ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Should we have a Chief Customer Officer. What is fascinating about the questions I am asked, is that more often than not, most organisations have started their journey to becoming Customer Centric. Starting an organisations Customer Experience transformation is hard – something I have written about in the past.

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CX Journey

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Image courtesy of GrantVernon Have you started journey mapping yet? Or are you still wondering why it''s an important tool to have in your customer experience management toolbox? I''ve written and talked about journey mapping so much this year, even suggesting back in January that we make it the year of the journey map.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Customer Experience Professionals Policies 189

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Customer Journey Mapping: Apply Insights Everywhere. Customer journey mapping is a big investment in most companies, and money is being left on the table. That's because there are many more applications for customer experience insights than first meets the eye.

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ijgolding

OCTOBER 6, 2014

What you are about to read are the exploits of one Customer Experience Professional as he went about his business during a working week. Whether it makes you laugh, cry or feel pity for me, I genuinely hope that my diary provides a useful insight into my work in helping organisations to become more customer centric.

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Customer Experience Professionals Customer Experience Customer Centricity Customer Journeys 200

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Drawing parallels with the timeless narrative of “Death of a Salesman,” we uncover the dynamics of selling not just a product but a mindset, while also examining the emotional mindset of leaders who often prioritize revenues and profits over customer-centric approaches.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. Three Primary Capabilities of the Best Customer Journey Analytics Platforms.

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Customer Journeys Analytics How To Touchpoint 90

GetFeedback

AUGUST 14, 2019

But I see a place for Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), based on organizational goals, resources, and structure. Customers and their experiences are complex and nuanced, so there’s no perfect metric. So consider CSAT as one of many tools available to help you improve your customer’s experience. .

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Metrics Customer Journeys How To Customer Satisfaction 273

ClearAction

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Customer Experience Professionals’ Essential Toolkit optimizecx. Customer experience tools are just as important to success as a carpenter’s tools are. Likewise, customer experience professionals need to master basic customer experience tools to get the job done.

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ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

If you have followed my writing for a while, you will be very much aware that I am very proud and passionate Customer Experience Professional (CXP). One of a growing number of ‘specialists’ in the newly recognised professional field, this group of skilled, experienced practitioners is growing in number on a weekly basis.

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Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

ijgolding

MARCH 10, 2016

So simply talking about Customer Experience means nothing. To be a CUSTOMER CENTRIC organisation, requires something completely different – something that completely changes the mindset of people within a business. To be a Customer Centric Organisation requires a business to have a Customer Centric CULTURE!

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Experience Professionals Communication 120

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Fortunately, the profession that customer experience has become is steadily building a burgeoning number of just such people. Let’s start with my tip number 1: Tip 1 – Make customer experience a priority for the whole company! Tip 2 – Embed a customer experience framework.

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Customer Centricity Culture Tips Strategy 120

Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

But what makes some organizations more effective than others at managing customer journeys, measuring outcomes and improving experiences? Pointillist surveyed over 1,050 CX, analytics, customer care and marketing professionals from a variety of industries across the world to discover what separates leaders from laggards.

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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Journey Mapping: Focus on the Customers’ Experience. Customer journey maps are all the rage. In this 3-part series, we'll look at 3 keys to getting it right: focus on the customers' experience journey, map for actionability, and apply insights everywhere.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience ROI Customers 48

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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Customer Centricity Competitive Advantage Culture Customer Experience Professionals 130

ClearAction

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Customer Experience Journeys: Map for Actionability. How actionable are your customer journey maps? One of the appeals of journey maps is they look sexy. Yet I've noticed that many customer journey maps aren't really designed to get full mileage from them.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience ROI Exercises 48

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

SurveySparrow

JUNE 21, 2023

Thus, the primary objective of this consultant is to amplify the quality of customer interactions across touchpoints, driving customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy. Unraveling the Art of Customer Journey Mapping One of the key competencies for any CX consultant is the mastery of customer journey mapping.

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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. Related: How to Improve Customer Service Training with Simple Metrics.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

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. I recently did a customer journey mapping project with a Dutch retailer.

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Customer Journeys Culture Customer Centricity Contact Center 152

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Engagement Evaluation Best Practices for Customer Success Management . Customer Experience: Journey Mapping. Course Description: If you strive for a customer-centric culture, you have to understand the customer’s journey—every step of the way. Level: Intermediate. Time: 50 minutes.

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Course Customer Journeys Customer Success Consulting 98

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Here’s your ultimate guide on how to build a customer experience department. Map Your Current Customer Journey 3. And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity. How many different ideal customers (personas) we have? And so on.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 221

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. Digital marketing is a specialism, so is customer service and so is process improvement. And they hold businesses back. But the skill set matters very much. Say what you mean.

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CX Journey

MARCH 13, 2018

Companies don't take the time to really understand their customers: to listen (VoC), to characterize (personas), and to empathize (journey mapping). If they do these things, then they aren't using what they learned to design a better experience. Focus on the customer, and the numbers, the revenue, will follow.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals Metrics 173

ECXO

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Journey To Centricity: A customer-centric framework for the era of stakeholder capitalism Paperback by Ilenia Vidili. About the book: Managers and leaders know that customer centricity means providing positive customer experiences. Here is the link. Here is the book link. Here is the link.

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Case Study Customer Centricity Social Media Competitive Advantage 156

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 Experience Professionals Customer Experience Hotels Net Promoter Score 56

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 30, 2024

This isn’t just a conversation about technology; it’s about humanizing the automated, ensuring accuracy, and strategically mapping the customer journey to adapt to this new frontier. We’re also confronting CX blind spots regarding AI integration and the declining comfort customers feel around these tools.

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Government Customer Experience Professionals Contact Center Connections 143

InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

According to research: Companies that earn $1 billion annually can expect to earn, on average, an additional $700 million within 3 years of investing in customer experience. Customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don’t focus on customers.

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Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 195

CSM Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

It deals with resolving issues, providing information, and facilitating transactions, but it does not cover the complete customer journey. By focusing on CXE, businesses can foster customer loyalty, increase customer lifetime value, and ultimately drive sustainable growth.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 52

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. A Natural Partnership.

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Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Professionals Advertising 240

GetFeedback

JULY 19, 2019

And yet, it’s not surprising to know companies categorized as customer-centric reported much higher revenue than their counterparts, as documented in Hotjar’s 2019 State of Customer Experience Report. How to set up your Voice of the Customer (VoC) program for success. Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) .

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CloudCherry

MARCH 19, 2018

When you’re investing in CX, it’s because you want to improve customer loyalty, retention, and ultimately be successful as a brand in the long run. To get started in that journey, mapping your initiatives with outcomes is a pre-requisite. Not a lot of companies are doing that. Not a lot of companies are doing that.

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Storyminers

MAY 8, 2017

They all use the six customer experience pillars. When customer experience work begins with metrics in mind, most practitioners capture the current-state experience in a journey map, then make incremental improvements. 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

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Engagement Evaluation Best Practices for Customer Success Management . Customer Experience: Journey Mapping. Course Description: If you strive for a customer-centric culture, you have to understand the customer’s journey—every step of the way. Level: Intermediate. Time: 50 minutes.

Course 52

Course Customer Journeys Customer Success Consulting 52

Pointillist

JUNE 5, 2019

Customer experience is a top priority for organizations in 2019 Customer experience is universally recognized as a top priority by most organizations, regardless of industry or size. To get the full picture, you also need to understand actual customer behavior.

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Customer Journeys Measurement Report Omni-Channel 89

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

Customer experience (CX) is the relationship of a customer with a business at all touchpoints during the period of the customer journey. It is widely said that customer experience is the next battleground for organizations. Bruce is widely regarded as a customer experience visionary.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

CCXP exam (Customer Experience Professional Certification) competencies are a guide to highly profitable customer experience management. Other joyful discoveries include accountability methods and practical ways to shape customer-centricity company-wide. For example, board members must be CCXPs.

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Customer Journeys Study Customer Experience Professionals Financial 62

GetFeedback

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Losing that 3% of customers who spend 15% more than other customers may mean millions of dollars in many industries. You must do the math to show why keeping customers satisfied, and measuring that consistently, is critical to successful outcomes for the overall business. Have you ever experienced that as a customer?

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