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The Evolving Chief Customer Officer: Identifying Value, Authority, Scope, Responsibilities, and Strategic Direction Within the Enterprise

Beyond Philosophy

In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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How to Evaluate CCO Positions: 5 Steps to Ensuring the Right Fit

Customer Bliss

In my Daily Dose video series, I explore the topics that chief customer officers must grapple with on a daily basis. Look for language around leadership engagement, culture, and that your role is defined beyond tactics. What are things you would always do for customers?”

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Microsoft’s Path to Customer Obsession with Global General Manager of Customer & Partner Experience Amanda Sachs

Customer Bliss

This is the 100th episode of the Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show , and I have YOU to thank for it! Since working at a call center after graduating college, Amanda has been entrenched in the world of customer service. Took the time to understand cultural differences.

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4 Ways Building a ‘Customer Room’ Can Reshape Your Customer Experience

Customer Bliss

Daniel and his team defined customer success for PTC within three pillars: ease of using the product, its value, and the delight they experienced working with PTC. Be Brave, Bring Customer Feedback to the Forefront. Customer Room goals: Educational space for employees. Drive culture change. New way to onboard employees.

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The Ultimate Guide: How to Build a Customer Experience Department

Lumoa

Whether your company is using the Balanced Scorecard , OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), SMART , or simple KPIs , this will help you align the work of your future customer experience department to goals everyone in the company cares about. And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity.

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CX Inspiration – A Q&A with Nate Brown, Co-Founder of CX Accelerator

Comm100

The question organizations need to ask here is “where are my customers talking about me, and how can I best listen?” Jeanne Bliss has a wonderful section in Chief Customer Officer 2.0. However, you also mention that lasting experiences almost always come down to the need for a culture change.

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Best of the Podcast: Revamp Your Employee Experience By Rethinking Your Hiring Methods

Customer Bliss

Eric’s responsibility is to reshape and redefine the employee culture, and with a front line of about 30,000 people worldwide, that’s a large undertaking. The presenting sponsor of The Chief Customer Officer Human Duct Tape Show is Customerville. How did he handle this? CX Click To Tweet. About Eric Smuda.