Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

I was impressed by what the CSL is doing to equip future customer service/experience leaders. One of the speakers was Mike Gathright, Director Americas Customer Services at Amazon.com. He describe Amazon.com as “The Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company,” or just EMC 3. Listen to customers.

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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

MAY 24, 2018

As an organization’s customer experience efforts mature, CX metrics become a critical guidepost for all of its activities. The post Mastering Customer Experience Metrics (Infographic) appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®. You can see different ways to download this infographic below.

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The bottom line: Add the Five A’s of an Emotional Response to your vocabularyFiled under: Customer Connectedness, Customer experience, Emotion, Temkin Group Video. To help celebrate “The Year of Emotion” on CX Day (and beyond), Temkin Group created this fun, short video: Start Talking About Emotion.

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Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

McDonald’s recently announced the appointment of its first VP Customer Officer , Fred Ehle. In Temkin Group report, ROI of Customer Experience, 2014 , we found that a modest improvement in customer experience can generate an average of $437.5 Customer experience Fred Ehle McDonalds'

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As part of yesterday’s Customer Experience Day celebration , I attended a CXPA local networking event at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston. The session kicked off with a panel from the DFCI discussing patient experience. It’s a powerful concept for anyone who cares about customer experience.

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Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

We published a Temkin Group report, Evaluating Mobile eGift Card Purchasing Experiences. The report uses Temkin Group’s SLICE-B experience review methodology to assess the mobile sites of 10 retailers. She does not have an app for any of the companies being evaluated and does not know whether they sell $25 eGift Cards.

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Experience Matters

AUGUST 28, 2014

Analysts who work with customer data are often frustrated by the slow uptake in its usage. Look for what resonates with him/her and customize the data in those areas. The bottom line : Help your business partners develop a customer-centric mindset. Customer Connectedness Customer experience'

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Benchmarks Customer Connectedness Customer experience CX measurement Net Promoter Temkin Group Research Voice of the customer analytics text analytics' Net Promoter Score, Net Promoter, and NPS are registered trademarks of Bain & Company, Satmetrix Systems, and Fred Reichheld.

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Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place.

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Experience Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

This report offers insights into their efforts, describing how Safelite drives value with a small team, how Firstsource ventures beyond service quality and training, how American Express built a custom solution in-house, how ADP scaled with a distributed model, and how Verizon scaled with a centralized model.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

We just published a Temkin Group report, State of Voice of the Customer Programs, 2014. Here’s the executive summary: For the fourth straight year, Temkin Group has benchmarked the maturity of voice of the customer (VoC) programs within large organizations. The bottom line: VoC programs have a lot of maturing to do.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We published a Temkin Group report, Business-to-Business (B2B) Customer Experience Best Practices. This report provides data on the state of customer experience (CX) in B2B as well as 20 CX best practices across five critical B2B processes. Download report for $195.

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Experience Matters

JULY 28, 2017

As most readers of this blog will likely know, customer-centric organizations must master Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness. Without Customer Connectedness, the company is Disappointing. Lacking Read More.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

As I mentioned in my post about Amazon’s relentless customer advocacy , I recently attended the Arizona State University, Center for Services Leadership (CSL) Compete Through Service Symposium. Here’s my take on some of what he presented: Focus on the Customer. Think about adopting customer journey thinking.

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Experience Matters

JUNE 11, 2018

It defines how organizations flow through six stages of customer experience maturity: Ignore, Explore, Mobilize, Operationalize, Align, and Embed by mastering Four CX Core Competencies: Purposeful Leadership, Compelling Brand Values, Employee Engagement, and Customer Connectedness.

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Experience Matters

APRIL 25, 2017

If you are only going to read only one thing about customer experience, then this report is it. It’s the blueprint for building a customer-centric organization… and it’s free. This blueprint to building a customer-centric organization is an update to our groundbreaking research that was […].

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2015

I’ve decided to take on a personal challenge: Tweeting a new customer experience tip for 100 straight days. The tips will cover the four customer experience core competencies : Purposeful Leadership (PL) , Compelling Brand Values (CBV) , Employee Engagement (EE) and Customer Connectedness (CC).

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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

MARCH 17, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group data snapshot, Customer Experience Expectations and Plans for 2015. This year’s results show that companies are planning on dedicating more money and effort to improving a variety of customer experience activities in 2015. Download report for $195. Download report for $195.

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Experience Matters

JUNE 4, 2015

Comcast recently announced that it will add more than 5,500 customer service jobs as part of a “customer experience transformation” effort. That’s not the answer to its customer experience woes. Comcast provides terrible customer experience. So, whats the answer?

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

We’re often asked to help people who have recently taken on new responsibilities in customer experience (which is commonly abbreviated as CX). This graphic from the report “ The ROI of Customer Experience, 2014 ” shows the connection between CX and loyalty. How Do You Build A Customer-Centric Culture?

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Experience Matters

AUGUST 9, 2017

I hate to break this news to you, but your customers most often interact with your organization because they have to, not because they want to. That’s why it’s critical for organizations to understand and to design experiences for their customers’ journeys. As you can see in the Read More.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2015

We agree and believe that customer experience is a reflection an organization’s culture and operating processes. Customer Journey Designing. Customer journey mapping has become one of the most popular CX tools as it helps provide a customer-oriented viewpoint. See the 2015 Temkin Effort Ratings.

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Experience Matters

APRIL 1, 2016

You can download (and print) this infographic in different forms: Infographic: infographic in pdf, infographic in png Poster (18″ x 24″): poster in pdf, poster in png Filed under: Customer Connectedness, Customer experience, CX measurement, Infographic.

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Lumoa

MARCH 20, 2018

Customer experience has been on the rise during the last couple of years. From the traditional product-oriented businesses we’re moving towards customer understanding and customer-centric approaches. Whether you’re new to customer experience or coming for little inspiration, this is the right place.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Many common beliefs about customer experience are misguided, based on oversimplifications or a lack of consideration for real-world constraints. All interactions should aim to meet your target customers’ success, effort, and emotional expectations, but in many cases they aren’t looking to be wowed.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are a central part of most customer experience efforts. Here’s some interesting data snippets from the recent report, State of VoC Programs, 2016. For additional info, check out our VoC resource page.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs are a central part of most customer experience efforts. Here’s some interesting data snippets from the recent report, State of VoC Programs, 2016.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 20, 2015

This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. Here’s the executive summary: This year, we chose eight organizations as finalists for Temkin Group’s 2014 Customer Experience Excellence Award. Finalists are Activision Customer Care, Aetna, Crowe Horwath LLP, Dell Inc.,

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Experience Matters

APRIL 16, 2015

Customer Connectedness Customer experience Temkin Group Research Trends Voice of the customer' Here’s a portion of the first figure from the data snapshot that contains 12 data-rich charts: Download report for $195. The bottom line: Mobile use continues to rise.

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Experience Matters

MARCH 3, 2015

We published the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings , the most comprehensive benchmark of customer experience. Here’s the executive summary: 2015 marks the fifth year of the Temkin Experience Ratings, and this year, supermarkets dominated the ratings. To generate the Temkin Experience Ratings, we asked 10,000 U.S.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Did you know that customers who feel adoring after an experience are more than 11 times as likely to buy more from a company than customers who feel angry? And customers who feel appreciative are more than 5 times as likely to trust a company than those who feel agitated? That’s because how customers feel […].

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As part of our CX Day celebration, we’re giving away this free eBook: 25 Tips For Tapping Into Customer Emotions. Consequently, a customer’s emotional response to an experience with a company has a significant impact on their loyalty to […].

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AUGUST 3, 2015

We just published a Temkin Group report, Behavioral Guide to Customer Experience Design. Here’s the executive summary: According to recent scientific research, customers make most of their decisions using intuitive thinking instead of rational thinking. The bottom line: Embrace your customers’ natural behaviors.

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Experience Matters

MAY 12, 2015

Here’s the executive summary: For the sixth straight year, Temkin Group surveyed nearly 200 large companies to evaluate the state of their Customer Experience (CX) management. Companies have also achieved the best scores we’ve seen for two of our four core competencies, Employee Engagement and Customer Connectedness.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you’ve followed our research, then you know that we’ve always viewed employee engagement as a fundamental component of customer experience. One of our Six Laws of Customer Experience is that “Unengaged employees don’t create engaged customers.” ” It just makes sense.

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