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Six differences between customer-focused companies and operations-focused companies

Vonage

Their hiring and training is focused on customer service, and they truly deliver it. Here are some areas that differ between customer-focused companies and operations-focused companies: Empowerment: Employees in a customer-focused company are given the freedom to make decisions for the benefit of the customer.

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Customer Experience Commitment – 2016 Customer Centricity Research Findings

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Describe up to three things (in your own words) that are either enabling your organisation to focus on Customer Experience or not (as the case may be)! Organisations wanting their people to have a customer focused mindset to go about doing the right things without being penalised 12%. Leadership commitment 8%.

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Jobs-To-Be-Done: A Lens To Keep Journeys Customer-Focused

Kerry Bodine

In a 2016 issue of the Harvard Business Review , Christensen and his co-contributors summed up the concept as the “need to home in on the progress that the customer is trying to make in a given circumstance—what the customer hopes to accomplish.”.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of October 3, 2016

ShepHyken

Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, professional speaker and New York Times bestselling business author. For information on The Customer Focus™ customer service training programs go to www.thecustomerfocus.com. The post 5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of October 3, 2016 appeared first on Shep Hyken.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 7, 2016

ShepHyken

Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, professional speaker and New York Times bestselling business author. For information on The Customer Focus™ customer service training programs go to www.thecustomerfocus.com. The post 5 Top Customer Service Articles For the Week of November 7, 2016 appeared first on Shep Hyken.

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Top 10 #CX Challenges for 2016

CX Journey

Image courtesy of Juju Insipired What customer experience challenges are you facing this year? Even though 2016 is already a third of the way over, I thought it would be interesting to share some findings about key customer experience challenges that have been identified for this year. Executive commitment issues , that is.

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The cost of NOT focussing on Customer Experience

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Yet their research calculated that thanks to poor customer service during 2016, the financial cost to companies in the UK alone was costing companies over £37 BILLION!!! ( Only today, UK house builder, Bovis Homes saw their shares plunge as customer service failings dragged down their profits in 2016.