The new book is out!  Pick it up here!

Excuses versus solutions

You’ve heard this before, right?  “Due to current circumstances, we’re experiencing longer-than-usual wait times.”  Those “circumstances” can vary.  Over the past twenty months, of course, it has been Covid-19.  Sometimes it’s the holidays.  Sometimes brands stiff-arm you without even giving you the courtesy of telling you why.  There’s even a brand that I call rarely…maybe [...]

By |2021-11-17T16:03:42+00:00November 17th, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Excuses versus solutions

VoC begets VoC

I’m always championing active use of your Voice of the Customer (VoC) insights.  After all, I say, if you’re just collecting your Customers’ insights but not doing anything with them, that’s a huge waste of resources.  Normally when I talk about that, I’m referring to the importance of having a robust and enterprise-wide Process Engineering [...]

By |2021-11-10T15:52:56+00:00November 10th, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Measures & Metrics, VoC|Comments Off on VoC begets VoC

Are we challenging CX?

One of the roles we, as CX professionals, play, is that of change agents.  I realize that’s a term people toss out there when they want to seem important or progressive in business, but when you think about it, one of the core jobs we have is to challenge people to take a different perspective; [...]

By |2021-11-03T15:33:41+00:00November 3rd, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Measures & Metrics, Process Engineering|Comments Off on Are we challenging CX?

What do you want on your Tombstone?

Do you remember the old commercial for Tombstone Pizza?  The tagline was, “What do you want your tombstone?”  (By the way, if you clicked through and it’s driving you crazy, the character actor is a fellow by the name of Oliver Muirhead, and if you also share my obsession with Seinfeld, he played Lubeck the [...]

By |2021-10-20T15:20:38+00:00October 20th, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, VoC|Comments Off on What do you want on your Tombstone?

Easier for whom?

As an Air Force Reservist, I’m always on the lookout for the ‘military discount’ to save a buck or two.  Many brands offer a markdown of some sort:  Flash your Common Access Card (CAC, the unnecessary obviously-has-to-be-an-acronym term we use to mean, “Military ID”) at checkout, and a lot of places knock 5, 10, or [...]

By |2021-10-13T14:38:09+00:00October 13th, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Easier for whom?

When Customer support is the problem

Nothing is 100%.  Things fail, products break, even very important services go dark from time to time.  A Customer who expects and demands perfection is certain to be disappointed pretty often, and in fact is being somewhat unreasonable, if you ask me. With this understood and its obvious importance, then, why is Customer Support so [...]

By |2021-09-22T14:55:09+00:00September 22nd, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on When Customer support is the problem

For CX success, re-evaluate your purpose

May I offer a modest suggestion about CX?  Here it is: The purpose of Customer Experience as an endeavor (a department, a practice, a field of study, etc.) is to improve the alignment between what your company says it’s all about (call it mission/vision, corporate values/principles, or simply Brand Promise) and the experience your Customers [...]

By |2021-09-15T15:04:48+00:00September 15th, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on For CX success, re-evaluate your purpose

Let’s ask better questions

With text analytics and artificial intelligence and sentiment analysis, technology has really moved us into a new world of possibilities when it comes to understanding our Customers’ feedback in a variety of formats.  I’ve seen some pretty amazing uses of this new world of business analytics and high-level number-crunching.  The way some software out there [...]

By |2021-09-09T12:45:59+00:00September 1st, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, VoC|Comments Off on Let’s ask better questions

Rethinking the ROI of CX

Articulating the return on investment (ROI) of Customer Experience efforts is a recurring theme among CX professionals.  As I moderate panels on webinars and sit as a guest on podcasts, listen to my peers talk, and read articles, I hear the questions all the time:  How do you define the ROI?  How do you sell [...]

By |2021-08-17T16:09:15+00:00August 17th, 2021|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership, ROI of CX|Comments Off on Rethinking the ROI of CX
Go to Top