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We Want To Be Customer-Centric: Now What!?

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

“We are dedicated to becoming a customer-centric company.” HOW exactly does a standard organization, built on the gospel of sales and customer acquisition, become customer-centric? 5 Steps to Take To Be More Customer-Centric 1. WHY is this idea of “customer-centricity” so challenging?

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3 Popular “Customer-Centric Ideas” that Totally Miss the Point

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Frame that customer journey map! I’ve walked into plenty of offices where the customer journey map is printed and hung on the wall. The producers of the journey map are proud of their hard work and the results can be great…for a time. Need help?

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The Basics of Customer Journey Mapping

PeopleMetrics

Over 150 customer experience professionals completed a PeopleMetrics online assessment about the presence, or absence, of customer-centric practices in their organizations. However, one exception to this stagnation in activities exists: the practice of customer journey mapping. So Where Do We Begin?

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How to Create Customer Journey Maps That Work

CSM Magazine

Many organizations are using customer journey mapping to understand and improve the experience of their customers. What is a Customer Journey Map? Customer Journey Maps are a visual representation of a customer’s relationship with your people, products, services and brand over time.

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Why Your Customer-Centric “Breakthrough” Is Not Working

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

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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Communicating CX: 15 Tips for Talking About Customer Experience

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

That’s why the foundational work of defining CX at your organization — through a CX Mission Statement and CX Success Statement — is so critically important to accomplishing real change and delivering on real outcomes through customer experience. Customer experience will happen whether or not you talk about.

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Creating Customer Journey Maps that Work

Up Your Service

Many organizations are using customer journey mapping to understand and improve the experience of their customers. But the variety of terms used to describe journey maps can be confusing. And that makes the mapping process itself confusing, too. What is a Customer Journey Map?