Every organization is aware of the importance of customer-centricity. Delivering a great customer experience is a priority for many companies. To achieve this, all sorts of methods are used to take the customer experience to the next level. However, too little attention is paid to one key aspect: leadership.In this book, Sydney Brouwer links customer-centricity and leadership. He zooms in on the role of the leader. After all, as a leader you are responsible for creating a culture that encourages everyone to understand and act on the interest of the customer. What should a leader do to make customer experience a priority for everyone in the organization? How can he enable and encourage customer-centric behavior? By using inspiring cases and examples from companies like Disney, citizenM and BMW, Sydney takes you on a journey along eight principles that will help leaders build a customer-centric culture. A culture that creates enthusiastic customers and employees.

Every organization is aware of the importance of customer-centricity. Delivering a great customer experience is a priority for many companies. To achieve this, all sorts of methods are used to take the customer experience to the next level. However, too little attention is paid to one key aspect: leadership.In this book, Sydney Brouwer links customer-centricity and leadership. He zooms in on the role of the leader. After all, as a leader you are responsible for creating a culture that encourages everyone to understand and act on the interest of the customer. What should a leader do to make customer experience a priority for everyone in the organization? How can he enable and encourage customer-centric behavior? By using inspiring cases and examples from companies like Disney, citizenM and BMW, Sydney takes you on a journey along eight principles that will help leaders build a customer-centric culture. A culture that creates enthusiastic customers and employees.

Creating a Customer-Centered Culture shows you how to successfully apply existing traditional management tools to knowledge and service work. it teaches you to think like customers so you can implement an organizational culture transformation on your way to total quality management in a jargon-free, step-by-step way.

What do Toyota, Apple, and Zappos have in common? CUSTOMER-CENTRIC CULTURE And now, with this research-based method, you can replicate their success with your business Based on more than 60 studies and the authors’ three-year proprietary research project with more than 100 companies, The Customer Culture Imperative demonstrates that organizations exhibiting a strong "customer-centric culture" do, in fact, produce superior business performance. It provides diagnostic tools and a roadmap for effective implementation, designed to make cultural change concrete and actionable in any organization. Dr. Linden R. Brown is chairman and co-founder of MarketCulture Strategies Inc. Christopher Brown is the former marketing director for Hewlett-Packard for the South Pacific and is presently a Silicon Valley-based sales and marketing consultant.

A leadership playbook for making customer experience a core aspect of your business. In a rapidly changing world filled with uncertainties, one thing remains crystal clear: customers are increasingly fickle and no longer care about loyalty to any particular company. In addition, many well-intentioned companies are falling short of customer expectations, despite every organization’s potential for excellence. The truth is customer experience is not what it used to be. New technologies, values, generational expectations, economic instability, - and the rapid pace of change all must be considered as you forge ahead. How do you put the customer first in the face of all these emerging trends? Using cutting-edge research and interviewing top leaders across industries, customer experience futurist Blake Morgan has pulled together eight new laws that the best companies follow in terms of building and maintaining a focus on the customer. Customer experience is a decision leaders must make every day, and this book shows you how: C.reate a customer experience mindset. eX.ceed longterm profit expectations by focusing on both short term and long term profits. L.ay out your customer experience strategy creation and stick to it. E.mbark on your 90 day get started plan. A.nticipate the future by being a customer experience futurist. D.on’t forget that employees are customers too. E.valuate success and measure what can be measured. R.eaffirm the priority - keep CX front and center. Learn the laws, see how the best companies apply them, and build them into your organization to become a transformational customer experience leader!

Why do so many companies struggle to get customer-centricity right? The most common, and perhaps the greatest, barrier to customer-centricity is the lack of a customer-centric organizational culture. At most companies, the culture remains product-focused or sales-driven, or customer-centricity is considered a priority only for certain functions such as marketing. To successfully implement a customer-centric strategy and operating model, a company must have a culture that aligns with them -- and leaders who deliberately cultivate the necessary mindset and values in their employees. The book's content has 3 main parts: Part 1: Culture Is the Key to Outstanding Customer Service Chapter 1 How Corporate Culture Guides Your Employees' Actions Chapter 2 Why Culture Initiatives Often Fail Part 2: Building a Customer-Focused Culture Chapter 3 Defining Your Culture Chapter 4 Engaging Employees with Your Culture Part 3: Changing Your Company's Service DNA Chapter 5 Aligning Your Business Around a Customer-Focused Culture Chapter 6 Setting Goals That Drive Your Culture Chapter 7 Hiring Employees Who Will Embrace Your Culture Chapter 8 Training Employees to Embody Your Culture Chapter 9 Empowering Employees to Support Your Culture Chapter 10 How Leadership Can Make or Break Your Culture Chapter 11 A Customer-Focused Example Chapter 12 Making the Commitment to a Customer-Focused Culture

With emerging technology transforming customer expectations, it's important to keep a laser focus on the experience companies provide their customers. Tomorrow's customers need to be targeted today! Customer experience futurist Blake Morgan outlines ten easy-to-follow customer experience guidelines that integrate emerging technologies with effective strategies to combat disconnected processes, silo mentalities, and a lack of buyer perspective. The Customer of the Future explains how today's customers are already demanding frictionless, personalized, on-demand experiences from their products and services, and companies that don't adapt to these new expectations won't last. This book prepares your organization for these increas­ing demands by helping you do the following: Learn the ten defining strategies for a customer experience-focused company. Implement new techniques to shift the entire company from being product-focused to being customer-focused. Gain insights through case studies and examples on how the world's most innovative companies are offering new and compelling customer experiences. Tomorrow's customers will insist on experiences that make their lives significantly easier and better. Craft a leadership development and culture plan to create lasting change at your organization!