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The Evolving Chief Customer Officer: Identifying Value, Authority, Scope, Responsibilities, and Strategic Direction Within the Enterprise

Beyond Philosophy

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. Customer Relationship-Building.

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Putting customers at the heart of strategy: Q&A with Vision Critical Chief Customer Officer Kelly Hall 

Alida

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.

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Big Controversy: Should We Stop All Certification Now? Join the Debate…

Beyond Philosophy

This definition means a customer-centered organization should have excellent contact centers, intuitive digital interactions, a brilliant social media presence, and an outstanding customer relationship management (CRM) system. . It doesn’t connect your CRM with the point of sales to inform agents about the customers.

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The four levels of customer success and product alignment maturity

ChurnZero

Better alignment drives increased product adoption , retention, and ideally deeper customer relationships. Note: this article is adapted from a session presented by ChurnZero Chief Customer Officer Alli Tiscornia and ChurnZero Chief Product Officer Abby Hammer at ChurnZero’s annual Customer Success conference, BIG RYG.

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VP Customer Experience Role for Growth

ClearAction

If “customer experience” has innumerable interpretations, the same can likely be said about the ideal role of the Head of Customer Experience. This position may also be known as Chief Customer Officer or VP of Customer [fill-in-the-blank] (e.g. Track record of customer-centric decision-making.

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2020 Customer Experience: 20 Wishes

ClearAction

Customer experience is customers’ realities compared to their expectations. 2) Update Your Customer Experience Management Definition. Customer experience management (CXM) was developed in recent decades to increase customer lifetime value. CXM must reflect CX holistically; otherwise it’s a misnomer.

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2020s Customer Value: 20 Wishes

ClearAction

Customer experience is customers’ realities compared to their expectations. 2) Update Your Customer Experience Management Definition. Customer experience management (CXM) was developed in recent decades to increase customer lifetime value. CXM must reflect CX holistically; otherwise it’s a misnomer.