Experience Matters

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 Employee Engagement, the company is Turbulent. Lacking Read More.

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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

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.”

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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

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

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

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

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 3, 2015

I often say that the customer experience your organization delivers is a reflection of your culture and operating processes. In other words, what customers experience outside is based on what’s going on inside. To consistently differentiate your customer experience, you need to transform your culture.

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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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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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Net Promoter Score Customer Journeys Omni-Channel Customer Experience 150

Experience Matters

JANUARY 6, 2015

With this post, I’m declaring 2015 “ The Year of the Employee.”. We’ve recently seen a surge in the number of companies looking to build more customer-centric cultures and train their people on CX. Voice of the employee efforts are becoming an integral component of modern voice of the customer programs.

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Experience Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2018

To help me identify trends for 2019, I reached out to some of the many thought leaders across Qualtrics and asked them to share one or two of the top experience management (XM) trends they are expecting to see in the coming year. The post 2019 XM Trends From Qualtrics Thought Leaders appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®.

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Experience Matters

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

You might have heard Qualtrics discussing X-data (experience data) and O-data (operational data), and wondered, should we care? Let’s start with a basic premise that no individual experience exists in a vacuum. People form their opinions about any experience based on a collection of different factors.

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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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Clicktools

MAY 18, 2017

If you haven’t read the report (or at least the executive summary), I strongly recommend that you do, but even if not, you’ll still see some value in understanding how technology plays a critical role in running a customer-centric company. Compelling Brand Values : Deliver on your brand promises to customers.

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It’s CX Day in New Zealand, so that’s reason enough to kick off Temkin Group’s CX Day celebration. I can’t think of a better way to start CX Day in The Year of Emotion, then to share my Q&A with Barry Schwartz.

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Clicktools

MAY 19, 2017

There’s renewed talk around the very old subject (relatively speaking in Tech years) of CRM being the key solution to support a unified customer experience. These days, delivering a superior customer experience means knowing your customers better than ever before.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 8, 2018

This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. The post Report: Lessons in CX Excellence, 2018 appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®. The report, which has more than 70 pages of content, includes an appendix with the finalists’ nomination forms.

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Eptica

APRIL 25, 2018

They know that they must keep innovating and improving if they are to differentiate their customer experience and therefore thrive. Compelling Brand Values: Deliver on your brand promises to customers. Employee Engagement: Align employees with the goals of the organization.

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 9, 2017

This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2016 CX Excellence Awards. The report, which has 62 pages of content, includes an appendix with the finalists’ nomination forms. Here’s the […].

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 9, 2017

This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2016 CX Excellence Awards. The report, which has 62 pages of content, includes an appendix with the finalists’ nomination forms. Here’s the […].

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Experience Matters

JANUARY 19, 2016

This report has rich insights about both B2B and B2C customer experience. The report provides insights from eight finalists in the Temkin Group’s 2015 CX Excellence Awards. The report, which is 100 pages long, includes an appendix with the finalists’ nomination forms. Here’s the executive […].

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Over the previous decade, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and study thousands of companies. One of the things that I’ve noticed is that the world has changed a lot, but organizational management has stayed substantially the same.

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Qualtrics

JANUARY 22, 2021

As part of our Breakthrough Builders series, we chatted with ‘The Godfather of Experience Management’ Bruce Temkin, Head of Qualtrics XM Institute. These experiences were critical in developing my understanding of how businesses operate and also in honing my ability to deliver compelling presentations,” he emphasized. “I

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Experience Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2015

You have two choices for driving employee behaviors: 1) Prescribe all of their actions and put in place mechanisms to monitor and control them, or 2) Create a culture that encourages them to act consistently with your organization’s objectives. To what degree do all of your employees think, believe, and act in the same way.

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