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Dynamism over products or services

There are articles all over the place and books overloading shelves in the business section of the stores having to do with strategies and branding.  One of the theories that I find appealing is that, when it comes to strategies and visions and missions, it’s important to leave your products or services out of these [...]

By |2020-09-03T14:51:39+00:00September 3rd, 2020|CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Dynamism over products or services

Are your Customers the goal…Or just part of the machine?

We sometimes have an officious way of dealing with our Customers, almost as though they’re the problem that we have to deal with.  As Customers ourselves, we witness this all the time, and surely as CX professionals and leaders we’re also more aware of it when we see it.  It’s interesting, then, that it ever [...]

By |2020-08-27T14:39:48+00:00August 27th, 2020|CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Are your Customers the goal…Or just part of the machine?

Building a Customer-centric culture

Here is the final post in a series about building a world-class CX program in your organization.  I introduced the component parts here, expounded on aligning your CX strategy here, delved into the Voice of the Customer here, and showed how to put it into action with your Process Engineering program here.  Now it’s on [...]

By |2020-08-19T14:54:33+00:00August 19th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Building a Customer-centric culture

Do something! Process Engineering in your CX program

This is part three of a four-part series of posts about the components of a world-class CX function.  I began last week with an overview of the structure.  Since then I’ve posted on CX strategic alignment and your Voice of the Customer program.  We come now to the action part of this series of articles [...]

By |2020-10-26T18:40:46+00:00August 17th, 2020|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Process Engineering|Comments Off on Do something! Process Engineering in your CX program

Voice of the Customer basics

This is part two of a series of posts on the four components of a good CX system.  I introduced the concept here and my first post, on CX strategic alignment, is here.  Soon I’ll write about Process Engineering and wrap up with notes on what it takes to build and maintain a Customer-centric culture. Folks [...]

By |2020-10-26T18:40:20+00:00August 14th, 2020|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, VoC|Comments Off on Voice of the Customer basics

CX Strategic alignment: The First Step

This post is part of a series on the four components needed for a CX organization to be successful.  An introduction to the concept can be found here, and look for briefs on the moving parts (VoC, Process Engineering, and CX Culture) coming soon.  Here we’ll kick it off with a discussion about aligning your [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:46:57+00:00August 12th, 2020|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on CX Strategic alignment: The First Step

CX: How it all works

In this article I’ll explain the components needed in place to elevate an organization’s Customer Experience.  I won’t go too far in depth into the four parts but rather provide an overview of how they work together with a brief explanation of what they are.  Following, in a continuation of this series of articles, I’ll [...]

By |2020-08-10T15:31:08+00:00August 10th, 2020|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Process Engineering, VoC|Comments Off on CX: How it all works

Do you trust your Customers?

One important facet of efficiency and positive CX is making it easy for Customers to deal with you and navigate your processes.  The reason this is important is because corporations are necessarily defensive entities:  we create processes to protect our organizations from risk and loss.  That protection can come in the form of cash-on-hand, liquidity, [...]

By |2020-08-03T16:57:25+00:00August 3rd, 2020|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Do you trust your Customers?

Close the loop on your feedback

You’ve likely heard about the concept and practice of “closing the loop” or a “closed-loop feedback” (CLF) cycle.  What is it, and how does it work? There are actually a couple types of closed-loop feedback systems depending on whether you’re talking about internal or external feedback.  Internal refers to an employee feedback mechanism where as [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:47:14+00:00July 31st, 2020|CX Thoughts, Measures & Metrics, Process Engineering, VoC|Comments Off on Close the loop on your feedback

“Treat your employees right” is more than just ‘feel-good’ rhetoric

The world of CX is covered in platitudes and clichés. I don’t say that to denigrate it as a field of study and practice (quite the opposite), but rather just to acknowledge it so as to better combat empty words in favor of making actual impacts. Sometimes clichés are clichés because they’re right. One of those [...]

By |2020-07-28T15:21:45+00:00July 28th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on “Treat your employees right” is more than just ‘feel-good’ rhetoric
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