Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. Rightly so, to be honest.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 25, 2016

There is a major skill most organizations lack: Customer centricity. But if you want to remain competitive in today’s economic climate, putting the focus on Customers is imperative to your bottom line. It was 20 years ago when the realization that I wasn’t Customer centric hit me. Operate with Customer in mind.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

For many years, there has been a debate whether you could assign a dollar amount to determine the return on investment for any Customer Experience improvements. Keeping Customers results in a high increase in value. Focusing on customer retention with a better Customer Experience will benefit your bottom-line expenses.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Being Customer-Centric requires rewarding those that contribute to Customer-Centricity. Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. Focusing on rewarding these, however, is not conducive to Customer Centricity. Some do both.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

All the little parts along the way in your experience are what make a Customer experience Customer-Centric. Putting the Customer first in everything you do applies to every part of your organization, from the way you greet them to the way you bill them. These choices affect the Customer Experience.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Using smells in your Customer Experience is olfactory marketing, and it works. Put it in a location that gives your customers the opportunity to see all the other inventory you have that they need to see, even if you only sell online. Use this information to create a great experience for your customers and your bottom line.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

To create a great experience you have to define which areas that Customers most value and exceed these aspects of the Customer Experience. Defining these areas implies knowing what the Customer’s Expectations are. Most organizations know what their Customer rational expectations are.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

All the little parts along the way in your experience are what make a Customer experience Customer-Centric. Putting the Customer first in everything you do applies to every part of your organization, from the way you greet them to the way you bill them. Why Systems Matter to Your Customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

What happens when you get three Customer Experience Pioneers together to discuss the past, present, and future of Customer Experience? This episode of The Intuitive Customer, for starters. Joe Pine is the author of the book that started it all, The Experience Economy. Key Takeaways.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 29, 2015

First, that listening to the Voice of the Customer (VOC) is an important part of your brand strategy. Second, that incorporating what you hear in the VOC to your Customer Experience pays off for your bottom line, a.k.a. When It Comes to Customer Experience, You Have to Keep Rolling the Dice. It shows us two things.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 8, 2017

Neither of them provides a Customer Experience worth mentioning—at least not in a positive light. We asked the Customer Experience professionals there to name a Telecom they admired for the experience they provided. Rather than this be a rant let’s look at the key issues with Telecom’s Customer Experience?

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 13, 2019

So how do you get happy employees and how does it affect Customer Experience? You must design an Employee Experience that enables the Customer Experience you want to deliver. We discussed the importance of creating a complementary Employee Experience along with your Customer Experience in a recent podcast.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

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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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This week we feature an article by Dawn Gucciardo who took my model of Six D’s to Creating a Customer-Centric Culture and applied it to developing and implementing a CRM software. – Shep Hyken. Shep Hyken believes customer centricity must start on the inside, with your employees. Guess what? Disseminate it.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 13, 2016

Consorsbank, Lufthansa, and Zalando—three very different companies—have both undertaken a Customer Experience improvement program. Whilst they each have their unique challenges, their insight on Customer Experience shows us the common obstacles that all of us face when tackling such an important facet of our business.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Many companies seeking to improve their Customer Experience (CX) understand the importance of putting the customer at the center of everything they do. Those that have excellent experiences, the kind that makes their brand name a household one, demonstrate actual customer-centricity in their CX. Measurement.

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Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Customer Experiences I have in the UK are not as good as I have in the USA, now there is evidence to back this up. Per the 8th annual “ Customer Experience Excellence Study” published by KPMG Nunwood, shows that Customer Experience in the UK is lagging. Secondly, the UK are not as customer-centric as U.S

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 29, 2024

This episode of  Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken  answers the following questions and more:    What are the challenges in creating a more customer-centric culture? How can leaders support employees in executing customer-centric initiatives?

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I complain a lot about companies that get Customer Experience wrong. Today, I am going to take another angle and explore how one company has taken on the Customer Experience journey and gets it right. RICOH Canada has done some incredible work in improving Customer Experience. The RICOH Canada Backstory.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Your employees have the power to make or break your Customer Experience this holiday season with the customer service they provide. However, when employees aren’t happy, customer service often suffers. However, they also provide an excellent Employee Experience. Remember the Nordstrom Way.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 7, 2020

Identify the culture of your organization now and improve your customer-centricity. My book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience , delves into the idea of customer-centricity with the Naïve to Natural Model. Ensure the senior team understands why customer-centricity is crucial to your success.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Let’s be very sensitive to the pressures our customers may be feeling, and do everything we can to individually and collectively exceed their expectations.”. I talk a lot about Customer-centricity of organizations. This communication to employees shows me a customer centric company that is lead by the top down on this principle.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

When I thought about how I recognized it, I found that organizations that did not commit to customers had some shared company culture cues that indicated where their focus was. The ideas behind this discovery later became my second book, Revolutionize Your Customer Experience. ”, few of them would say false.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 4, 2020

She writes about preparing a productive and successful customer experience strategy and why it’s important to have one. This summer, The Petrova Experience conducted a Customer Experience Preparedness Survey. One of our questions assessed brand maturity in terms of customer experience strategy.

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Beyond Philosophy

JULY 11, 2016

If you haven’t gone online with your Customer Experience, too, it’s time. The digital transformation of your present Customer Experience is long overdue. Consider this graph of which devices customers use at home: Nearly everyone has a computer or smartphone, and close to three quarters have a tablet.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

I was a keynote speaker there for a Customer Experience conference. There is a lot of Customer Experience activity happening there. He explained on a recent podcast the reason improving Customer Experience is such a hot trend in the Middle East has been the liberalization of markets there.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

I have led hundreds of successful Customer Experience (CX) program successes. Organizations fail to improve their CX when they lack customer-centricity. Customer-centricity requires you to put the Customer at the center of everything you do. Where does your experience stop? Why or why not?

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

This is, of course, a terrible customer experience. When a company treats its customers this way, it may earn short-term profits, but it’s hard to get repeat business. To learn more about understanding your customers and improving your Customer Experience join one of our training courses.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 21, 2019

And amongst that shared audience, their customer experience becomes the expectation set on your brand. Accenture calls these new, slippery customer expectations liquid expectations. Customer expectations are out of your hands. Customer experience has been democratized. Your customers don’t want to wait.

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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 28, 2017

As Coke learned over 30 years ago, different is not always what the customer wants. Consider Your Customers. When we work with companies in our customer experience consultancy, we urge them to look at changes from the “outside in,” evaluating the impact on the customer’s experience before committing to something new.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 12, 2015

In my SlideShare presentation, “ Customer Are Irrational, Stop Fighting it ,” I define the customer experience as: A Customer Experience is an interaction between and organization and a customer as perceived through a Customer’s conscious and subconscious mind. Please click here to learn more.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Watch out this space as in a subsequent blog we’ll give advice on the different ways to change a habit… Blogs CEM CEO Conferences consultants consumer behaviour customer Customer Analysis customer behavior Customer Behaviour customer centricity customer emotions customer engagement Customer experience customer experience books customer experience (..)

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As Customer Experience Consultants, we advise our clients to learn to take an outside-in approach to their Customer Experience. This is completely backwards thinking that turns a Customer Experience upside down. Designing a Customer-Focused Process. Designing a Customer-Focused Process.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I recently participated in a Customer Experience Day webinar with two other leaders in our field, Joe Pine and Lou Carbone. I learned a few things that I would love to share with you, and discussed on my most recent podcast , regarding where we are now with Customer Experience and, perhaps more importantly, where we are heading.

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