Customer-Centric Culture
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The Evolution of African Rural University
Co-Designed by Its Faculty, Students, and End-Customers (People the Grads Will Serve)
by Patricia SeyboldDiscover how 29 young Ugandan women helped shape a unique innovative educational institution. Learn how necessity led them to create a new profession. Find out how a university should measure its success. -
How Customers Want to Get Their Products Fixed and Problems Resolved
Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Break/Fix" Customer Scenario® Patterns
by Ronni MarshakWhen something breaks, customers want it fixed! And they want a common set of actions. Learn about this customer scenario pattern. -
10 Characteristics of Customer-Centric Execs
How Many Do You Embody?
by Ronni MarshakHere are 10 characteristics that every customer-centric executive should demonstrate. They range from having a customer vision to monitoring what matters to customers. How well do you stack up? -
How Customers Want to Find and Purchase Your Products/Services
Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Select & Buy" Customer Scenario® Patterns
by Ronni MarshakEach customer’s context is different, but there are patterns to what they care about in common scenarios. Measure how well you meet these customer priorities to ensure success. -
Secret to Successful Customer Engagements
Beware of These Four Things that Will Doom Your Customer-Centric Initiatives
by Patricia SeyboldIf you want to involve customers in co-designing products, services, and/or customer-impacting business processes, you should know about, and avoid, these four common pitfalls. -
10 Requirements for Personal Information in Health & Fitness Apps and Patient Portals
Personal Health Records Will Flip Control in the Healthcare Industry from Payers to Patients
by Patricia SeyboldCustomers want control over their health and medical information. What’s needed for a new wave of health & fitness apps? -
Customer Experience and Operational Excellence Success in B2B
by Andrew SpanyiRead why it's best practice to combine your Customer Experience initiatives with your Operational Excellence initiatives. You'll streamline business processes and reduce cycle time in the areas that matter most to customers. -
Angie’s List Doesn’t Arm Its Front-Line Troops
Don’t Ask for Customer Feedback if You Don’t Know What’s Going On
by Ronni MarshakA recent customer experience with Angie’s List went wrong on many levels simply because the company representative didn’t know what was going on! -
Zopa: Peer-to-Peer Lender Celebrates 10 Years
Spawned a Global Multibillion Industry; Still Going Strong
by Patricia SeyboldOver 50,000 British consumers have invested in providing loans to over 100,000 British consumers and small business owners via Zopa since 2005. Lenders have provided £770,000 of their money to their peers, in exchange for an average return of 5 percent. -
When Comcast Insults Customers
Who’s to Blame?
by Ronni MarshakWhen customers are treated badly by customer service, something is wrong. But just where does the buck stop? With the CSR? With the company and its priorities and policies? With the customer? There is probably enough blame to pass around! -
Co-Designing Health & Care with a Community
How a Prospective Provider in Boothbay Maine Is Gathering Customer Requirements
by Patricia SeyboldBoothbay Region Health Care is a start up non-profit chartered to provide primary healthcare for the residents and visitors in their region. They’re in the strategic planning stage of their project. Customer co-design is part of their planning process. -
Designing Solutions for Aging in Place
Part 1: Boothbay’s Awesome Seniors’ Initiative—First Year
by Patricia SeyboldHow do seniors design services that will enable them to thrive in their own homes? They look at what they need. They look at what they have. They experiment. -
Unreasonable Customer Policy Stories from a Real Customer
Why Justified Indignation Can Lead to Losing Business
by Irene KopelHave you encountered customer-alienating policies from otherwise respected service providers? Our guest columnist, Irene Kopel, eloquently details her frustrations with ADT Security and PayPal. -
Secure for “Your Own Good!”
Cumbersome Security Measures Create Difficult Customer Experiences
by Ronni MarshakBank of America doesn’t streamline customers’ address changes across BoA product lines. Comcast sets long, arbitrary router passwords and discourages customers from changing them—using “security” as a flimsy excuse. -
Building an Innovation Culture
Learnings and Take-Aways from Patty’s Pioneers – Fall 2014 Meeting
by Patricia SeyboldFor over 20 years, Patty Seybold has gathered a group of “Pioneers” with amazing track records in creating new platforms, products, and businesses. Here are practices they have in common that you can adopt to achieve similar success. -
A Community Fights for Its Right to Healthcare
Customers Enlist Regulators to Preserve Services In Boothbay, Maine
by Patricia SeyboldElderly healthcare customers on the Boothbay peninsula in Maine are seeking help from Maine’s Health & Human Services’ regulators to keep 24-hour services local. MaineHealth requires seniors to drive dangerous roads at night for help. -
The CaringBridge Customer Ecosystem
Millions of People and Hundreds of Companies Align around Patients’ Health Journeys
by Patricia SeyboldCaringBridge.org’s apps and tools help to provide emotional support during a health crisis. Using an online journal and guest book, each patient can provide updates for friends and family to track. -
Ten Steps that May Save (or Improve) Your Life
Prepare Now to Engage as a Patient and/or Advocate for Someone You Love
by Patricia SeyboldLet Patients Help! by Dave deBronkart with Dr. Danny Sands is a valuable patient engagement handbook. This little book should be a key resource for you and your family. You’ll learn about important steps in taking charge of your own health. -
How Amazon’s Fire Phone Enhances Its Customer Ecosystem
Firefly Lets You Manage the “Internet of Things”
by Patricia SeyboldAmazon’s Fire Phone is a significant boost to Amazon’s customer ecosystem. Mayday—24x7 customer service on your phone—sets a new bar. Firefly—identify an object and take actions—puts control of the “Internet of Things” in Fire users’ hands. -
Do You See What I See?
Why Customer Service Reps Need to Be Able to Access What Customers Actually Saw
by Ronni MarshakWhen customers can see information within their account pages on your website that your support agents can’t see, how can they trust your CSRs to really help when there are problems?
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