customers.

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SurveyGizmo

MARCH 12, 2021

Successful companies will use automation to allow for more personal customer engagements, not to replace them.?? . Employee experience will be just as critical as customer experience?. Being able to engage your employees?in It’s easy to be isolated and transactional?with with everybody working remotely.

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CX Journey

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Image courtesy of miserablespice I originally wrote today's post for Intradiem; it appeared on their blog on December 16, 2014. There are (at least) five categories in which companies continue to fall down when it comes to the customer experience. The customer's needs and perspectives do not play a part in this type of thinking.

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

It appeared on their blog on January 7, 2016. Fact : Without your employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee experience and customer experience has been proven. It's real, and your employees matter. What is the employee experience?

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