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There is a major skill most organizations lack: Customer centricity. But if you want to remain competitive in today’s economic climate, putting the focus on Customers is imperative to your bottom line. I concerned myself with internal costs at the expense of Customer Experience. MORE
Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. What Your People Need to be More Customer Focused. MORE
Customer Centric Culture Lynn Hunsaker. What Does it Mean to be Customer-centric? To have the customer’s best interests as the focus of your attention — not to be pre-occupied in your own interests at the customer’s expense. To do this, you need to: (1) Really know the customer in order to anticipate their best interests. (2) Customer-Centric Primary Motives: Making it easier and nicer for the customer to get and use solutions. MORE
Listen to any company in almost every industry, and you’ll undoubtedly hear phrases like customer-centric and customer-focused touted as top priorities. When leaders of a company fail to explain or provide specific examples of what it really means to be customer-centric, employees often see these words as little more than corporate platitudes. Companies feel obligated to go on record as being customer-centric. Becoming Customer-Centric. MORE
All is well and good except when it comes to product-centric organizations believing and acting as if whatever they manufacture and sell or offer as a service is perfectly aligned with client needs and wants. Think of service as an intangible product that, through an exchange, delivers a tangible benefit to the customer. I was selling complex and highly customized laboratory robotic and automation systems into the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. MORE
At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Caroline has over 16 years of experience in the Customer Service and Experience field. MORE
Customer Centric Mission & Values Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centricity is about priorities. Customers’ orders must be serviced promptly and accurately. Customer-focused priorities organically produce desired results for employees, communities and stockholders. MORE
As a corporate culture consultant and as a speaker, I hear clients frequently voicing this concern. A strong, consciously developed pro-customer (and pro-employee) company culture is a business advantage that will serve you for years—and inoculate your brand against competitive inroads. How to make a customer-centered culture happen. Your core values should cover how customers, employees, and vendors should be treated at all times. MORE
Most companies today know that putting the customer at the heart of everything they do is vital. The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it? MORE
Customer Centric Internal Branding Lynn Hunsaker. Customer centric internal branding revolves around customer well-being. By the way, what’s promised to customers should, in fact, be what your internal behaviors actually produce.). MORE
One interesting bit of his speech touched on an important issue for Customer Centricity: data breaches. He said the federal standard he would impose to notify Customers their information had been compromised should be 30 days. Customers are nervous about their data security. MORE
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world. MORE
Customer-Centric Hiring Builds Trust Lynn Hunsaker. When customer experience requirements guide the hiring process, a company is practicing outside-in thinking. We take our customers and our competition seriously — not ourselves.” MORE
Customer Centric Service Design Lynn Hunsaker. Imagine the power of pictorially summarizing your customer survey results so that stakeholders can understand possible customer experience improvements within 10 minutes! 3) How will the solution work for the customer? MORE
For Command Alkon, gathering customer feedback on the direction of the company and its efforts for delivering an A+ customer experience is a top priority. To keep the focus on customers, the company partnered with Satrix Solutions to manage its Voice of the Customer ( VoC) program. MORE
The way customers interact with brands has drastically changed over the past few years. In the words of Forbes contributor Brian Walker, " Digitally empowered customers are firmly in charge, bouncing from channel to channel at the drop of a hat.” MORE
Knowing what you’re customers are saying about your is just the tip of the ice berg! Last week, WCL CM teamed up with Hello Customer and Paul Laughlin, to get to grips on how companies can be more customer centric. Customer Centricity Digital Latest Thinking MORE
There's a famous statistic that 80 percent of executives believed their organization delivered a superior customer experience, but only 8 percent of customers agreed. A 2017 study by Capgemini Consulting sought to provide updated insight into the so-called executive disconnect. MORE
The customer-centric mindset entails making major decisions while taking customer needs and customer journeys into account. This is as a result of greater customer trust which reduces churn, increases renewals, and bolsters user adoption through referrals and testimonials. MORE
Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused. Hiring Customer-Ready Employees. MORE
The same can be said of customer centricity. Customer centricity doesn’t happen overnight. If you want to build a customer-centric culture at your company, then you’d better be able to live with process and incremental improvement. MORE
Customer-Centric Innovation Lynn Hunsaker. What defines a customer-centric organization, and why is taking a customer-centric approach increasingly seen as important? the customer’s world. Nurture customer-centricity by keeping employees. MORE
Do you allow Customers to use whatever channel they wish to communicate with you, or do you restrict them to one or two channels? The answer to this question can show how Customer centric your company is. This post is the fifth in a series of nine posts that uses our Naïve to Natural customer-centricity assessment. Today we are looking at Channels, one of the nine parts of your current experience that contributes to Customer centricity of your organization. MORE
Did you miss this Customer Experience Update Webinar from the end of November? Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. There are many channels and customers often have strong preferences. MORE
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world. MORE
Customer Centric Sales & Service Policies Lynn Hunsaker. As we strive to win customers’ hearts and share-of-wallet, remember that kindness breeds gratitude , which builds customer enthusiasm for a brand. Are we truly grateful for our customers? MORE
Customer Centric SWOT: Align Strategies to Customer Priorities Lynn Hunsaker. Start with your customer in mind whenever you use a management technique. Strategies that start with the customer set the stage for daily behaviors that are customer-centric. MORE
Customer Centric Decisions Lynn Hunsaker. Do you have a customer-focus creed? In the conference room of a company I visited recently a poster served as a clear reminder for customer centric decision-making. Can we do this successfully, and will our customers notice? MORE
It’s the most customer-centric thing you might read today! When an organization truly embraces the idea of customer-centricity , amazing things can happen. They took into account how these customers are actually RAVING FANS of their product. MORE
Customer Centric Listening Lynn Hunsaker. Listen to your customers’ experiences at the highest levels in your company to set customer-centricity standards. Consider listening to current, lost and potential customers. MORE
Customer Centric Processes for Stellar Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. All processes within a company have the potential to impact customer experience. Customer-facing employees are only as effective as the rest of the company enables them to be. MORE
In building relationships with customers, and value for them, my long-time observation is that most organizations tend to progress through several stages of performance as they are becoming truly customer-centric: a) customer awareness, b) customer sensitivity, c) customer focus, and d) customer obsession. Customer Awareness. Customer Sensitivity. Customer Focus. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D., MORE
What is Customer Centricity DNA? What is customer-centricity DNA? And centricity means “being situated at the center; a position of central prominence or importance”. Accordingly, customer-centricity DNA means your business is customer-centered in all that it does. MORE
The Art of Listening: A Key to Customer-Centricity Lynn Hunsaker. Curiosity is the key to great listening skills that improve customer experience. Consider internal customers as well as external customers in honing this skill. MORE
After all, the hospitality industry should be highly customer centric, as it relies on satisfying its guests. They both (should) have their customers at their heart. Having additional control of our lives today, means that customers are re-evaluating what they are offered. MORE
Customer Centric Action Plans Lynn Hunsaker. Monitoring voice of the customer is one thing, but can all your employees name the customers’ top ten wish list? The post Customer Centric Action Plans appeared first on ClearAction Customer Experience Consulting. MORE
At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. What role has customer centricity played in your professional journey? MORE
This week we feature an article by Dawn Gucciardo who took my model of Six D’s to Creating a Customer-Centric Culture and applied it to developing and implementing a CRM software. – Shep Hyken. Shep Hyken believes customer centricity must start on the inside, with your employees. MORE
The final discipline of growth banking is all about listening and acting on feedback from your customers. And it starts with the decision to either build or buy a Voice of the Customer solution for your own organization. Your customers are bringing their friends and family to you. MORE
I have spent the last five years working with companies – not as an employee, but as a consultant. People who seem to completely ‘get it’ — the need to become ever more customer centric to enable sustainable business growth. A customer centric leader understands people. MORE
C3Centricity
JUNE 8, 2020
After all, the hospitality industry should be highly customer centric, as it relies on satisfying its guests. They both (should) have their customers at their heart. Having additional control of our lives today, means that customers are re-evaluating what they are offered.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Most companies today know that putting the customer at the heart of everything they do is vital. The fact is, improving your Customer Experience means you must also become more customer-centric. But what is customer-centricity and how do you do it?
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ShepHyken
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
This week we feature an article by Dawn Gucciardo who took my model of Six D’s to Creating a Customer-Centric Culture and applied it to developing and implementing a CRM software. – Shep Hyken. Shep Hyken believes customer centricity must start on the inside, with your employees.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Customer Centric Internal Branding Lynn Hunsaker. Customer centric internal branding revolves around customer well-being. By the way, what’s promised to customers should, in fact, be what your internal behaviors actually produce.).
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Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 26, 2015
One interesting bit of his speech touched on an important issue for Customer Centricity: data breaches. He said the federal standard he would impose to notify Customers their information had been compromised should be 30 days. Customers are nervous about their data security.
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ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Customer Centric Mission & Values Lynn Hunsaker. Customer-centricity is about priorities. Customers’ orders must be serviced promptly and accurately. Customer-focused priorities organically produce desired results for employees, communities and stockholders.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Action Plans Lynn Hunsaker. Monitoring voice of the customer is one thing, but can all your employees name the customers’ top ten wish list? The post Customer Centric Action Plans appeared first on ClearAction Customer Experience Consulting.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Decisions Lynn Hunsaker. Do you have a customer-focus creed? In the conference room of a company I visited recently a poster served as a clear reminder for customer centric decision-making. Can we do this successfully, and will our customers notice?
ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Listening Lynn Hunsaker. Listen to your customers’ experiences at the highest levels in your company to set customer-centricity standards. Consider listening to current, lost and potential customers.
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ClearAction
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Customer Centric Sales & Service Policies Lynn Hunsaker. As we strive to win customers’ hearts and share-of-wallet, remember that kindness breeds gratitude , which builds customer enthusiasm for a brand. Are we truly grateful for our customers?
ClearAction
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Customer Centric Employee Engagement Lynn Hunsaker. Organizations that are centered around their customers know that it’s not a part-time role. To truly be customer-centric , everyone company-wide needs to have a deep understanding of the customer’s world.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 30, 2017
Customer-Centric Innovation Lynn Hunsaker. What defines a customer-centric organization, and why is taking a customer-centric approach increasingly seen as important? the customer’s world. Nurture customer-centricity by keeping employees.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Customer-Centric Hiring Builds Trust Lynn Hunsaker. When customer experience requirements guide the hiring process, a company is practicing outside-in thinking. We take our customers and our competition seriously — not ourselves.”
CSM Practice
JULY 24, 2019
The customer-centric mindset entails making major decisions while taking customer needs and customer journeys into account. This is as a result of greater customer trust which reduces churn, increases renewals, and bolsters user adoption through referrals and testimonials.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Customer Centric Processes for Stellar Customer Experience Lynn Hunsaker. All processes within a company have the potential to impact customer experience. Customer-facing employees are only as effective as the rest of the company enables them to be.
Beyond Philosophy
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Do you allow Customers to use whatever channel they wish to communicate with you, or do you restrict them to one or two channels? The answer to this question can show how Customer centric your company is. This post is the fifth in a series of nine posts that uses our Naïve to Natural customer-centricity assessment. Today we are looking at Channels, one of the nine parts of your current experience that contributes to Customer centricity of your organization.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 28, 2017
The Art of Listening: A Key to Customer-Centricity Lynn Hunsaker. Curiosity is the key to great listening skills that improve customer experience. Consider internal customers as well as external customers in honing this skill.
PeopleMetrics
JANUARY 14, 2015
The same can be said of customer centricity. Customer centricity doesn’t happen overnight. If you want to build a customer-centric culture at your company, then you’d better be able to live with process and incremental improvement.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Customer Centric Service Design Lynn Hunsaker. Imagine the power of pictorially summarizing your customer survey results so that stakeholders can understand possible customer experience improvements within 10 minutes! 3) How will the solution work for the customer?
Beyond Philosophy
JULY 5, 2015
In building relationships with customers, and value for them, my long-time observation is that most organizations tend to progress through several stages of performance as they are becoming truly customer-centric: a) customer awareness, b) customer sensitivity, c) customer focus, and d) customer obsession. Customer Awareness. Customer Sensitivity. Customer Focus. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,
Peter Lavers
OCTOBER 20, 2015
Knowing what you’re customers are saying about your is just the tip of the ice berg! Last week, WCL CM teamed up with Hello Customer and Paul Laughlin, to get to grips on how companies can be more customer centric. Customer Centricity Digital Latest Thinking
ClearAction
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Customer Centric Culture Lynn Hunsaker. What Does it Mean to be Customer-centric? To have the customer’s best interests as the focus of your attention — not to be pre-occupied in your own interests at the customer’s expense. To do this, you need to: (1) Really know the customer in order to anticipate their best interests. (2) Customer-Centric Primary Motives: Making it easier and nicer for the customer to get and use solutions.
ClearAction
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Customer Centric SWOT: Align Strategies to Customer Priorities Lynn Hunsaker. Start with your customer in mind whenever you use a management technique. Strategies that start with the customer set the stage for daily behaviors that are customer-centric.
ijgolding
JULY 25, 2017
I have spent the last five years working with companies – not as an employee, but as a consultant. People who seem to completely ‘get it’ — the need to become ever more customer centric to enable sustainable business growth. A customer centric leader understands people.
Beyond Philosophy
JANUARY 25, 2016
There is a major skill most organizations lack: Customer centricity. But if you want to remain competitive in today’s economic climate, putting the focus on Customers is imperative to your bottom line. I concerned myself with internal costs at the expense of Customer Experience.
RapportBoost
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Did you miss this Customer Experience Update Webinar from the end of November? Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. There are many channels and customers often have strong preferences.
360Connext
OCTOBER 16, 2017
It’s the most customer-centric thing you might read today! When an organization truly embraces the idea of customer-centricity , amazing things can happen. They took into account how these customers are actually RAVING FANS of their product.
Satrix Solutions
MARCH 26, 2018
For Command Alkon, gathering customer feedback on the direction of the company and its efforts for delivering an A+ customer experience is a top priority. To keep the focus on customers, the company partnered with Satrix Solutions to manage its Voice of the Customer ( VoC) program.
Beyond Philosophy
OCTOBER 20, 2014
Having a Customer-Centric culture doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a lot of work and concentration to create a deliberate Customer experience from all the parts of your organization. What Your People Need to be More Customer Focused.
Toister Performance Solutions
APRIL 12, 2018
There's a famous statistic that 80 percent of executives believed their organization delivered a superior customer experience, but only 8 percent of customers agreed. A 2017 study by Capgemini Consulting sought to provide updated insight into the so-called executive disconnect.
PeopleMetrics
JULY 10, 2018
Listen to any company in almost every industry, and you’ll undoubtedly hear phrases like customer-centric and customer-focused touted as top priorities. When leaders of a company fail to explain or provide specific examples of what it really means to be customer-centric, employees often see these words as little more than corporate platitudes. Companies feel obligated to go on record as being customer-centric. Becoming Customer-Centric.
Micah Solomon
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
As a corporate culture consultant and as a speaker, I hear clients frequently voicing this concern. A strong, consciously developed pro-customer (and pro-employee) company culture is a business advantage that will serve you for years—and inoculate your brand against competitive inroads. How to make a customer-centered culture happen. Your core values should cover how customers, employees, and vendors should be treated at all times.
Horizon CX
APRIL 4, 2019
All is well and good except when it comes to product-centric organizations believing and acting as if whatever they manufacture and sell or offer as a service is perfectly aligned with client needs and wants. Think of service as an intangible product that, through an exchange, delivers a tangible benefit to the customer. I was selling complex and highly customized laboratory robotic and automation systems into the biotech and pharmaceutical industry.
CX Journey
DECEMBER 18, 2014
The way customers interact with brands has drastically changed over the past few years. In the words of Forbes contributor Brian Walker, " Digitally empowered customers are firmly in charge, bouncing from channel to channel at the drop of a hat.”
Customer Guru
APRIL 3, 2018
At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. Caroline has over 16 years of experience in the Customer Service and Experience field.
Customer Guru
APRIL 10, 2018
At Customer Guru, we believe that Customer Experience (CX) should be the number one priority for all the Indian businesses so that they become more sustainable and successful globally. What role has customer centricity played in your professional journey?
Beyond Philosophy
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
Customer centricity requires strategy to cultivate a culture that puts the Customer at the center of everything you do. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused. Hiring Customer-Ready Employees.
PeopleMetrics
MARCH 1, 2017
The final discipline of growth banking is all about listening and acting on feedback from your customers. And it starts with the decision to either build or buy a Voice of the Customer solution for your own organization. Your customers are bringing their friends and family to you.
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