Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

My work is definitely focused on for-profit organizations and much of what I do helps largish companies make more money. “Creating fewer ruined days for customers.” Whether it’s as individuals or representing a company, we are human. . appeared first on Customer Experience Consulting.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Customers will spend more, stay longer and tell their friends about the brand. If metrics like retention rate, lifetime customer value, and new leads from referrals are important to your company, then great customer experience is too. How can you create a customer-first culture? The Ideal Customer Journey.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 10, 2019

How does a logistics company shift its gears to become more customer-focused? In today’s episode, Scott Allison , the Chief Customer Officer of DHL ’s supply chain, shares some strategies and tactics around communicating the brand’s message, telling the customer story, and improving employee and customer experience.

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eglobalis

OCTOBER 1, 2024

To truly thrive in today’s business landscape, companies need to foster cross-departmental communication, aligning teams and their objectives toward a unified goal—delivering value to the customer. This team should be responsible for ensuring alignment on company goals, customer experience, and operational priorities.

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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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ECXO

MARCH 6, 2025

How to Lead a B2B CX Transformation ProgramAnd Avoid Costly Mistakes Introduction: The Importance of CX Transformation in B2B Todays business customers expect seamless, responsive, and value-rich interactions at every stage of the partnership. Leadership Commitment and Vision Leading a customer experience transformation starts at the top.

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eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While many companies focus on strategy, technology, and financial investment as the cornerstones of success, the critical yet often overlooked factor is the engagement and empowerment of employees. Create Clear Roadmaps: Developing roadmaps that connect individual roles with company and customer outcomes increases engagement.

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Kristina Evey

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Which Comes First – The Customer or Your Staff? Customer service is an obvious and crucial focus for any company looking for sustainable financial success. You MUST focus on customers. Customers today are leaving businesses that take them for granted. Yes, without the customer, you wouldn’t be in business.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Many companies seeking to improve their Customer Experience (CX) understand the importance of putting the customer at the center of everything they do. Not all companies have this problem though. There are nine orientation areas that we use to determine a company’s customer centricity level. Measurement.

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Blake Morgan

MARCH 11, 2025

In this episode of The Modern Customer Podcast , I sit down with Bill Canady , CEO of OTC Industrial Technologies and Arrowhead Engineered Products , and author of From Panic to Profit , set to release on April 29th. Turning Difficult Customers into Business Insights Challenging customers often provide the most valuable insights.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 10, 2019

To protect him from the backlash he’s concerned about, we’ll change his name to “protect the innocent,” as the saying goes, just in case someone from his company reads this. As part of his onboarding process, Bob was put through customer service training. He learned about how to treat the company’s customers with dignity and respect.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

How do you transform the culture and operations of your company to benefit the lives of your customers? Determine What Your Customers Value and What Makes Them Happy. Sami and his colleagues in the C-Suite wanted to know what customers really thought of American Bath Group. What did they value? What made them happy?

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ijgolding

MAY 17, 2017

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Jack Welch believed in people – employees AND customers. Here are some of Jeff’s most famous quotes: A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

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Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2018

In today’s lively chat with Sue, we talk about her customer service experience and leadership that paved the way for her success in transforming the CX culture at Newegg, a multi-billion dollar company that has been customer-focused since its inception. Customer Experience Leadership Means Being a Team Player.

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ECXO

JUNE 23, 2024

Of course, I am extending the concept and exaggerating its use, but my point is that we can think that Customer Success acts as a kind of double agent because it serves both the customer and the company simultaneously, and clearly both sides are not enemies at all! Customer success is not just the responsibility of one team.

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Customer Bliss

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

We’ve talked before on this blog about the need to be a customer-focused CEO. But since CEOs are often the major decision-maker within an organization, it’s important to understand the decision-making styles of customer-focused CEOs. 2 Decision-Making Style: They Guide Company Behavior With Decisiveness.

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ECXO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Whether it’s harnessing the power of data analytics for deeper insights or implementing cutting-edge technologies to elevate interactions, your role is to redefine what exceptional customer service means. Empowerment lies at the core of your leadership. Employees are the frontline ambassadors of customer experience.

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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.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Before you start innovating, remember what customers want, and how to deliver it on their terms! Customer or Company Mission? 13 Tough Questions to Skyrocket Customer Experience Improvement. What Does it Take to Be a Customer Focused Organization? Customer Experience is…What, Exactly?

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

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ECXO

MARCH 21, 2023

Journey Map Your way to Customer Experience Maturity in Just 8 Steps + 12 with CX and EX Customer experience culture is a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors that a company adopts in order to create a customer-centric culture. Based on the company ‘’mindset’’ and approach.

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ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

However, for a business to most effectively leverage the competencies of CXPs, it is vital that they are supported by a critical and powerful ingredient – transformational leadership. An organisations approach to Customer Experience will live or die on the strength of transformational leadership. Problem solving skills.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 7, 2019

More and more companies are realizing the importance of formalizing and strategizing the customer experience. However, many are unsure where to start, which leads to a common question, “How do you build a customer experience strategy?” Key questions: How can you cultivate a customer focused culture within your company?Who

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Customer Bliss

APRIL 5, 2016

When working with companies on developing customer-focused growth cultures, I often get asked about this idea of a company core values list. It seems that every company has a core values list, but oftentimes the words used are similar — and they can be words that mean many different things to different people.

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CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The idea of being a provider of customer service that happened to sell shoes gave us the idea that service is our big differentiator and a real asset.". Blueprint for customer-centricity. , Kay Phelps , Director of Product Marketing at Edify says, “Tony Hsieh provided extraordinary leadership and was a role model for great CX.

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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. Aside from a strong digital experience, what sets Betterment apart is its customer-centric leadership.

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Customer Bliss

MAY 19, 2016

I did want to create a quick blog post about customer experience competencies, however. I came to these competencies over 30 years of observing customer-focused growth engines that worked — and many that didn’t work. Here’s the essential overview: Customer experience work is often tremendously reactionary.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 30, 2016

In order to understand how customer-focused companies design processes for listening to customers, we need to start by thinking about the three types of listening: Unaided or volunteer listening. Normally, this occurs through channels such as traditional customer service, the website, and social media.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. And that means building a one-company approach to business strategies. It includes focusing the organization on one-company experiences.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 22, 2020

These conversations span across a range of industries but tend to have an overarching theme that comes back to the importance of leadership bravery. These experts have all spent time enacting behaviors, either within their own companies or the companies of others, that consider the well-being of their employees, customers, and partners.

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C3Centricity

AUGUST 6, 2024

In 2023 I wrote a popular post covering the ten most common challenges businesses face when starting their journey to customer centricity. It is called “Top 10 Challenges Facing Companies When They Adopt a Customer-First Strategy.” times higher customer retention and 1.9 times higher average order value.

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ijgolding

JULY 19, 2016

Carolyn (I hope she does not mind me using her first name), has been CEO of Easyjet since 2010 – she is also one of only 5 female CEOs of FTSE 100 companies. What Carolyn McCall demonstrated to me is that she is a customer focused leader with a huge amount of courage. These leaders could learn a huge amount from Carolyn.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 21, 2019

“Don’t look at yourself, look at your customer. Be sure you have your customer in mind when you create something. Be sure it’s customer-focused, not self-focused,” says Horst Schulze , Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Capella Hotel Group, and Co-founder & Former COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Every each of them answered the following questions: How do you see the future of customer experience? What are, in your opinion, the top challenges in customer experience that companies should be aware of in 2018? Companies do marketing, sales and CRM – the customer does the experience!

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ECXO

JULY 23, 2024

The Heartbeat of a Customer-Centric Organization – Part 1 I’ve split this article on leadership into two parts because, you know, attention spans these days are pretty short! It is clear that the customer is king, right? Companies are realizing the importance of leadership styles that focus on the customer.

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ijgolding

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Last night, I received an email from a good friend of mine asking for my input into a question they had been asked by the senior leadership team of their organisation. The question was as follows: What value has our business experienced as a result of all the Customer Experience (CX) work that has been done?

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C3Centricity

APRIL 17, 2018

Everyone is talking about customer first strategies and why they are important. He spoke about the differences between customer focus and customer centricity and the often times confusion between the two terms. That is why I tend to speak about customer first rather than customer centricity these days.

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