5 Ways Company Culture Can Improve Your Customer Experience

It was Mark Twain who said “if you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” However most companies don’t onboard, educate and train employees thoroughly so when they tell “the truth” it can come out as verbal garbage (as displayed by… Source: www.forbes.com

A Step-by-Step Plan to Improve CMO-COO Collaboration

You can’t serve customers if this relationship is dysfunctional. Source: hbr.org 1. Develop a shared vocabulary and shared metrics. 2. Build a structure for collaboration. 3. Work together on a few customer journeys that matter. 4. See the customer journey all the way through. 5. Use Service Blueprinting!

What is your Customer Experience Strategy? Are you a Vanguard, Transformer or Preserver?

Interview with Phil Klaus, the author of a new book “Measuring Customer Experience: How to Develop and Execute the Most profitable Customer Experience Strategies”. This interview concludes a series of CSL posts about Customer Experience Strategy by Phil Klaus: Demystifying The Black Box – How To Design, Manage, And Measure The Most Profitable Customer Experience (CX) Strategies …

See the Experience You Are Giving Customers

By Nancy Stephens What does it feel like to do business with you? Customer experience is the new field of competition. In most service industries, all competitors are technically on par. All banks, airlines, universities and other service companies perform the necessary core functions. The quality of the experience they offer is what often drives buyer …

Arizona Diamondbacks CEO Creates Fan-Centric Culture

If you attended Compete through Service symposium then you had an opportunity to hear excellent presentations by Bruce Temkin and Derrick Hall about Customer Experience. In this post, Bruce Temkin talks about his interview with Arizona Diamondbacks CEO Derrick Hall and highlights some of the main ideas Derrick Hall shared with the symposium attendees.

Bruce Temkin on Service Innovation, New Trends and Challenges Faced by Service Companies.

By Darima Fotheringham Bruce Temkin, CCXP, is a Co-Founder & Chair of the Customer Experience Professionals Association and the Managing Partner of Temkin Group. He is widely viewed as a leading expert in how large organizations build differentiation with customer experience. As the Managing Partner, he consults for leading global companies, is a keynote speaker at top …

What do you think, boss? How to gain board support for your Customer Experience (CX) program (and other marketing-led strategies)

By Phil Klaus According to our most recent research, CX Management, for better or worse, is firmly allocated in the firm’s marketing function. This association, however, triggers multiple challenges for CX managers, or, to be more precise, CMOs worldwide. The most prevalent challenge is the CEOs’ and boardroom members’ unfavorable perception of both marketing-led strategies …