Customer Experience Blog

Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.

The Power of Good Questions

Are we headed in the right direction? Do our priorities make sense? What would you do if you were in our shoes? At ICMI, we are often asked these and related questions (they usually come up in the context of working on specific projects or issues with clients). They...

Consistent Performance

If your organization is seeing call center workload patterns that are somewhat different than in similar historical months and years, you’re not alone. And the reasons – the economy, changes in customer behavior, etc. – are certainly no mystery. Unfortunately, many...

Is Your Strategy Working?

Given the current economic challenges, it's an important time to revisit your customer access strategy, and ensure that it is finely tuned to support your organization’s brand and your customers’ needs. All nine components should be up for discussion: Customers: How...

And Now for Some… ahem… Breaking News…

A few month back, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece that concludes that “companies are trying harder to please customers amid the recession – and it appears to be working.” The authors rightly point out that the American Customer Satisfaction Index is at a record...