Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

An organization’s process tells me a great deal about how Customer-centric they are. Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus.

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Customer Focused Customer Centricity Customer Journey Mapping 2015 153

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Do you allow Customers to use whatever channel they wish to communicate with you, or do you restrict them to one or two channels? The answer to this question can show how Customer centric your company is. This post is the fifth in a series of nine posts that uses our Naïve to Natural customer-centricity assessment.

Customer Centricity 129

Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Social Media Books 129

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 30, 2016

Co-creation sessions, customer journey workshops and customer-focused innovation summits can sound so sexy and intriguing. We envision a group working cohesively, rolling up their collective sleeves to create an improved customer-centric culture and earn long-term loyalty from customers.

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Customer Focused Innovation Workshop Customer Centricity 110

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2016

There is a major skill most organizations lack: Customer centricity. But if you want to remain competitive in today’s economic climate, putting the focus on Customers is imperative to your bottom line. It was 20 years ago when the realization that I wasn’t Customer centric hit me. Operate with Customer in mind.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

In building relationships with customers, and value for them, my long-time observation is that most organizations tend to progress through several stages of performance as they are becoming truly customer-centric: a) customer awareness, b) customer sensitivity, c) customer focus, and d) customer obsession.

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Customer Centricity Banking Airlines Customers 111

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 20, 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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Customer Centricity Employee Experience CEM Culture 114

VDS

MAY 13, 2020

More, social media allows your customers to share their experiences with the world in a matter of minutes, for good or for ill. Generational expectations, technological advancements, and the increased pace of life all feed into the need to be customer-centric and the need to prioritize customer expectations.

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Customer Centricity Contact Center Social Media Omnichannel 81

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Consider this way-too-typical scenario: Marcus decides one day to stand in front of his employees and request in no uncertain terms how everyone needs to be more customer-focused. “Help customers love our company and brand more!” He promotes the idea of becoming more customer-focused. And that’s all.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Metrics Customer Journey 547

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

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Customer Care Customer Centricity Metrics Social Media 54

Peter Lavers

JULY 7, 2015

I was recently posed a thought-provoking question about how to extend “customer centricity” into the operations of large organisations. Here’s a checklist to consider how customer focused your Operations are: People. contact-form-7] The post Customer Centric Operations appeared first on Think CX.

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Customer Centricity Culture Measurement Customers 66

ShepHyken

AUGUST 11, 2017

In a recent letter to shareholders that went viral, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talked about customer obsession and its criticality to remaining a Day 1 company. But in my view, obsessive customer focus is by far the most protective of Day 1 vitality,”* said Bezos. Customer obsessed companies are the future.

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Blog Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Feedback 94

ijgolding

JULY 19, 2016

At the time, I ‘tweeted’ the blog to Easyjet – the response I received was rather uninspiring – in fact, all the advisor did was relay Easyjet’s terms and conditions to me – I was not impressed. However, rather than choosing to email the CEO, on that occasion, I chose to do what many customers will – to STOP being an Easyjet customer.

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Customer Focused Customer Centricity Airlines 2012 75

CSM Practice

JULY 24, 2019

The customer-centric mindset entails making major decisions while taking customer needs and customer journeys into account. This responsibility is not limited to the CSM (Customer Success Manager) alone, a company-wide disposition to customer satisfaction is crucial to customer success.

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Customer Centricity Roadmap Customer Satisfaction Customer Success 45

PeopleMetrics

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Antsy for Customer-Centric Cultures. For example, independent research shows that customer focus plays a role in employee engagement. Through employee satisfaction surveys , we found these real, not-ant, but-human statistics: In customer-centric cultures, two-thirds of employees are engaged, and one-in-four are fully engaged.

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Customer Centricity Engagement Culture Customers 92

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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Books Return on Investment Magazine Culture 266

ShepHyken

JULY 26, 2019

Get more insight into creating competitive advantage by putting your valued customer at the first place and managing several aspects such as satisfaction, reduce churn and increase revenues at once. Create a clear vision- First and foremost step is to have a clear customer-focused vision to communicate well with your organization.

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Blog Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Competitive Advantage 116

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

His YouTube channel is a fantastic source of inspiration about customer experience and customer centricity in a digital world. In his videos, I keep people updated about the latest trends in customer experience, customer service and customer centricity. Follow on LinkedIn. Follow on LinkedIn.

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Customer Service Contact Center 2022 Magazine 251

PeopleMetrics

JULY 10, 2018

Listen to any company in almost every industry, and you’ll undoubtedly hear phrases like customer-centric and customer-focused touted as top priorities. I often get feedback from our clients’ employees who say they don’t know what it means to be customer-centric and certainly don’t know how to practice it.

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Customer Centricity CEM 2001 Touchpoint 66

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 142

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When I started Beyond Philosophy back in 2002, I could ascertain whether a company was customer-focused or not right away. This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is.

Net Promoter Score 171

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Airlines 2002 171

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is where a Voice of the Customer approach can help by organizing and prioritizing customer insights into a usable format. In This Article: What is the Voice of the Customer (VoC)? Why you should care about the Voice of the Customer? Why you should care about the Voice of the Customer?

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Customer Centricity Voice of Customer Social Media NPS 169

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity. So any change in CX must include and address the Customer centricity of the organization.

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

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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Books Return on Investment Magazine Culture 182

Peter Lavers

AUGUST 5, 2016

This series of blogs is based on the early results of research undertaken by Peter Lavers on customer centricity. Participants are asked to tell us what, if anything, they are pulling their hair out over when it comes to customer centricity. the opposite of this obstacle)? Disconnected Strategy.

Customer Centricity 40

Customer Centricity 2016 Blog Customer Relationships 40

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Leaders of all types of organizations began to walk the talk around improving their customer experience. We know they craved information which helped them take action and get results, and that’s what our blog is all about. What Does it Take to Be a Customer Focused Organization? Customer Experience is…What, Exactly?

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2015 Customer Experience Customer Journey Mapping Touchpoint 300

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.

Net Promoter Score 163

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM Social Media 163

Peter Lavers

JULY 6, 2016

This series of blogs is based on the early results of research undertaken by Peter Lavers on customer centricity. Participants are asked to tell us what, if anything, they are pulling their hair out over when it comes to customer centricity. This is a lose-lose situation! Public Sector.

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Customer Centricity B2C B2B Culture 40

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Being Customer-Centric requires rewarding those that contribute to Customer-Centricity. Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. Focusing on rewarding these, however, is not conducive to Customer Centricity.

Net Promoter Score 118

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. If you are trying to become a customer-centric leader at a bank, that can be very different than an independent bookstore.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Leadership 287

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. I hold nothing back.

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Books Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management 94

Alida

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

To keep up with rising consumer and market expectations, an ever increasing number of companies are now prioritizing becoming customer-led. The race towards customer-centricity is driving some the biggest trends in business technology. The customer relationship management (CRM) market, for instance, reached $26.3

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Customer Relationships Customer Centricity 2015 Loyalty Programs 180

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 28, 2021

Discover our award-winning Customer Experience (CX) blog: [link]. Tune in for short, casual conversations every Tuesday at 2:00pm ET. ? ? ?. Sign up for more PeopleMetrics LIVE! sessions: [link]. Explore our CX solutions, designed to deliver a consistent experience every time.

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Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity Download 77

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That would leave one group with a customer-centric mindset and the rest without one. Therefore, everyone in the organization has to embrace the customer-centric mindset—even those who never interact directly with a customer. Customer centricity is an organizational philosophy. .”

Net Promoter Score 78

Net Promoter Score Engagement Customer Centricity NPS 78

ShepHyken

APRIL 18, 2022

Customer Understanding: Why Is It the Cornerstone of Customer-centricity? CX Journey) You can’t make any improvements, you can’t design an experience, you can’t transform anything, without customer understanding, without data and insights about your customers. by Annette Franz. (CX Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Article 2022 Customer Service Retail 71

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

When we perform our Naive to Natural assessment to determine our client’s Customer centricity, we find that Culture and Leadership has a massive influence on the outcome of the experience. Companies that lack a Customer-focus don’t have mechanisms in place for the team, including senior management, to spend time with Customers.

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Culture Customer Experience Customer Centricity Airlines 134

Maz Iqbal

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Today’s conversation is around that which has been unconcealed for me: about myself and the purpose/contribution of this blog. … Continue reading "On Self, The Customer & Leadership Blog, and Cultivating Loyalty With Employees, Partners, and Customers".

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Leadership Blog Loyalty Customers 59

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

All the little parts along the way in your experience are what make a Customer experience Customer-Centric. Putting the Customer first in everything you do applies to every part of your organization, from the way you greet them to the way you bill them. Why Systems Matter to Your Customers. Area #1: Technology.

Net Promoter Score 120

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Customer Centricity CEM 120