ijgolding

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

BM: Generally, the customer engagements I’m proudest of are those where the value of becoming more customer-centric has been amply demonstrated and I’ve “converted” sceptics within the company. KS: Becoming the CX professional I am today didn’t just happen overnight. IG: Experience, experience, experience.

Customer Experience Professionals 120

Customer Experience Professionals Customer Experience Customer Centricity Customers 120

Horizon CX

JUNE 2, 2020

Those might at first appear to be two leadership extremes and to some degree they are but unfortunately, they’re more common within business than we’d probably like to admit. Leaders in general, but especially those that are leading in Customer Experience roles, are in a challenging position today made even more difficult by the pandemic.

Leadership 130

Leadership Culture Strategy Customer Experience Professionals 130

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Creating a customer-centric organization from the inside out requires serious word-of-mouth messaging. Help your people who don’t interact with customers understand what that is like. It’s one thing to hear customers are complaining about something, it’s another to stand there and hear the complaint directly.

Customer Focused 275

Customer Focused Employee Engagement Call Center Social Media 275

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.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Culture Tips Strategy 120

ijgolding

JUNE 25, 2017

My seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric, have allowed me to share my experiences, thoughts, case studies, successes and failures observed over the last twenty three years, helping organisations and practitioners to put the customer (and employees) at the centre of their respective universes!

Customer Centricity 128

Customer Centricity Culture Customer Experience Professionals Case Study 128

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Having a customer-centric mindset, as those of us within the Customer Experience profession tend to have, I’m particularly concerned about how we respond to those recommended measures intended to help mitigate viral transmissions—physical distancing, masks, sanitizers, vaccinations, etc. Consider the following.

Leadership 130

Leadership Measurement Groups Customer Experience Professionals 130

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

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. First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience.

Customer Journeys 250

Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

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. Twitter, according to Solis, demonstrates what happens when you ignore customers.

Customer Experience 196

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score Chief Customer Officer 196

Lumoa

JANUARY 9, 2018

Organizations will want quantitative justification of their investment in great customer service. Organizations will continue to look for more effective ways of gaining real-time customer intelligence rather than rear-view-mirror methods like surveys. This will push more aggressive change driven by Customer Experience professionals.

Customer Experience 332

Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Omni-Channel Culture 332

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

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

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?

Customer Experience 208

Customer Experience Poor Customer Service Financial Return on Investment 208

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

AUGUST 26, 2014

I think this is a critical component for change management for the customer experience. 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.

Customer Experience 185

Customer Experience Management Government Customer Journeys 185

ijgolding

APRIL 4, 2017

Just this week, a fellow human being – who also happens to be a passionate Customer Experience Professional, has inspired me to write this post. Jacques Strydom believes, that when we are talking about the subject of Customer Experience, we must always start by remembering that we are Human first.

Technology 336

Technology Leadership Innovation Customer Experience Professionals 336

Comm100

MARCH 8, 2017

Kate Nasser, otherwise known as the People Skills Coach™, offers anyone who happens upon her Twitter page a wealth of knowledge on topics such as how to increase your impact and how to create positive customer experiences. She is an expert on customer-centric leadership, and an active tweeter. Flavio Martins.

Customer Service 0

Customer Service Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Consulting 0

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. Leadership is starting to catch up, but their understanding of CX varies greatly!

Leadership 161

Leadership Culture Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 161

InMoment XI

MARCH 6, 2024

The best customer experience quotes can be a great source of inspiration for leadership teams and entire organizations looking to drive their CX transformation. Customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that don’t focus on customers.

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 195

ijgolding

AUGUST 9, 2017

A perennial problem for any Customer Experience Professional around the world is to find an effective way to engage people with the significance of the subject. Whilst many profess to ‘get’ Customer Experience (CX), they tend to do so instinctively, intuitively and accidentally.

Engagement 226

Engagement Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity 226

Alida

APRIL 26, 2018

According to CMO.com way, back in 2016, 63% percent of CEOs saw rallying their organizations around the customer as one of the top three investment priorities for the year. Today, customer centricity, or some notion thereof, has become the strategic posture of almost every profitable company in existence.

Customer Centricity 133

Customer Centricity Analytics Study Customer Experience Professionals 133

Horizon CX

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Art of Selling CX: Convincing Skeptical Senior Leaders on Customer Experience Success Introduction In the dynamic landscape of customer experience (CX) management, the journey extends beyond strategic implementation; it’s a constant process of persuasion and selling ideas, especially to senior leadership.

Customer Journeys 130

Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Automotive Fashion 130

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.

Customer Experience 221

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management Customer Centricity 221

Eptica

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Author: Guest author - Jeannie Walters Avoid these 5 CX Leadership Traps! Success begets more success, and customer experience is no different. Are you ready to make real changes on behalf of your customers? 5 ways CEOs can build truly customer-centric organizations.

Leadership 77

Leadership Net Promoter Score Contact Center Effort Score 77

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

ijgolding

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This post is part of the Customer Experience Professionals Association’s Blog Carnival celebrating customer experience. It’s part of a broader celebration of Customer Experience Day 2017. Check out posts from other bloggers at the blog carnival. And learn more about CX Day at: [link].

Customer Experience 158

Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Customers Customer Centricity 158

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

He has extensive experience in retail, wholesale, franchising, and small business and has a strong belief in positive customer experience. She has over 16 years of experience in areas of market research, program management, marketing, instructional design, and training. Aimee Lucas Follow @Aimee_Lucas.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

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

PeopleMetrics

JUNE 16, 2015

DISCLAIMER: The CX Feud is a game in which 150 customer experience professionals took our assessment about the presence, or absence, of customer centricity practices in their organizations. A story of many CX professionals tasked with driving change, but with neither the authority nor the budget to do so.

Customer Centricity 48

Customer Centricity Leadership Data Net Promoter Score 48

ijgolding

JANUARY 4, 2017

When it comes to the world of Customer Experience, business people and Customer Experience Professionals all around the world will be thinking of and dreaming about, a more customer centric 2017. I discussed 5 key learnings of emotion, knowledge, commitment, governance and leadership.

Customer Experience 148

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Customers Government 148

ijgolding

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I first became aware of job roles containing the words, ‘Customer Experience’ in the early noughties. However, it was not until 2011, with the creation of the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA), that the role became officially recognised as a profession.

Customer Experience 164

Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Customer Centricity Customers 164

Alida

JUNE 16, 2016

If you work in customer experience (CX), you probably already know Jeanne Bliss. A thought leader in CX even before this practice became mainstream , Bliss is an author and a rexpected expert on customer-centric leadership. The long list of CustomerBliss clients include Adobe, Zappos and Brooks Brothers.

Chief Customer Officer 100

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Leadership 100

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

There are plenty of groups on LinkedIn focused on customer experience, and some of them are great and some of them are not-so-great. If you are trying to become a customer-centric leader at a bank, that can be very different than an independent bookstore. Whether or not your title says it, your leadership is needed!

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

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

ijgolding

JANUARY 14, 2019

In 2018, the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) celebrated its 7th birthday. In 2011, the creation of the CXPA saw the competencies and capabilities practiced by those working in the field of customer experience as a profession for the first time. The fear I speak of is the fear of failure.

Customer Experience 246

Customer Experience Airlines Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 246

Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

Companies need to employ multiple sources of information to tell the story of customers lives. The maturity of the organizations ability to use this rich information and leadership greatly determine the outcome of this or any listening system truly driving culture change that leads to improved customer and employee experiences."

System 317

System Effort Score NPS Net Promoter Score 317

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.

Customer Experience Professionals 56

Customer Experience Professionals Customer Experience Hotels Net Promoter Score 56