Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

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. We need to develop the tools people use to optimize the Customer Experience.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

By establishing metrics for factors like “time spent in the knowledge base,” “screens to resolution,” or “questions to authentication,” you will learn what agents experience when supporting customers. Task: Identify a “gap” in the customer experience journey. They invest to meaningfully improve the customer experience.

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Russel Lolacher

JUNE 15, 2021

There are some great resources on employee experience but certainly not nearly as much as around the customer experience. With a quick Amazon book search, customer service keyword results are north of 100,000. Employee engagement hovers around 9,000. The customer calls it “shopping elsewhere.”.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

Let’s step through a fictional customer journey and discuss how best to ask for feedback at each touchpoint, using this journey map developed by Jim Tincher of Heart of the Customer , a specialist in journey map consulting. . Click here to enlarge map) . There are dozens of possibilities.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Customer Experience Handoff Silos are the Heart of Success Lynn Hunsaker. One of the most profound discoveries from customer experience journey mapping is interdependencies across data, systems, channels, processes and people. Customers experience our companies horizontally. 1) Customer-Centric Job Descriptions.

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ProProfs Blog

MAY 30, 2019

Your customers should not feel the need to move away to your competitor because they found your customer care operators to be inefficient or your support mechanism to be weak. Read on to learn the 10 steps that are a must in your customer success plan for ensuring greater customer success stories in your business.

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

While customer service is his primary expertise, Nate is able to leverage experience in professional services, marketing and sales to connect dots and solve the big problems. Customer channel preferences are increasingly important, with more knowledge, organizations can deliver better self-service. Tony: Absolutely. Tony: Wonderful.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

DiJulius is a best-selling author of three books, a renowned keynote speaker, and an international customer experience consultant. John is an “Ex-Disney Guy” and Customer Experience Coach. He educates about the transformative power of customer success to his clients. John Formica Follow @JohnFormica.

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

When you understand how leading indicator CX metrics drive financial growth, then you see how CX improvement and design are necessary to “move the needle” Employee engagement needed for improvements and design shows you what is needed as motivation in culture and accountability.

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Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Whether your company is using the Balanced Scorecard , OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), SMART , or simple KPIs , this will help you align the work of your future customer experience department to goals everyone in the company cares about. And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity.

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CX Journey

MAY 29, 2018

It was a lively discussion to kickoff the day, as we talked about customer experience, journey mapping, digital transformation, print, and, of course, fax machines! At the same time, we talked about technology's impact on employee engagement and culture change.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Amanda is a highly experienced customer experience consultant, adviser, and writer. She has helped organizations of all sizes and sectors transform themselves into customer-centric ones. His areas of expertise, among others, are customer acquisition, customer development, and customer loyalty.

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Maru Group

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Focus on Customer Centricity and Becoming Agile. Building off the SECC Member Meeting this past October, utility services need to focus on being customer-centric and agile. Top 3 Ways for Utility Providers to Become Customer-Centric and Agile. Segment customers and map their journey.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The words customer-centric and silos do not sit happily in the same sentence. Silos harm culture and damage customer experiences. Five will focus on customer service, with responsibility for leading a customer care team and overseeing complaints and continuous improvement. And they hold businesses back.

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Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place.

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GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

Stage 4 —O perationalize: You begin to re-design your company’s operational processes based on customer insight and other customer experience metrics. At this stage, the cross-functional CX coalition team is also working on engaging the entire workforce in the strategy.

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Customer Guru

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The biggest challenge is aligning the organization towards the goal of customer centricity. While companies are making their biggest investments in technology to improve customer experience, they should be prioritizing organizational re-alignment over everything else. Coaching mid-management on customer experience.

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Too many executives have the mindset that they'll focus on the employees and their experience "later." Without your employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between customer experience and employee engagement has been proven. It's real, and your employees matter! This isn't healthy.

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CX Journey

MAY 24, 2017

Quite simply: without employees, you have no customer experience. The linkage between employee engagement and experience and the customer experience has been proven. It's real, and your employees matter! But what tools do we give to employees to prepare them to deliver a great customer experience?

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

your company’s customer experience will always be fundamentally robust or risk-prone depending on the degree of collaboration in-play across all functional areas, lines of business, and geographies. When people from adjacent functions look at an end-to-end customer journey map , the severe need for extensive collaboration is obvious.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

She has also successfully led customer experience, content, brand, and product strategies across various B2B organizations. Sue is an engaging speaker and a distinguished writer who contributes to multiple online forums and publications. What is your word of advice for businesses embarking on the journey of customer-centricity?

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Call Experts

JANUARY 8, 2020

Now more than ever, it's relevant to understand and optimize your customer touchpoints. According to Forbes , "customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don't focus on customers." How to Provide Personalized Customer Service. Customer Journey Mapping.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 31, 2017

We all know from customer journey maps that customer experience is much more than a moment in time. It spans the end-to-end customer life cycle. That’s the universal scope for customer experience strategy. You want to expand employee engagement in your customer experience management techniques.

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ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

You must absolutely believe that enabling an organisation to be more customer centric is the ‘right thing to do’ – right for the customer; right for the employee; and right for the shareholder. Not only that, the Customer Experience is not the responsibility of a CXP – it is the responsibility of the WHOLE ORGANISATION.

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CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

So it's important that we listen to employees and find out what's keeping them from being able to delight customers. Voice of the Employee programs consist of many different types of listening posts, including: employee engagement surveys, employee satisfaction surveys, culture assessments, transactional/event-based surveys (e.g.,

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ClearAction

AUGUST 29, 2015

Engaging employees in cross-functional customer experience action on an ongoing basis is seldom seen, at least in a systematic and systemic way, especially among non-customer-facing groups. If it’s Called Customer Experience, Why is it All About the Company? Employee Engagement: Living Your Brand Promise.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 28, 2015

Reactive versus Proactive : In many firms our CXM strategy is primarily around service, making up for snafus caused by other parts of the company, with ongoing investments needed in shipment expediting, issue escalation, returns, and customer service focused on remedial actions.

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ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Manuela believes that if you give customers ‘your word’ then you better be good at keeping it – and her fiery Italian powered passion has enabled her business to do just that. The positive effect Manuela’s approach to Customer Experience has had on her business is remarkable.

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

(quotes/verbatims) Photographs to “humanize” customers When to Create Personas? It needs to happen before journey mapping activities begin, as maps are created from persona documents. Personas need to be referenced throughout the project lifecycle so that decisions consistently address customer needs.

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Branch Mesenger

AUGUST 29, 2018

Companies will never love a company until the employees love it first. -- Simon Simek. Today, employee engagement is at all-time lows. 33% of employees today are ‘engaged’. Of employees 18-24, only 26% are ‘engaged’. At the same time, customer experience (CX) is evolving rapidly.

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delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

Customer Experience Management can transform your organization into one that is customer focused, giving your team a mission and values to rally behind and a process for acting on them to benefit customers. This is a recipe for improved employee engagement and happiness, which translates to improved experiences for customers.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

This is particularly evident when you consider that many customers buy multiple products, in multiple locations. And the need for cross-functional harmony becomes obvious when you look at a customer experience journey map. Reveal reality to propel progress in customer experience achievements.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

LET’S CONNECT In an interview with Forbes, Herve Humler, President of the Ritz-Carlton, said, “I believe in the power of recognition and empowerment leading to great employee engagement. And employee engagement is critical to guest engagement.

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delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

Customer Experience Management can transform your organization into one that is customer focused, giving your team a mission and values to rally behind and a process for acting on them to benefit customers. This is a recipe for improved employee engagement and happiness, which translates to improved experiences for customers.

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The Petrova Experience

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Providing choices is the most empowering thing a brand can do for its employees and customers. Gensler’s research proved that employee choice leads to greater employee engagement and satisfaction, as well as higher productivity and innovation. It is also good for business. Expand the Geography of In-Person.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 26, 2021

Keep your brand’s message simple and engaging. As businesses become more customer-centric , companies are focusing more on forming and training their internal resources to become CX specialists. For CX transformations, it is very important to identify the things that matter most to the customers.

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