Comm100

MARCH 8, 2017

Roy Atkinson is a senior writer and analyst who specializes in guiding organizations to better customer service and customer service management. His Twitter explores the connection between customer service and technology, and is jam-packed with useful customer service resources. Jeanne Bliss. JeanneBliss.

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ijgolding

APRIL 4, 2017

It is also a reality that is becoming ever more significant in the fast moving, agile technology age that we human beings are now immersed in. We must never forget, that even though technology is moving at a remarkably rapid rate – it is the humble human being making it possible.

Technology 336

Technology Leadership Innovation Customer Experience Professionals 336

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

As companies embrace the digitization of customer support, the new standard is much more than a phone conversation with a call center representative or a visit from a field agent. This list is an homage to the business leaders and influencers pushing the envelope when it comes to innovation in customer experience.

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Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

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

CX University

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

CX University, a leading provider of Customer Experience (CX) education, and JourneyTrack , the all-in-one comprehensive CX/EX journey management platform, have established a collaborative partnership to enhance the Applied Customer Journey Mapping professional development course.

Customer Journeys 72

Customer Journeys Software Innovation Course 72

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 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

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. Of course, CX is radically different from a ‘User Experience’ perspective. It is my vocation.

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Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Customers Customer Centricity 158

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

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

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

ijgolding

MAY 25, 2015

I am privileged because a multitude of organisations welcome me in to their inner sanctum to help them in their quest to become more customer centric. As people we never stop learning and being able to see, feel and touch Customer Experience in its many stages of evolution is an amazing honour.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Customers 120

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

This article was originally written for my exclusive column on mycustomer.com – a hugely valuable and rich resource of information, expertise and inspiration for CX Professionals. I want to start my inaugural exclusive column for MyCustomer by stating how very proud I am to call myself a customer experience professional!

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Customer Experience Professionals Travel Study 120

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. Whatever you do, do it well.

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Social Media Customer Centricity Feedback 195

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

APRIL 14, 2020

Customer feedback and emotional data. Customer behavior and actions. With the technology and tools today, we can gather a lot of this virtually. Look at your existing Voice of the Customer (VoC) and behavioral analytics data if you have it. Technology makes virtual journey mapping easy to do successfully.

Customer Journeys 374

Customer Journeys How To Course Touchpoint 374

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

More brands will (and should) bring up customer feedback to the decision-makers in the company, and with the help of some new amazing technologies , we’re changing the way businesses see their customers. Much of the improvement has been driven by advancements in product innovation and digital technology.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 150

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: Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today that everyone is continually learning. 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

Oracle

JANUARY 17, 2020

Customer experience is a rapidly evolving craft, and enterprises are scrambling to adapt and become more customer-centric. See below for a snapshot of what was uncovered and what 2020 and beyond may bring – or at least how prepared CX professionals feel about the future.

Customer Experience Professionals 54

Customer Experience Professionals Customer Experience Customer Centricity Survey 54

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Removing pain points FIRST, is far more valuable than trying to delight customers. This shift has led to the advent of the Customer Service Officer, a role that didn’t even exist just a short time ago. One of my favorite learnings from my recent CX studies is this: customer experience ties directly into employee experience and culture.

Customer Experience 177

Customer Experience Contact Center Culture Study 177

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. His new book Hooked on Customers (April 2014) reveals the five habits of leading customer-centric firms. Annette Franz.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Michel Falcon Experience

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

As a customer experience executive coach and keynote speaker, I’ve helped many companies increase their customer centricity. A common theme I find in organizations is the absence of a team who leads the design and management of the customer experience in collaboration with other department leaders.

Customer Experience 120

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 120

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2016

If we think of all organisations as a combination of ‘layers’, whilst the top layer is the customer journey, the middle layer is made up of business processes. It is a business’s processes that enable the customer journey to happen. The post Customer Experience Measurement – Why it is Vitally Important BUT Badly Done!

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Measurement Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customers 148

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

James Dodkins – Customer Experience Influencer, Keynote Speaker, Author, CX Trainer. International Keynote Speaker, Trainer, and Content Creator, James Dodkins is named as the UK’s #1 CX Influencer by Customer Experience Magazine. LinkedIn : [link]. Currently working at Qualtrics as a Sr. LinkedIn : [link].

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. If you are trying to become a customer-centric leader at a bank, that can be very different than an independent bookstore.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

At Customer Guru, we firmly believe that the only way more Indian businesses can become sustainable and globally competitive is by focusing on Customer Experience (CX). Thus, we are dedicated to spreading this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

Customer Centricity 94

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 94

Michelli Experience

AUGUST 22, 2017

United, however, has become emblematic of an industry viewed as operationally challenged, uncaring, and not customer-centric. My perspective likely varies greatly from someone who travels only during peak holiday periods or who watches the same customer-experience disaster video repeatedly. Data Plus People.

Airlines 113

Airlines Data Travel Consulting 113

Oracle

MARCH 7, 2019

I often remind people the acronym “CX” was little-known until Bruce Temkin and Jeanne Bliss co-founded the Customer Experience Professionals Association in 2011. “Customer experience” across the organization wasn’t a clear business initiative or concern. CX: The Past. CX: The Present.

e-support 103

e-support Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Customer Experience Professionals 103

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

Prior to joining Temkin Group, she implemented the CX strategy and managed the Voice of the Customer program for Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the US. His new book Hooked on Customers (April 2014) reveals the five habits of leading customer-centric firms. Annette Franz.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

Experience Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2015

We agree and believe that customer experience is a reflection an organization’s culture and operating processes. As companies get comfortable using text analytics and collecting customer insights from unstructured data, they often focus on their largest interaction dataset: contact center calls.

Trends 120

Trends Customer Experience Customer Journeys Customer Connectedness 120

Kayako

APRIL 15, 2019

We had the pleasure of hosting customer service and experience expert, Shep Hyken earlier this month for a half hour Q&A session on why customer experience matters so much and what businesses must do to create the best experiences for their customers. Self Service – Put control in the customer’s hands.

Customer Experience 169

Customer Experience Self Service Hospitality Customer Journeys 169

ShepHyken

JUNE 21, 2019

Now think of how the Ubers and AirBnBs of the world allow customers to engage with their brand. Chat reflects the customer-centric desires of on-demand consumers: I want the contact on my schedule. Chatbot and live chat technologies are not new, but their utility as effective parts of on-demand consumers accessing your brand is.

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Chatbots Customer Experience Hotels Consumers 123

CX Journey

MARCH 16, 2017

As a follow-on to my post earlier this week about companies having no budget for customer experience improvements, I thought I'd compile a few ideas on how to move beyond the "no budget" excuse and make improvements that cost little to nothing. Not a good feeling when you're a customer experience professional.

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Exercises Culture Employee Experience Customer Experience Professionals 112

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

The CXPA Board of Directors member has expertise in ’embedding customer experience DNA in company culture’ – she has successfully led company-wide customer experience at Applied Materials. Maurice is the ex-Vice President, Customer Experience of HP and author of four best-selling books on customer-centric strategy.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This week we feature an article by Brian Cantor who gives us a list of ways to achieve success and consistency when communicating with customers on any channel. – Shep Hyken. Making for a jointly admirable and problematic reality, the customer contact community often takes a lofty, wide-eyed approach to strategy and technology.

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Omni-Channel Self Service Abandon Rate Policies 101

Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

At Customer Guru, we firmly believe that the only way more Indian businesses can become sustainable and globally competitive is by focusing on Customer Experience (CX). Thus, we are dedicated towards spreading this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

Customer Centricity 79

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Professionals Employee Engagement Training 79

Alida

AUGUST 8, 2016

The following is an excerpt from Winning the Research Revolution , an e-book exploring how technological changes pose both a threat and an opportunity for the world of research. Get your copy of the e-book and catch Ray Poynter’s presentations at the 2016 Customer Intelligence Summit to learn more.

Marketing 100

Marketing Customer Centricity Innovation Social Media 100

ShepHyken

APRIL 8, 2019

To Provide the Best Customer Experience, Be Proactive by Frank Konkel. NextGov) “Be where your customers are” and other helpful tips from customer experience professionals. My Comment: Is it possible to learn a customer service lesson from government? The short answer is yes.

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Customer Service Hotels Hospitality Government 107