Customer Experience Management Best Practices
Tools, techniques, and case studies catalyze your customer experience management success. Peruse ClearAction articles, podcasts and webcasts, and ask how these best practices can be customized to your specific needs.81% of companies with strong capabilities and competencies for delivering customer experience excellence are outperforming their competition.(1)
Customer Centricity
70% of best-in-class adopters of customer experience management use customer feedback to influence strategic decisions, compared to half of industry-average organizations and 29% of laggards.(2)- Customer Experience is Decided by You article
- Loyalty is Not Just for Customers article
- Customer-Centricity Means Customer-Centric BKM: Amazon, USAA, Zappos
- Culture of Trust for Customer Experience Management BKM: Kimpton, Cisco
- Customer Retention Begins With Trust article
- Customer Retention Strategies webcast (18:37)
- Improve Customer Experience by Overcoming Ethnocentric Customer-Centricity article
- Double-Check Assumptions & Motives to Improve Customer Experiences article
- 4 Building Blocks for a Customer-Centric Culture article
- Building a Customer-Centric Culture article
- Customer Experience Management Improves Brand Value article
- Growing a Customer Care Culture by Hiring Right BKM: Southwest, Nordstrom, Ritz-Carlton
- Customer-Centric Culture: Engaging Employees & Customers webcast (25:18)
Voice of the Customer
26% of companies rate themselves as good or excellent in creating a complete and integrated view of each customer across multiple products and channels, or at making a current view of necessary customer information available to all customer touchpoints.(1)- Customer Experience is Best Defined by Customers article
- Customer Experience Metaphors Offer a Wealth of Insights article
- Customer Experience Insights by Stepping into the Customer's Shoes article
- Customer Experience is Well-Defined by Metaphors BKM: Procter & Gamble
- The Art of Listening, to Improve Customer Experience article
- Please Give Us a Highly Satisfied Rating article
- Customer Experience Management Using Social Media BKM: Wells Fargo
- Customer Experience Social Media Conversations BKM: Dell
- Customer Experience Data: Untapped Gold Mines BKM: Cisco
- Customer Experience Data Integration for a 360-Degree View BKM: Hewlett-Packard
- Customer Experience Research & Customer Outcomes article
- Why Customer Satisfaction Surveys are Not Customer-Centric article
Employee Engagement
76% of companies motivate employees to treat customers fairly; 62% provide the right tools and training to earn customers' trust; 42% agree that they can do what is right despite the pressure to make current-period financial numbers.(1)- Empower Employees to Deliver Great Customer Experiences BKM: JetBlue, Applied Materials, EMC
- Everybody Has a Customer article
- Do the Whole Job for Customer Experience Success article
- 5 Keys to Employee Engagement in Customer Experience Management article
- Energize Your Customer Experience Strategy BKM: Symantec
- 5 Keys to Employee Engagement in Customer Experience Management webcast (17:15)
- Internal Branding is Central to Customer Experience Management article
- Interaction Bridges for Customer Commitments article
- Interaction Bridges for Employee Engagement webcast (13:02)
- Recognize Employees for Improving Customer Experiences BKM: Applied Materials, Coca Cola Enterprises
- Change Management: Strategy Execution & Ongoing Results webcast (20:44)
Customer Experience Innovation
51% of companies that are investing at least 10% in customer experience efforts are reaping referral rates of 10% or more; only 22% of companies that are investing less than 1% in CEM achieve referral rates of 10% or more.(3)- 10 Tips for Inventing Great Customer Experiences article
- Improve Customer Experiences by Borrowing Ideas article
- Rules of the Game for Customer Experience Innovation article
- Customer Experience Innovation Covers the Experience Spectrum article
- What's Your Customer Experience Value Quotient? article
- Innovating the Superior Customer Experience webcast (24:09)
Proactive Customer Experience Management
80% of companies want to use customer experience as a form of differentiation, yet only 11% have a "very disciplined" approach to customer experience management.(4)- Customer Experience Management: Walking the Talk BKM: IBM, Toyota, Intuit, JetBlue, Enterprise
- Customer Experience: Actions Speak Louder Than Words article
- Make Good Customer Experiences Easy article
- Customer Satisfaction Cliffhangers: Close the Loop article
- Customer Survey Actions & Feedback to Customers BKM: Boeing, Motorola, Symantec
- Customer Complaints: Love Those Lemons article
- Customer Experience Management Balances Giving & Getting article
- Customer Experience Management Prevents Hassles BKM: Cisco, Virgin Mobile
- Customer Experience ROI by Leveraging Customer Data article
- Customer Experience Improvement on a Tight Budget article
- Customer Experience Management on a Tight Budget webcast (13:12)
- Customer Experience Management is a Lucrative Opportunity for Marketers article
- Marketing Wins Strategic Clout by Driving Customer Experience BKM: Aon
- Systems Thinking is Missing in Customer Experience Management article
- To Improve Customer Experience, Help Me Help You article
- Customer Satisfaction Bonus Traps article
- Measure Customer Value the Customer's Way article
- Customer Experience Measurement: Is Your Focus Lagging? article
- 4 Tips for Metrics Success article
- Performance Management Tools Increase ROI article
- Customer Experience Management Metrics: Measure the Right Things the Right Way webcast (11:19)
Performance Metrics
43% of companies are using customer metrics to evaluate organizational performance; 31% are aligning incentive compensation to customer metrics.(1)22009 Customer Experience Management: Engaging Loyal Customers to Evangelize Your Brand, Aberdeen Group.
32009 Customer Experience Management Benchmark Study, Strativity Group.
42010 State of Customer Experience, Forrester Research.
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