Mantras: Meaningless Words Without Support
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Can Global Shared Services and Customer Experience Co-exist?
Global Shared Services (GSS) teams do not have customers in the traditional sense. Still, the Business Units (BUs) they serve have the same expectations as conventional B2B customers: effortless and consistently excellent experiences that allow them to focus more on the customer and provide increased value. However, in the rapidly changing business environment, the original
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DO YOU STILL NEED SALESPEOPLE?
Picture a scenario where customers are well-versed in your cost structures and negotiate from a position of knowledge. This is the new reality, and for many, it can be a daunting prospect. The auto industry has navigated this terrain for over a decade, with customers armed with VIN (vehicle identification numbers) costs, ready to assert
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It’s No Longer Your Story: Why Marketing Needs A Dramatic Makeover
To win customers in this new world, brands have to learn to become part of the customer’s story, rather than the other way around. Here are some steps to become a story inspirer. When I notified them that they compete with drug dealers and not with other teams in the UK premier league, they almost
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Inspire Employees to Embrace Change
In a previous article, “CX – It Takes a Village,” we addressed five common obstacles to CX success: lack of ownership, support, and resources; organizational siloes; CX not seen as transformational; a one size fits all approach; and lack of connection to business outcomes. Another common pitfall of CX programs occurs when companies devote most of
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Cultivating Change Resilience with Active Engagement
A few years back, we launched a nationwide study of over 30,000 adults, employed full- or part-time, to better understand employee engagement. We gave participants a list of statements to explore what factors played the most significant role in their engagement at work. The study’s results added depth to our previous work that showed engaged
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Cultivating Change Resilience with a Core Cause
There are various reasons change programs fail. A few years ago, we asked 422 executives from companies of all sizes and industries about their change initiatives. The participants were asked to list the reasons they believed their initiatives failed. Surprisingly, 62% cited poor communication, 54% claimed insufficient leadership sponsorship, and 50% blamed organizational politics or
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