Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Customer Experience as an industry is at a crossroads. In our recent podcast, we had a guest Bob Thompson, CEO of Customer Think Corp., an independent research and publishing firm focused on customer-centric business management and the founder and editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com. Along with being a popular international speaker, blogger, and author of Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies , Thompson and I go way back.

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Taylor Reach Group

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Today, CX and Contact Center consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. The consultancy will conduct an essential health check of the firm’s customer experiences and Contact Center operations. “We We use a hands-on, holistic approach to assess the interaction experience and review all elements of the contact center. Established in 2003, the consultancy aligns proprietary approaches specific to clients’ organizational goals and objectives.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Beyond Philosophy won an award named one of the Best Management Consultancy Firms in the UK, by the Financial Times (FT). This bonus episode podcast explores how you can take your idea and turn it into an Financial Times Award-Winning consultancy, too. When I started my Global Customer Experience consultancy, no one knew me or even what Customer Experience was. Know what drives value for your customers.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2019

Uncertainty influences a lot of our customer behavior. We discussed some of the psychological theories behind our need to placate uncertainty as customers in a recent podcast. One of the most worthwhile for us to talk about is Prospect Theory and its implications for customer behavior. Probability Estimation and our feelings of uncertainty are linked and drive our behavior as customers more than we probably think. So, what does that mean for your Customer Experience?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 10, 2019

Understanding Customers’ Mental Budgets. The answer is found in the concept of mental accounting, and it might have significant implications for your Customer Experience. We discussed how our mental accounting affects our behavior as customers in our recent podcast. How your customer mentally budgets for your experience has a significant influence on how happy they are with it. So, what does all this have to do with your Customer Experience?

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 2, 2019

I recently read two pieces of research about Customer Experience that worried me. The first was from Nunwood , a UK-based research company with a Customer Experience index, and it showed that improvements in Customer Experience were not happening. The second was from Forrester , and it said the same thing: no increases in Customer Experience improvements. However, if that happens, I worry Customer Experience as a movement will die.

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Beyond Philosophy

JANUARY 16, 2019

We always connect the academic findings to Customer Experience on the podcast (and in our most recent book.) However, we think that isn’t the case for what we need for Customer Experience. Once you translate these ideas from academia to your Customer Experience, your program will hold up to customer scrutiny, too. . on The Intuitive Customer Podcast. New Research Reveals Lack of Customer Understanding.

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Tethr

AUGUST 13, 2020

At Tethr, we talk to CX and customer service leaders every day who are working to close the gap between their desired customer experience and the actual experience they deliver to their customers. Power to guide their customer-facing strategies.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

However, the experiences are entirely different and have different Customer Experiences. Moreover, I have different expectations from these experiences. We discussed the digital transformation and its effect on Customer Experience in our recent podcast. The retail landscape is changing and with it comes new challenges for the emotional experience. However, they also want to have a similar experience online. Customers have many choices.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 15, 2017

Consumers Channel of Choice – A Multi-generational Benchmark Study of Consumer Channel Preferences (whitepaper). DMG Consulting LLC has conducted a worldwide consumer benchmark study to identify consumer channel preferences for interacting with businesses. Thank you for your interest in DMG Consulting’s publications. 3/14/2017. By Donna Fluss.

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 12, 2018

This is the familiar exercise of external benchmarking, or comparing key metrics of your business against others in your space. Business leaders use this all the time as a way to set standards for performance evaluation on metrics such as Net Promoter Score (NPS) or overall satisfaction; and many look to external benchmarking results as key indicators for how to improve customer experience. Why internal benchmarking? Customer Experience Measurement CX Secrets

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 14, 2019

I have been talking about frictionless experiences and how vital it is to have a smooth Customer Experience. However, some of my reading lately has exposed some nuances about the friction in an experience that we haven’t addressed. Many organizations are talking about how to make their Customer Experience easy, which is the right thing to do. You want your experience to be friction-less or easy. I might have misled you in recent weeks.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Beyond Philosophy won an award named one of the Best Management Consultancy Firms in the UK, by the Financial Times (FT). This bonus episode podcast explores how you can take your idea and turn it into an Financial Times Award-Winning consultancy, too. When I started my Global Customer Experience consultancy, no one knew me or even what Customer Experience was. Know what drives value for your customers.

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Taylor Reach Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Customer Experience and Contact Center Consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, has recently completed its in-depth analysis of two contact centers for a national patient support firm. Taylor Reach’s consultants, each with over 20 years of Contact Center expertise, completed on-site analysis, auditing and stakeholder interviews at each of the client’s call centers.

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Experience Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The post Report: Tech Vendors: Product and Relationship Satisfaction, 2018 appeared first on Customer Experience Matters®. B2B CX Benchmarks Bruce Temkin Research Tech Vendors Temkin Group Research ADP Citrix Computer Sciences Corporation CSC Deloitte EDS EMC Fujitsu Hitachi IBM SPSS McAfee NetApp Novell Pitney Bowes Red Hat SAS Institute Siemens Sun Microsystems Sybase Tata Consulting Services Trend Micro VMware

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 16, 2017

B2B Customer Experience: Do This, Not That Lynn Hunsaker. Is business-to-business customer experience management (B2B CXM) a watered-down or a souped-up version of consumer experience management? Or when your company provides specialized industrial goods, ingredients or components for customers’ products, enterprise software versus desktop software, or business services? They’re important questions because customer scenarios differ in each case.

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Altivon

JULY 27, 2020

Idaho Power took top honors in the 16th Annual Energy Utility Benchmark Report on Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, released July 1, 2020 by IVR Doctors. IVR Doctors considers these the major drivers of customer satisfaction and system utilization.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

Customer service leaders come in all shapes and sizes. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Customer Service Leaders: Adam Toporek.

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Amity

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Customer benchmarking — the practice of identifying where a customer can improve or is already doing well by comparing to other customers – helps Customer Success Managers to deliver unique value to their customers. The comparative insights from benchmarking motivate customers to make changes that produce better outcomes with their solutions. SaaS customer success leaders publicly encourage greater adoption of this practice.

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Taylor Reach Group

MAY 3, 2018

Taylor Reach’s expert consultants will conduct on-site analysis coupled with implementation of a Call Center audit tool which will benchmark the center across 8 categories, 29 sub-categories, 700+ data points and against 2500+ other Contact Centers in order to establish a best-in-class comparison. “We The Strategic Assessment engagement will focus on reducing the Contact Center costs while at the same time increasing Customer Experience.

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Connecting the Dots

APRIL 16, 2021

Quality and customer service have become closely allied under the umbrella of Customer Experience and Customer Experience Strategy. Insights’ divisions have added customer research to market research activities. Customer Experience 3.0 CCMC ~.

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Natalie Petouhof

JANUARY 12, 2022

You have two assets without which you cannot have a business – customers and employees,” said Natalie Petouhoff. Yet they’re not on the balance sheet and we don’t design experiences to maximize their potential.”. Customers, Petouhoff observes, “are voting with their mouse.”.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

How focussed are you on improving customer experience (CX). What is customer experience? CX is the sum of all the moments your customers share during their entire customer journey. Customer Perception. Customer Loyalty. Customer Journey Mapping.

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Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 7, 2018

Customer Experience and Contact Center Consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. Taylor Reach’s consultants, each with 20+ years of Contact Center expertise, will perform on-site analysis, auditing and stakeholder interviews at each of the home builder’s Call Centers. The audit will benchmark the centers across 8 categories, 29 sub-categories, 700+ data points, against 2500+ other Contact Centers and allow charting of improvement initiatives to prove the results.

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Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 4, 2018

Leveraging a proprietary approach, combined with best practice benchmarking, the Audit process creates a road-map to a future state by assessing all aspects of current Contact Center operations. Today, CX and Contact Center consultancy, The Taylor Reach Group, Inc. The consultancy will conduct an essential health check of the market research firm’s network of Contact Centers. “We Call Center Assessment Call Center Audit Call Center Consulting Press Release

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ClearAction

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Customer Experience Articles. Customer experience articles. Tools, techniques, and case studies catalyze your customer experience management success. Peruse ClearAction articles, podcasts and webcasts, and ask how these best practices can be customized to your specific needs. 81% of companies with strong capabilities and competencies for delivering customer experience excellence are outperforming their competition.(1).

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We might already be a month into 2022, but there’s still time to consider what we should be focusing on over the next year with regards to improving the customer experience. A customer-centric approach to collaboration. Inge De Bleecker is CX/UX Consultant to Applause.

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Taylor Reach Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Enter Customer Effort Score (CES) and its applicability in a well-crafted Customer Journey. CES measures the effort the customer must expend to rectify the issue they have experienced. A good CES experience means the customer does not have to expend too much effort. Customers bring the failure to the attention of 1 st tier agents in the contact center. The auto industry receives a low CES score and has a customer friendly delivery mechanism.

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Taylor Reach Group

APRIL 9, 2019

” They are thinking and assuming that this consultant has finally lost touch with reality. But given the vast scope of potential customer interaction activities in the call center, what other options are there for staying on top of the thousands of moving pieces that are occurring in real time every minute of every day? Customer Interaction Clover. By Colin Taylor.

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Call Experts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Often, companies use analytics and dashboards to optimize programs, create custom reports, understand team workflows, analyze different trends, and keep the team focussed and happy. With all of these items to monitor, it’s easy to forget to prioritize your customer’s journey. .

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JivoChat

AUGUST 18, 2021

Businesses that seek to improve customer experience (CX) are poised for success. This kind of customer-centric mentality can drive new business, boost customer retention rates, and create new benchmarks for goals. What Is Customer Experience?

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Lumoa

JANUARY 9, 2018

Customer experience has been already a hot topic in business during 2017 and is promising to be even of higher importance in 2018. “CX It’s predicted, that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator when making consumer choices. That’s what we asked each of them: How do you see the future of customer experience?? Customers want you to know them. Customers want unique, special and innovative.

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Call Experts

JUNE 5, 2019

There is a connection between employee experiences and customer experiences. Upset or frustrated employees are likely to affect your business and lead to unsatisfied customers. Confident, happy, and proud employees are going to serve customers with pleasurable experiences ensuring that they return soon and make future purchases. Employee experiences are connected to customer experiences. Tips for getting new customers.

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Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Customer experience has been a buzzword for several years and is only heating up. Many companies experience numerous challenges in the ares of customer experience transformation. We talked with the leading customer experience experts to find out what CX professionals should pay attention in the coming years. “CX Let’s find out what the field professionals actually experience. Customers want you to know them.

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8x8

JANUARY 3, 2018

Business Metrics Transparency for Better Customer Experience. This is the second in a three-part series on developing an effective customer experience strategy. Once an organization has improved the contact center knowledge and capabilities of its agents to improve customer experience, the next step is to work on Transparency of Business and Technical Metrics. Communicate back office data to front office customer-facing personnel?

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8x8

JANUARY 3, 2018

Business Metrics Transparency for Better Customer Experience. This is the second in a three-part series on developing an effective customer experience strategy. Once an organization has improved the contact center knowledge and capabilities of its agents to improve customer experience, the next step is to work on Transparency of Business and Technical Metrics. Communicate back office data to front office customer-facing personnel?

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8x8

JANUARY 3, 2018

Business Metrics Transparency for Better Customer Experience. This is the second in a three-part series on developing an effective customer experience strategy. Once an organization has improved the contact center knowledge and capabilities of its agents to improve customer experience, the next step is to work on Transparency of Business and Technical Metrics. Communicate back office data to front office customer-facing personnel?

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PeopleMetrics

MARCH 22, 2016

Michelli’s recent book, Driven to Delight , is centered on the customer-centric transformation and ongoing customer experience strategy at Mercedes-Benz USA. George Jacob: Joseph, what compelled you to write about the customer experience transformation at Mercedes-Benz USA? Joseph Michelli: I facilitated a benchmarking session with the CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA. Customer experience excellence is a two-fold endeavor. Joseph A.

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Satrix Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2019

With that said, experiential learning and in-person connections are still as important as ever, especially for customer experience professionals. As a consultancy dedicated to the Customer Experience (CX), we’re highlighting 5 US-based conferences customer experience professionals should consider for 2019: Totango Customer Success Summit 2019. Qualtrics Experience MGMT Summit. Adobe Experience Summit. Customer Experience

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Call Experts

JULY 17, 2019

Customer churn and retention are two of the most important considerations for your customer experience strategy. Successful companies understand the impact of engagement with their base and the influence of a well-mapped customer journey on their bottom line. Customer experience must always be a focus for your company. Every business needs a loyal customer base for uninterrupted growth. Customer experience matters.

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