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Make This Small Change For Big Results

Beyond Philosophy

Thaler and Sunstein, 2008, 2009). But renewing a product automatically without checking with the customer is a horse of different color, isn’t it? You could argue that it puts the needs of the organization above the customers. I would counter with this: if you make it easy to opt-out, then you are still serving the customers.

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How Getting Recognition and Building Authority Can Advance Your Customer-Centric Culture 

ijgolding

My seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric, have allowed me to share my experiences, thoughts, case studies, successes and failures observed over the last twenty three years, helping organisations and practitioners to put the customer (and employees) at the centre of their respective universes!

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How to Turn NPS Detractors Into Promoters

Lumoa

When you put the customer first like this, people talk. And nothing brings this point home more than what happened in 2008. Amazon’s “put buyer’s first” policy was the headline of a 2008 New York Times article when one of its authors—Joe Nocera—ordered a PlayStation 3 console for his son. The problem was, the PS didn’t come.

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14% of Zappos Staff Quits (Which is Just Fine for Employee Engagement)

PeopleMetrics

They’re built on customer service, and they’re a common reference for customer-centric discussion. Zappos even paid employees to quit after training as early as 2008. They pioneered free two-way shipping something like a decade ago. (At So they’ve been doing this type of thing for a long time.

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The importance of customer culture – an interview with Chris Brown

ijgolding

Was HP a customer focused organisation at that time? In the 90’s, I can definitely say that HP was a very customer centric organisation – that is despite it essentially being an engineering business. Is it really possible to measure customer culture? We spent a long time developing the measurement tool.

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Understanding Negative NPS Score: Causes, Impact and Solutions

Lumoa

Even the CEO is known to take customer service calls every once in a while – talk about customer centricity! Starbucks’ customer service strategy differs from both Amazon and Netflix but is equally noteworthy. Train your Staff to Become Customer-centric How do you create a customer-centric culture?

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3 Reasons To Rethink Your Customer Idea Portal

Playvox

UserVoice popularized the concept in 2008, but now there are many providers of idea management software, used by companies like Spotify , Airbnb , and Microsoft. User idea suggestion portals are a helpful tool in doing that, but they might not be the best (or only) one for the job. What Are Idea Portals And How Do They Work?