Customer Experience Blog

Expert insights on customer experience, employee engagement, and service leadership. Stay ahead with Brad Cleveland’s blog—featuring CX trends, actionable strategies, and real-world solutions to help you improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, and drive business success.

Summary of Customer Service Research

Summary of Customer Service Research

Sharpen has pulled together research and articles from various sources to summarize opportunities for improvement in customer service. Their conclusions include: The demand for omni-channel is pervasive Initial IVR systems need to be clearer and more efficient...

Customer Strategy and Management Podcasts

Customer Strategy and Management Podcasts

If you haven't listened before, you might want to check out my podcast series "Customer Strategy and Management." It includes short, to-the-point podcasts on topics such as building profitable customer relationships, customer access strategies, contact center value,...

The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have

The Measures Every Contact Center Should Have

Establishing the right measures and objectives is one of the most important responsibilities in leading and managing a contact center successfully. But there’s a significant inherent challenge, which has only become more difficult with the introduction of new channels...

The 12 Principles for Building Profitable Customer Relationships

The 12 Principles for Building Profitable Customer Relationships

Over the past decade, ICMI has studied, codified and periodically published a summary of the most important principles behind building strong, profitable customer relationships. Lately, I’ve been asked, are these principles less important? Have evolving customer...

Boosting the Strategic Value of Customer Interaction

Boosting the Strategic Value of Customer Interaction

One of the most important leadership priorities in today’s economy is to ensure that your customer contact center delivers maximum strategic value to your organization. That, in turn, is what will get you the support you need from colleagues across the organization....