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A week’s worth of #CXQOTD

I've been busy this week teaching summer session at the US Air Force Academy so haven't been posting here.  But I have found the time to respond to a bunch of CX Questions of the Day: Monday, Jeremy was asking about Journey Mapping: https://twitter.com/NicholasZeisler/status/1275139506824515592 Then, Tuesday, Neal Topf popped in to sub for Jeremy with a [...]

By |2020-08-29T00:22:18+00:00June 27th, 2020|CX Strategy, CXQOTD, Leadership, VoC|Comments Off on A week’s worth of #CXQOTD

Making the best of a bad situation

There’s saturation of Covid-19/coronavirus blogging these days, so I’m mostly avoiding it.  Naturally with a caveat like that, this’ll be a post about…Coronavirus of course.  But this isn’t about coping or stress or health-in-a-lockdown or how-everything-will-be-different or whatnot. Right as everything was beginning to hit, I was actually in Las Vegas speaking at a conference.  [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:42:41+00:00May 7th, 2020|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Making the best of a bad situation

Engendering a risk-taking culture

Business philosophers, book writers, keynote speakers, and basically anybody with an opinion on the subject will say that one key to success for an organization is to foster and encourage creativity and curiosity.  That’s surely a good start, but where the rubber really meets the road and awesome things start happening is when members of [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:42:57+00:00May 5th, 2020|Consulting, CX Culture, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Engendering a risk-taking culture

First steps toward showing ROI

On several occasions I’ve had the opportunity to share an anecdote about a leader who once, in exasperation during a conversation I was having with him about Customer-centricity sort of threw up his hands a bit and exclaimed, “well, Z, we could just give every Customer a Ferrari, then they’d be happy.”  Without missing a [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:41:20+00:00April 28th, 2020|CX Thoughts, Leadership, Measures & Metrics, ROI of CX|Comments Off on First steps toward showing ROI

Hiring your CX Team

One of the most fulfilling things I’ve ever done as a leader was build a team.  Whether I’m actively looking or get a random call from a recruiter, usually the most intriguing potential aspect of a job is getting to hire people for a team.  I’ve learned a lot of lessons over the years about [...]

By |2020-08-29T19:41:08+00:00April 24th, 2020|CX Culture, CX Jobs, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Leadership|Comments Off on Hiring your CX Team
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