Metrics & Values

  • How to Get From Product 2.0 to BIZ 3.0

    Redeploy your Product-related Web 2.0 Services to Help Customers Reach Their Goals

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    Web 2.0 offers the ability to support each product lifecycle phase with Internet-enabled services. We call this approach: Product 2.0.
    Feb. 15, 2007
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  • Chief Customer Officer

    Jeanne Bliss Explains How to Overcome Organizational Barriers to Attain a Customer-Centric Culture

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    This book, Chief Customer Officer, is an accurate and useful guide that will help anyone understand how to move your organization through the steps required to shift your company’s culture to deliver a great customer experience.
    Jul. 13, 2006
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  • Search Experience Metrics

    Key Indicators You Should Be Tracking for Customer Search Experience

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    A great search experience is the starting point for an acceptable customer experience. There are 2 metrics that will tell you how well your company performs against customer expectations.
    Jul. 6, 2006
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  • Koko Fitness

    Discovering Baby Boomers’ Health and Fitness Issues

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    Koko Fitness is a new start-up company that was designed from the outside in—starting with customers’ desired outcomes.
    Apr. 13, 2006
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  • Identifying Operational Customer Experience Metrics

    How to Spot What Matters Most to Customers and Turn Those “Moments of Truth” into Metrics You Can Track

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    This report provides an overview of operational customer experience metrics: What are they? Why do they matter? How do other companies identify and monitor them? How might you discover your customers’ metrics?
    Aug. 4, 2005
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  • Return on Customer

    Peppers and Rogers Popularize an Important Concept

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    Patricia Seybold reviews and recommends Don Rogers’ and Martha Peppers’ new book—Return on Customer—which continues the arguments that Seybold laid out in The Customer Revolution in 2001.
    Jul. 21, 2005
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  • Concerns of Customers.com Visionaries in Q2 2005

    Issues, Initiatives, and Requirements from Customer-Centric Executives in Q2 2005

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    Our hand-picked group of visionaries are committed to making it easy for their customers to do business with them. Here are the top-of-mind issues facing customer-centric visionary leaders in the first half of 2005.
    Jul. 7, 2005
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  • A Call for Accounting Transparency: The Value of Customers and Brands

    New Rules for Disclosing Intangible Assets Will Require Reporting on Customer and Brand Assets

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    Accounting rules are about to change. Soon, your company will be required to break out the value of certain intangible assets on your balance sheet. Will you be ready?
    Jun. 2, 2005
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  • Establishing and Nurturing a Customer-Centric Culture

    Lessons Learned from the Masters (Caterpillar Financial Services, Harrah’s Entertainment, and Lands’ End)

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    How do you build and nurture a customer-centric culture? Here are some lessons learned from three very different kinds of companies: Caterpillar Financial Services, Harrah’s Entertainment, and Lands’ End.
    May. 5, 2005
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  • What Are Customer Experience Best Practices?

    Summary of Our Findings from the APQC Total Customer Experience Benchmark and a Report Card for You

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    Here’s our high-level summary of the best practices that we discovered in a recent conference conducted by the American Productivity and Quality Council between 10/04 and 4/05. We include a Customer Experience Report Card you can use to rate yourselves.
    Apr. 28, 2005
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  • Design Your Quality of Customer Experience (QCE) Scorecard

    Create a Small, Focused Set of Metrics; Measure What Matters to Your Customers

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    We offer three best practice examples and describe the eight steps you can take to create your own QCE(SM) Scorecard.
    Mar. 24, 2005
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  • Banks Measure What Matters to Customers—and Improve Service

    Leading Practitioners Now Measure the Quality of Customer Experience

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    Banks and other financial services firms are focusing on the Quality of Customer Experience for critical customer scenarios. Here are a couple of examples of how banks are measuring and improving what matters to their prospects and customers.
    Sep. 23, 2004
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  • What Does Availability Actually Mean?

    Weighing Five 9s, Customer Experience, Business Results, and the IT Report Card

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    Availability may be Five 9s, but what did we actually measure? Why?
    Apr. 10, 2003
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  • A Better Way to Measure ROI

    Measuring What Matters to Customers Drives Revenues & Reduces Redundant Overhead

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    In the Customer Economy, the only way to gain budget approval is to measure the time and costs you save your customers and justify your IT expenditures based on the increased revenues and customer retention you’ll gain.
    Nov. 21, 2002
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  • How to Prioritize Your Roadmap Using Customer Experience & Value

    Rationalizing Your IT Services Across Projects and Business Units

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    Here’s a method for incorporating the Customer Experience into your IT planning.
    Nov. 7, 2002
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  • Designing a Customer Flight Deck(SM) System - Customer Goals

    Step 2: Create the Customer Numbers/Depth of Customer Relationships Section

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    The second step in creating a useful Customer Flight Deck is to review your company’s growth objectives. This will give you a basis for determining how to track your performance.
    Feb. 8, 2002
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  • Designing a Customer Flight Deck(SM) System - Customer Segmentation

    Step 1: Select a Customer Segment to Monitor

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    The first step in creating a useful Customer Flight Deck is to identify what customer segments you want to track. Focus on how and why customers buy.
    Jan. 31, 2002
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  • What Comes After CRM?

    Customer-Led Business Transformation

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    Investing in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy and system won’t give you sustainable profitability. Instead, you need to redesign your company’s business processes from your customers’ point of view.
    Nov. 8, 2001
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  • Designing a Customer Flight Deck(SM) Performance Management System

    Introducing a Performance Management System for the Customer Economy

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    Designing a Customer Flight DeckSM System can help you move your company from being product-centric to being customer-centric.
    Oct. 25, 2001
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  • The Future of Enterprise Management

    By 2005, Today’s Top Solutions Will Be Irrelevant and Inexpensive

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    Enterprise systems management as we know it today is on the way to irrelevance. It is about to be replaced by a new wave of enterprise management solutions.
    Sep. 6, 2001
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