I’m still confronted with organizations who are really struggling to design their customer surveys, almost on a day-to-day basis. That’s pretty logical, seeing as most of the people responsible for tackling this within the organization, have no research background. Combine that with the popularity of simple, ‘I like’-type research applications made popular by Facebook, etc, […]
It’s now been eight years since I initiated customer signals management, and it’s awesome to see it implemented by many large organizations. And that there are even vacancies advertised for customer signals management. But those same organizations almost all struggle to get customer signals management successfully off the ground. This blog explains my vision on […]
Opinions differ: some customer experience colleagues consider contact reduction to be a mistake, based on the notion of: ‘surely you want as much contact as possible with your customers?’ While I’m reasonably well known for my ‘hardcore customer protection’ stance, I must beg to disagree. I took a closer look at contact reduction a number […]
I believe the switch to thinking in and steering from customer journeys to possibly be the most important challenge faced by organizations today. They have not been designed for this structure, and the customer-centric approach regularly requires them to think outside of their own boxes. And that is tricky these days, with all the existing […]
In yesterday’s blog I described how you can simply apply customer journey steering in practice, in 7 steps. However, you require many other disciplines within your organization in order to do so successfully. So how does it work? This blog gives 7 tips to help you spread the enthusiasm within your organization. 1. Convince the […]
