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You Can’t Legislate Customer Centricity

Beyond Philosophy

One interesting bit of his speech touched on an important issue for Customer Centricity: data breaches. If they have the need to legislate, then lags in notifying Customers must have happened so many times they feel the need to put it in law! This is a law for the “non-Customer centric” organizations.

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5 Tests to Reveal How Customer Centric Your Channel Strategy Is

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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.

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What Customer-Centric Companies Must Do To Become Customer-Obsessed

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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.

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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

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These might include customer service speed, occasional price promotions, merchandising gimmicks, new product offerings, and the like. In most instances, the customers see no brand ‘personality’ or brand-to-brand differentiation, and their experience of the brand is one-dimensional, easily capable of replacement.

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Why Most Customer Experience Programs Fail

Beyond Philosophy

The main reason that an organization fails to improve their CX is because of their lack of Customer Centricity. The symptom is a poor experience; the cause is their lack of Customer centricity. So any change in CX must include and address the Customer centricity of the organization. Why or why not?

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Make This Change – Your Business Depends On It!

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Organizations fail to improve their CX when they lack customer-centricity. Customer-centricity requires you to put the Customer at the center of everything you do. However, putting the customer at the center of everything you do doesn’t have to conflict with sales, margins or operational efficiency.

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Three Things that Drive Me Mad At Restaurants

Beyond Philosophy

There are three things in particular that drive me nuts at a restaurant, because they blatantly show that the restaurant is not customer centric. In some restaurants, the person who brings out the food is not even the same person who took the order! Why You Must Create and Sustain a Customer-Centric Culture.