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!

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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.

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Handbook Culture How To Case Study 88

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Fortunately, the profession that customer experience has become is steadily building a burgeoning number of just such people. Now it may sound obvious, but if an organisation aspires to have a customer centric culture, then it MUST make customer experience a priority for everyone.

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Customer Centricity Culture Tips Strategy 120

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.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Professionals Advertising 240

Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

I really enjoy leading and being a part of the Customer Experience Professionals Association, because of the wonderful volunteers and the amazing culture of sharing across our community. Additionally, I’m really excited to meet my soon-to-be-born great niece. The CXPA community. Temkin Group clients.

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ijgolding

JUNE 25, 2017

Focus; commitment; sustainability; momentum; belief; buy-in; motivation; all words that can be used to help describe customer experience transformation. Customer experience professionals need to be able to use every tool in their armoury to make these words a reality. You can read my column here!

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Experience Professionals Case Study 128

CloudCherry

MARCH 8, 2019

She is the Founder and President of CustomerBliss, and the Co-Founder of The Customer Experience Professionals Association. Jeanne has over 20 years of experience into ‘Customer Experience’ as she learned early on from her father. Jeanne Bliss.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Consulting Employee Experience 285

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.

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ijgolding

MARCH 20, 2018

Today I am absolutely delighted to share my interview with passionate Customer Experience Professional, Kathy van de Laar – enjoy… Ian. What is it that motivated you to advance your career in the customer experience profession? I recently did a customer journey mapping project with a Dutch retailer.

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Customer Journeys Culture Customer Centricity Contact Center 152

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.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What Does a Customer Experience Professional Do? Customer experience professionals have many different titles and many different job descriptions. There are CX leaders who focus primarily on customer insights, like Voice of the Customer programs.

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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.

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CX Accelerator

JUNE 27, 2019

Originally posted on the Rustici Software Blog Last month, I presented to the Nashville Network of Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) and shared how we’ve built a remarkable place to work at Rustici Software and how that leads to providing exceptional service to our customers.

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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’?

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CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Traditionally, Human Relations departments have not been created with the primary goal of improving culture or EX so we would place this function within the CX team where the link between EX and CX has been recognized for years. Resource: Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies by Denise Lee Yohn.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Although both Tesco and Amazon saw their declining financial performance very clearly displayed in the car headlights yesterday, the reasons behind the declines are very very different – in my opinion, the reasons highlight brilliant why their business models/cultures have been so very very different over the last few years.

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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.”

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I speak with customer experience professionals every day. Some of them have fancy, customer-focused titles like Chief Customer Officer or Vice President of Customer Experience. Others have more common org chart regulars, like Chief Marketing Officer or Voice fo the Customer (VoC) Director.

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Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 259

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Whether you like an analogy or not, this particular one is a remarkably accurate way of thinking about any organisations journey to embedding a Customer Centric culture. I am immensely proud to be part of a wonderful community of committed, passionate, driven professionals.

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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.

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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.

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Customer Journeys Innovation ROI Customer Experience Professionals 190

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.

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CX Journey

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I'm looking forward to working with more new clients and meeting and learning from more brilliant customer experience professionals going forward. B2B Customer Experience Management Best Practices A Confused Customer Buys Nothing Today's VOC Program Challenges The 7 Deadly Sins of Customer Experience.

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CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2018

Focus on the customer, and the numbers, the revenue, will follow. As a customer experience professional, or an aspiring customer experience professional, work on getting executive commitment. That's your first step. The rest is much easier from there.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals Metrics 173

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Can Tie CX to Business Performance One of the biggest challenges for customer experience professionals is to tie customer experience business improvements with business performance improvements. This will make the adoption and execution of customer experience initiatives a lot smoother.

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Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management ROI 195

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.

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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.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

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.

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Trends Net Promoter Score Effort Score ROI 191

Lumoa

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Customer Experience (CX) hinges upon customers’ sentiments. Happy customers are satisfied customers who will return to help your business. One surefire way to deliver happiness to customers is to create a culture of happiness within the company.

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Competitive Advantage Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 195

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?

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Leadership Culture Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 161

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.

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Culture Banking Metrics Employee Engagement 169

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?

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Social Media How To Culture Customer Centricity 146

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.

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CX Journey

MARCH 21, 2018

Image courtesy of Pixabay What's in your customer experience strategy budget? Traditionally, customer experience professionals have no budget. Despite that, customer experience professionals still need to develop a budget for the work that they do and for the resources they need for that work.

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Chattermill

MAY 12, 2019

Top 20 Books Every Customer Experience Professional Needs to Read Now. Customer Experience. We’ve also picked up a ton of insights by making our way through lots of books written by Customer Experience Guru's. Customer Experience Books. by Sam Frampton. on 13 May 2019.

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Customer Bliss

MARCH 26, 2019

The work is interesting, but what really drives the work is culture. It’s the same reason I co-founded the Customer Experience Professionals Association. How did you stop and pause? I call it the underbelly; how did each guest navigate the underbelly of their organization, in order to succeed?

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer How To Customer Experience Professionals 181

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In some cases, organizations thought forming a Customer Experience team was the solution to the Customer Experience problem. However, it is only the first step in a broader cultural change. Prediction #4: Measurement will become a higher priority for Customer Experience professionals.

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