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Philosophies to Improve Your Customer Experience in 2015

Beyond Philosophy

Didn’t Believe Amazon Was Customer Centric Before? Why Most Customer Experience Programs Fail. Colin Shaw is the founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy , one of the world’s first organizations devoted to customer experience. You Will Now. Follow Colin Shaw on Twitter @ColinShaw_CX.

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5 Tests to Reveal How Customer Centric Your Channel Strategy Is

Beyond Philosophy

Do you allow Customers to use whatever channel they wish to communicate with you, or do you restrict them to one or two channels? The answer to this question can show how Customer centric your company is. This post is the fifth in a series of nine posts that uses our Naïve to Natural customer-centricity assessment.

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Putting the Power of Your People to Work for Customer Centricity

Beyond Philosophy

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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4 Actions to Exceed Customer Expectations

Beyond Philosophy

Defining these areas implies knowing what the Customer’s Expectations are. Most organizations know what their Customer rational expectations are. How this is done and why it’s important are well known to all involved in the most Customer-Centric companies. What might have been enough last year, is not enough this year.

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Are you Inside-Out or Outside-In? Designing a Customer-Focused Process

Beyond Philosophy

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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Are You Deliberate with Your Customer Strategy or Just Taking a Chance?

Beyond Philosophy

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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Top Ten Mistakes Cultures Make with Customer Experience

Beyond Philosophy

When we perform our Naive to Natural assessment to determine our client’s Customer centricity, we find that Culture and Leadership has a massive influence on the outcome of the experience. This norm creates a culture where avoiding interaction with the Customers is acceptable. You hide operational difficulties from the Customer.