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,...
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...
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...
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....
Customer experience is not a program, a department, a contact center, self-service capability, or CRM system—it’s much more. It’s an ecosystem, comprised of many components that must seamlessly work together. It’s the result of a culture and approach that spans the...