ijgolding

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It is difficult to deny that these three terms are becoming increasingly visible in the language of business: Customer Service. Customer Experience. Customer Centricity. So here goes: Let’s start with Customer Service – the two words that have been embedded in the way organisations work for decades.

Customer Centricity 120

Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Service Customers 120

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.

Leadership 259

Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 259

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

An organization’s process tells me a great deal about how Customer-centric they are. Is the process designed for the good of the Customer or was it designed for the good of the company? In my experience, the latter is more likely than the former, leaving most organizations with a process lacking a customer focus.

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Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

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.

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Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Effort Score 52

ECXO

MARCH 21, 2023

Journey Map Your way to Customer Experience Maturity in Just 8 Steps + 12 with CX and EX Customer experience culture is a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors that a company adopts in order to create a customer-centric culture. Based on the company ‘’mindset’’ and approach.

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B2B Customer Experience Roadmap Culture 295

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.

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Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Management Customer Centricity 236

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. The reason you are delivering the Customer experience you do today is because of the way the organization is.

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Customer Centricity CEM Employee Experience Culture 114

ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In the past, I covered six steps to creating a customer-centric culture. Six steps to creating a customer-centric culture. Principle One: Everyone has to be in it to win it – As I mentioned above, customer service is a philosophy to be embraced by everyone. And, have your customers saying, “I’ll be back!” .

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Culture Customer Centricity Sports Customer Service Training 109

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

Do you simply rely on the generic “the customer is always right” speech, or do you have a customer-centric culture in place that’s overseen by a professional who understands how customers think and feel, and who knows how to get that point of view across to other employees too? How Did the CXO Position Come to Be?

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 142

ClearAction

MAY 27, 2013

Customer-Centricity Goes Beyond Customer Experience Management Lynn Hunsaker. Customer experience management is necessary, yet insufficient. Traditionally, organizations have managed customer experience with a mindset of how the company is doing, in order to grow revenue. What Exactly is Customer-Centricity?

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delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

Customer Experience Management can transform your organization into one that is customer focused, giving your team a mission and values to rally behind and a process for acting on them to benefit customers. More reading on the what, where, and why of Customer Experience Management: What is Customer Experience?

Customer Experience Management 52

Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management Customer Journeys 52

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Before you ask for any additional buy-in from your CEO, make sure you’re speaking the same language around what Customer Experience is and what Customer Experience Management requires. Related: [Article] Customer Experience Management Defined: How is it Different From CX?

Customer Experience 376

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Management Feedback 376

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

My fascination with the ‘customer interface’ was born! Was HP a customer focused organisation at that time? In the 90’s, I can definitely say that HP was a very customer centric organisation – that is despite it essentially being an engineering business.

Culture 264

Culture Measurement Customer Centricity Hotels 264

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 18, 2022

If a culture is touted as “customer first” or “customer-centric,” that mindset and strategy need to be pervasive in the way employees communicate and learn throughout their entire tenure, no matter their role. The Common Method of Customer Experience Training. Set customer-centric expectations from the first interview.

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How To Customer Journeys Culture Training 378

C3Centricity

APRIL 17, 2018

He spoke about the differences between customer focus and customer centricity and the often times confusion between the two terms. That is why I tend to speak about customer first rather than customer centricity these days. What a Customer First Strategy is not. ” I don’t agree!

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Strategy Customer Centricity Innovation Airlines 247

Alida

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Defining customer relationships is a necessary step in delivering what customers truly want—and driving business results. The Oxford dictionary offers two notable definitions of relationships : 1. We believe that the second definition is the most useful in the context of the brand-customer relationship. Not really.

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Customer relationships CRM Customer Centricity Loyalty Programs 180

ijgolding

APRIL 19, 2017

This month, in my exclusive column for CustomerThink, I continue to explore in detail my perspective on seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric. It is not complicated, yet so often, the customer element of strategy is missing.

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Strategy Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 191

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

What does it mean to be a customer-centric company? If you Google the words customer centric (or centricity ), you will find many definitions from different sources that are all very similar. I actually prefer using the term customer-focused over customer-centric.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Focused Customer Service Training 90

delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

Customer Experience Management can transform your organization into one that is customer focused, giving your team a mission and values to rally behind and a process for acting on them to benefit customers. More reading on the what, where, and why of Customer Experience Management: What is Customer Experience?

Customer Experience Management 44

Customer Experience Management Customer Experience Management Customer Journeys 44

ImprintCX Articles

MAY 31, 2024

It can be challenging to instill a hyper-customer-focused mindset in a team that has been historically focused on compliance and cost reduction. Crawl : The first order of business was to align leaders on the meaning of customer experience and fundamental CX principles and strategy. What to know more? Let’s talk!

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience e-support B2B Customer Centricity 52

Peter Lavers

JULY 6, 2016

This series of blogs is based on the early results of research undertaken by Peter Lavers on customer centricity. Participants are asked to tell us what, if anything, they are pulling their hair out over when it comes to customer centricity. It is not Marketing “fluff” and definitely not the IT system!

Customer Centricity 40

Customer Centricity B2C B2B System 40

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Future Of Business Is Customer-centric: 3 Pillars To Create A Customer-centric Strategy by Ilenia Vidi. Ceoworld Magazine) To become truly customer-centric companies should make these 3 pillars the key drivers to creating their customer-focused strategy. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

Customer Service 89

Customer Service Contact Center Customer Centricity B2B 89

Peter Lavers

AUGUST 5, 2016

This series of blogs is based on the early results of research undertaken by Peter Lavers on customer centricity. Participants are asked to tell us what, if anything, they are pulling their hair out over when it comes to customer centricity. Disconnected Strategy.

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Customer Centricity Tools CRM System 40

Blake Morgan

JULY 18, 2023

           From Chief Experience and Chief Customer Officers to Customer Experience leaders, more companies are creating customer leadership roles. These positions can greatly impact customer-centricity, but they bring a common question: where do you start?

Leadership 52

Leadership Chief Customer Officer How To Customer Centricity 52

CX Journey

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Have you thought about this question: "In your company, are customers persona non grata?" I like the definition from BusinessDictionary.com, which defines it as: A person who is rejected by those whose acceptance of him or her is required in a situation. Can you see how this relates to your customers? Simon Sinek.

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Customer Centricity Poor Customer Service Metrics Customer Focused 160

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

3 Ways Store Layout Decisions Impact on Customer Experience by Oisin Ryan. ServiceDock) The following covers three of the most common and obviously non-customer-centric strategies that retailers use. Each of them maximizes short term profitability but at the potential expense of long term customer loyalty. by Matt Seeley.

Customer Service 90

Customer Service Customer Centricity Retail B2C 90

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. So any change in CX must include and address the Customer centricity of the organization. Why or why not?

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Customer Centricity CEM 154

ShepHyken

JUNE 20, 2016

World’s 3 MOST Customer Centric Companies: How do they do it!! Customer Guru) Here are our top three picks for the most customer centric companies and some lessons on how they manage to be customer-centric despite their size and diversity. by Kushal Dev. The concept of desire is loyalty on steroids.

Customer Service 78

Customer Service Loyalty Programs Customer Centricity Chatbots 78

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 11, 2014

When we perform our Naive to Natural assessment to determine our client’s Customer centricity, we find that Culture and Leadership has a massive influence on the outcome of the experience. Companies that lack a Customer-focus don’t have mechanisms in place for the team, including senior management, to spend time with Customers.

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Culture Customer Experience Customer Centricity Airlines 134

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Being Customer-Centric requires rewarding those that contribute to Customer-Centricity. Too many organizations are still not rewarding Customer Experience improvement because they don’t measure it. Focusing on rewarding these, however, is not conducive to Customer Centricity.

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Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

Vonage

MARCH 26, 2018

The estimated price tag of losing customers due to poor service has reached $1.6 according to Accenture’s Digital Disconnect in Customer Engagement report. Businesses can use this data to hone in on more customer-centric metrics, such as “did you really solve the customer's problem” and “how did the experience make them feel?”

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Omni-Channel Trends Customer Service Contact Center 228

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

The brands who create a habit of putting the customer first, defining success for both the organization and the customer, and developing best practices and business discipline around execution are the ones who can truly be customer-centric. Customer Experience Strategy Depends on the Right Mindset, Vision and Plan.

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Strategy Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 225

ijgolding

AUGUST 12, 2018

Over time, several words have been used to describe the organisational focus on customers. They include: Customer Experience. Customer Focus. Customer Centricity. Customer Service. Customer Success. Customer Outcomes. Customer Relationship Management. Customer Management.

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Customer Journeys Customers Airlines Social Media 185

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

You must absolutely believe that enabling an organisation to be more customer centric is the ‘right thing to do’ – right for the customer; right for the employee; and right for the shareholder. Not only that, the Customer Experience is not the responsibility of a CXP – it is the responsibility of the WHOLE ORGANISATION.

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Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

Customer Guru

MARCH 15, 2018

At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Thus, we are on a mission to spread this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

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Culture Customer Experience Customer Service Customer Centricity 85

ShepHyken

OCTOBER 2, 2017

How to Become a More Customer Centric Business in 5 Steps b y Mark Sallows. FitSmallBusiness) Customer centric businesses invest the whole team focus on supporting their prospective and existing customers. This doesn’t just mean sales and customer service, but accounting, marketing and other departments as well.

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Customer Journeys Customer Service Chatbots Customer Centricity 83

ShepHyken

MARCH 1, 2021

Here’s his take on CX programs, and specifically, building and sustaining a customer-centric culture that contributes to repeat business (even loyalty) and evangelism. Foundational Steps for Customer Journey Mapping Initiatives by Dom Nicastro. CMSWire) Organizations approach customer journey mapping in many ways.

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Customer Journeys Customer Service e-support Self Service 80