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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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. That’s right.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

So if you are trying to change it, you are going to have challenges—especially if you forget these three essential steps. Incenting the behavior you want to see. Considering the Employee Experience. Remembering your people need your support. Consider also the Employee Experience. What would you add to my list?

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Art of Selling CX: Convincing Skeptical Senior Leaders on Customer Experience Success Introduction In the dynamic landscape of customer experience (CX) management, the journey extends beyond strategic implementation; it’s a constant process of persuasion and selling ideas, especially to senior leadership.

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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. In This Article: Customer Experience 3 The Cult Of The Customer Chief Customer Officer 2.0

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We aimed from the start to align every work group with customers’ priorities, engage every group in improving CX efficiency and effectiveness, and embed customer-focus in running our business. Within the first two years, we saved enormous time and money for employees, customers, partners and investors.

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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.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Customer-centric is the modern focus Customer Service Managers are seamlessly bringing into their businesses – understand your customer’s needs and solve them intelligently. Customer & Market Research. These customers are less concerned with price and quality and are more concerned about new motivations.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Understanding what gives your customers “gratification” will help you meet and exceed their expectations. Your Customer Experience Model Has a Problem—Your Employee Experience is the Solution by Janelle Dieken. My Comment: We’re back to one of my favorite topics, which is the employee experience (EX).

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ClearAction

JULY 28, 2023

A good customer experience team is a catalyst to foster a positive, holistic customer focus across the entire organization, one that is informed by data and designed with empathy in order to deliver win-win outcomes that help everyone achieve success. Customer focus must be designed with empathy.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 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 Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Adam is a globally recognized expert on customer experience. He is the co-founder and director of Genroe, a consultancy that specializes in Net Promoter®, customer feedback management, data analysis, and customer experience management. Adam Toporek Follow @adamtoporek. Bruce Temkin Follow @btemkin.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.” The author had several suggestions for building customer-centricity. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., when making decisions.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 24, 2019

Retrofitting customer experience means baby steps and giant leaps. The struggle to move an entire organization from product- or sales-focused to customer-focused is intense. If the systems don’t provide value to employees, they simply won’t use them. And they had the benefit of starting that way.

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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. Before you bang your head on your mahogany desk, maybe you should ask yourself another question: Why should your employees care? The Power of Customer-Centric Goals. How do you get them in line?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 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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Confirmit

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And for the 15th year, the ACE Awards recognize companies who are not only committed to delivering great customer experiences but who use it to keep their businesses one-step ahead. In this book, you’ll discover the companies who are leading the way and rapidly turning customer experience into a serious force for business change.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Let’s be very sensitive to the pressures our customers may be feeling, and do everything we can to individually and collectively exceed their expectations.”. I talk a lot about Customer-centricity of organizations. This communication to employees shows me a customer centric company that is lead by the top down on this principle.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company.

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Michel Falcon Experience

OCTOBER 10, 2014

I can say, without exaggeration, I have devoted 1000′s of hours studying customer experience management and how it will grow a business. Being a capitalist, I focus my attention on customer experience because of revenue and profits. You must first enhance your employee experience. Jeff Bezos.

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Qualtrics

AUGUST 9, 2019

To roll out an employee experience (EX) initiative is to fully appreciate the impact people leaders have in your organization. Not only are managers the “boots on the ground” of any EX plan, but they’re shaping company culture every day as they interact with and coach their teams. it helps employees feel valued and heard.

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ijgolding

APRIL 19, 2017

This month, in my exclusive column for CustomerThink, I continue to explore in detail my perspective on seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric. Whether it be conscious or not, too many organisations have spent far too long believing that their ‘reason for being’ is making money.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2016

Today, there’s a lot of discussion among corporate strategists, and even senior HR folks, about “putting employees first”. Whenever this is surfaced, it’s useful to ask some relevant questions with regard to ultimate enterprise value, particularly the employee experience vis-à-vis the customer experience.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

Change management is a critical skill when leading company growth and responding to digital disruption. As the processes, policies, technology, and culture needed to drive improved experiences shift, customer experience (CX) must shift, too. Change management is the key. Original Article by Jim Tincher.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company. Mobile Payments Are the Future.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Coming out from under eBay’s shadow will let them blossom, into what I hope will become a Customer-centric organization. They have Customer-centric leadership. It’s great that their new CEO, Dan Shulman is coming from American Express, a highly Customer-centric company. Mobile Payments Are the Future.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Downie said that the focus is often on getting all the objective parts right but not focusing on the emotional parts of the experience. Since we know over 50% of the Customer Experience is emotional, he would start with a Customer focus as his basis for design, with a particular emphasis on the interaction with the Customer.

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CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

We’ve developed a diagnostic instrument to help companies measure their culture based on that premise—to put numbers around the types of things people do when no one is looking, and in particular, the types of things that support customer-centricity. Prompts might include: “We know who is responsible for the customer.”

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2016

‘Employee engagement’ has many meanings and interpretations, but relatively little of it has to do, by conceptual definition, specifically with impact on customer behavior and impact on the employee experience. That is what the scope of employee ambassadorship helps to provide. Are Employees and Customers in Sync?

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Integrity Solutions

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In fact, exceptional customer service is more than a functional role; it’s a purpose, rooted in a culture and an understanding of what it means to be truly customer-focused. That’s because everyone plays a part in the customer journey. Managers have to coach and set expectations around a customer-focused approach.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2015

employees understand how their work contributes to the company’s performance? – Employee development – Is the company making an effort to develop the employee’s. skills? – Relationship with one’s manager – Does the employee value relationship(s) with.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

She is a renowned expert on customer relationship management (CRM), customer service strategies, and ROI. with the intent of helping business leaders and organizations in improving their company culture and aligning the employees and their products/services towards the customers’ needs.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Recent snafus caused by faulty customer experience ecosystem management include United Airlines dragging a paying customer out of his seat and off the plane per a random drawing of passengers to make room for a flight crew to fly on that overbooked flight. Penney’s ecosystem was misunderstood and disrespected.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

As customer experience has become increasingly recognised as a thing of tangibility, so has the need to adopt and embed the skills and competencies that make managing it (customer experience that is) a reality. Let’s start with my tip number 1: Tip 1 – Make customer experience a priority for the whole company!

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In part because of today’s greater emphasis on the emotional components of customer experience and customer value delivery, and how this must be an enterprise cultural priority, employees have become center stage in optimizing customer behavior.

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Qualtrics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Presidential Executive Order on customer experience is a major milestone in the movement to bring the power of experience management to focus government policies, programs, and services on the people they are designed to help. Leveraging federal requirements to advance CX maturity.

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