Month: December 2023

Here’s how to adopt a proven tool to transform your business performance and deliver customer experience excellence

Adopt Steve Jobs’ Strategy for Ultimate Customer Centricity and Outside-In Success

Discover the game-changing strategy that revolutionized business thinking! “The Outside-In Strategic Matrix (OISM)” – originally developed by companies like the Virgin Group, Amazon and Apple – is your key to unlocking customer-centric success.

This approach shifts focus from traditional internal processes to deeply understanding and aligning with customer experiences. Learn how real-world examples can transform your business perspective, enhancing customer satisfaction and driving innovation.

Don’t miss out on this compelling guide to redefining business strategies for the modern world. Get your hands on this insightful overview now!

Access the one-hour video tutorial and transcript here: https://youtu.be/K4d0wSbFFpg

The CEMMethod® is the Swiss army knife of customer experience excellence

The CEMMethod®, pioneered by the BP Group and Steve Towers, represents a groundbreaking approach to Customer Experience Management (CEM). This innovative method is not just a set of tools; it’s a mindset shift, a comprehensive strategy that transforms the way organizations interact with their customers.

At the heart of the CEMMethod® is the belief that a deep understanding of the customer journey is crucial for business success. The method encourages businesses to look at their processes from the outside in, starting with the customer experience and working backwards to align internal processes with customer needs.

What sets the CEMMethod® apart is its holistic approach.

It integrates advanced techniques like process alignment, customer journey mapping, and moment of truth analysis, ensuring that every aspect of the customer experience is carefully considered and optimized. The ultimate goal is to create not just satisfied customers, but true advocates for the brand.

The CEMMethod® has been applied successfully in various industries, leading to significant improvements in customer satisfaction, loyalty, and overall business performance. It’s a testament to the power of putting the customer first, and under the guidance of thought leaders like the BP Group, it continues to evolve and set new standards in customer experience excellence.

This method isn’t just about improving metrics; it’s about creating lasting, meaningful relationships with customers. It’s an inspiring journey towards a future where businesses thrive by genuinely understanding and valuing their customers.

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Steve Towers, an expert in customer experience, enjoys spreading his enthusiasm for this field through coaching, keynote speeches, books, and social media content.

He helps companies win the triple crown – the simultaneous ability to increase revenues, decrease costs, and enhance service – through the CEMMethod, which is now in version 15.

With over three decades of experience working with large enterprises worldwide, Steve has distilled the successful strategies of top-performing organizations into a proprietary methodology that can be easily imparted to CX teams and executives.

His forte lies in envisioning the future of customer-centricity, customer experience, process management and realizing long-term benefits from business transformation. Steve’s approach combines customer-focused thinking, cutting-edge technologies, and a human touch.

Steve is also an entrepreneur and an early-stage investor in software companies like Parallel.

Subscribe to this channel and reach out and connect with Steve via https://linktr.ee/stevetowers

The discussion reviews the state of play and trends

Teaser preluding the podcast with host Ran Yousef of Glassix

ACCESS THE FULL INTERVIEW AND INSIGHTS (with Transcript) from these links:

The 90-second preview transcript provides a nice taster for the main course

Prelude to the main podcast

Now, as you already mentioned there, Ran, at the end of the day, everything comes back to customer experience. It’s the customer who creates all the work for our organizations. So it makes sense that we should be focusing our attention on how do we deliver successful customer outcomes. So in the context of generative AI, that puts our whole CX world on steroids, if you like, because many of the things that we’ve been saying for the last 15 or 20 years are now able to come to fruition in double quick time.

So with those sort of things in mind, you know, setting the sort of the scene there, you know, we’ve got, we’ve got areas, I won’t dive into detail. I’m certainly not going to go technical today, but we’ve got the areas like personalization, you know, the ability to be able to understand that our customers at a singular level.

So whether we’re a B2C, a B2B, a government, a not for profit, a charity or whatever, getting a real intimate understanding of our customers and the data associated with that allows us to really [00:01:00] personalize a service and a product we can deliver. Likewise, there’s things that we can do which have always been like, you know, we quest for 24 7 service, don’t we?

We want to deliver that for our customers, but it could become inordinately expensive. But with generative AI now, we can offer that as a service where people can interact, you know, in, in multimodal models. So, you know, through the phone, through the web, you know, through their apps and anyway they want to have a consistent set of interactions and be able to capture that in a way that seamlessly can connect with customer successes.

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Steve Towers, an expert in customer experience, enjoys spreading his enthusiasm for this field through coaching, keynote speeches, books, and social media content.

He helps companies win the triple crown – the simultaneous ability to increase revenues, decrease costs, and enhance service – through the CEMMethod, which is now in version 15.

With over three decades of experience working with large enterprises worldwide, Steve has distilled the successful strategies of top-performing organizations into a proprietary methodology that can be easily imparted to CX teams and executives.

His forte lies in envisioning the future of customer-centricity, customer experience, process management and realizing long-term benefits from business transformation. Steve’s approach combines customer-focused thinking, cutting-edge technologies, and a human touch.

Steve is also an entrepreneur and an early-stage investor in software companies like Parallel.

Subscribe to this channel and reach out and connect with Steve via https://linktr.ee/stevetowers

YOU may be measuring Customer Experience in the wrong way

Measure CX Right or Risk Business Failure – Videos and Case Studies reveal best/next practices from the worlds leading CX organisations.

ACCESS THE COMPLIMENTARY 4 WEEK PROGRAM INCLUDES THE DECKS (PDF), VIDEOS & TRANSCRIPTS

The PROGRAM includes a dozen Case Studies , a Discussion of the reasons why some organisations fall into the same traps over and over (and how to avoid them).

Here’s an extract:

Here’s just one example from last week of all times where Tesla, let’s put the name out there as a warning to others, has been, over the years, the top in Net Promoter Score performance, if you like, across their particular industry. And yet at the same time, their customers are experiencing increasing issues.

See the Reuters report on Tesla’s failings: “Tesla created a secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints”

Poorer customer service has mapped through the number of complaints that they were receiving. So how could it be that they were being so successful with N P S compared with the rest of the industry? While at the same time the number of complaints have been increasing. And last week it was noted that people were gaming the system.

if you pay people for doing dumb stuff,
they’ll get really smart at it.

Steve Towers

Tesla not measuring up

They were doing this by attaching the NPS and Customer Satisfaction scores to bonus schemes. Hence, not surprisingly, the scores were going up, the scores were improving month on month, quarter on quarter and year on year, right? And as it says, if you pay people for doing dumb stuff, they’ll get really smart at it.

And that’s precisely part of Tesla’s problem. And this goes back, and this isn’t like one incident. This goes back six or seven years, and there are reports that you can get through the links later on. They laid off a whole bunch of staff in finance and marketing for actually gaming the system and being very selective about who they asked and who they surveyed to produce the right results.

GET ACCESS TO THE PROGRAM

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Steve Towers, an expert in customer experience, enjoys spreading his enthusiasm for this field through coaching, keynote speeches, books, and social media content.

He helps companies win the triple crown – the simultaneous ability to increase revenues, decrease costs, and enhance service – through the CEMMethod, which is now in version 15.

With over three decades of experience working with large enterprises worldwide, Steve has distilled the successful strategies of top-performing organizations into a proprietary methodology that can be easily imparted to CX teams and executives.

His forte lies in envisioning the future of customer-centricity, customer experience, process management and realizing long-term benefits from business transformation. Steve’s approach combines customer-focused thinking, cutting-edge technologies, and a human touch.

Steve is also an entrepreneur and an early-stage investor in software companies like Parallel.

Subscribe to this channel and reach out and connect with Steve via https://linktr.ee/stevetowers