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Top 5 Customer Service & CX Articles for Week of April 1, 2024

ShepHyken

And when you combine it with meeting the customer’s service needs and expectations, you go to another level. Of course, there’s more! Customer science: A new CIO imperative by Thorton May (CIO) For businesses to become truly customer-centric, CIOs must instill a more scientific approach to customer experience analysis.

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Top Five Obstacles to Customer Centricity #2 Stalled Customer Programmes

Peter Lavers

This series of blogs is based on the early results of research undertaken by Peter Lavers on customer centricity. Participants are asked to tell us what, if anything, they are pulling their hair out over when it comes to customer centricity. It affects the customer experience because (of course!)

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Making Optimal Customer Experience A Focus of Your Company’s (And Your) Thinking and Doing: The Case for Foundation and Advanced CEM Training

Beyond Philosophy

Many b2b and b2c companies offer antiseptic, commoditized, vanilla experiences for customers. Some, through culture, discipline, and purpose have succeeded in creating consistent, positive experiences which are appealing to customers and which customers consider worthy of passing along through informal conversation and recommendation.

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Guest Blog: How to Get Customer Obsession to Start at the Top

ShepHyken

It’s not that the established players didn’t already know about customers’ frustrations or desires – they just lacked the wherewithal to address them. Their indifference to – or, in some cases, outright disregard for – customers left openings for new, more customer-centric entrants to become the solutions – and the future.

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The 20 Stakeholder Experience Emotions: Which Are Most Positive and Value-Enhancing, and Which Are Most Negative and Value-Destroying?

Beyond Philosophy

Since 2005, over 50,000 respondents, in 49 countries and multiple b2b and b2c industries have participated in research incorporating the Hierarchy model emotions. In this post, we are addressing the perceived value influence of emotions and memory on b2b and b2c customers. Some additional stats: We have asked approximately 4.5

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Responding to customer feedback pays dividends. Use your colleagues!

customer sure

The key is to avoid keeping customer feedback centralised. Of course, someone needs to own the customer feedback programme, but organisations are most successful when they channel the feedback to colleagues who deal with customers, and empower them to respond (and give them the tool to do it easily). The good news is….

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Delivering Unique, Attractive (Even Branded) Customer Experience Lagniappe: Any Company Can Do This

Beyond Philosophy

If you don’t order dessert (we didn’t, because we were too full from the appetizer and main course), the waiter brings a red Peruvian jewelry box. Maybe Merriam-Webster thinks that lagniappe has caught on, but customers would be hard-pressed to find it consistently in experiences they receive from most b2b and b2c organizations.