Customer-Centric Culture

  • Best Practices for Web Experience Management

    How to Identify the Right Strategy, Plans, Tactics, and Metrics to Achieve Business and Customer Goals

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    Web experience management involves strategy, plans, tactics, practices, and metrics for all customer digital interactions. Our three best practices will deliver better customer relationships and improved business results.
    Dec. 8, 2011
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  • Developing Applications to Improve Customer Experience

    Bridging the Arbitrary Product Line and Channel Silos that Drive Your Customers Crazy

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    Customers are annoyed when they don’t encounter a seamless experience as they interact across touchpoints or product lines. Learn how to approach developing applications that are seamless for customer, partners, and employees.
    Oct. 13, 2011
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  • How To Monitor Your Return on Customer Experience

    Develop and Use a Quality of Customer Experience (QCESM) Operational Scorecard

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    How do you measure a return on investment for your customer experience initiatives? Connect real-time operational execution on the things that matter most to customers to actual bottom-line impact. Here’s how.
    Sep. 29, 2011
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  • Customer (and Partner) Segment Advocates

    Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

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    One key to success in becoming a customer-centric organization is to have strong customer and partner advocates with clout. Here are some role models and suggested responsibilities that may help you build or refine these roles for your company.
    Sep. 13, 2011
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  • Key Role: SVP of Cross-Channel Customer Experience (or Equivalent)

    Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

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    What’s the one role that makes the most difference in a company’s ability to “make it easy for your customers to do business with you”? An SVP of customer experience (or equivalent).
    Jul. 28, 2011
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  • How to Think About Your Customer Experience and User Experience Design Strategy

    Make CX and UX Design “The Unique Way We Design Products and Experiences for Customers”

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    Customer experience (CX) and user experience (UX) design are strategic differentiators. We advocate creating a unified CX/UX strategy and elevating it to one of your three top initiatives. Here are some guidelines.
    Jun. 23, 2011
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  • Providing Consistent Customer Support

    A Great Experience Shouldn’t Depend on the Luck of the Draw as It Does with Dell's Support Processes

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    Dell’s current support processes don’t appear to provide consistent answers nor one-touch problem resolution. How well does your company address customers’ moments of truth when resolving problems?
    May. 12, 2011
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  • Is User-Centered Design the Missing Link?

    Bridging the Gaps Between Customer Experience and Product Development

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    Empower UX professionals and embed them within your business units to help product managers and developers identify customer needs and develop products that are easy to use and to adopt, easy to support, and on target to meet a critical end-user need.
    Apr. 28, 2011
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  • Map Ideal Customer Experiences with Cross-Functional Teams

    Why and When to Map Customer Scenarios with Internal Stakeholders

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    There’s great value in using the Customer Scenario Mapping technique internally as a tool that helps your employees become more customer-centric, even without direct customer engagement.
    Apr. 22, 2010
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  • Five Steps to Success in Designing a Customer-Centric Business

    Chapter 1 – Customers.com 2.0

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    A 5-step prescription for customer-centric executives to design new businesses or re-focus existing organizations and win customers for life.
    Feb. 4, 2010
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  • Building a Customer-Centric Company: Lessons Learned

    Advice to Customer Experience Executives from Aisling Hassell

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    Tips from the trenches on how to succeed as a Customer Experience executive.
    Jan. 21, 2010
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  • Self-Service CX Performance

    Response Time and Availability for Key Customer Self-Service Activities

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    From the customers’ standpoint, the most critical performance metrics are response time and availability at the customer user interface (UI). If you can’t respond within their timeframes, then they’re going to abandon you for the competition.
    Jul. 30, 2009
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  • Who "Owns" Your Medical Records

    Whose Data Is It?

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    An organization called Health Data Rights has published five principles for the basic human right to access and to understand your own healthcare data and information.
    Jul. 8, 2009
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  • Planning a Theme Park Vacation around a Birthday

    How Easy (or Difficult) Is It to Accomplish on the Parks' Web Sites?

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    Planning a vacation and event? See how well the Web sites for DisneyWorld, Six Flags, and Colonial Williamsburg help you achieve your goals.
    Jun. 25, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Plan for Retirement with Financial Security

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in the “Planning for Retirement” Customer Scenario® Pattern

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It‘s valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on the outcome-based scenario of planning for retirement.
    May. 14, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Learn a New Skill

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in the Customer Scenario® Pattern of Acquiring a Skill

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It‘s valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on the outcome-based acquiring a skill scenario.
    Apr. 30, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Upgrade to a New "Model"

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Product/Service Upgrade" Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It's valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on a typical upgrade scenario.
    Feb. 26, 2009
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  • What Belongs on Your Customer Dashboard?

    Design Your Customer Dashboard to Monitor Performance on Customers' Moments of Truth

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    Tracking customer KPIs may be the cheapest bottom line boost available this year. Here’s what you should track, and why.
    Feb. 5, 2009
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  • How Customers Want to Plan a Special Event

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in "Event Planning" Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It’s valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on the event-based event planning scenario.
    Oct. 15, 2008
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  • How Customers Want to Return or Exchange a Product

    Identifying and Measuring the Key Moments of Truth in Return/Exchange/Cancel Customer Scenario® Patterns

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    Customer scenarios fall into patterns. It's valuable to know these patterns ahead of time so you can focus on how to differentiate the experience you offer. This report focuses on a typical return/exchange/cancel scenario.
    Sep. 11, 2008
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