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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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