Edge: Helping Youth Get that First Job

The Center for Services Leadership is helping develop a customer service curriculum aimed at youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are not in school and not working. This is the first time that the Center is involved in delivering customer service education to those who will man the front line. The music …

Strategic Service Institute: Form a Crack Team to Solve Your Service Performance Issues

“Attending the ASU Strategic Services Institute was an outstanding way for our team to spend some valuable time immersed among talented individuals and CSL experts. Chaos in today’s service industry driven by changing expectations was reinforced. The surprise for me came in the thoughtful and execution-oriented way to put the customer ‘lens’ front and center with …

Capitalize on Annual Planning to Manage Customers as Assets

By: Jeanne Bliss Over the last ten years I’ve become convinced that annual planning is the Achilles’ heel of customer experience. It is at the root of what inhibits the most efficient investment on priority investments in customer driven growth. That is because annual planning usually starts with the silos, not the customer asset, and not …

The Victuous Cycle

By Terry Cain EVERY EMPLOYEE, EVERY MINUTE, EVERY DAY…Making memorable moments for our customers…yeah, right!!! This idea of ‘culture eating strategy for breakfast’ applies to having a consistent customer experience via a consistency in the culture. Our cultures have cycles of virtue and cycles of vicious. Which cycle are you in? The Virtuous Cycle of …

Interview with Dr. Doug Olsen, Faculty Director of Services Leadership Institute

In preparation for the 29th annual Services Leadership Institute (SLI), March 30 – April 1st,  2015, we sat down with Doug Olsen, SLI Faculty Director and Associate Professor of Marketing at W.P. Carey School of Business, ASU, to talk about some of the highlights of this year’s program. 1. This year marks the 29thoffering of the Service Leadership Institute. I …

Meet the Center for Services Leadership Team!

As the 24th Annual Compete Through Service Symposium approaches, we thought we would take a few minutes to introduce you to the CSL team. Now that you know us, we’d love to talk to you more at the symposium! Name:  Mary Jo Bitner Where are you from? My home town is Seattle, Washington where I grew …

Center for Services Leadership Presents the 24th Annual Compete Through Service Symposium

Compete Through Service Symposium featured in AZ Business Magazine:  “Now in its 24th year, the Compete Through Service Symposium, hosted by the Center for Services Leadership at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University,  brings together the most innovative business minds and visionary thought leaders in engaging, enlightening environment to share ideas that …