Experience Matters

JANUARY 6, 2015

With this post, I’m declaring 2015 “ The Year of the Employee.”. We’ve recently seen a surge in the number of companies looking to build more customer-centric cultures and train their people on CX. Voice of the employee efforts are becoming an integral component of modern voice of the customer programs.

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Customer Journeys Trends Contact Center Customer Connectedness 120

Experience Matters

JANUARY 20, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group report, Lessons in CX Excellence, 2015. This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. Here’s the executive summary: This year, we chose eight organizations as finalists for Temkin Group’s 2014 Customer Experience Excellence Award.

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Experience Matters

JUNE 4, 2015

Comcast earned terrible ratings in both the 2015 Temkin Customer Service Ratings (last place out of 278 companies for the 2nd year in a row) and 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings (291st out of 293 companies). Compelling Brand Values : Brand attributes are driving decisions about how you treat customers.

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Customer Connectedness Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture 120

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

We use a Customer Experience Assessment model called Naive to Natural to assess whether companies focus on Customers primarily. 7 Reasons Brand and Customer Experience Are Disconnected. They haven’t, however, brought the brand promise concept and applied it to the day-to-day activity of the company.

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Brands Advertising Customer Centricity Brand Values 129

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In my post last year I named 2015 “ The Year of Employee.” We agree and believe that customer experience is a reflection an organization’s culture and operating processes. We saw a surge of interest in the topic of culture in 2015, and we expect even more executives to begin the long-term journey of culture change in 2016.

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Trends Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customer Connectedness 120

SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

McKinsey research finds that customer journeys are significantly more strongly correlated with business outcomes than are touch points, so be sure to focus on the end-to-end journey (McKinsey CEO Guide To Customer Experience.) . Step 2 – Deliver on the brand promise. How consistent is the brand experience across channels?

Customer Journeys 100

Customer Journeys Self Service Analytics Exercises 100

SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

McKinsey research finds that customer journeys are significantly more strongly correlated with business outcomes than are touch points, so be sure to focus on the end-to-end journey (McKinsey CEO Guide To Customer Experience.) . Step 2 – Deliver on the brand promise. How consistent is the brand experience across channels?

Customer Journeys 100

Customer Journeys Self Service Analytics Exercises 100