Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In the past decade, we’ve seen the number of companies with an individual in the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO) – nicely defined by Wikipedia as “the executive responsible for the total relationship with an organization’s customers” – grow from under 100 to thousands today. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many brands are prioritizing the customer experience, our newly-released study identifies a disconnect between goals and execution. Recently, we surveyed more than 800 marketing and customer experience leaders from the US and the UK in partnership with global research consultancy, Morar.

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Year-end has always been a time for personal reflection for me and as 2018 ends in just a few hours, I am inspired to share the following thoughts around Customer Experience both in reflection of the year just about to end and the one just about to begin. With that in mind, I offer the following observations and insights.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Keeping this in mind, we reached out to customer service experts online and asked for their opinion on how businesses can improve customer service this holiday season. Lavy Mammen Customer Experience Consultant, GEA Group Americas, Inc. Respond or risk a poor customer experience. Tweet this.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many brands are prioritizing the customer experience, our newly-released study identifies a disconnect between goals and execution. Recently, we surveyed more than 800 marketing and customer experience leaders from the US and the UK in partnership with global research consultancy, Morar.

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Calabrio

JUNE 1, 2017

While many brands are prioritizing the customer experience, our newly-released study identifies a disconnect between goals and execution. Recently, we surveyed more than 800 marketing and customer experience leaders from the US and the UK in partnership with global research consultancy, Morar.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Customer Success teams can easily level up their performance and optimize their output by using third-party integrations to bring their company-wide customer data into a central hub. How To Nail Implementation and Customer Success Handoffs. Top 4 Metrics Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) Must Know.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Create a positive customer-centric culture amidst the support team. Create better customer loyalty programs. Improve your existing customer success strategies. Identify loop-holes that may hamper customer experience. Increase customer satisfaction score. Customer Service Books on Leadership.

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Netomi

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. At Netomi, we deeply care about improving the customer experience. Can I Work a Customer Service Job from Home? Adrian Swinscoe.

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CX Journey

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What This Means for VoC / CX In-house customer experience teams face a similar dilemma when deciding whether or not to hire a vendor or consultant and to what degree. Survey methodologists, statisticians, sample designers, marketing communications experts or project managers? Does your team have an evangelist?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 7, 2022

We asked Anita to share her opinion on customer churn and retention. A: Surprisingly, most people think that I’m a consultant. We’re actually a full-service agency that helps with the voice of the customer and customer feedback as a way to reduce churn. The following is what she has to say. I’m not.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 19, 2020

In any case, I clicked on the icon to begin a survey process online, where I saw this: The “overall rating” question gives me more options than the email would have suggested. To complete the survey, I was then asked to: Comment on things I liked or didn’t like. This was optional but might discourage some from completing the survey. .

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Whether that’s AI-enabled analysis of customer data to help teams be proactive, in-house virtual assistants that are a resource to support teams as they work with customers or other operational applications, AI will play a larger role in this capacity next year.” – Julia Ahlfeldt, Customer Experience Advisor, Julia Ahlfeldt CX Consulting.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Our recent Customer Success Leadership Study showed that 61% of respondents reported a Vice President and above as being the highest leader in their Customer Success organization in 2021 – an increase of 7% from the previous year. This is in part due to a rise in the standing of the Chief Customer Officer role.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 8, 2021

With their visibility elevated, Customer Success leaders stepped up to carry the weight of their fellow revenue-driven teams and prove their value within the broader organization. With Customer Success demand at an all-time high, we expect to see more of its leaders join the executive ranks in the coming months and years.

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Beyond Philosophy

MAY 12, 2021

Could we face a big gap between what customers expect and what organizations are prepared to deliver when we emerge from this past year? . We invited Nancy Porte, Vice president of Global Customer Experience Verint and vice-chair of the Customer Experience Professional Association (CXPA) board, to discuss this research on a recent podcast.

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Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

Sonia Bhatia Salmin, Ex-Head of Customer Experience at Piramal Pharma Solutions, shares her thoughts on the importance of CX, and how she led Piramal Pharma Solutions into becoming one of the most customer-centric pharmaceutical companies in India. That was my introduction into the customer experience industry.

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Vistio

JANUARY 13, 2022

” The word I was looking for at that time was customer experience. Let’s look at the larger customer journey and reduce the friction upstream and set better expectations to equip customer service for success. That is what led me into customer service and then ultimately customer experience.

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Vistio

JANUARY 13, 2022

” The word I was looking for at that time was customer experience. Let’s look at the larger customer journey and reduce the friction upstream and set better expectations to equip customer service for success. That is what led me into customer service and then ultimately customer experience.

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Netomi

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Women of Influence: 25 Innovative Customer Experience Leaders. As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many industries worldwide, customer experience proved to be more important than ever. Alexandra has more than 20 years of professional experience in Customer Care, Contact Centers and Customer Experience.

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Answer Dash

JANUARY 9, 2019

(This article is first published at Forbes ) Before we get into my fifth annual piece on customer experience predictions, let me introduce myself to new readers. I started writing about customer experience for Forbes in 2014, simply because I thought it was interesting–I was fascinated by human behavior and by the idea of a brand.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2021

While the former claims the inner strengths of a business will lead to success, the latter is guided by the belief that optimizing the customer experience throughout the customer journey is most important. So, what can organizations do to embrace the outside-in approach and start making the customer a priority?

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Pointillist

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve got clients where the Chief Customer Officer reports directly to the CEO and where CX teams report to Marketing. I’ve also seen it start from HR because more and more companies are realizing that employee experience drives customer experience. Is it within Marketing, Operations or some other function?

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Lumoa

APRIL 24, 2018

The Net Promoter System® (or NPS) has been a popular customer experience metric since its creation in 2003. Before we dive deeper, here’s a detailed guide to how to improve your customer experience with NPS (and here is a quick summary of what NPS is and isn’t ). All the leaders were asked the same two questions : 1.

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Pointillist

MAY 19, 2020

By Stephanie Ventura Customer experience is more important than ever in 2020. But what makes some organizations more effective than others at managing customer journeys, measuring outcomes and improving experiences? “ Hank Brigman Customer Experience Strategist Author of TOUCHPOiNT POWER!

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Horizon CX

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The idea of a single-question survey was in stark contrast to lengthy surveys with multiple questions that took long enough to answer that customers either abandoned the survey mid-stream or bypassed the survey entirely, yielding increasingly lower response rates—a trend that started to decline back then and has been declining ever since.

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CSM Practice

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Video Title: How to Prove Value to Customers. Host: Irit Eizips , Chief Customer Officer & CEO | CSM Practice. Guest: Chris Singh , SVP Customer Success Management, Customer Engagement & Experience at SAP. Today I have Chris Singh, Global head of customer success management at SAP.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Sixty-one percent have plans to incorporate (or continue incorporating) AI into their customer experience. It’s not just companies – studies show that the majority of customers already accept or even prefer Chatbots. A positive customer experience makes way for more loyal customers, and more dollars spent.

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Netomi

APRIL 7, 2023

The top CX practitioners making the most impact on employee and customer experience Customer service is more important today than ever before. The customer service teams that are driving revenue, wow-ing customers and building long-term relationships often have a strong leader at the helm. Andrew Stein, Chewy, Sr.

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