CX Journey

MARCH 1, 2017

How do you know if the work you're doing to transform your company's culture is effective and is making an impact? CX Network and Forrester's Sam Stern collaborated on a report titled Leading Indicators of an Effective Culture Transformation , which identifies how to track indicators of progress toward customer-centricity.

Customer Centricity 80

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Experience Professionals ROI 80

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

What if your company spread the news about great experiences just as much as bad ones? Customercentric culture is all about being proactive. If customers are complaining about the same issue over and over again, it’s time to figure out what’s really going on. Happy Customer Experience Day!

Customer Focused 275

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

eglobalis

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Introduction: The Changing Landscape of CX Education Customer experience (CX) education has long relied on a model built around a set of 5-6 pillars. This approach is flawed because each company faces different customer challenges based on its industry, market, and operational structure.

Customer Experience 345

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Case Study Innovation 345

Lumoa

JANUARY 9, 2018

What are, in your opinion, the top challenges in customer experience that companies should be aware of in 2018?? Some hints: big data, omnichannel, personalisation, AI and organizational culture. This will push more aggressive change driven by Customer Experience professionals. Don’t underestimate culture.

Customer Experience 332

Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Omni-Channel Culture 332

ijgolding

JANUARY 28, 2018

Last week I had a fascinating conversation with a peer of mine – a fellow Customer Experience Professional. James Dodkins is as passionate about transforming organisations to become sustainably customer centric as I am. The six steps are as follows: Step 1 – Attract. What do I mean by the ‘right employees’?

Employee Engagement 196

Employee Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 196

Kerry Bodine

JUNE 11, 2017

Customer experience professionals must design improved interactions for their customers and, as part of this work, change the processes, policies, and culture of the organizations that drive those interactions. Customer experience professionals are partly to blame. So far, so good.

Customer Experience 240

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Professionals Advertising 240

ijgolding

MARCH 20, 2018

Today I am absolutely delighted to share my interview with passionate Customer Experience Professional, Kathy van de Laar – enjoy… Ian. We’re a small company specialised in customer insights, CX consulting and training/change management. A role in customer experience sounds sexy but it’s hard work to prove value.

Customer Journeys 152

Customer Journeys Culture Customer Centricity Contact Center 152

CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Collaboration with Ben Motteram and Nate Brown To transform an organization into one that is more customer centric is a complex task that requires many different skills. Customer experience is multi-disciplinary. Resource: Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies by Denise Lee Yohn.

Customer Journeys 307

Customer Journeys Resources Analytics Customer Centricity 307

CloudCherry

MARCH 19, 2018

80% of companies say they deliver “superior” customer service while only 8% of people think these same companies deliver “superior” customer service. Getting started with a Customer Experience strategy is generally never a problem for brands. Not a lot of companies are doing that.

Customer Experience 247

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Lifetime Customer Financial 247

CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. But it’s not usually the case that Customer Experience professionals experience the same level of understanding about what they do and what their job roles are for. Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”

Tips 282

Tips Customer Centricity Strategy Social Media 282

CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2018

Capgemini found that: 75% of companies believe that they're customer-centric, while only 30% of consumers agree. The UK takes the cake with a 77-point gap: 92% of companies believe they are customer-centric, but only 15% of customers agree. Focus on the customer, and the numbers, the revenue, will follow.

Customer Centricity 173

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals Metrics 173

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 6, 2017

Service culture is the holy grail for many organizations. It’s the secret sauce of those companies we hold up as the role models of customer-centricity. Companies like Rackspace or Safelite are well-known disruptors in their industries simply because they focus like crazy on their customers. We can ALL do this.

Handbook 88

Handbook Culture How To Case Study 88

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Anxiety is ramping up for senior leaders focused on customer experience, and it’s not difficult to understand why. According to Forrester’s 2020 Predictions , 1 in 4 customer experience professionals will lose their job this year. Image credit: Forrester. Reward those executives in some meaningful way.

Customer Journeys 250

Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

Horizon CX

APRIL 30, 2024

Organizational Transformation: The Role of Customer Experience Professionals Introduction Organizational transformation is often perceived as an elusive goal, reserved for C-suite executives with immense power and influence. That may be true in many instances, but the reality is more nuanced.

Customer Centricity 130

Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage Culture Customer Experience Professionals 130

Storyminers

MAY 8, 2017

They all use the six customer experience pillars. Some have seen their fortunes rise. Some have even stayed at elevated levels.

Customer Journeys 190

Customer Journeys Innovation ROI Customer Experience Professionals 190

BlueOcean

JUNE 27, 2024

What Happens to CX When the Whole Company Is Aligned Customer experience is a front-and-center topic for the contact center… but excellent CX depends on the entire organizational culture. She argues that these elements must work together seamlessly, much like a symphony, to create lasting customer loyalty and advocacy.

Customer Experience 156

Customer Experience Contact Center Customer Centricity Leadership 156

CX Journey

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Or are you still wondering why it''s an important tool to have in your customer experience management toolbox? I think customer experience professionals have made huge inroads in that regard this year. I hear so many people talking about mapping and so many prospects and clients asking about it.

Customer Journeys 189

Customer Journeys Touchpoint Customer Experience Professionals Policies 189

Alida

MARCH 10, 2017

Failure to listen to customers. Brian Solis, a digital analyst and a renowned keynote speaker, says successful CX programs start with a culture of customer-centricity. In fact, customer needs should come before the demands of shareholders. Here are four pitfalls to avoid as you develop and execute a CX program.

Customer Experience 196

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score Chief Customer Officer 196

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity. Your experience will be very transactional. Most organizations attack the symptom not the cause.

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

As companies focus inward to understand how to achieve their customer experience goals, the term “engagement” is often used interchangeably with “culture.” The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. Prompts might include: “We know who is responsible for the customer.”

Culture 80

Culture Engagement Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 80

Comm100

MARCH 8, 2017

Through the eyes of Nasser, the areas of leadership, people skills, teamwork, gender equality, and customer service blend into a masterful understanding of corporate culture and the customer experience. She is an expert on customer-centric leadership, and an active tweeter. Flavio Martins. flavmartins.

Customer Service 0

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Consulting 0

CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. But it’s not usually the case that Customer Experience professionals experience the same level of understanding about what they do and what their job roles are for. Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”.

Tips 208

Tips Customer Centricity Social Media Strategy 208

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

CX Day is a day all about learning, sharing, and celebrating with the Customer Experience community. The first wave of customer experience professionals have had to create our own paths. There was no text book or standard curriculum when it came to customer experience. Why do we do this?

Social Media 146

Social Media How To Culture Customer Centricity 146

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The words customer-centric and silos do not sit happily in the same sentence. Silos harm culture and damage customer experiences. A customer-centric organisation is naturally collaborative, seeing everything from the customers point of view. And they hold businesses back. Say what you mean.

Resources 145

Resources Customer Journeys Customer Experience Customer Centricity 145

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Customer experience professionals, enthusiasts and change agents around the world are celebrating today. CX Day is all about celebrating our success, learning from our amazing community, and looking to the future of customer experience. Watch: Building (and sustaining) a Customer-Centric Culture.

Case Study 137

Case Study Customer Centricity B2B Culture 137

CX Journey

AUGUST 26, 2014

Getting leadership buy-in and helping them understand that the sooner the focus is placed on the customer experience, the sooner the business will benefit is an everyday challenge for customer experience professionals. This is where your governance structure comes into play. They go hand in hand.

Customer Experience 185

Customer Experience Management Government Customer Journeys 185

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MAY 17, 2018

The Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) 2018 Insight Exchange offered CX experts and professionals of all kinds, various titles and comfort levels a few days to learn, connect and get inspired. Cultural transformation is never easy. How will you ever really change your culture?

Leadership 161

Leadership Culture Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 161

Kustomer

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen is joined by Annette Pedroza to learn about building a customer centric culture. To explain this further, Annette suggests: I think when employees hear leadership talking about the customer, that’s really important.

Customer Centricity 52

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Effort Score 52

CX Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Most people know what salespeople or customer service representatives do. But it’s not usually the case that Customer Experience professionals experience the same level of understanding about what they do and what their job roles are for. Oh, so that’s customer service, right?”.

Tips 182

Tips Customer Centricity Social Media Strategy 182

Experience Matters

MAY 12, 2015

We additionally compared CX laggards with CX leaders and discovered that the leaders have stronger financial results, have more customer-centric cultures, focus more on internal communications, are stronger at customer insights and change management, and are better at digital interactions.

Report 120

Report Customer Connectedness Management Effort Score 120

Lumoa

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, there are plenty of good customer experience books to read if you want to learn more about customer experience. To help you out, we have listed our top 10 must-read customer experience books. Customer service is not a department. .” I hold nothing back.

Customer Experience 221

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management Customer Centricity 221

Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 19, 2020

Moreover, Forrester said that one in four people in the Customer Experience industry would lose their jobs this year. We realized that we needed to make a more reliable connection between how having a customer-centric culture that puts the customers’ needs first leads to customer-driven growth.

Trends 191

Trends Net Promoter Score Effort Score ROI 191

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s only been in the last decade that we’ve seen any companies take the time to proactively think about a customer’s journey, and only within the last 5 years or so we’ve seen a steady expansion of those with “experience” or “customer” in their titles at the upper tiers of management.

Net Promoter Score 165

Net Promoter Score Effort Score Innovation Culture 165

ECXO

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part One introduces the new “3 Cs”, key trends associated with technology convergence, competition and culture change in a post-pandemic world. About the book: This is a journey into Digital Customer Service and Customer Culture because both are key pillars to deliver great business results. Here is the link.

Case Study 156

Case Study Customer Centricity Social Media Competitive Advantage 156

CX Journey

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It's a challenge that customer experience professionals face as they attempt to get executive commitment, transform the organization's culture, and more. What advice would you give to these professionals to help them help others (especially executives) change the way they think about things? Tony Hsieh.

Culture 169

Culture Banking Metrics Employee Engagement 169

CloudCherry

MARCH 19, 2018

80% of companies say they deliver “superior” customer service while only 8% of people think these same companies deliver “superior” customer service. Getting started with a Customer Experience strategy is generally never a problem for brands. Not a lot of companies are doing that.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Lifetime Customer Financial 150

ijgolding

JANUARY 15, 2016

‘The Know It All’ – this type of company does not think it needs to ‘do’ Customer Experience because ‘we already do it’; or ‘we do not need to do it’. The Confused’ – increasingly, I am coming across organisations that are just confused by Customer Experience. Customer Experience Strategy.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity Government 120