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Analysis of the newly released Wall Street Journal Management Top 250 (the Drucker Institute’s second annual ranking of best-managed companies) suggests that the possible secret sauce of seven companies that do everything well is… (drumroll) a customer-centric focus. and … Continue reading "Customer-centricity in action". The post Customer-centricity in action appeared first on Steven Curtin. MORE
These annual awards showcase clients that demonstrate excellence in utilizing customer insights to improve their organization’s performance in product innovation, customer experience, and marketing effectiveness. Customer Experience Customer Centricity Innovation MarketingWe at Vision Critical are proud to announce the winners of our 2019 Visionary Awards. MORE
It’s all well and good if your product feels intuitive to you, but if your customers don’t feel the same way, they won’t continue using your platform. The post The 5 Stages of Customer Centric Design appeared first on Influitive. AdvocateHub Best Practices Customer Centric Customer Engagement, Retention & Growth Developer Relations Product DevelopmentGreat user experience hinges on your ability to understand how consumers think. MORE
Customer Centric Mission & Values Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centricity is about priorities. Johnson & Johnson has an excellent way of communicating their customer-centric priorities: 1) doctors, nurses, patients, parents; 2) employees; 3) communities; 4) stockholders. Customers’ orders must be serviced promptly and accurately. Customer-focused priorities organically produce desired results for employees, communities and stockholders. MORE
Most companies today know that putting the customer at the heart of everything they do is vital. The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? Creating and sustaining a customer-centric culture was the subject of a recent podcast. When I worked at British Telecom almost 20 years ago, Customer Experience was just becoming a thing. MORE
Customer Centric Internal Branding Lynn Hunsaker. Customer centric internal branding revolves around customer well-being. Internal branding has various meanings, such as becoming employer of choice, communicating the company’s marketing programs to employees, emphasizing core values, engaging employees for high morale and productivity, or aligning internal behaviors with what’s promised to customers. (By MORE
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world. And beyond this sharp awareness, everyone needs to be constant in their personal alignment with the customer’s world, exemplified by their decision-making and behaviors. MORE
Customer-Centric Hiring Builds Trust Lynn Hunsaker. When customer experience requirements guide the hiring process, a company is practicing outside-in thinking. In fact, most companies that are consistently listed as top customer service providers have very deliberate methods for choosing the right people who will properly represent the company’s brand promise. We take our customers and our competition seriously — not ourselves.” MORE
If you were to answer a question, “What is that one thing that customers hate the most? . Customers don’t want to go out of their comfort zone to solve their own problems. So what can you do to provide a smooth and delightful experience to customers throughout their journey? You might have a hard time believing, but the most effective solution is building a customer centric organization. . But what is customer centricity ? Customer Support chat MORE
Customer-Centric Innovation Lynn Hunsaker. What defines a customer-centric organization, and why is taking a customer-centric approach increasingly seen as important? Clear Action’s Lynn Hunsaker and Patricia Seybold Group’s Matthew Lees argue the business case for a customer-centric organization. When the customer’s well-being comes first in your decision-making, you’re customer-centric. the customer’s world. MORE
What is Customer Centricity DNA? What is customer-centricity DNA? And centricity means “being situated at the center; a position of central prominence or importance”. Accordingly, customer-centricity DNA means your business is customer-centered in all that it does. Your business can develop customer-centricity DNA. Weave customer-centered thinking and doing in everything everyone does. Lynn Hunsaker. MORE
Customer-Centric Voice of the Customer Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric voice of the customer may seem automatic: it’s the customer’s voice, so isn’t it automatically customer-centric? “Centric” means “being at the center”, and if your voice-of-customer is asking about you, then it’s not really asking about them. Customer-Centric Examples. MORE
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world. And beyond this sharp awareness, everyone needs to be constant in their personal alignment with the customer’s world, exemplified by their decision-making and behaviors. MORE
Customer Centric Sales & Service Policies Lynn Hunsaker. For example, think of Zappos and LL Bean: for their customer-centric sales and service policies, they’ve earned widespread admiration among customers, as well as among executives across a variety of industries who’ve sought to learn from them. As we strive to win customers’ hearts and share-of-wallet, remember that kindness breeds gratitude , which builds customer enthusiasm for a brand. MORE
Imagine if you could give your customers that “day 1” feeling of excitement and potential throughout the entire customer journey. That’s the goal Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has for his customers. In his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders , Bezos describes the preservation of this day 1 feeling as the biggest driver for pursuing a customer-centric approach. 3 Benefits of Customer-Centricity . Increase existing customer value. MORE
What Does It Really Mean To Be "Customer-Centric?". Most companies say they’re “customer-centric,” but what does that actually mean? How can you take “customer-centric” from a vague marketing statement to company-wide mindset shift? What role does a Voice of Customer (VoC) program play in a customer-centric strategy? Discover our award-winning Customer Experience (CX) blog: [link]. MORE
It’s probably safe to say that few of our organizations, no matter how well-meaning, eased perfectly into these new routines of working from home and distancing ourselves physically from our workplaces, our colleagues, our teams and our customers. There is a myth that customer-centric cultures happen by intuition and a little magic. ” Building a truly customer-centric culture is a strategy that requires business discipline and real practices. MORE
Customer Centric Decisions Lynn Hunsaker. Do you have a customer-focus creed? In the conference room of a company I visited recently a poster served as a clear reminder for customer centric decision-making. Think about the highest priorities indicated by your most recent customer feedback, and how you could insert those priorities into a poster like this one: Our goal is to increase customer retention through product and service value creation. MORE
What Does It Really Mean To Be "Customer-Centric?". Most companies say they’re “customer-centric,” but what does that actually mean? How can you take “customer-centric” from a vague marketing statement to company-wide mindset shift? What role does a Voice of Customer (VoC) program play in a customer-centric strategy? Discover our award-winning Customer Experience (CX) blog: [link]. MORE
Customer Centric Listening Lynn Hunsaker. Listen to your customers’ experiences at the highest levels in your company to set customer-centricity standards. There’s no substitute for fresh unvarnished customer stories in aligning your culture to customers’ values and concerns. I recommend prioritizing the listening effort by the cumulative lifetime profit of various customer segments. MORE
Tiffany Carpenter, Head of Customer Intelligence at SAS UK & Ireland, recently chatted with Peter Lavers and Sally Eaves about disruption and the effects on business of Covid-19. AI and Cognitive Customer Centricity Customer Experience Latest Thinking Leadership Strategy analytics MORE
We all know that customer centricity is essential; even more so these days with the lockdown in most countries due to the pandemic. Now more than ever, businesses need to put their customers clearly at the heart of their organisation. But I know that many struggle, even in more normal times, to be customer centric. This week I give you ten simple actions to accelerate your organisation along its path to an improved customer-first strategy. #1 MORE
What is Customer Centricity DNA? What is customer-centricity DNA? And centricity means “being situated at the center; a position of central prominence or importance”. Accordingly, customer-centricity DNA means your business is customer-centered in all that it does. Your business can develop customer-centricity DNA. Weave customer-centered thinking and doing in everything everyone does. What is Customer-Centricity DNA? MORE
After all, the hospitality industry should be highly customer centric, as it relies on satisfying its guests. They both (should) have their customers at their heart. As the world changes, customer demands are changing too and companies need to stay current, if not ahead of these demands, in order to ensure continued growth. Having additional control of our lives today, means that customers are re-evaluating what they are offered. MORE
Customer-Centric Marketing: Align for Growth Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing has several layers of meaning. The most popular layer means personalization of communications, toward increasing customer lifetime value. Without the other vital layers, though, much potential customer lifetime value will be squandered. First Layer: All Customer Touch-Points. Communications is only one touch-point of many that marketing has with customers. MORE
Use Employee and Customer Feedback to Solidify Your Organization’s Values and Messaging. When Scott Allison of DHL first stepped into his CCO role, he approached the work by looking at the four aspects of customer experience below: Internal Stakeholder management. Understand customer perspectives. It was important for Scott to know what the customers thought was going well. Develop a customer-based strategy. Leverage the voice of the customer. MORE
What better way to start off the new year and new decade — a decade that I hope will be marked by incredible improvements in customer experience design, thinking, and execution — than by taking a look at one of the most essential ingredients of customer experience: leadership. I’m not a fan of absolutes, but in this case, one applies: a customer-centric culture is the only way to deliver Hero-Class® customer experiences consistently. Here it is! MORE
These days, customers expect personalized service. The digital transformation of business means that customers can easily leave a professional relationship that isn’t working for them. Enterprises need to keep customers happy because it’s never been easier for them to find alternatives. Customers expect high standards. Delivering clear value makes you critical to your customer’s success and future growth. Nurture customer growth. Nurture Customer Growth. MORE
Secrets to Customer-Centric Business Growth Lynn Hunsaker. A potter’s wheel makes a great metaphor for customer-centered business. Likewise, customer-centered business is likely to sustain organic growth, whereas non-customer-centered business requires a lot of costly and unpleasant “Band-Aids<sup>®</sup>” and may eventually cease to exist. Remember the last complaint you heard from a customer? MORE
Customer Centric Action Plans Lynn Hunsaker. Monitoring voice of the customer is one thing, but can all your employees name the customers’ top ten wish list? Barclays’ personal performance reviews include a strategic satisfaction index, which includes a retrospective 3-month comparison to other banks and continuous improvement of the customers’ top ten wish list. MORE
It is a tangible presence customers can see and feel in the way you engage them, respond to them, and present the product. Creating the right culture within your enterprise is, therefore, a matter of giving employees the right customer success tools and establishing best practices for using them. This way, every customer interaction is informed by as much personal information as possible. Why a Customer-Centric Culture Matters. Proactively engage customers. MORE
Even just 20 years ago, the job of “Chief Customer Experience Officer” at companies like a regional credit union, a large insurance company, or national retail organization was unheard of. Today, this new job function is evidence of one of the most important competing factors in today’s business environment: customer centricity. Today’s customers are more demanding than ever. Customer centricity goes far beyond hollow statements like “the customer is always right.” MORE
These days, customers expect personalized service. The digital transformation of business means that customers can easily leave a professional relationship that isn’t working for them. Enterprises need to keep customers happy because it’s never been easier for them to find alternatives. Customers expect high standards. Delivering clear value makes you critical to your customer’s success and future growth. Nurture customer growth. Nurture Customer Growth. MORE
Customer-Centric Marketing: Step-Up Performance Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing is necessary, yet far from sufficient — from customers’ and investors’ perspectives. Thankfully, many companies have been migrating away from product-centric, month/quarter-end-centric and competitor-centric marketing, toward putting the individual or most profitable customer at the center of marketing design and delivery. MORE
Customer Centricity Related Topics Peter Lavers
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Tiffany Carpenter, Head of Customer Intelligence at SAS UK & Ireland, recently chatted with Peter Lavers and Sally Eaves about disruption and the effects on business of Covid-19. AI and Cognitive Customer Centricity Customer Experience Latest Thinking Leadership Strategy analytics
Totango
AUGUST 8, 2019
Imagine if you could give your customers that “day 1” feeling of excitement and potential throughout the entire customer journey. That’s the goal Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has for his customers. In his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders , Bezos describes the preservation of this day 1 feeling as the biggest driver for pursuing a customer-centric approach. 3 Benefits of Customer-Centricity . Increase existing customer value.
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C3Centricity
JUNE 8, 2020
After all, the hospitality industry should be highly customer centric, as it relies on satisfying its guests. They both (should) have their customers at their heart. As the world changes, customer demands are changing too and companies need to stay current, if not ahead of these demands, in order to ensure continued growth. Having additional control of our lives today, means that customers are re-evaluating what they are offered.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Customer Centric Internal Branding Lynn Hunsaker. Customer centric internal branding revolves around customer well-being. Internal branding has various meanings, such as becoming employer of choice, communicating the company’s marketing programs to employees, emphasizing core values, engaging employees for high morale and productivity, or aligning internal behaviors with what’s promised to customers. (By
Speaker: Dennis Snow, President, Snow & Associates
Too often, organizations and their CX experts only look at the company's relationship with the customer to look for improvement. While it's essential to creating the perfect customer journey, it's only one aspect. It's time to look within: your employees' relationships with each other, and with the company. This webinar will provide you with strategic tools that can be used to raise the bar of service throughout your organization.
Totango
JULY 2, 2019
These days, customers expect personalized service. The digital transformation of business means that customers can easily leave a professional relationship that isn’t working for them. Enterprises need to keep customers happy because it’s never been easier for them to find alternatives. Customers expect high standards. Delivering clear value makes you critical to your customer’s success and future growth. Nurture customer growth. Nurture Customer Growth.
ClearAction
JANUARY 10, 2018
What is Customer Centricity DNA? What is customer-centricity DNA? And centricity means “being situated at the center; a position of central prominence or importance”. Accordingly, customer-centricity DNA means your business is customer-centered in all that it does. Your business can develop customer-centricity DNA. Weave customer-centered thinking and doing in everything everyone does. Lynn Hunsaker.
Totango
MAY 15, 2019
It is a tangible presence customers can see and feel in the way you engage them, respond to them, and present the product. Creating the right culture within your enterprise is, therefore, a matter of giving employees the right customer success tools and establishing best practices for using them. This way, every customer interaction is informed by as much personal information as possible. Why a Customer-Centric Culture Matters. Proactively engage customers.
PeopleMetrics
OCTOBER 28, 2020
What Does It Really Mean To Be "Customer-Centric?". Most companies say they’re “customer-centric,” but what does that actually mean? How can you take “customer-centric” from a vague marketing statement to company-wide mindset shift? What role does a Voice of Customer (VoC) program play in a customer-centric strategy? Discover our award-winning Customer Experience (CX) blog: [link].
PeopleMetrics
OCTOBER 28, 2020
What Does It Really Mean To Be "Customer-Centric?". Most companies say they’re “customer-centric,” but what does that actually mean? How can you take “customer-centric” from a vague marketing statement to company-wide mindset shift? What role does a Voice of Customer (VoC) program play in a customer-centric strategy? Discover our award-winning Customer Experience (CX) blog: [link].
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Vision Critical
JULY 15, 2019
These annual awards showcase clients that demonstrate excellence in utilizing customer insights to improve their organization’s performance in product innovation, customer experience, and marketing effectiveness. Customer Experience Customer Centricity Innovation MarketingWe at Vision Critical are proud to announce the winners of our 2019 Visionary Awards.
ClearAction
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
Secrets to Customer-Centric Business Growth Lynn Hunsaker. A potter’s wheel makes a great metaphor for customer-centered business. Likewise, customer-centered business is likely to sustain organic growth, whereas non-customer-centered business requires a lot of costly and unpleasant “Band-Aids<sup>®</sup>” and may eventually cease to exist. Remember the last complaint you heard from a customer?
CloudCherry
AUGUST 19, 2019
Even just 20 years ago, the job of “Chief Customer Experience Officer” at companies like a regional credit union, a large insurance company, or national retail organization was unheard of. Today, this new job function is evidence of one of the most important competing factors in today’s business environment: customer centricity. Today’s customers are more demanding than ever. Customer centricity goes far beyond hollow statements like “the customer is always right.”
ClearAction
JANUARY 10, 2018
What is Customer Centricity DNA? What is customer-centricity DNA? And centricity means “being situated at the center; a position of central prominence or importance”. Accordingly, customer-centricity DNA means your business is customer-centered in all that it does. Your business can develop customer-centricity DNA. Weave customer-centered thinking and doing in everything everyone does. What is Customer-Centricity DNA?
ClearAction
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world. And beyond this sharp awareness, everyone needs to be constant in their personal alignment with the customer’s world, exemplified by their decision-making and behaviors.
C3Centricity
JUNE 24, 2020
We all know that customer centricity is essential; even more so these days with the lockdown in most countries due to the pandemic. Now more than ever, businesses need to put their customers clearly at the heart of their organisation. But I know that many struggle, even in more normal times, to be customer centric. This week I give you ten simple actions to accelerate your organisation along its path to an improved customer-first strategy. #1
ClearAction
MARCH 20, 2020
Customer-Centric Voice of the Customer Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric voice of the customer may seem automatic: it’s the customer’s voice, so isn’t it automatically customer-centric? “Centric” means “being at the center”, and if your voice-of-customer is asking about you, then it’s not really asking about them. Customer-Centric Examples.
ClearAction
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Customer-Centric Marketing: Align for Growth Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing has several layers of meaning. The most popular layer means personalization of communications, toward increasing customer lifetime value. Without the other vital layers, though, much potential customer lifetime value will be squandered. First Layer: All Customer Touch-Points. Communications is only one touch-point of many that marketing has with customers.
Experience Investigators by 360Connext
APRIL 7, 2020
It’s probably safe to say that few of our organizations, no matter how well-meaning, eased perfectly into these new routines of working from home and distancing ourselves physically from our workplaces, our colleagues, our teams and our customers. There is a myth that customer-centric cultures happen by intuition and a little magic. ” Building a truly customer-centric culture is a strategy that requires business discipline and real practices.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Action Plans Lynn Hunsaker. Monitoring voice of the customer is one thing, but can all your employees name the customers’ top ten wish list? Barclays’ personal performance reviews include a strategic satisfaction index, which includes a retrospective 3-month comparison to other banks and continuous improvement of the customers’ top ten wish list.
Customers That Stick
JANUARY 7, 2020
What better way to start off the new year and new decade — a decade that I hope will be marked by incredible improvements in customer experience design, thinking, and execution — than by taking a look at one of the most essential ingredients of customer experience: leadership. I’m not a fan of absolutes, but in this case, one applies: a customer-centric culture is the only way to deliver Hero-Class® customer experiences consistently. Here it is!
Influitive
OCTOBER 23, 2019
It’s all well and good if your product feels intuitive to you, but if your customers don’t feel the same way, they won’t continue using your platform. The post The 5 Stages of Customer Centric Design appeared first on Influitive. AdvocateHub Best Practices Customer Centric Customer Engagement, Retention & Growth Developer Relations Product DevelopmentGreat user experience hinges on your ability to understand how consumers think.
Customer Enthusiast
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Analysis of the newly released Wall Street Journal Management Top 250 (the Drucker Institute’s second annual ranking of best-managed companies) suggests that the possible secret sauce of seven companies that do everything well is… (drumroll) a customer-centric focus. and … Continue reading "Customer-centricity in action". The post Customer-centricity in action appeared first on Steven Curtin.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Customer Centric Mission & Values Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centricity is about priorities. Johnson & Johnson has an excellent way of communicating their customer-centric priorities: 1) doctors, nurses, patients, parents; 2) employees; 3) communities; 4) stockholders. Customers’ orders must be serviced promptly and accurately. Customer-focused priorities organically produce desired results for employees, communities and stockholders.
Customer Bliss
AUGUST 1, 2019
Use Employee and Customer Feedback to Solidify Your Organization’s Values and Messaging. When Scott Allison of DHL first stepped into his CCO role, he approached the work by looking at the four aspects of customer experience below: Internal Stakeholder management. Understand customer perspectives. It was important for Scott to know what the customers thought was going well. Develop a customer-based strategy. Leverage the voice of the customer.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Listening Lynn Hunsaker. Listen to your customers’ experiences at the highest levels in your company to set customer-centricity standards. There’s no substitute for fresh unvarnished customer stories in aligning your culture to customers’ values and concerns. I recommend prioritizing the listening effort by the cumulative lifetime profit of various customer segments.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Most companies today know that putting the customer at the heart of everything they do is vital. The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? Creating and sustaining a customer-centric culture was the subject of a recent podcast. When I worked at British Telecom almost 20 years ago, Customer Experience was just becoming a thing.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Customer Centric Sales & Service Policies Lynn Hunsaker. For example, think of Zappos and LL Bean: for their customer-centric sales and service policies, they’ve earned widespread admiration among customers, as well as among executives across a variety of industries who’ve sought to learn from them. As we strive to win customers’ hearts and share-of-wallet, remember that kindness breeds gratitude , which builds customer enthusiasm for a brand.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 30, 2017
Customer-Centric Innovation Lynn Hunsaker. What defines a customer-centric organization, and why is taking a customer-centric approach increasingly seen as important? Clear Action’s Lynn Hunsaker and Patricia Seybold Group’s Matthew Lees argue the business case for a customer-centric organization. When the customer’s well-being comes first in your decision-making, you’re customer-centric. the customer’s world.
ClearAction
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Customer-Centric Marketing: Step-Up Performance Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric marketing is necessary, yet far from sufficient — from customers’ and investors’ perspectives. Thankfully, many companies have been migrating away from product-centric, month/quarter-end-centric and competitor-centric marketing, toward putting the individual or most profitable customer at the center of marketing design and delivery.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Customer-Centric Hiring Builds Trust Lynn Hunsaker. When customer experience requirements guide the hiring process, a company is practicing outside-in thinking. In fact, most companies that are consistently listed as top customer service providers have very deliberate methods for choosing the right people who will properly represent the company’s brand promise. We take our customers and our competition seriously — not ourselves.”
ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Decisions Lynn Hunsaker. Do you have a customer-focus creed? In the conference room of a company I visited recently a poster served as a clear reminder for customer centric decision-making. Think about the highest priorities indicated by your most recent customer feedback, and how you could insert those priorities into a poster like this one: Our goal is to increase customer retention through product and service value creation.
Totango
JULY 2, 2019
These days, customers expect personalized service. The digital transformation of business means that customers can easily leave a professional relationship that isn’t working for them. Enterprises need to keep customers happy because it’s never been easier for them to find alternatives. Customers expect high standards. Delivering clear value makes you critical to your customer’s success and future growth. Nurture customer growth. Nurture Customer Growth.
ProProfs Chat
DECEMBER 23, 2019
If you were to answer a question, “What is that one thing that customers hate the most? . Customers don’t want to go out of their comfort zone to solve their own problems. So what can you do to provide a smooth and delightful experience to customers throughout their journey? You might have a hard time believing, but the most effective solution is building a customer centric organization. . But what is customer centricity ? Customer Support chat
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