Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 18, 2022

And customer experience management requires a thorough approach to training and education for all employees. Yet in some organizations, customer experience training is reserved for those who are in customer service roles only. 5 Things to Consider when Developing Your Customer Experience Employee Education Program.

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Culture Customer Centricity Customer Journey Feedback 378

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

DECEMBER 11, 2014

One of the most influential factors on your Customer Experience is your company culture. Most companies might understand the concept, yet still engage in activities that influence company culture in a way that hurts the Customer Experience. The majority of a Senior Manager’s time is spent in meetings, not with Customers.

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Culture Customer Experience Customer Centricity Airlines 134

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Customer experience is happening whether you invest in it or not. Success is really about customer experience management. Your customers are experiencing your brand and their journey with your brand whether you invest in the experience or not. Customer-focused organizations prioritize keeping customers close.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Reference 2022 376

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.

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Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Social Media Books 129

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Culture is one of the most important parts of customer service and customer experience. I’ve written numerous articles about this and have included a chapter on this topic in my latest book, I’ll Be Back: How to Get Customers to Come Back Again and Again , which by the way, is finally out. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Culture Customer Centricity Sports Definition 112

InMoment XI

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Managing this experience through a customer-centric approach can help businesses strengthen their customer relationships for long-term success. What is Customer Experience Management? To grasp customer experience management, it’s essential to first understand customer experience itself.

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Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management 2024 195

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.

Leadership 259

Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score 259

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?” Or maybe he was the CEO.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journey Mapping Culture Workshop 137

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

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 20, 2024

And customer experience management requires a thorough approach to training and educating all employees. Yet in some organizations, customer experience training is reserved for those who are in customer service roles only. The CEO gets on stage and announces a new mantra: We love customers!

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Customer Centricity Culture Feedback Customer Journey 282

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 30, 2014

You know the familiar saying: “ Culture eats strategy for lunch ”? That’s because culture, like strategy, is intangible, soft and elusive. And yet, so many businesses claim that they have or aspire to have a customer centric culture - to become more customer-centric, to put the customer first, to be customer-inspired.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Retention Sales 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

ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Customer Centric Culture Lynn Hunsaker. What Does it Mean to be Customer-centric? To have the customer’s best interests as the focus of your attention — not to be pre-occupied in your own interests at the customer’s expense. means you’re customer-focused. 1 Why is there such a huge gap?

Customer Centricity 63

Customer Centricity Culture Return on Investment Customers 63

Help Scout

APRIL 29, 2021

Your customer service culture is not what your fancy “Customer Guarantee” promises, and it’s not whatever you say it is in your new employee handbook. Your culture is the set of beliefs held by your employees about your company: who and what it is for, what it values, and how they act in response to those beliefs.

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Culture Customer Service Customer Centricity Chief Customer Officer 139

Playvox

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Ask people to name three companies known for their customer-centric approach to business, and there’s a good chance some common names will surface: Nordstrom, Apple, Trader Joe’s, Patagonia, and others frequently come to mind. It’s often the continuous improvement or quality management (QM) piece where contact centers struggle.

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Customer Centricity Contact Center Management Customer Satisfaction 83

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Books Social Media 247

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.

Customer Centricity 111

Customer Centricity Banking Airlines Customers 111

eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Fostering a Culture of Commitment When employees feel their work contributes to a greater purpose, they are more likely to engage fully with the company’s goals. Create Clear Roadmaps: Developing roadmaps that connect individual roles with company and customer outcomes increases engagement.

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Customer Experience Leadership Innovation Workshop 244

PeopleMetrics

MARCH 2, 2015

You’re going to have to face them sooner or later if you’re trying to build a customer-centric culture. Let’s focus on three things at work here: culture, engagement, and goals. It lives in your productivity stats, your error rates, your absenteeism, and your customer satisfaction scores. Culture is the same way.

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Culture Engagement Customer Centricity Employee Experience 106

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

ClearAction

MAY 27, 2013

Customer-Centricity Goes Beyond Customer Experience Management Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience management is necessary, yet insufficient. Traditionally, organizations have managed customer experience with a mindset of how the company is doing, in order to grow revenue.

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Customer Centricity Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management 77

Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2018

In today’s lively chat with Sue, we talk about her customer service experience and leadership that paved the way for her success in transforming the CX culture at Newegg, a multi-billion dollar company that has been customer-focused since its inception. Customer Experience Leadership Means Being a Team Player.

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Customer Focused E Commerce Multi-Channel E-support 129

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. When I thought about it, there were some common telltale cultural signs organizations share that indicate where their focus lies. Where does the customer get put on your agenda? Is it in there at all?

Net Promoter Score 171

Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity Airlines 2002 171

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. Why or why not?

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

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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Customer Centricity Customer Journey Mapping Customers Culture 96

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 13, 2025

Lesson #1 in Listen or Die laid the foundation: customer centricity isnt a buzzword or a marketing sloganits a commitment to action. Its about creating a culture where every decision is made with the customer at the center. Without that, the idea of being customer-focused is just empty talk.

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Customer Centricity 2025 2018 Culture 71

CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In the quest to improve the customer experience and customer loyalty, it is helpful to consider the ‘cultural habits’ of successful service organizations, such as: Disney, Apple, Southwest Airlines, Wegmans, Nordstrom, and Amazon. Their cultural habits are not merely lip service; it’s how they do business.

Customer Focused 96

Customer Focused Airlines Culture E-support 96

ChurnZero

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the most effective ways to run a subscription-based business is through a customer-centric strategy. You might be wondering, what is customer centricity ? Or what is customer-centric service ? What is Customer Centricity? Why Is Customer Centricity Important to Your Business?

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Customer Centricity Customers Sales Webinar 98

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Those that have excellent experiences, the kind that makes their brand name a household one, demonstrate actual customer-centricity in their CX. In our global Customer Experience Consultancy, we developed a Customer Experience Assessment model called Naive to Natural to determine a company’s level of customer centricity.

Customer Centricity 160

Customer Centricity Leadership Consulting Culture 160

Maz Iqbal

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Why is it that I prefer not to business with a customer-centric business? Which supermarket chain was applauded, by many, for its customer-centred way of doing business? What was held responsible for fuelling this customer-centred way of doing business? Allow me to share my answer by referring to the UK grocery market.

Customer Centricity 76

Customer Centricity 2014 Culture Customer Focused 76

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

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Secrets to Customer-Centric Business Growth Lynn Hunsaker. A potter’s wheel makes a great metaphor for customer-centered business. The potter focuses first on foundational stability, then shaping, then fine-tuning. These “business rituals” criteria are the truth about your culture.

Customer Centricity 74

Customer Centricity Sports Culture Innovation 74

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

When I thought about how I recognized it, I found that organizations that did not commit to customers had some shared company culture cues that indicated where their focus was. The ideas behind this discovery later became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience.

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Customer Centricity Books Consulting Culture 142

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. Do you put the managers through it as well? who represent your brand every day.

Customer Centricity 66

Customer Centricity Culture Measurement Customers 66

ClearAction

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The Art of Listening: A Key to Customer-Centricity Lynn Hunsaker. Curiosity is the key to great listening skills that improve customer experience. When you’re truly curious about your customer’s opinions, expectations and requests, you’ll find the customer to be more pleasant, interesting and fulfilling to you as well.

Customer Centricity 72

Customer Centricity Customer Focused Culture Communication 72

InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

The best customer experience quotes can be a great source of inspiration for leadership teams and entire organizations looking to drive their CX transformation. 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.

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Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 195