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7 Characteristics of Customer Advocacy: A Self-Assessment
When it comes to customer advocacy, there are important aspects of equipping your organization to act within and across functions. The following is a self-assessment....
Read More >>>Managing Perceptions When Capacity Is Limited
What do you do if customer demand outstrips supply? What if there are more customers than the capacity that you have? After all, you can’t add more seats...
Read More >>>Four Words That Changed My Views
It was a privilege to speak at a recent Tugboat Institute conference, where I shared the story of meeting W. Edwards Deming early in my career. Dr....
Read More >>>Evaluating CX Improvement Initiatives
How should you assess potential projects? Perhaps there are new technologies that can help you deliver services more efficiently or sorely needed process-improvement efforts. Or maybe there is...
Read More >>>Be Bold in Doing What’s Right
When you think about innovation and growth in the future, what’s your role as a leader? Are there steps you need to take that are a little bit...
Read More >>>6 Traits of a Customer-Focused Culture
I recall a new restaurant with great food and impeccable service that quickly built a following. Referrals spread rapidly, reviews were positive, and before long,...
Read More >>>Employee Engagement: The Key Driver and 4 More
The most customer-centric organizations build on a foundation of employee engagement. What’s behind that level of engagement? As it turns out the key driver is purpose. Watch this...
Read More >>>Listening to the Voice of the Customer
The best customer experience leaders know how to listen and respond. Feedback from customers and employees is like oxygen. Your organization must have it to survive and...
Read More >>>Use a CX dashboard to cut through the clutter
The disciplines of customer experience and employee experience wouldn’t exist without access to large amounts of data. That includes, increasingly, the insights generated by artificial...
Read More >>>Building the “Frictionless” Organization—an Interview with Bill Price
Bill Price is a longtime friend and industry colleague in the customer service space. Bill...
Read More >>>Will Contact Center Fundamentals Change?
The technologies powering today’s always-on world, along with fast-evolving customer expectations, are dramatically changing the nature of how products and services are provided and supported....
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