Experience Matters

JULY 28, 2017

As most readers of this blog will likely know, customer-centric organizations must master Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness. It turns out that you’re only as good as your weakest link.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Top Takeaways: The key to transforming companies into customer-centric organizations lies in adopting a customer experience mindset. True customer loyalty extends beyond transactional interactions and loyalty programs. Building authentic, emotional customer relationships can lead to loyalty and increased revenue.

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Blake Morgan

MAY 31, 2022

That customer-first mindset is at the core of Spindrift, from the products that are created to the messages that are shared. . Here are three ways Bill Creelman practices customer-centric leadership: . He leverages a core group of passionate customers.

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ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The question was a precursor to defining why Customer Experience needs good, strong leadership. This month, I want to ask three connected but altogether different questions: What do you do if the organisation you work for or with does NOT have strong customer focused leadership?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Thanks to a fun report from CCW , Customer Contact Week, and some clever customer experience pros (and prose – ha ha,) there is a discussion around leadership buzzwords we should have. We aim for an exceptional “journey” for our customers but are only referring to marketing. And I agree. Is that odd?

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Ask people to name three companies known for their customer-centric approach to business, and there’s a good chance some common names will surface: Nordstrom, Apple, Trader Joe’s, Patagonia, and others frequently come to mind. What do they have in common? What’s their secret? But why stop there?

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ijgolding

MAY 17, 2017

Although I have never met him, or worked for his company, perhaps my biggest business hero of all – especially from a customer experience perspective, is the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. Creating one of the most customer centric brands on the planet is obviously a major reason why. appeared first on I J Golding.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2021

If you want your organization to truly have its own customer-centric “way,” it’s time to get specific about creating a customer-centric culture. Six Ways to Actively Build a Customer-Centric Culture: 1. Assure your customer experience mission is defined and communicated.

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ClearAction

JANUARY 8, 2024

Insights Utilization Rate Drives Growth Through Customer-Centric Organizations Lynn Hunsaker Customer-centric organizations use experience insights as the basis for each work group’s thinking and actions. Centric means aligned : customers’ well-being is the center of every decision).

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ijgolding

AUGUST 20, 2017

Looking back through my articles over the last few months, a great number have made the connection between strong, customer centric leadership and the ability to drive an effective and sustainable approach to Customer Experience. Talk to customers – all the time! Endlessly promote cross functional collaboration.

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Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One of the key ingredients to a customer-centric organization is Purposeful Leadership. This video from Oxford Properties‘ CEO Michael Turner is a great example of Purposeful Leadership in action (thanks to Roger Pugsley for sharing it with me). What does that look like?

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ECXO

MARCH 5, 2024

Revolutionize Your Business with Customer-centric Solutions using Design Thinking As we sail through the digital age, organizations worldwide are riding the wave of digital transformation to enhance customer experience. They should foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centric thinking.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Whilst I do not proclaim to be a shining example of leadership myself, I am constantly looking for new ideas, knowledge and inspiration that will help me to become ever more effective in my specialism. David’s take on leadership applies to any organisation – anywhere in the world. You can read my column here!

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 16, 2020

A customer-centric culture is the “make or break” component of any customer experience initiative. So how can we, as customer experience and contact center leaders, be intentional about something so nebulous? . I’ll concede that there is no perfect formula for motivating people toward customer-centricity.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 16, 2020

A customer-centric culture is the “make or break” component of any customer experience initiative. So how can we, as customer experience and contact center leaders, be intentional about something so nebulous? . I’ll concede that there is no perfect formula for motivating people toward customer-centricity.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Thanks to a fun report from CCW , Customer Contact Week, and some clever customer experience pros (and prose – ha ha,) there is a discussion around leadership buzzwords we should have. We aim for an exceptional “journey” for our customers but are only referring to marketing. And I agree. Is that odd?

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Your answer is probably directly connected to how engaged your leadership team has been with you, and how much they take personal ownership of this work with you. Leadership Must Have Consistent and United Behaviors. The leadership team must model new behaviors in how they lead. Behavior 1: Unite the Leadership Team.

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Having a customer-centric mindset, as those of us within the Customer Experience profession tend to have, I’m particularly concerned about how we respond to those recommended measures intended to help mitigate viral transmissions—physical distancing, masks, sanitizers, vaccinations, etc. Spears Center for Servant Leadership Inc.

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InMoment XI

MARCH 7, 2019

As CX professionals, we are largely compelled to align with our respective organization’s sales and marketing functions, and for good reason—they are generally the ones carrying out the strategy and business goals established by leadership and guiding the rest of the organization forward. View Article.

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CX Journey

APRIL 3, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay If you don't know by now, customer understanding is the cornerstone of customer-centricity. Customer-centricity means putting the customer at the center; customer understanding is how you'll achieve that. What is customer-centricity? How will it make her feel?

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Customers That Stick

JANUARY 7, 2020

What better way to start off the new year and new decade — a decade that I hope will be marked by incredible improvements in customer experience design, thinking, and execution — than by taking a look at one of the most essential ingredients of customer experience: leadership. The Culture/Experience Connection.

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Integrity Solutions

APRIL 16, 2021

Building a customer-centric culture is more challenging than you might initially think. But every organization has the ability to build a strong customer-centric culture- and it doesn’t have to be complex. A strong, vibrant customer-centric culture is an organic and natural strength that cannot be compromised.

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Kapta Customer Success

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Customer centricity is a process and a mindset shift. Learn what steps account management leadership can take to help transform the organization’s mindset.

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Horizon CX

JUNE 2, 2020

Those might at first appear to be two leadership extremes and to some degree they are but unfortunately, they’re more common within business than we’d probably like to admit. Leaders in general, but especially those that are leading in Customer Experience roles, are in a challenging position today made even more difficult by the pandemic.

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Horizon CX

APRIL 30, 2024

Understanding Organizational Transformation Transformation goes beyond incremental improvements; it entails fundamentally altering an organization’s structure, processes, culture, and mindset to adapt to evolving market dynamics and customer expectations. It requires vision, strategic alignment, and relentless execution.

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Blake Morgan

MAY 17, 2023

Delivering an amazing customer experience starts at the top with customer-focused leadership. Companies winning in customer experience are led by people obsessed with the customer experience and putting customers first in everything they do. There is incredible power in customer-focused leadership.

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Blake Morgan

MARCH 13, 2023

Looking to be customer-centric? Companies with female CEOs aren’t just more profitable —they also tend to lead in customer experience. Women thrive in customer-centric roles. Although women are still underrepresented in leadership positions, tides are changing to include more women in the C-suite.

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Experience Matters

MAY 3, 2017

Temkin Group has found that the only path to sustainable customer experience differentiation is to build a customer-centric culture. By mastering Four Customer Experience Core Competencies. Here are the Five P’s of Purposeful Leaders:Filed […].

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Peter Lavers

JUNE 28, 2021

Customer centricity is a term that has been around for a number of years, but what does it mean in a business-to-business environment and how do we turn the words into a change in the way in which our businesses are run? What customer centricity means to our panellists? Alan Thompson. Read the summary here.

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Blake Morgan

MARCH 21, 2023

What does it take to build a disruptive, customer-centric company? It starts with customer-centric leaders. Aside from a strong digital experience, what sets Betterment apart is its customer-centric leadership. Customer-centric leaders ensure there’s a continuous feedback loop within the organization.

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ijgolding

JULY 4, 2017

Only recently, I wrote about Jeff Bezos and why I believe he is a, if not the, role model customer centric leader. ‘Did you know that Amazon have actually embedded 14 leadership principles into the way they work? For reasons unbeknown to me, the fact that Amazon have 14 leadership principles had completely passed me by.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. What is fascinating about the questions I am asked, is that more often than not, most organisations have started their journey to becoming Customer Centric. Starting an organisations Customer Experience transformation is hard – something I have written about in the past.

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Art of Selling CX: Convincing Skeptical Senior Leaders on Customer Experience Success Introduction In the dynamic landscape of customer experience (CX) management, the journey extends beyond strategic implementation; it’s a constant process of persuasion and selling ideas, especially to senior leadership.

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Zeisler Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

I introduced the component parts here , expounded on aligning your CX strategy here , delved into the Voice of the Customer here , and showed how to put it into action with your Process Engineering program here. Now it’s on to building and supporting a Customer-centric culture. How do you build a Customer-centric culture?

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ECXO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Join us at the European Customer Experience Organization event featuring a captivating presentation by Ilenia Vidili on “From Products to People: Pioneering a customer-centric Culture for business success!” Her mission is to empower businesses to gain a competitive edge through customer-centric strategies.

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Thematic

JULY 1, 2018

If you missed our webinar “Customer-centric leadership – Lessons from Jeanne Bliss, catch the recording here! Jeanne Bliss, CEO, Customer Bliss: She’s not only driven a 95% loyalty rate at Land’s End and Microsoft, but also written successful books including “Chief Customer Officer 2.0”

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ECXO

MAY 11, 2023

Everything they do is built around their customers. In other words, they are truly customer-centric. Businesses with a customer focus are relentless in finding new ways to create value. ’ And being able to organise around your customers pays. Is your business truly customer-centric?

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