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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 [...]
I have written previously a couple times about return on investment for CX. In fact, there are volumes of articles and books written about it. It’s almost as though there’s a sense of having to prove ourselves as CX professionals constantly. Now, in previous professional lives I’ve been part of PM teams and Process Improvement [...]
I once helped a company which made several different products and offered many different services build out a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program. Here were two mistakes they were making: Their first mistake was that they defined their Customers by their own products and services. One of the important concepts in your VoC program [...]
It’s not always easy to get through the din of corporate metrics. But as a CX professional, it’s our responsibility not only to take them seriously ourselves, but to drive awareness and interest in them within our organizations. With financial and operational KPIs front-and-center, Chief Customer Officers and their teams have a unique challenge to [...]
I write a lot about understanding why you’re doing something as a means of helping you to decide what to do and how to do it. It’s an idea I’ve stolen from Simon Sinek who wrote a whole book about it in fact. His book was general and strategic but I also apply it to [...]
Customers don’t care about why you can’t get it done; they just want you to get it done. Before you say that that sounds unfair, I’m not suggesting they want you to defy the laws of physics and make the impossible possible (well…usually they don’t). Let me give you a small—yes, trivial—example: The other day [...]
I’d written previously about Goodhart’s Law, which goes along the lines of, once a metric becomes a goal it ceases to be a good measure. Now, I choose the words “metric”, “goal”, and “measure” all deliberately because they mean slightly different things (even if their subject is the same). A measure is the most generic [...]
There’s a saying in CX: You’re not only competing against your industry peers, you’re also competing against Zappos. While folks in the shoe business can take that sentiment seriously and literally, the idea is that Customers these days are getting more used to outstanding experiences from certain brands. Besides the online shoe retailer, people point [...]
When I left my last internal, corporate CX gig to go back into consulting, I wasn’t interested in taking on another full-time job. But a series of continuing interactions with recruiters and start-up founders has made me curious about it so from time to time I poke around on job boards and take a look more [...]
I recently took part in a discussion among CX experts regarding FCR, short in our parlance for First Contact Resolution. That it used to be called First Call Resolution speaks to one point I want to make. We struggled with this in the last job I had as the Director of CX: How to even define FCR. Some [...]
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