ShepHyken

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Top Takeaways: Customers want to be empathized with and understood by the brands they interact and do business with. Customer centricity means taking intentional steps to listen to what your customer needs and having everyone, at all levels in the organization, committed to delivering on them.

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Customer centricity Healthcare Employee engagement Surveys 322

ShepHyken

JANUARY 8, 2021

They were the playground for breakthrough legacy technologies such as call routing and interactive voice response (IVR), always in the interest of providing a better, more streamlined customer service model. In 2020, that customer-centric approach is more vital than ever. Make the Most of Automation.

Interactive Voice Response 363

Interactive Voice Response Customer centricity Consulting Consulting 363

Integrity Solutions

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A customer-centric strategy is about more than just a values statement or a directive to the team. Are your customers truly at the center of your business universe? A customer-centric culture is one that is relentlessly focused on putting what’s best for the customer at the core of everything you do.

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Customer centricity Coaching Finance Sales 124

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

NPS and CSAT scores are not enough to get the big picture of your customer base. Not enough customers fill out surveys (even one-question surveys) or provide enough details to allow for global projections of customer satisfaction. Deflection is not a customer-centric concept.

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Customer centricity Surveys Technology Feedback 354

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Per the online marketing intelligence service WARC , QVC took the top spot in the survey, jumping nearly 20 places over its positions last year. However, it doesn’t surprise me; QVC addresses the psychology of the customer in their experience. It is the essential concept we tout at our global Customer Experience consultancy.

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Customer centricity Consulting Consulting Banking 382

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It’s All About The Customer. Using Journey Mapping to Put the Customer Back into the Customer Experience (CX). Annette Franz returns to Amazing Business Radio to discuss becoming more customer-centric, how to understand your ideal customer, and journey mapping. . .

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Journey mapping Customer centricity Surveys Feedback 278

ShepHyken

JANUARY 16, 2024

After they do a self-assessment, which is their perception, they should – if they haven’t already – survey their customers to discover their reality. They should learn firsthand what it’s like to be a customer. That’s the most accurate way to measure the difference. Leaders should “mystery shop” their companies themselves.

Customer Service 374

Customer Service Customer centricity Surveys Customer Support 374

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. There is a scarcity of knowledge on how to do better work in Customer Experience.

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Customer Experience Journey mapping Customer centricity Surveys 385

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 20, 2017

Customer-centric organizations are 60% more profitable than non-customer focused organizations (Deloitte and Touche). Forrester Research declares 2017 the year that businesses become customer-obsessed. Providing ‘value’ to the Customer. It is time to resonate with customers—and stop wasting money.

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Customer centricity Sales B2B Surveys 344

Lumoa

JANUARY 3, 2023

Surveys are one of the most useful tools out there for gathering quick feedback from customers, and understanding what motivates them. But with great power comes great responsibility – if you’re going to get the results you need to make critical business decisions, it’s important that your survey design is done well!

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Best practices Surveys Metrics Construction 147

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Each year, we do a Global Leader Survey of top executives in Customer Experience Management. Last year’s survey revealed that Amazon claimed the top spot and Bank of America…well, didn’t. According to the global leaders, that’s because: They deliver excellence customer service. They communicate well. You Will Now.

Banking 347

Banking Employee engagement Customer centricity Consulting 347

ShepHyken

MARCH 6, 2023

Top Takeaways: Human-centric CX design is all about communicating with customers, and this goes beyond a one-off survey. It is about regularly speaking with customers directly to deeply understand the customer. ” “In anything you do, setting expectations with customers is important.”

Feedback 325

Feedback Customer centricity Contact Center Surveys 325

ShepHyken

AUGUST 6, 2019

Don’t measure your work based on completion; measure it based on growth and the positive impact you can have on those around you—especially your customers. Leaders need to start managing product teams differently, putting the focus on the customer rather than on products and deadlines. This is the way to succeed in today’s world.

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Customer centricity Coaching Consulting Consulting 300

Totango

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Knowing how to build a customer-centric roadmap helps you align your product development with what your clients truly want. This promotes customer satisfaction, benefiting your clients and bringing your business higher retention rates and upsell revenue. Why You Need to Know How to Build a Customer-Centric Roadmap.

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Customer centricity SaaS Upselling Metrics 104

ShepHyken

JULY 8, 2019

Roger Dooley) Internet service providers and cable TV services have the lowest customer satisfaction ratings of all rated industries in one survey. These firms do many things poorly, but a bizarre interaction with my current internet provider uncovered a brand new customer experience failure. by Roger Dooley.

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Customer Service Customer centricity Customer Care Finance 303

C3Centricity

JANUARY 13, 2021

Traditionally C3Centricity publishes a list of the most popular customer-centricity posts on its blog in January and this year is no exception, despite covid’s extraordinary impact on businesses the world over. How to Improve Customer Centricity in Hospitality. How to Measure Customer Centricity the Right Way.

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Customer centricity Journey mapping Marketing Personalization 111

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A customer success platform for managing interactions in a single space. How to train new CX processes Refining your current CX processes and training your team is crucial for developing a more customer-centric team culture and building a well-oiled machine. Here are some ways to approach new processes.

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B2C Customer centricity Feedback Upselling 349

PeopleMetrics

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

When I originally wrote about the need for external VoC partners , the main debate was whether companies should invest in a full-service VoC solution or manage the process themselves with a basic survey tool. Today, the conversation has evolved. Some even claim they can replace the need for external expertise altogether. Lets break it down.

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Surveys Customer centricity Wait times CRM 62

ShepHyken

MARCH 18, 2019

1 0 Tips to Build a Customer Centric Work Culture by Vandita Grover. MarTech Advisor) We list 10 customer experience (CX) tips that will establish customer centricity as the core philosophy of your organization and help create a customer-focused environment across your company.

Customer Service 227

Customer Service Customer centricity Feedback Surveys 227

Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 9, 2015

Their app is still confusing, hard to use, and leaves all the work to the Customer. In a survey published by UK branding company Siegel+Gale, the airline’s app (where you can download your boarding pass and save $69 in “airport check in fee) was singled out as a “major headache.” This is a fee to get a boarding pass at the airport.

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Airlines B2C Surveys B2B 344

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 29, 2022

Anna wants to operationalize journey mapping to make their Customer Experience more customer centric. In this episode, we discuss Anna’s business pickle and how she can leverage what she learns in journey mapping to improve her organization’s customer strategy. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience.

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Journey mapping Customer centricity Consulting Consulting 243

HelpCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

In a world where customer experience is everything, brands must continually strive to make their services as customer centric as they can be. Walker’s report “Customer 2020” predicted that by 2022, price and product would [ … ].

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Surveys Customer Service Customer centricity Customer Experience 127

CSM Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Creating the correct customer-centric business model is your ticket to standing out from your competitors and encouraging customer loyalty. Customer-centricity is essential for companies since it drives a customer further down the sales funnel. 6 examples include successful customer-centric companies.

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Customer centricity Feedback Personalization Sales 98

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

If you are like most companies, you probably think that you put the customer at the center of everything you do. There are some critical things that the most customer centric companies do differently than the average company. Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience. Complete this short survey. But do you?

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Customer centricity Consulting Consulting Surveys 221

GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

In any case, I clicked on the icon to begin a survey process online, where I saw this: The “overall rating” question gives me more options than the email would have suggested. To complete the survey, I was then asked to: Comment on things I liked or didn’t like. This was optional but might discourage some from completing the survey. .

Surveys 146

Surveys Journey mapping Feedback B2B 146

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 6, 2016

These results were based on a survey of 9,000 Chinese customers, about 60 different brands in five industries. This research emphasizes the fact that those organizations that truly embrace the ideology behind a culture of Customer Centricity have enormous potential for opportunity and growth in a new market.

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Customer centricity Consulting Consulting Customer emotions 283

Beyond Philosophy

JULY 9, 2015

I regularly beat the drum of evoking the right emotions from your Customers with your Customer Experience and brand promise. The Nielsen Global Survey discovered a new way one could differentiate their brand and evoke positive emotions from its female Customers: through promoting their social responsibility programs.

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Surveys Customer centricity Marketing Customer Experience 274

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Laverty persisted as he saw that Customer Experience would be the differentiator in the marketplace. He asked, “How is this going to impact our customers?” It was part of his strategy to enforce the customer-centric mindset at the company and help the team get used to identifying as the customer and seeing it from their vantage point.

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Customer Experience Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer centricity 316

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 23, 2016

Changing the name doesn’t change the leadership or the customer centricity of an organization. Two specific examples of the lack of customer centricity in Telecoms come to mind. Charter will phase out the Time Warner Cable brand, as well as Bright House Networks LLC, over time. So changing the name will have no effect.

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Customer centricity Consulting Consulting Customer Experience 280

C3Centricity

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Have you made changes to drive your business growth using customer-centric strategies that are based on current trends? Introduction The landscape of customer-centricity continues to evolve rapidly as we move into the second half of 2024. Patagonia is another company that excels in customer-centricity.

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Customer centricity Analytics Feedback Surveys 77

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Reflective of the escalating focus on customer data, experiences, and relationships across all methods of communication and access, the role is rapidly evolving and morphing; however, there is general agreement regarding its significance in building and sustaining true value, planning capability, and enterprise customer-centricity.

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Chief Customer Officer Enterprise Customer centricity Consulting 250

Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2018

A recent article on corporate customer-centricity by a prominent market research firm made the case for this type of culture as “the most effective way to meet customers’ changing needs.” The author had several suggestions for building customer-centricity. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Customer centricity Banking Enterprise Consulting 207

PeopleMetrics

JANUARY 16, 2025

In Lesson #3 of Listen or Die , I wrote about the power of Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs to act as a single source of truth for all customer feedback. In 2018, I argued that such platforms were essential for companies serious about being customer centric. In 2025, the companies that succeed wont rely on AI alone.

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Feedback Customer centricity Surveys Customer emotions 71

ShepHyken

JUNE 26, 2023

9 Tips For Having A Customer Spotlight At Your Next Customer Advisory Board Meeting by Eyal Danon (Forbes) One of the more popular attendees at customer advisory board (CAB) meetings is the customer speaker, or more accurately, customer “session owner” as they will (hopefully) do much more than merely speak.

Customer Service 41

Customer Service Customer centricity B2C Entertainment 41

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This summer, The Petrova Experience conducted a Customer Experience Preparedness Survey. One of our questions assessed brand maturity in terms of customer experience strategy. Only 28% of the respondents had a well-defined customer experience strategy. What Happens When You Don’t Have a Clear Strategy?

Customer Experience 283

Customer Experience Airlines Customer centricity Surveys 283

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Pronouncements like that should reflect a customer-centric culture, ambassadorial employee behavior, and positive customer perception. At Baptist Health Care, this all exists; and the benefits of a stakeholder- and customer-centric culture are realities that everyone can see, everyday. They have brand ambassadors.

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Brand ambassadors Customer centricity Banking Consulting 247