CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Calabrio’s latest survey reveals that UK contact centres are leading the way in having a hybrid workforce (72%) while the same majority believes remote-working is having a positive impact on the customer experience (CX). Calabrio is a trusted ally to leading brands.

Customer centricity 52

Customer centricity Coaching Employee engagement Surveys 52

Anexa BPO

MAY 24, 2023

In today’s hyper-connected and customer-centric business landscape, understanding and meeting customers where they are is vital for success. Additionally, many businesses approach customer listening in a fragmented manner.

Personalization 52

Personalization Customer centricity Feedback Surveys 52

Horizon CX

APRIL 1, 2024

Customer experience maturity is a way of measuring an organization’s ability to design and deliver a consistently positive customer experience. These characteristics may include: Customer-centric culture: The organization has a culture that is obsessed with the customer and focused on meeting their needs.

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Journey mapping Customer centricity Customer retention Feedback 52

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

We will discuss topics such as defining the department’s goals and objectives, assessing the current state of customer service, and developing a strategy. These preliminary steps will help you create a customer experience department that meets your customers’ needs and achieves your business goals.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

7 Ways to Bridge the Gap However, contact centres have a long way to go to create their dream teams because many agents are not yet ready to meet the demands of an AI future. Put Employee Engagement Top of the Agenda When employees are disengaged, they are less productive and more likely to leave.

Average Handle Time 52

Average Handle Time Customer centricity Coaching Self service 52

Anexa BPO

MAY 28, 2023

In today’s highly competitive business landscape, organizations are increasingly recognizing the pivotal role of customer experience (CX) in driving growth and achieving long-term success. CX leaders understand the importance of meeting and exceeding these evolving expectations.

Customer centricity 52

Customer centricity outsourcing Employee engagement Feedback 52

Anexa BPO

JULY 4, 2022

Sophisticated VoE programs are much more than just a simple employee survey. They typically contain multiple streams across the employee life cycle. You can conduct town hall meetings, team feedback sessions, post-mortem reviews and “suggestion boxes”. Employees are the most vested stakeholder of any business.

Business Process Outsourcing 52

Business Process Outsourcing outsourcing Surveys Feedback 52

CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Not Meeting Customers’ Expectations Meeting customer expectations is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and loyalty. There are several ways you can bridge this gap: Conduct surveys, gather feedback, or analyze their reviews. Communicate what people can expect from your products or services.

Customer Service 52

Customer Service Upselling CRM Employee engagement 52

Nicereply

JUNE 26, 2023

eSAT stands for Employee Satisfaction. Like the customer-centric version, CSAT (or Customer Satisfaction), eSAT is a method of tracking how satisfied employees are within their role and your company, specifically through the use of surveys. Here’s an example of a simple eSAT survey from Nicereply.

Surveys 52

Surveys Employee engagement Metrics Customer centricity 52

RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Customer channel preferences are increasingly important, with more knowledge, organizations can deliver better self-service. Optimization of this knowledge can be accelerated by leveraging artificial intelligence , and employee engagement is a powerful force that can be used to drive customer engagement.

Customer centricity 40

Customer centricity Contact Center Self service Journey mapping 40

Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

According to a recent Gallup survey , only 23% of employees worldwide and 32% in the U.S. fall in the “engaged” category. In order to be successful, managers need to be better equipped to provide ongoing feedback and employ effective strategies to boost employee engagement. Yet managers continue to fall short.

Gamification 79

Gamification Contact Center Coaching Quality management 79

ProProfs Blog

MAY 30, 2019

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. Create a Customer-Centric Culture. It’s easy to pay lip-service about a customer-focused approach, but do you actually do what you preach? Look for Better Employee Engagement.

Employee engagement 110

Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer Support Feedback 110

Horizon CX

MAY 19, 2023

However, there can be pressure to show quick results or meet unrealistic expectations. A Customer Experience Manager can play a valuable role in leading organizational transformation, particularly when the transformation is focused on improving customer experience and driving customer-centricity.

Customer centricity 52

Customer centricity Customer Experience Employee engagement Best practices 52

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Short termism is mostly the result of a product-centric and “numbers focused” culture, which inevitably results in a “race to the bottom”. Customer centricity is the answer, backed with a credible customer profitability lens that gives an alternative view to traditional product sales/market share KPIs.

Customer Experience 129

Customer Experience Customer centricity Education Consulting 129

SharpenCX

JULY 26, 2023

It provides deeper insights on customers. Want to become more customer centric? Get to know your customers on a deeper level — not just their name, contact information, and purchased products, but their likes, dislikes, and inclinations for future purchases. From there, you can set goals for improving the metric.

Call Center 67

Call Center Contact Center Contact center software Coaching 67

Global Response

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Customer obsessed companies keep the customer’s satisfaction as their number one priority and focus obsessively on adding value to the customer experience. In the past, Starbucks was fairly product-focused, creating better and fancier drink and menu offerings and using new, exciting products to get customers back in the door.

Customer centricity 62

Customer centricity Feedback Customer retention Customer Experience 62

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.

Customer centricity 10

Customer centricity SaaS B2B Employee engagement 10

CX Journey

MARCH 12, 2015

The two terms are related, and they’re both elements of customer experience improvement. Employee Engagement: The “I” Point of View Employee engagement is the functional and emotional connection that employees have with an organization. That means employees answer questions from the “I” perspective.

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Employee engagement Customer centricity Entertainment Airlines 66

AskNicely

AUGUST 17, 2018

Why is Customer Obsession a Priority? A recent Gartner survey of CEOs found that 40% list growth as their number one business priority for 2018 and 2019. And 23% of CEOs list customer service as one of their top three business priorities. Here’s the big one: customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied.

Feedback 60

Feedback Customer centricity Surveys Employee engagement 60

delighted

MARCH 15, 2019

A VoC program is the way a company gathers, analyzes, and acts on customer feedback to create a customer-centric culture. A successful voice of the customer program puts your customers’ needs center stage, and ultimately drives brand, product, and service improvements for an unbeatable customer experience.

Surveys 75

Surveys Benchmark B2B Feedback 75

GetFeedback

MAY 9, 2019

We’ll go into more detail below as to why, but for now, here is our definition: Great customer experience means meeting or exceeding the expectations of your customer during all interactions with your company. Why is customer experience important? That’s because a bad customer experience interrupts our day.

Customer Experience 134

Customer Experience Metrics Journey mapping Feedback 134

Russel Lolacher

APRIL 5, 2021

People want to be talked with, not talked at or down to – meet your customers in the same space they approach you. Ever since then, we have made it a point to focus on what the customer would need, what would they want, what would answer their questions, how would they like to engage, etc.

Customer Care 98

Customer Care Government Transportation Employee engagement 98

Etech GS

APRIL 30, 2019

Most businesses understand what’s at stake each time a customer needs to reach out, so what’s being done to ensure more positive experiences? While CSAT scores and KPIs still rule for some companies, others are taking a more customer-centric approach that has managed to completely alter the landscape of what contact centers could be.

Contact Center 71

Contact Center Coaching Healthcare Feedback 71

Transparent BPO

AUGUST 5, 2019

” Transitioning from the contact center-focused checklist mentality to a customer-centric mindset that empowered agents to own and drive the resolution of customers’ issues proved to be the right decision. “If you look at the checklist form, the education piece won’t exist,” Gofourth said.

Contact Center 94

Contact Center Education outsourcing Customer centricity 94

ClearAction

AUGUST 29, 2015

Here's the recipe: 1) Micro Customer Experience Action. Closing the loop with a customer about a low rating on a survey or an issue they've contacted the company about is in almost everyone's recipe for customer experience improvement. And it's about centering the business on customers' well-being.

Customer Experience 117

Customer Experience Employee engagement Journey mapping Surveys 117

Noble Systems

JANUARY 29, 2019

Whether or not “Meet the new boss same as the old boss” is a reference to political unrest of that generation, the message is clear: The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing. CCW’s research validates Belmont’s assertion and crystalizes customer-centric organizations will seek to create happy, engaged, productive agents.

Agent Empowerment 58

Agent Empowerment Contact Center Customer centricity Surveys 58

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

As more industries continue to be disrupted by smaller, more agile, niche specialists who are better able to meet the needs and expectations of customers, larger, legacy businesses are at serious risk of losing relevance with their customers and potentially ceasing to exist. Never underestimate the customers expectation in CX.

Customer Experience 64

Customer Experience Customer centricity Education Consulting 64

ijgolding

JUNE 9, 2015

Over the years I have had the pleasure of meeting and working with a large number of CXPs. You must absolutely believe that enabling an organisation to be more customer centric is the ‘right thing to do’ – right for the customer; right for the employee; and right for the shareholder.

Customer Experience 119

Customer Experience Customer centricity Metrics Journey mapping 119

ijgolding

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

More and more organisations are starting to consider how best to measure VOE – Voice of the Employee. Capturing ’employee perception’ and aligning it to ‘customer perception’ is critical in building a robust customer centric measurement system. The next year it might happen thereafter.

Surveys 77

Surveys Metrics Employee engagement Consulting 77

Noble Systems

JANUARY 29, 2019

Whether or not “Meet the new boss same as the old boss” is a reference to political unrest of that generation, the message is clear: The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing. CCW’s research validates Belmont’s assertion and crystalizes customer-centric organizations will seek to create happy, engaged, productive agents.

Agent Empowerment 47

Agent Empowerment Contact Center Customer centricity Surveys 47

delighted

MARCH 4, 2020

Customer Experience Management can transform your organization into one that is customer focused, giving your team a mission and values to rally behind and a process for acting on them to benefit customers. This is a recipe for improved employee engagement and happiness, which translates to improved experiences for customers.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Management Journey mapping Surveys 52

Eptica

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This all contributes to the customer experience gap, between what companies deliver and what customers expect, which can put downward pressure on loyalty and sales. 6 Do the basics first Before you look to delight customers, make sure you have got the basics right. How can they do this?

Best practices 65

Best practices Metrics Analytics Customer centricity 65

Global Response

MARCH 27, 2023

In this article, our team of experts outlines the four key attributes of good—and great—customer service, and the key tactics and strategic insights to know as you implement them at your organization. As such, providing speedy and efficient service demonstrates that your company values your customers by valuing their time.

Customer Service 62

Customer Service Chatbots Self service Personalization 62

Natalie Petouhof

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Otherwise the customer experience, as some point in the value chain ends up not meeting or exceeding customer expectations. And not meeting customer expectations means customers will no longer be customers. Across all firms this drops to 32%.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise Surveys Technology Customer centricity 40

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. .

Surveys 146

Surveys Journey mapping Feedback B2B 146

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Laverty persisted as he saw that Customer Experience would be the differentiator in the marketplace. He asked, “How is this going to impact our customers?” It was part of his strategy to enforce the customer-centric mindset at the company and help the team get used to identifying as the customer and seeing it from their vantage point.

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Customer Experience Employee engagement Journey mapping Customer centricity 317

The Petrova Experience

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Providing choices is the most empowering thing a brand can do for its employees and customers. Gensler’s research proved that employee choice leads to greater employee engagement and satisfaction, as well as higher productivity and innovation. Will that work if half the meeting attendees are remote?

Real estate 52

Real estate Journey mapping Employee engagement Personalization 52