Does it take you five hours to update your customer health dashboard, only to have three people barely glance at it? Worse yet, did someone else send out an Excel report that everyone read instead, even though you have a dashboard for their use? In other words, is your dashboard on mute? Read below for […]
Operational mistakes happen. If a company handles them well, customers will forgive the occasional lapse. But UPS’s recent operational lapse on a very sensitive item actually went from bad to worse. The good news is, we can learn from their mistakes to produce a better emotional outcome for our customers. And that outcome matters: When […]
Once you find out what a living journey map can do, you won’t have any trouble understanding why it’s so important to the success of your CX initiatives. So what can it do? Unlike a static journey map, a living journey map doesn’t remain fixed in particular point in time. It changes and evolves as […]
Far too many companies with CX programs cannot show that they are making a difference to the business. This prevents them from being included in decision making and contributing to the health of their companies. There’s a solution to this problem: customer health dashboards. Customer health dashboards are foundational to measuring and improving (and proving!) the […]
CX is all about driving customer-focused change in your organization, with initiatives that drive top or bottom-line value. And in today’s world, 10 out of 10 of those initiatives will involve technology in some way. (Actually, given all the ways we’ve gone virtual due to COVID-19, make that 12 out of 10!) At Heart of […]
Dear IT colleagues, This is our time to shine. As the world changes rapidly, your company is looking to you to deliver the digital transformations necessary to support a new reality for your customers. Those digital adoption goals set for 2025? They’ve been moved up to 2021. With urgency. This year has shown us that […]
Most customers don’t just suddenly disappear. When dissatisfied, they move over to an exit lane and chug along while waiting for an excuse to cut ties to your organization. If, like many companies, you’re not paying attention when they turn on their blinkers to make that move, you’re making a costly mistake. To avoid missing […]
Despite all the hardship, trauma, and loss endured by the global community the past few months, I can’t help but feel a sense of awe at times. I truly believe this is the greatest period of innovation I have experienced in my lifetime.
I remember the joy of getting a new Lego set as a kid, and I see the same joy in my kids now, when they do. It’s hard to contain the temptation to rip the box open, dump the pieces out, and start building. Inevitably, I’d end up with something that kinda sorta looked like […]
Chief Customer Officers (CCOs) are popping up in boardrooms across Fortune 500 companies in ever increasing numbers. Those chosen for the position often come from Marketing or Customer Support, as those disciplines are thought of as having the most interaction with customers, making them seem like a natural fit. But are those departments really the […]
