Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Welcome to my second article in a series about assessing customer centricity in our global Customer Experience consultancy. All organizations are somewhere on a spectrum from Naïve to Natural, with Naïve being the least customer-centric and Natural being the most.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

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CloudCherry

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In today’s customer-centric market, the customer experience is no longer just a marketing factor to consider. With so many channels available, customers can share their feedback with just a click of a button, shaping a person’s perception of your company before they get to buy your product or interact with your team.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 12, 2018

That leader had an epiphany about customer-centric culture. If we focus on customers, we will be a better organization. And a few months later, people are rolling their eyes when a colleague says “remember how we’re supposed to be focused on the customer?” Once upon a time, there was a leader.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I speak with customer experience professionals every day. Some of them have fancy, customer-focused titles like Chief Customer Officer or Vice President of Customer Experience. Others have more common org chart regulars, like Chief Marketing Officer or Voice fo the Customer (VoC) Director.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

According to research: Companies that earn $1 billion annually can expect to earn, on average, an additional $700 million within 3 years of investing in customer experience. Customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don’t focus on customers.

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InMoment XI

AUGUST 3, 2023

By tapping into unstructured data sources, businesses can elevate their customer experience strategies, customer experience research , improve personalized interactions, and create more meaningful connections with their target audience, ultimately gaining a competitive edge in today’s data-driven marketplace.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 18, 2023

Companies are understanding the need of adopting a customer-centric approach in order to remain competitive in difficult business circumstances. In this article, we will look at the redeveloped customer service landscape, delving into key trends and strategies that enable businesses to embrace customer-focused success.

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ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 23, 2019

You might have a hard time believing, but the most effective solution is building a customer centric organization. . But what is customer centricity ? Maybe a couple of customer surveys. For decades, companies of all sizes across the globe have been working on their customer centric business strategy.

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Michel Falcon Experience

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

To be customer focused, a CEO must pay great attention to past, present and future customer behaviours, motivations and aversions. Do you work with a customer focused CEO? Does he invest to improve the company’s customer experience on a consistent basis? They genuinely want to engage with customers.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

What all seasoned customer experience professionals know, is that you can have all the tools and methodologies in the world, but if the culture of an organisation does not support your ability to transform the way that organisation behaves, then customer centric transformation may remain a pipe dream.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. What is fascinating about the questions I am asked, is that more often than not, most organisations have started their journey to becoming Customer Centric. Starting an organisations Customer Experience transformation is hard – something I have written about in the past.

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VDS

MAY 13, 2020

Further, customers are no longer comparing customer service standards within an industry as much as comparing companies to the best customer experiences they’ve ever had. And, when your customers connect with your company, regardless of the channel or department, they see you as one frictionless company.

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Kustomer

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Annette Pedroza to learn about building a customer centric culture. To explain this further, Annette suggests: I think when employees hear leadership talking about the customer, that’s really important.

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Kayako

JANUARY 24, 2018

Which brings me neatly toward 2018’s customer service trends: Customer Service Trends 2018: Creating Effortless Customer-Centric Experiences. Becoming customer-centric will be the goal of most businesses this year. What will make a business more customer-centric than the next one?

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In the first 30 days of his role, his responsibility was to build a path to develop internal customer-centric behavior. . Get to the people down in the trenches, the service reps and managers – hear from them, what do they know and see when they interact with customers every day?

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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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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. Where does Social Listening fit and is it connected with Customer Services?

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InMoment XI

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The power of data-driven choices extends beyond individual decisions; it drives a customer-focused culture within your organisation. It empowers your teams to make decisions with the customer in mind and aligns the entire organisation towards delivering customer-centric outcomes.

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ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2017

Over the last few months, I have been exploring in detail my perspective on seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric. As I have committed my experiences, thoughts and knowledge to writing, several common themes and ‘connections’ have risen to the surface.

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Think Customers

APRIL 14, 2015

Whether it''s the ability to see the full stream of transactions a customer has made with a company, the most recent channels they used to interact with the organization, or the feedback they''ve shared about their experiences in social media or with the contact center, there''s often one or more pieces that are missing from the customer picture.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Customer Centricity: How to Always Put the Customer First by Fernanda Alvarez Pineiro (Startups.co.uk) If the words “customer is King” have recently graced your LinkedIn feed with their presence or starred in your recent business conversations, you are probably attuned to the growing trend that is customer centricity.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 18, 2022

If a culture is touted as “customer first” or “customer-centric,” that mindset and strategy need to be pervasive in the way employees communicate and learn throughout their entire tenure, no matter their role. The Common Method of Customer Experience Training. Set customer-centric expectations from the first interview.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to begin at the beginning, build your case, and create a coalition of customer-focused leaders. First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience. What would it cost to lose 10% of your customers? Look for ways to connect those dots first.

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Jim has been instrumental in setting up services for the customers needing quick and apt solutions for their daily customer experience needs. His YouTube channel is a fantastic source of inspiration about customer experience and customer centricity in a digital world. Jeff is truly obsessed with customer service.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 7, 2021

(Experience Investigators) Customer interviews can highlight issues in emotional ways. Customer quotes can be used to tell your customer’s story on a customer journey map or in a persona. Word clouds can help others in the organization connect with the real language customers use again and again!

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They no longer have interactions with them, and rely on others like account managers, frontline employees and customer service teams to provide those one-on-one interactions. Customer-focused organizations prioritize keeping customers close. Nothing moves people to action like emotion!

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This month, I want to ask three connected but altogether different questions: What do you do if the organisation you work for or with does NOT have strong customer focused leadership? How can a CEO become a stronger customer focused leader, assuming he or she realises the need and is willing to try?

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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. .”

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Customer Guru

MARCH 13, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

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Totango

APRIL 25, 2019

Being a visionary leader Edgar clearly articulated how organizations, teams, and leaders improve their alignment and achieve greater levels of success and the true meaning of a customer centric organisation.”. Congratulations to our Customer Success Visionary Award winners: Best Customer Focus – SAP.

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Alida

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Defining customer relationships is a necessary step in delivering what customers truly want—and driving business results. the way in which two or more people or things are connected or the state of being connected,” and 2. The race towards customer-centricity is driving some the biggest trends in business technology.

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TechSee

APRIL 10, 2019

While Comcast, BT, Verizon, Vodafone and T-Mobile are industry leaders, the principles underpinning each of these projects can be easily applied to your business to deliver a better customer experience. This omnichannel CX is increasingly expected by today’s customers. BT – Customer-centric culture.

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Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

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. Customer service is not a department. The ability to empathize enables us to see the customer’s world differently.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Using Social Media to Connect with Your Most Loyal Customers by Michael A. the response to customers’ questions are all managed by AI. Delivering a more customer-centric experience by SmartBrief.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Emotional Engagement and Customer Centricity. How to Drive Customer and Employee Engagement for a Better Customer Experience. They discuss strategies for building customer centricity and emotional engagement. In order for leaders to be truly customer-centric, they must be immersed in the customer experience.

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