Beyond Morale
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Courtesy of www.AnnieLennox.com. You can travel the world and the seven seas, everybody’s looking for customer-centric cultures. Some customers want to use you. None of them want to get used by you. Some of them want to abuse you. None of them want to be abused. Thanks to Annie Lennox, of the Eurythmics, for getting me to think about customer-centric cultures in a way that we all can relate to.
Horizon CX
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
'Being a Customer Experience (CX) professional and having studied and practiced the art and the science of this wonderful CX discipline for over nine years now, (all within one organization) I pause to reflect on what the net result is of all the hard and dedicated work that we CX professionals have accomplished thus far and what we are yet to accomplish.
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ComputerTalk
SEPTEMBER 1, 2013
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Customer Interactions
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
'I recently came across a book titled Why How We Do Anything Means Everything in Business. In this book, author Dov Seidman quotes legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch: “There’s no secret to the what; the secret is in how. They (GE competitors) can know our model, but they cannot do it. They can’t copy our hows.” The book argues that organizations are very proficient at measuring “how much” but they struggle in measuring the “how” (in other wo
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Brad Cleveland Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
How do you keep up? According to a recent IDC report, the digital universe will grow by a factor of 300 from 2005 to 2020, from 130 exabytes to 40,000 exabytes (John Gantz and David Reinsel, in “The Digital Universe in 2020,” IDC, December 2012.) The Edge of Service, Issue 4 (September 2013) is out.
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Customer Interactions
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
'How a Public Safety Answering Point can Achieve Situational Awareness The Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) of the future is starting to take shape. We know that with Next Gen 9-1-1, emergency calls will no longer be just voice. Instead, they may include some combination of voice, texts, pictures, and video. Someday, as well, it is likely that video from public and private organizations will play a more central role in the PSAP, along with real-time video from patrol vehicles and body-worn c
Brad Cleveland Blog
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
How do you keep up? According to a recent IDC report, the digital universe will grow by a factor of 300 from 2005 to 2020, from 130 exabytes to 40,000 exabytes (John Gantz and David Reinsel, in “The Digital Universe in 2020,” IDC, December 2012.) The Edge of Service, Issue 4 (September 2013) is out.
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Brad Cleveland Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
“The way utilities view social media is radically changing,” says Greg Guthridge, global lead for Accenture Energy Consumer Services, quoted in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal (“Utilities Tap Power of Social Media,” by Andrew Blackman, The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2013). Indeed!
Brad Cleveland Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
“The way utilities view social media is radically changing,” says Greg Guthridge, global lead for Accenture Energy Consumer Services, quoted in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal (“Utilities Tap Power of Social Media,” by Andrew Blackman, The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2013). Indeed!
Brad Cleveland Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Cisco recently produced a study based on a survey of Gen-Y-ers (respondents included were college students and workers ages 18-30 years old). Some of the interesting (if rather unsurprising) statistics include: 9 out of 10 make checking their smartphones part of their morning routine (along with breakfast and brushing teeth). 60% check their smartphones compulsively.
Brad Cleveland Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Cisco recently produced a study based on a survey of Gen-Y-ers (respondents included were college students and workers ages 18-30 years old). Some of the interesting (if rather unsurprising) statistics include: 9 out of 10 make checking their smartphones part of their morning routine (along with breakfast and brushing teeth). 60% check their smartphones compulsively.
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Brad Cleveland Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once said, “Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.” Many studies bolster this view, showing a strong link between engaged employees and higher levels of productivity and profitability.
Brad Cleveland Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once said, “Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.” Many studies bolster this view, showing a strong link between engaged employees and higher levels of productivity and profitability.
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