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4 out of 5 organizations have not increased their customer satisfaction since 2010!

Beyond Philosophy

I’ve followed the American Customer Satisfaction Institute (ACSI) results since I started Beyond Philosophy in 2002. When you consider all the resources organizations and individuals have put into customer experience and the voice of the customer, I wonder… was it worth it? Guess what?

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3 Ways Customers’ Minds Plays Tricks on Them

Beyond Philosophy

In “ Thinking Fast and Slow ,” Professor Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient in 2002, explores why our mind plays tricks on us. Second, be careful about introducing an anchor when you want to know another person’s opinion. What he discovered is that our “intuition” is not what we thought it was.

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Revealed: 7 Essential Elements For Your Omnichannel Strategy

Beyond Philosophy

Employees are now referred to as Partners since the founder, John Spedan Lewis signed away his personal ownership rights to the employees some years ago. John Lewis is making headlines in the Customer Experience industry again for its investment in its omnichannel experience and for good reason—four million good reasons.

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The Definitive Guide: IVA vs IVR and What’s Right for Your Contact Center

SmartAction

When it comes to customer service, businesses have a variety of tools at their disposal to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible. Each option has a role in customer service depending on what parts of the customer experience businesses want to automate and which parts they want live agents to handle.

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Customer Satisfaction is Declining in the UK. Is the US Next?

Beyond Philosophy

Unfortunately, the recent UK Customer Satisfaction survey echoes those findings, indicating that it has fallen over the past couple of years, from 78.2 Joanne Causon, CEO of the Institute of Customer Service , joined me on our podcast about this downward trend in Customer Satisfaction.

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7 Ways to Deliver Awesome Customer Service

C3Centricity

How can some companies get customer service so wrong?! It describes one recent personal example of disinterested client support, from which I have drawn seven learnings for everyone wanting to deliver awesome customer service. CEX #CRM #Customers Click To Tweet.

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CX Is Hitting A Brick Wall

Beyond Philosophy

For example, only the other day I was talking to somebody who had Customer Experience in their job title. During the conversation, this person revealed the fact that he used to be in Customer Service. Too many people think that Customer Service is the same thing as Customer Experience. Me: (Sigh).