Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2015

In building relationships with customers, and value for them, my long-time observation is that most organizations tend to progress through several stages of performance as they are becoming truly customer-centric: a) customer awareness, b) customer sensitivity, c) customer focus, and d) customer obsession.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 11, 2024

Each week, I read many customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Rethinking Customer Interactions to Boost Customer Experience by Harvard Business Review (Harvard Business Review) Simply put, customer experience (CX) has the power to make or break business success.

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Netomi

DECEMBER 7, 2022

I’ve never flown with Frontier Airlines, but I know people who have. Passengers are directed to the airline’s app to help resolve the requests and issues, yet the app is not working on your phone. As the world barrels towards digital-first, Frontier Airlines announced its decision to drop its customer service line.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

You might have a hard time believing, but the most effective solution is building a customer centric organization. . But what is customer centricity ? Maybe a couple of customer surveys. For decades, companies of all sizes across the globe have been working on their customer centric business strategy.

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BlueOcean

JUNE 27, 2024

That’s why we like to regularly tune in to experts from the world of customer experience to find out what’s new. We checked in with some of the top thought leaders for their most recent thoughts about customer experience trends. And one of the most critical ingredients in great CX?

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

One of the most influential factors on your Customer Experience is your company culture. Most companies might understand the concept, yet still engage in activities that influence company culture in a way that hurts the Customer Experience. The majority of a Senior Manager’s time is spent in meetings, not with Customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 20, 2024

Another example of dynamic pricing is airline prices. Another factor in airline pricing that affects what you pay is when you fly. Using the airline business model, you can bet that all the airlines with routes to Jacksonville will raise their prices surrounding that event. Surge Pricing is not a customer-centric policy.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

They understand that delivering on the tangible and functional elements of value are just table stakes, and that connecting, and having an emotionally-based relationship with customers are keys to leveraging loyalty, advocacy, and brand-bonding behavior. They market, and create experiences, within the branded vision.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Airlines have this a bit, too. Many times, you fly an airline even when you don’t like them. In this case, consider Ryanair, the budget airline in Europe. If some other airline provided better service at the same price, people would flock to them. . It’s the same situation with airline loyalty programs.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This answer became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , which explores how the culture of a company reflects how customer-centric the organization is. We shared some examples of some of the indicators of whether a company is customer-centric or not customer-centric on a recent podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Changing the culture within your organization is vital if you want to deliver a Customer Experience that fosters customer loyalty and retention. I was running a workshop with a utility client many years ago about the concept of Customer Experience. Culture change is not easy.

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ClearAction

MARCH 20, 2020

Customer-Centric Voice of the Customer Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centric voice of the customer may seem automatic: it’s the customer’s voice, so isn’t it automatically customer-centric? Customer-Centric Examples. That’s customer-centricity.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 31, 2020

It is in instances of trouble, problems and even more so – crisis, that the true nature and customer-centricity of organizations (and politicians) is shown. I’ve received a number of messages from airlines, hotel chains and travel site CEO’s about all the measures they are taking, the policies they are changing, etc.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 5, 2016

What makes this question so profound, and so pivotal, in customer experience optimization today is that every aspect of value delivery is at play. More than a buzzword, “being human,” especially in brand-building and leveraging customer experiences and relationships, has become a buzz-phrase or buzz-concept.

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Help Scout

JUNE 17, 2021

We’ve all read those great customer experience stories that make us feel awed and admiring, but some of those stand-out examples can be misleading. To wow your customers and drive loyalty, you need to represent both stability and those moments of amazement.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Customer-Centric Hiring Builds Trust Lynn Hunsaker. When customer experience requirements guide the hiring process, a company is practicing outside-in thinking. Vice president of marketing and sales, David Ridley explained: “We are a customer service business that just happens to fly airplanes.

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Hello Customer

JUNE 5, 2023

Good news, bad news We recently had the honour of welcoming Nienke Bloem to our Hello Customer customer day. Bloem is a world-renowned customer experience expert and speaker. She immediately set the tone of her keynote with the main message for the audience: "Great customer experiences don't happen by accident.”

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 17, 2017

When United Airlines brutally forced a senior citizen off a flight this week to accommodate United crew members, the social media world lit up like a Roman candle. Who would have thought you could be beaten up for insisting on your right to use an airline ticket you paid for? The treatment this man received was deplorable.

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The Petrova Experience

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Knowing the ROI of customer experience helps to fund CX projects and make intelligent investments in customer experience. But a deeper examination into the question about CX return on investment gets to the heart of what customer experience means for your business, your customers, and your employees.

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ijgolding

MAY 2, 2017

Last week I wrote an article on the subject of ‘common sense’ To be more accurate, I wrote about the lack of common sense and how it’s absence was continuing to destroy customer experiences all over the world. Customer centric? United Airlines. Chamber Of Commerce in Washington, D.C., Perhaps not.

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TechSee

JULY 24, 2018

Developing a customer centric culture in a large enterprise goes beyond addressing a customer by name in an automated email, or segmenting by interest; it is a holistic approach designed to focus on the consumer’s authentic needs. The agent on the line was sympathetic and promised that they could take care of her needs.

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ProProfs Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In 2017, United Airlines went viral when a passenger was forcibly removed in an overbooked flight. In a world where people can easily share their experiences with businesses via social media–an assessment which can make or break a brand— customer advocacy has become one of the top priorities today. How To Do It Right.

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Kayako

JANUARY 24, 2018

Did the comparison site or airline double book me? I got my answer in the end (and my refund), but it wasn’t an ideal way to spend the first hour of my Sunday morning or my first customer service transaction this year that stressed out. Becoming customer-centric will be the goal of most businesses this year.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 7, 2016

This week, Bob Thompson’s informative, timely blog on strategies companies can use to make customer experience a competitive advantage – and how most neither measure experience nor compete on it – puts me in mind of a line of discussion around customer experience lagniappe. Experience lagniappe is out there.

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Fonolo

APRIL 30, 2019

However, one clear downside is a lack of competition in the airline industry (that, and the proximity to polar bears). By all counts, Air Canada is an award-winning airline , a brand built on the notion of customer service. Obviously, airlines are often at the mercy of forces beyond their control. Offer a Call-Back!

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What’s customer experience (CX)? It’s not just their products or services; it’s the memorable experiences they create. Such experiences can truly touch the hearts of our customers and stay with them long after. Such experiences can truly touch the hearts of our customers and stay with them long after.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. 10 Customer-Centric Questions to Create Irresistible Value by Josh Linkner. How a customer service project is helping Southwest Airlines realise its 360-customer vision by Nadia Cameron.

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Vonage

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It was a deeply engaging and apropos discussion as many businesses embark on initiatives to transform their contact centers and deliver on the customer experience promise. In fact, the discussion organically tilted toward customer experience rather than customer service - a subtle, but noteworthy shift in being customer centric. .

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CSM Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) is a growing field that focuses on designing, managing, and improving the interactions between a company and its customers. At its core, customer experience engineering seeks to ensure that every touchpoint a customer has with a company leaves a positive and lasting impression.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 20, 2016

World’s 3 MOST Customer Centric Companies: How do they do it!! Customer Guru) Here are our top three picks for the most customer centric companies and some lessons on how they manage to be customer-centric despite their size and diversity. by Kushal Dev. But, let’s not split hairs.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

She asks, Should I move to where my customers are or move them to where I want to be? Now, our first reaction was to tell Claire that she should absolutely meet customers where they are. After all, isn’t that the customer-centric thing to do? Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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ijgolding

JANUARY 14, 2019

In 2018, the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) celebrated its 7th birthday. In 2011, the creation of the CXPA saw the competencies and capabilities practiced by those working in the field of customer experience as a profession for the first time. I am (or have been) a fan of KLM for many years.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 11, 2015

They should want this because study after study shows the financial rewards of having loyal customers. Some companies reach this goal through superior value delivery, built on quality products and services and positive, consistent customer experiences. Trader Joe’s does not have a customer loyalty program. In the U.S.,

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 13, 2015

That’s almost Zen-like in its simplicity, accuracy, and application, and they have inspired such well-known CEO’s as Jack Welch, Jan Carlzon (Scandinavian Airlines), Horst Schulze (Ritz-Carlton Hotels), and Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines) in their thinking and management styles.

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Eptica

JULY 26, 2017

Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Why customer experience needs to be led from the top. Author: Olivier Njamfa In today’s ultra-competitive world, senior managers understand the importance of customer experience to corporate success. Other airlines already link customer satisfaction to bonuses.

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Chip Bell

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Personally, I would add my favorite, Delta Airlines, in the “comeback kid” category. I was invited, along with a dozen customer experience gurus, to spend a day with Comcast leadership in their brand-new, just-opened Comcast Technology Center in Philly. The post Comcast Customer Experience Reinvented!

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 14, 2015

That’s almost Zen-like in its simplicity, accuracy, and application, and they have inspired such well-known CEO’s as Jack Welch, Jan Carlzon (Scandinavian Airlines), Horst Schulze (Ritz-Carlton Hotels), and Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines) in their thinking and management styles.

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