Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Customer experience is about so much more than call-center scripts or proper protocol around customer complaints. The best companies, the ones we know as customer experience leaders, adopt a customer focused view to everything. Silos make understanding the customer journey that much harder.

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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! It’s simply not.

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Customer Focused Customer Centricity Call Center Customers 208

Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 4, 2014

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. Creating a Customer-Focused Process. The typical journey map is usually insufficient.

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Customer Focused Customer Journeys Customer Centricity Employee Engagement 153

ECXO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As the architect of experiences that go beyond the transactional, you have the ability to decode customer needs and desires, turning them into actionable insights that propel your organization forward. Innovation is your constant companion in this exhilarating journey. Empowerment lies at the core of your leadership.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Exercises Customer Centricity 373

SuiteCX

JANUARY 19, 2015

10 Key Insights from 15 Years of Customer Journey Mapping Case Studies January, 2015. It was hard to boil these down to just 10, but we think these are the most important insights to emerge from over 100 client engagements.

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Customer Journeys CRM Leadership Customer Centricity 100

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.

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Leadership Customer Experience Customer Centricity How To 259

ECXO

JUNE 23, 2024

This understanding will allow your team to create individualized success plans for your customers. Customer Journey Mapping: This is a process of visualizing the entire customer experience, from first contact through the entire relationship. You need to anticipate their needs before they even realize them.

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Customer Centricity Culture Customer Journeys Customer Satisfaction 358

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

DECEMBER 17, 2019

#7: 4 Ways the Experts Master Journey Mapping. If you’ve embarked on a journey mapping initiative , are you sitting motionless in the water, hoping the wind will take you where you want to go… or are you “tacking” by assessing where you are, where the wind is blowing, and asking what’s next?

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Customer Journeys B2C B2B Touchpoint 178

Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Use the Customer Journey Map As a Tool to Measure Success. During this implementation, Sami had to emphasize that the customer’s interaction with the company is a journey, and therefore identify potential pain points along the way. The customer journey map was used as a culture and leadership uniting tool.

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Culture Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Company 197

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. Related: How to Improve Customer Service Training with Simple Metrics. Then do it all over again.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score ROI Metrics 250

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 28, 2020

The higher up in the organization, the further away from dealing with customers directly. It’s easy to believe your brand is thinking of customers when in reality the leadership simply isn’t ever asked to do so. This led leaders to have quarterly, short-term visions instead of long-term, customer-focused strategies.

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Strategy Customer Journeys Customer Experience Net Promoter Score 225

Customer Bliss

MARCH 10, 2016

Optimizing customer feedback is one of the most straightforward ways to gain momentum for customer focus. You only need to engage active leadership listening and direct the organization to hear your customers’ stories. Leadership Listening Recipes. You don’t need to spend millions on a “satisfaction” survey.

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Customer Bliss

JUNE 6, 2018

As “customer experience” has become a hot topic and nearly every industry has embraced it as a priority for their business, it is important that it also become united across your organization. The role of the Chief Customer Officer is to unite leaders and the organization in building a one-company version of their customer journey.

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Strategy Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer Leadership 193

ECXO

JANUARY 21, 2025

Make Customer Experience a Strategic Priority Lesson: Never treat customer experience as an afterthought. Apexs downfall started when they dismissed customer complaints and feedback. To avoid this, build a customer-focused strategy that permeates every department, from product design to post-sales support.

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Customer Experience Social Media Net Promoter Score Innovation 156

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 Net Promoter Score 295

Seaton CX

MAY 16, 2024

Customer journey mapping is the foundation of customer experience management. A customer journey map informs your customer experience (CX) strategy, identifies where to listen for customer feedback, and connects your CX vision to the design, delivery, measurement, and management of the customer experience.

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Customer Journeys ROI B2B Financial 52

CX University

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This inclusive leadership approach helps cultivate trust and nurture a culture of openness within the company. These companies recognize that building a culture of openness requires ongoing effort, leadership commitment, and supportive structures. These are new thresholds that must come from mindful leadership.

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Customer Journeys Culture Innovation Leadership 52

ijgolding

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It is extremely common to find businesses with lots of customer insight activity, with an NPS or CSat programme or both in action. Customer journey maps of all shapes and sizes are adorning many a conference room wall. Enough customer personas have been created by businesses to launch a new country!

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Customer Centricity Customer Experience Customer Journeys Chief Customer Officer 263

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

Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

More and more marketers and customer experience professionals are now looking for the best customer journey analytics platform to understand and engage with individual customers at a personal level, at scale. But, once you begin to look into customer journey analytics at a deeper level things become much less clear.

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Customer Journeys Analytics How To Touchpoint 90

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

OCTOBER 2, 2018

But what’s even trickier is when you may not have customer experience or customer insights in your title. Maybe you’re a survey pro or a journey mapping guide, but only when your regular duties allow. Being a customer-focused leader is a tall order. with or without the fancy title and proper job duties.

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Customer Experience Customer Journeys Culture Leadership 225

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

CX Journey

JANUARY 3, 2018

They lead to reduced efficiencies, waste resources, kill productivity, reduce morale (with a them-and-us mentality), and are detrimental to your ability to create a customer-focused culture. This means they cause pain for your customers, too. They create nightmares for the customer experience. It's a leadership issue.

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Customer Journeys Culture Government Leadership 149

ECXO

AUGUST 2, 2023

To know more about Shep you can visit his webpage: [link] What You Will Learn: In this fireside chat, we’ll ask Shep about the following topics: How to generate Convenience that will ensure customer return and how to develop Loyalty in such a challenging period after the Pandemic.

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Customer Journeys Leadership Customer Relationship Management Consulting 156

ECXO

MAY 11, 2023

You’ll also probably know that the most successful companies go beyond offering quality products and services, and competitive prices, to design experiences that differentiate their brand and create emotional connections with customers. Everything they do is built around their customers. Implement the change organisation-wide.

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Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 156

Quadient

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Living journey maps bring your customers' happiness to life. A properly executed living customer journey map is a valuable and versatile tool. When you observe a customer journey in its entirety, you see not only the spots at which you have delighted them but the points at which you have let them down.

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Customer Journeys Fashion Touchpoint eBook 59

Customer Bliss

JULY 21, 2016

United leadership is important. I’ve been doing this type of work since 1983 (wow), and united leadership — which I regularly call one-company leadership in my books, speeches, and my five competencies — is as important as anything else. (If United Leadership: Necessary to move from talk to action.

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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Customer Journeys Metrics 100

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

Customer Bliss

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Assisting organizations and professionals not only to learn but execute business strategies that will refocus company efforts to Customer Success. By creating a unified focus on the most important asset of the organization – The Customer. Together we can make every day better for our customers and I am happy to help.

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ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

However, for a business to most effectively leverage the competencies of CXPs, it is vital that they are supported by a critical and powerful ingredient – transformational leadership. An organisations approach to Customer Experience will live or die on the strength of transformational leadership. So… are you ready?!!!

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Customer Experience Professionals Leadership Customer Experience Effort Score 120

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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Leadership Chief Customer Officer Culture Metrics 100

Clarivate

APRIL 9, 2019

They knew they needed a way to identify what mattered most to their customers and a way to drive their own focus and actions to improve those customer interactions, so Starkey focused on mapping their customer journey. There is a strong correlation between customer experience and financial outcomes.

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Customer Journeys Technology Leadership Touchpoint 45

Horizon CX

MARCH 19, 2022

So, let me share some insights into some recent customer service journey experiences I’ve had with organizations where AI and the cultural/people integration are being (or not) applied. This is where the fun begins or, to put it more crisply, where the customer journey can take a critical and not so smooth turn.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Average Handle Time Survey 130

CX Journey

AUGUST 26, 2014

I think this is a critical component for change management for the customer experience. Getting leadership buy-in and helping them understand that the sooner the focus is placed on the customer experience, the sooner the business will benefit is an everyday challenge for customer experience professionals.

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Customer Experience Management Government Customer Journeys 185

Customer Bliss

APRIL 23, 2019

Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of calls from recruiters for very, very high-level CX leadership roles. Look for language around leadership engagement, culture, and that your role is defined beyond tactics. Look at leadership decisions that have been made. Get to Know the Leadership Team. Get Into the Underbelly.

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Chief Customer Officer Customer Journeys How To Leadership 135

CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As you gather this information, bake in metrics so you can demonstrate to leadership the return on investment (ROI) of an enhanced customer experience. What if standards for every role could be defined by customer expectations rather than industry norms? NPS, CSAT, CES, etc.)? Who can help you make this successful?

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Strategy Customer Experience Contact Center Return on Investment 261

Customer Bliss

JULY 26, 2016

In this episode I speak with Renee Cacchillo, who is the Senior Vice President of Customer, Brand and Technology at the Safelite Group. Renee’s path to customer experience leadership is one I like to highlight because she earned her role through the years by proving her ability to lead and run a successful operation.

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Customer Journeys Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Leadership 100