In my exclusive column for CustomerThink in October 2016, I shared my ‘top tips’ for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. Whilst the list of seven things is by no means exhaustive, in my experience, together they provide a remarkably solid foundation to embedding the right environment and [...]
New Years Resolutions. Three simple words - simple words that many people all around the world have uttered at some point in their lives! As we usher in a new year, it is the perfect occasion for everyone to consider what they could/should/need to do differently in the forthcoming days, weeks and months. I, like [...]
In my exclusive column for CustomerThink last month, I shared my “top tips” for creating the right culture to enable an organisation to become genuinely customer centric. Whilst the list of seven things is by no means exhaustive, in my experience, together they provide a remarkably solid foundation to embedding the right environment and supporting [...]
Having been involved in the world of Customer Experience for many years, nothing should really surprise me - I have very much witnessed the good, the bad and the ugly of business behaviour. However (there is usually one of those in my posts!!), every now and then, something happens to me or someone in my network [...]
As anyone with young children will attest, the well-known TV character 'Bob the Builder' is best known for coining the phrase 'can we fix it?', followed by the cry of 'yes we can!!'. True to these words, Bob and his trusty sidekicks, Scoop, Roley and Dizzy (among others), do indeed fix things. So what (I hear you [...]
As a child growing up, no birthday party was complete without a rousing rendition of the Hokey Cokey. Also known as the 'Hokey Pokey' in some parts of the world, according to Wikipedia, it originates in a British folk dance, with variants attested as early as 1826. The song and accompanying dance peaked in popularity [...]
As customer experience has become increasingly recognised as a thing of tangibility, so has the need to adopt and embed the skills and competencies that make managing it (customer experience that is) a reality. Any ‘concept’ that becomes something requiring methodologies, approaches, tools and techniques, also requires the need for people to understand how to [...]
Ben Motteram (BM), Ian Golding (IG) and Karl Sharicz (KS) are three Customer Experience (CX) professionals living on three different continents, all members of the Customer Experience Professionals Association, (CXPA) and each possessing the passion and the tenacity to make a difference in the lives of people and businesses around the world through a disciplined approach [...]
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I love a good story. Storytelling is such a powerful way of bringing theories and concepts to life - if you are good at it, the use of stories as a way of inspiring others is second to none. Over the years, I have told a fair number [...]
A few months ago we kicked off some research based on the 6 key customer experience elements referred to as the 6 Ps principles. These were discussed in a recent article posted on MyCustomer.com. The 6 Ps qualitative research sets out to determine the extent of the influence on the success, or otherwise of Customer [...]
