Experience Matters

DECEMBER 22, 2014

I recently had the opportunity to hear Derrick Hall, CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks , speak at the Arizona State University, Center for Services Leadership (CSL) Compete Through Service Symposium. Hall was extremely passionate about customer experience. The Diamondbacks use several mechanisms to engage employees.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Customer-centric cultures are built from the top and the bottom within an organization. Encouraging employees to do the wrong thing for short-term gains or report half-truths to avoid the wrath of a boss will inevitably lead to bad behavior toward customers. Worry about your guys. Worry about your guys.”

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Does the tone and messaging match your customer experience mission? Do they to reflect a customer-centric culture? Consider your hiring methods and make sure they align with your customer experience mission. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

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InMoment XI

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Customer experience (CX) is emerging as a significant competitive advantage for businesses. Customer-centric companies realize an 80% increase in revenue and report 60% higher profit than those that don’t focus on customer experience. Organizations can progress from this stage by first achieving leadership buy-in.

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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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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. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2016

If you’ve followed our research, then you know that organizations build and sustain customer-centric cultures by mastering the Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness.

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Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group report, Creating and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture. Here’s the executive summary: Temkin Group defines culture as how employees think, believe, and act, and if an organization wants to differentiate its customer experience, it must address each one of these areas.

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Maz Iqbal

DECEMBER 10, 2014

In the early 2000s Tesco was much lauded my many: the customer-centricity gurus, the 1:1 marketing gurus, the data mining and predictive analytics players, and customer loyalty program vendors. ” What Can We Learn About The Challenge Of Building A Customer-Centric Organisation? Why does this matter?

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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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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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SuiteCX

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

One of the most compelling reasons to conduct a journey mapping exercise is to get various employee representatives around the room, engaging with one another and finding ways to make positive organizational change. Customer Journey Mapping: Three Ways Journey Mapping Can Drive Employee Engagement.

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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.

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Integrity Solutions

APRIL 16, 2021

Building a customer-centric culture is more challenging than you might initially think. But every organization has the ability to build a strong customer-centric culture- and it doesn’t have to be complex. A strong, vibrant customer-centric culture is an organic and natural strength that cannot be compromised.

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eglobalis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Challenge: If employees don’t see the value of their contributions, their engagement drops, and innovation suffers, leading to diminished customer experiences. Transparent Leadership to Build Trust Transparent leadership is essential for building trust during transformation efforts.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Loyalty does not mean forever for customers. If leadership isn’t willing to continuously examine and innovate around the customer experience, the business is already doomed. Customer experience is seen as a project, not a way of business. 5 Areas of Customer Insights You’re Missing.

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Experience Matters

JULY 25, 2018

The post Collage of 2018 Customer Experience Infographics (So Far) appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®.

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Horizon CX

MARCH 25, 2019

This involves being open to criticism from employees and peers. In customer-centric organizations, issues are resolved with the customers’ best interests in mind. Great customer experience is an organization-level pursuit. Leaders who reach out to their employees improve employee engagement.

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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. We will create happier employees who care deeply about those we serve. ” This idea of customer-centric culture is more than an idea. Once upon a time, there was a leader.

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Lumoa

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The focus on enhancing customer experience has gained traction in recent years. As businesses recognize its value, the shift from a product-centered approach to a customer-centric one continues. Customer-Centricity Customer centricity refers to customer-oriented culture in the company.

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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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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Leaders often have the customers in mind when they have these ideas. They want to do the right thing, but they get caught up in the idea of the moment instead of investing in truly customer-centric ideas for their long-term strategy. Blog Customer Experience Featured Opinion customer engagement leadership linkedin marketing'

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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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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

GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

Stage 4 —O perationalize: You begin to re-design your company’s operational processes based on customer insight and other customer experience metrics. At this stage, the cross-functional CX coalition team is also working on engaging the entire workforce in the strategy.

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Customer Guru

JULY 20, 2018

If they don’t, then customers – potential and existing – will not think twice before moving on to the competition. Hence, it is imperative that organizations become customer-centric and more importantly, hire leaders with a clear customer-centric vision. How to become a customer-centric leader?

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Maz Iqbal

OCTOBER 1, 2014

On Tops And Their Struggle With Customer Experience and Employee Engagement. Have you noticed that the folks who occupy the seats of power (‘Tops’) in organisational life struggle with ‘Customer Experience’ and ‘Employee Engagement’? By that I am not pointing at the talk.

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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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Maz Iqbal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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CloudCherry

MARCH 14, 2019

The CX Champion Contest was all about nominating the best CX superheroes who go above and beyond their limits to surprise the customer and make them feel happy about the brand or business. As the leader of a newly created Customer Experience role, Kristin Guthrie clearly demonstrates the characteristics of a visionary leader.

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Hospitality Insurance B2C Groups 236

SurveyGizmo

MARCH 15, 2021

For the first part of last year we all tried to adjust as best we could, suddenly being thrust into remote workplaces, non-stop Zoom meetings, managing our kids’ at-home learning while working, keeping our families safe, and trying to keep employees engaged while trying to stay engaged ourselves.

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Customer Bliss

AUGUST 10, 2018

Content is constantly refreshed with multiple sources of customer listening, trending of information, videos, and examples of experiences. The customer room unites leaders to understand customers' lives, their journey with your company, and emerging issues that require focus.

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Maz Iqbal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Let’s assume that for the purposes of this conversation that when I use the term customer-centricity I am pointing towards a specific behaviours which show an organisation as being attuned and responsive to the needs of their customers – their core customer base. Hurst, The New Ecology of Leadership.

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Customer Centricity Case Study Leadership Employee Engagement 79

CX Journey

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Leadership : It starts at the top. If you''ve got the wrong leadership in place, it''ll be really tough to steer the ship in the right direction. Employee Engagement : I list this separately from "leadership" and from "people" because employee engagement is a two-way street that requires both to work together for the greater good.

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Culture Leadership Employee Engagement Customer Centricity 173

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

AUGUST 17, 2021

Cross-functional leadership is a key factor in leading any customer experience program. But whatever you call yourselves, running effective meetings that keep the team engaged, excited, and working together is key to your success. That’s why I like to ask one team member to start with a customer story. What went down?

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Maz Iqbal

DECEMBER 6, 2014

On the other hand, if you find yourself in that ‘place’ and looking for an access to being effective in the exercise of change leadership then I invite you to listen – really listen and grapple with these words of wisdom: Position is everything. John Daido Loori, The Great Way, Best Buddhist Writing 2008.

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Exercises Leadership Employee Engagement CRM 72

CloudCherry

MARCH 14, 2019

The CX Champion Contest was all about nominating the best CX superheroes who go above and beyond their limits to surprise the customer and make them feel happy about the brand or business. As the leader of a newly created Customer Experience role, Kristin Guthrie clearly demonstrates the characteristics of a visionary leader.

Hospitality 210

Hospitality Insurance B2C Groups 210