Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

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. Recommendation #5: Help people understand what Customer Experience is.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Are you a call center operations manager striving to enhance your team’s productivity and deliver hyper efficiency in your daily operations? The Need for Hyper Efficiency in Call Centers As a call center operations manager, you need to stay on top of the latest trends in hyper efficiency to ensure that your organization is successful.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 17, 2021

To optimize your call center’s performance, you need to think about improving your customers’ experience. After all, customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable. While incredible customer service should always be a call center’s goal, it shouldn’t be your only goal. Use metrics and act on them.

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ClearAction

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

8 Customer Experience Metric Silos Mask Momentum Lynn Hunsaker. Metrics selection can be the most pivotal decision you make in your customer experience management strategy. That’s because what gets measured gets managed. This is why connecting the dots is essential for customer experience metrics.

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Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Whether your company is using the Balanced Scorecard , OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), SMART , or simple KPIs , this will help you align the work of your future customer experience department to goals everyone in the company cares about. And it will make it easier to build strong relationships and a strong culture of customer centricity.

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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

Numerous studies link employee satisfaction, performance, and engagement with management’s ability to provide actionable, positive feedback and coaching. Yet managers continue to fall short. According to a recent Gallup survey , only 23% of employees worldwide and 32% in the U.S. fall in the “engaged” category.

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CX Global Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It’s the trap of managing workflow for efficiency. I need to be careful not to manage queues of interactions because that’s how it’s always been done. Not efficiency metrics or channels to be managed. Therefore, it’s a platform view that every agent can see the customer for the first time. Please Share.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Here are some of the most comprehensive facts and figures that I’ve come across: A recent study of the Value of Customer Experience amongst two $1 billion+ businesses published in Harvard Business Review (HBR) managed to quantify the effects of good customer experience. Your existing customers are far easier to upsell.

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Customer Experience Customer retention Upselling Banking 411

SharpenCX

JANUARY 21, 2020

A couple of years ago, Tommy Reese, Deloitte’s Contact Center Strategy Manager said , “If you treat the client like gold, then they’ll continue to buy from you and other sales will follow.”. And, while that doesn’t necessarily shed any new light onto our customer experience outlooks, isn’t it what all of our strategies are trying to do?

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CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Workers increasingly seek flexible and remote working opportunities while Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation are playing a greater part in work itself, recruitment, and in some cases, performance management. These are trends that apply equally to the world of customer service.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

By establishing metrics for factors like “time spent in the knowledge base,” “screens to resolution,” or “questions to authentication,” you will learn what agents experience when supporting customers. Task: Identify a “gap” in the customer experience journey. They invest to meaningfully improve the customer experience.

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SharpenCX

JULY 26, 2023

It’s time to stop viewing call center metrics as an end result. Call center data is any information that comes from customer interactions in your contact center. For instance, a standard call center metric like call duration becomes more valuable when you compare it to industry averages. It provides deeper insights on customers.

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ClearAction

DECEMBER 30, 2017

As each manager strives to keep their work manageable, they’re probably building-in silos that short-change information-sharing, smooth handoffs, and collaborative ownership of the bigger picture from the customer’s viewpoint. Solving 10 Customer Experience Silos.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Metrics Employee engagement 118

Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. BPOs offer a comprehensive range of services, including but not limited to customer support and sales. As per a report , the customer care BPO market is estimated to rise from US$22,598.82 million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

CCXP exam (Customer Experience Professional Certification) competencies are a guide to highly profitable customer experience management. It’s equally applicable to Employee Experience and Partner Experience management. Pulling together all of this, you create your customer experience strategy.

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Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

In Customer Experience, we often hear about transformational change as one of the descriptors of those within the discipline and many CX professionals have fashioned and even subtitled themselves as organizational change agents. Who exactly is responsible for managing transformational organizational change?

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Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

At Customer Guru, we firmly believe that the only way more Indian businesses can become sustainable and globally competitive is by focusing on Customer Experience (CX). Thus, we are dedicated to spreading this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

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Customer centricity Coaching Employee engagement Metrics 94

Customer Relationship Metrics

JULY 26, 2017

Managing a contact center is fast paced and furious. An employee’s perception of control is significantly related to psychological ownership. When control over employee performance is influenced by management implementing carrot and stick practices, employees are stripped of control. Managing Emotions.

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Contact Center Calibration Construction Customer centricity 211

Global Response

AUGUST 7, 2023

Culture is one of the most nebulous aspects of any company or team—but creating a positive one can make or break your employee experience, your customer service, and your bottom line. Employee engagement and empowerment. Finally, your emphasis—or lack thereof—on customer-centricity shapes your call center culture.

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Call Center Morale Employee engagement Customer centricity 62

Monet Software

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Inhabiting one persona, managers strive to make employees happy, adapting to their needs and requests. But then operations feel out of control or metrics drop. The right tools can help unify the call center’s split personality and foster an environment that is both employee- and customer-centric.

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Schedule adherence Contact Center Employee engagement Morale 77

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

AI is going to impact customer service agents, but not in the way most people probably think. The response from 400 contact centre managers around the world is clear and reflects Calabrio’s own conversations with customers. Nearly half of contact centre managers (45%) say agents currently do not have the right skillsets.

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Average Handle Time Customer centricity Coaching Self service 52

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Now in its seventh year, the awards acknowledge and celebrate Calabrio customers who are shaping the future of workforce optimisation (WFO), elevating customer experience (CX), and enhancing employee engagement within their organisations.

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Coaching Analytics Customer centricity Contact Center 52

Customer Guru

MARCH 1, 2018

At Customer Guru, we firmly believe that the only way more Indian businesses can become sustainable and globally competitive is by focusing on Customer Experience (CX). Thus, we are dedicated towards spreading this awareness, inspiring and guiding professionals to adopt and inculcate a customer-centric approach.

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Customer centricity Coaching Employee engagement Metrics 79

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Here are some of call center security’s best practices that you can use: Invest in systems and tools to monitor and analyze customer interactions in real-time. To access real-time data, integrate customer service platforms, such as CRM, order management, or inventory. How to mitigate this?

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Customer Service Upselling CRM Employee engagement 52

ClearAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

All revolve around the customer because customers pay our paychecks. Harnessed handoff silos are a perfect indicator of profitable customer-centricity. 1) Customer-Centric Job Descriptions. It all starts with each employee seeing their role in terms of “why should customers pay for my work?”

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Employee engagement Journey mapping 63

ClearAction

JANUARY 28, 2015

Exploring the Elusive ROI of Customer Experience Management. In the age of transparency, some investments we make to entice positive word-of-mouth and purchases may actually erode customers' trust of us, which doesn't bode well for tomorrow's ROI. Related Articles: Metrics for Customer Experience Management.

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Customer Experience Management Journey mapping Employee engagement 89

delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

These are the challenges that effective Customer Experience Management (CXM) can solve. CXM is the strategy behind gaining data on what customers are experiencing and using that information to improve how your business delivers on customer expectations. The what, where, and why of customer experience management (CXM).

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

RapportBoost uses artificial Intelligence to optimize chat conversations in order to drive dramatic and sustained improvements in conversion rate, order size, customer satisfaction, renewal rate, average handle time, first contact resolution rate, agent retention and happiness, and other critical contact center metrics.

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Customer centricity Contact Center Self service Journey mapping 40

ClearAction

DECEMBER 30, 2017

As each manager strives to keep their work manageable, they’re probably building-in silos that short-change information-sharing, smooth handoffs, and collaborative ownership of the bigger picture from the customer’s viewpoint. Solving 10 Customer Experience Silos.

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Customer Experience Customer centricity Metrics Employee engagement 75

SmartKarrot

APRIL 4, 2022

Customer-centricity is important for any organization’s culture. Customer-centric DNA means the person needs to have the qualities or features that fundamentally keep the customer at the center of every action. A customer-centric DNA is when the focus of your company is customer success.

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ClearAction

JUNE 8, 2015

The Formation of Customer Experience (CX) Teams. While formal CX management is a relatively new endeavor for many companies, the experience of customers has in fact been managed by various people all along. Faith in CX teams can be revived and rewarded if management rethinks what they really need to be successful.

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GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

This means building trust with your customer, understanding their needs, and adapting to nurture that bond. In other words, treat your customer like a person and not a persona. What is customer experience management (CXM)? . This term is often used interchangeably with customer experience program.

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ProProfs Blog

MAY 30, 2019

Your customers should not feel the need to move away to your competitor because they found your customer care operators to be inefficient or your support mechanism to be weak. Read on to learn the 10 steps that are a must in your customer success plan for ensuring greater customer success stories in your business.

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Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer Support Feedback 110

delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

These are the challenges that effective Customer Experience Management (CXM) can solve. CXM is the strategy behind gaining data on what customers are experiencing and using that information to improve how your business delivers on customer expectations. The what, where, and why of Customer Experience Management (CXM).

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Nicereply

JUNE 26, 2023

But how do you figure out how satisfied your employees are? Gauging and improving employee satisfaction can be difficult, but there’s one metric that’s becoming more and more common for tracking employee satisfaction. That metric is called eSAT. eSAT stands for Employee Satisfaction. What is eSAT?

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Customer Guru

MARCH 7, 2018

When I look back at my professional journey across industries, I realize that driving Change Management is one common thread that runs through my entire career. In your professional capacity, what are the key areas you look at to evaluate how customer-centric a business really is? It’s really the one big thing companies can do.

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Customer centricity Coaching Employee engagement Consulting 60

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. Customer-Focused Marketing.

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