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

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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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 1, 2019

Jon wanted to figure out how to bring the perspective of customers back into the business to influence the way they build products, deliver services, and develop company strategies. It was important that he used customer insights to create meaningful work. . Be customer-focused (centricity).

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Russel Lolacher

MARCH 2, 2022

Annette Franz , and that new book is Built to Win: Designing a Customer-Centric Culture that Drives Value for Your Business. I’m extremely excited to further learn from her and, I have no patience, so we had a discussion about what it takes to build a customer-centric organization that I wanted to share with you.

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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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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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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. Success Starts with Leadership. Listen Now: Listen to “Anntte Pedroza | Building a Customer Centric Culture” on Spreaker.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The question was a precursor to defining why Customer Experience needs good, strong leadership. 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?

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ijgolding

MAY 17, 2017

Creating one of the most customer centric brands on the planet is obviously a major reason why. If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. I will thank him for being my business hero.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 30, 2016

Co-creation sessions, customer journey workshops and customer-focused innovation summits can sound so sexy and intriguing. We envision a group working cohesively, rolling up their collective sleeves to create an improved customer-centric culture and earn long-term loyalty from customers.

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ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2020

She shares tips on how to create an effective customer-centric company culture. There’s a lot of talk about customer-centricity and customer-centric organizations, but what does that really mean? If your business is customer-centric, those things are the least of your worries. Leadership.

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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. Regularly assess what’s at-odds or in-harmony with your customer experience objectives.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

CMC, is Thought Leadership Principal for Beyond Philosophy. Customer Focus. It’s notable that, at this more evolved and advanced stage of enterprise customer-centricity, complaints are thought of more in terms of a life cycle component, and recovery is more of a strategy than resolution: Customer Obsession.

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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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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It starts with leadership defining who you are as an organization and what you stand for. This consistency in communication and empowerment fosters a workplace that is service-aware and dedicated to delivering outstanding customer experiences. Top Takeaways: A brand is not just about a name. This is why feedback is important.

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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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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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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Paul is a Transformational, hands-on, customer service department leader with extensive experience using performance metrics, lean process improvements, and positive leadership in building effective, efficient, and happy customer service departments. Tom Hinds, SVP Customer Engagement at Advocate Aurora Health.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 21, 2016

United leadership is important. I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983 (wow), and united leadership — which I regularly call one-company leadership in my books, speeches, and my five competencies — is as important as anything else. (If United Leadership: Necessary to move from talk to action.

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ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

You must absolutely believe that enabling an organisation to be more customer centric is the ‘right thing to do’ – right for the customer; right for the employee; and right for the shareholder. Not only that, the Customer Experience is not the responsibility of a CXP – it is the responsibility of the WHOLE ORGANISATION.

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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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ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

I often say that if I were to be given £5, or $5 for every time a member of the C-Suite stated that ‘customer centricity’ was ‘very important’ to their business, I would be a VERY rich man – but is it actually true! Organisations having a dedicated resource to champion their Customer Experience cause 10%.

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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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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It is difficult to deny that these three terms are becoming increasingly visible in the language of business: Customer Service. Customer Experience. Customer Centricity. However… this is where the link to the last ‘customer’ term comes in. It is not an easy thing to do.

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Maz Iqbal

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

What Has Transformation To Do With Customer-Centric Business? What has this conversation to do with all things Customer and especially customer-centric business? Which CEO or leadership team looks forward to taking a deep breath and hoping for the best? Everything. So allow me to make it real for you.

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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. How can you partner with your marketing team on a customer-centric initiative?

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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. What Exactly is Customer-Centricity?

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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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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

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In the past, I covered six steps to creating a customer-centric culture. Six steps to creating a customer-centric culture. Principle One: Everyone has to be in it to win it – As I mentioned above, customer service is a philosophy to be embraced by everyone. I recognize that they all have good leadership.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Habit #1: Delivering a great customer experience is a way of doing business – it’s not just a program. Amazon says on its Investor Relation’s page: We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company for four primary customer sets: consumers, sellers, enterprises, and content creators. Based in Minneapolis/ST.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 20, 2016

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. In the consumer world, satisfaction has only incidental proven connection to customer experience and behavior, and engagement has similar challenges for employees (and customers). Servant Leadership. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Retently

JULY 28, 2023

How do you approach customer happiness in your company? Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too?

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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. If you have an aspiration to lead or be part of a sustainably customer centric organisation, then you must master the art of COMMUNICATION! “If

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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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Consider this way-too-typical scenario: Marcus decides one day to stand in front of his employees and request in no uncertain terms how everyone needs to be more customer-focused. “Help customers love our company and brand more!” He promotes the idea of becoming more customer-focused. And that’s all.

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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.

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