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What is your word worth?

I recently had a particularly silly experience with the US Postal Service.* I mailed an envelope (containing nothing more than a copy of my very thin, light book) from Denver across the country to a client.  The estimated arrival time on the east coast was to be two days.  In fact, I sent two identical [...]

By |2024-12-10T15:52:43+00:00December 10th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|0 Comments

I’m a greedy networker

I’m a selfish networker.  But hear me out; I don’t mean it the way you probably think I do. When you read that first sentence, you probably conjured in your mind a picture of that guy who shows up to the networking events with a bunch of his business cards, introducing himself around telling people [...]

By |2024-11-12T16:10:02+00:00November 12th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on I’m a greedy networker

Operationalize

I used to say that I don’t know anything about Marketing. Then I started spending a lot of time with marketers.  They’re an interesting bunch, and considering that, as I like to say, Marketing and CX share two sides of the same coin—that being the Brand Promise—I’ve had many conversations as our work compliments each [...]

By |2024-10-29T14:59:34+00:00October 29th, 2024|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership, Process Engineering|Comments Off on Operationalize

Shu Ha Ri for CX?

Having spent a lot of time in education—corporately doing plenty of L&D work, having had lots of clients delivering workshops and such, and of course as a professor—I’m intrigued by how folks learn.  What’s lost on a lot of educators, unfortunately, I’ve found, is the purpose of education in the first place. Now, I don’t [...]

By |2024-10-15T14:23:56+00:00October 15th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Shu Ha Ri for CX?

No, I don’t want to log in

I recently had a ridiculous interaction with one of our household service providers.  I had a general question about one of their policies and went online to check out their FAQs to see if I could get an answer.  A usual pet-peeve of mine, that endeavor was fruitless (whoever determines which questions are “frequently” asked [...]

By |2024-08-20T13:54:33+00:00August 20th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on No, I don’t want to log in

Getting CX Right: Copper Mountain Resort

I posted about this way back when it happened, but I’m enjoying working from the mountains these past couple weeks, so the experience is in mind, and I figure it’s worth drawing your attention to it in a more formal manner: Copper Mountain ski resort in Summit County, Colorado, is my mountain.  I love it, [...]

By |2024-08-06T14:29:00+00:00August 6th, 2024|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Getting CX Right, VoC|Comments Off on Getting CX Right: Copper Mountain Resort

Maybe you don’t need CX

Customer Experience is a very important part of advancing your brand.  In fact, as I like to say, CX is the delivery of your brand.  When you think about your Brand Promise, your Marketing team spends a lot of time and energy developing and designing it. It turns to the CX function in your organization [...]

By |2024-07-23T15:06:37+00:00July 23rd, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Getting CX Right, Leadership|Comments Off on Maybe you don’t need CX

Your Customers have figured it out. Have you?

My local grocer has a problem.  All of us who shop there are aware of it, and even compensate for it.  But it doesn’t seem that they even realize it. Ours is a pretty urban location in the midst of a university neighborhood.  Sure, there are a few families with their 2.3 children each, but [...]

By |2024-06-11T14:51:41+00:00June 11th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, VoC|Comments Off on Your Customers have figured it out. Have you?

System problems and policy problems

I’ve been thinking lately about what causes CX to go south.  Well, okay, I do that a lot anyway. Naturally, considering my Framework, I concentrate a lot of my efforts on identifying processes and systems that are causing misalignment with a Brand Promise.  After all, as I’ve written previously, CX is really just an excuse [...]

By |2024-05-28T15:22:31+00:00May 28th, 2024|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Process Engineering|Comments Off on System problems and policy problems

Small Print or Bigger Person

Your mom may have told you to always read the fine print.  Or maybe it was a college professor or something along those lines.  If you’ve ever interacted with an attorney of course you’re familiar with the admonition. By and large that’s always a great idea, even when working with a trusted and Customer-centric brand.  [...]

By |2024-05-14T13:40:56+00:00May 14th, 2024|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Small Print or Bigger Person
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