ijgolding

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The question was a precursor to defining why Customer Experience needs good, strong leadership. This month, I want to ask three connected but altogether different questions: What do you do if the organisation you work for or with does NOT have strong customer focused leadership?

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Customer Centricity Leadership Customer Focused Customer Experience Professionals 148

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Customer Experience Leaders Have a Global Customer Focus. Even after over a decade of helping small and large businesses alike, I still meet leaders who believe that Customer Experience is just about so much call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. Share the best stuff! Get to the root cause.

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Customer Focused Customer Centricity Call Center Customers 208

ECXO

JULY 23, 2024

The Heartbeat of a Customer-Centric Organization – Part 1 I’ve split this article on leadership into two parts because, you know, attention spans these days are pretty short! It is clear that the customer is king, right? Companies are realizing the importance of leadership styles that focus on the customer.

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Customer Centricity Leadership Exceptional Customer Service Culture 156

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 5, 2021

They create such a focus on the customer that everything and everyone throughout the organization is on board. . Sometimes the customer-focused “way” is seen as a brand within a brand. The Disney Way” or “Zappos Culture” is shorthand for that relentless view to prioritize customers, their wellbeing, and their goals.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Government 190

ECXO

JUNE 23, 2024

This involves analyzing customer feedback, support interactions, and overall customer satisfaction metrics to pinpoint areas for enhancement. Next, it’s essential to establish a customer-centric culture within your organization. These metrics can guide decision-making and help you track progress over time.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Customer Satisfaction 358

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

ECXO

MAY 11, 2023

Everything they do is built around their customers. In other words, they are truly customer-centric. Businesses with a customer focus are relentless in finding new ways to create value. ’ And being able to organise around your customers pays. Is your business truly customer-centric?

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 156

ECXO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Join us at the European Customer Experience Organization event featuring a captivating presentation by Ilenia Vidili on “From Products to People: Pioneering a customer-centric Culture for business success!” Embrace change to foster a culture of innovation, adaptability, and customer-focused solutions.

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Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Innovation 156

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In the first 30 days of his role, his responsibility was to build a path to develop internal customer-centric behavior. . Get to the people down in the trenches, the service reps and managers – hear from them, what do they know and see when they interact with customers every day?

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Culture Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Company 197

ECXO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Whether it’s harnessing the power of data analytics for deeper insights or implementing cutting-edge technologies to elevate interactions, your role is to redefine what exceptional customer service means. Empowerment lies at the core of your leadership. Employees are the frontline ambassadors of customer experience.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Exercises Customer Centricity 373

ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2017

Over the last few months, I have been exploring in detail my perspective on seven ‘tips’ that will enable any organisation to become genuinely customer centric. If you have an aspiration to lead or be part of a sustainably customer centric organisation, then you must master the art of COMMUNICATION! “If

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Customer Centricity Communication Culture Customers 171

Customer Bliss

AUGUST 1, 2019

Jon wanted to figure out how to bring the perspective of customers back into the business to influence the way they build products, deliver services, and develop company strategies. It was important that he used customer insights to create meaningful work. . Be customer-focused (centricity).

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Customer Centricity Social Media Leadership Customer relationships 165

ijgolding

JUNE 14, 2016

I often say that if I were to be given £5, or $5 for every time a member of the C-Suite stated that ‘customer centricity’ was ‘very important’ to their business, I would be a VERY rich man – but is it actually true! Organisations having a dedicated resource to champion their Customer Experience cause 10%.

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eglobalis

OCTOBER 1, 2024

For example, imagine your marketing department running a campaign without proper alignment with sales, causing confusion in customer messaging and missed opportunities. In the era of digital transformation and customer-centric strategies, organizations must shift toward a more collaborative and integrated structure.

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Customer Journeys Culture Leadership Innovation 347

eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Create Clear Roadmaps: Developing roadmaps that connect individual roles with company and customer outcomes increases engagement. Challenge: Without this alignment, employees may disengage, seeing transformation as irrelevant to their work, which can lead to a lack of innovation and customer-focused efforts.

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Customer Experience Leadership Innovation Roadmap 233

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

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 12, 2018

That leader had an epiphany about customer-centric culture. If we focus on customers, we will be a better organization. And a few months later, people are rolling their eyes when a colleague says “remember how we’re supposed to be focused on the customer?” Once upon a time, there was a leader.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Culture Training 137

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 29, 2014

What Does it Take to Be a Customer Focused Organization? As we scale our businesses, our focus on customers can become seriously threatened. How do smart companies maintain a customer-centric culture as they grow? Customer Experience is…What, Exactly?

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Touchpoint Social Media 300

ijgolding

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

What all seasoned customer experience professionals know, is that you can have all the tools and methodologies in the world, but if the culture of an organisation does not support your ability to transform the way that organisation behaves, then customer centric transformation may remain a pipe dream.

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Customer Centricity Culture Tips Strategy 120

ECXO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Embrace change to foster a culture of innovation, adaptability, and customer-focused solutions. Discover the shift from a product-centric approach to a customer-centric mindset – a transformation that requires attention, resilience, and revolutionizing how we understand and serve customers.

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Customer Experience Data Customer Centricity Culture 227

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Short termism is mostly the result of a product-centric and “numbers focused” culture, which inevitably results in a “race to the bottom”. Customer centricity is the answer, backed with a credible customer profitability lens that gives an alternative view to traditional product sales/market share KPIs.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 304

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. However… this is where the link to the last ‘customer’ term comes in. It is not an easy thing to do.

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Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Service Customers 120

CX Accelerator

JANUARY 11, 2021

The all-too-sudden and tragic passing of former Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh has sent a ripple through the business world, and the customer experience (CX) community is no exception. In the past, I’ve often chuckled upon reading about Zappos in a book or hearing the name mentioned in a keynote address as a model for customer-centricity.

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Return on Investment Customer Centricity Culture Ecommerce 266

Customer Bliss

JULY 19, 2018

In today’s lively chat with Sue, we talk about her customer service experience and leadership that paved the way for her success in transforming the CX culture at Newegg, a multi-billion dollar company that has been customer-focused since its inception. Customer Experience Leadership Means Being a Team Player.

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Customer Focused Multi-Channel How To e-support 129

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

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. What a Customer First Strategy is.

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Strategy Customer Centricity Innovation Airlines 248

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

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

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Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

Blake Morgan

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The key to thriving in this environment lies in a few strategic moves: strong leadership, preventing agent burnout, and leveraging AI effectively. Michele Crocker, a seasoned expert in digital customer experience and contact center consulting, knows this all too well. One of the most critical elements Michele highlights is leadership.

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Contact Center Leadership Customer Focused Management 59

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 30, 2016

Co-creation sessions, customer journey workshops and customer-focused innovation summits can sound so sexy and intriguing. We envision a group working cohesively, rolling up their collective sleeves to create an improved customer-centric culture and earn long-term loyalty from customers.

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Customer Focused Innovation Customer Journeys Customer Centricity 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 28, 2020

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to begin at the beginning, build your case, and create a coalition of customer-focused leaders. First, understand the true costs of NOT investing in customer experience. How can you partner with your marketing team on a customer-centric initiative?

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

ijgolding

JULY 19, 2016

What Carolyn McCall demonstrated to me is that she is a customer focused leader with a huge amount of courage. It amazes me how many leaders have never met a customer – or will do whatever it takes to avoid doing so. Being a customer centric leader requires a lot more than just TALKING about it.

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Customer Focused Examples Customer Centricity Airlines 120

Blake Morgan

MAY 17, 2023

Delivering an amazing customer experience starts at the top with customer-focused leadership. Companies winning in customer experience are led by people obsessed with the customer experience and putting customers first in everything they do. There is incredible power in customer-focused leadership.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

By focusing on efficient service interactions, nurturing a customer-centric culture, and leveraging technology, we’ll outline how enterprises not only create a seamless and delightful customer experience but also drive business growth. Train employees to anticipate and meet customer needs proactively.

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Customer Experience Customer Centricity Net Promoter Score Culture 124

C3Centricity

AUGUST 6, 2024

In 2023 I wrote a popular post covering the ten most common challenges businesses face when starting their journey to customer centricity. It is called “Top 10 Challenges Facing Companies When They Adopt a Customer-First Strategy.” times higher customer retention and 1.9 times higher customer retention and 1.9

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Strategy Customer Centricity Culture Case Study 156

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JUNE 24, 2015

Jeanne Bliss was one of the original Chief Customer Officers, and has held titles like that for companies including Land’s End and Allstate. For more than twenty years, she has helped organizational leadership recognize the importance of customer-focused initiatives in ways that directly impact the business results.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Handbook Social Media 110

Customer Bliss

MARCH 16, 2016

I talked a bit about this in my book Chief Customer Officer 2.0 , but when discussing the idea of accountable leadership in terms of developing a customer-first, customer-obsessed culture, it all comes down to three major themes (which can further be broken down into a series of actions). Proving it with actions.

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