In my previous column I described the need for a quantum leap in customer service. The next important question for organizations ready to take this step is then: how do I achieve this quantum leap? In this column, I’ll be describing a concept that helps organizations implement this change in practice: customer signals management. Let’s […]
Customer centricity: nature or nurture?
In the dialog with companies nowadays, you will be hard pushed to find a company that isn’t talking about ‘customer centricity’. Sentences such as ‘we need to be more customer centric’ and ‘we need to focus more on the customer’ regularly pass by. So what is customer centricity (see this table that compares product-, customer- […]
Net Promotor Score (NPS) : New hype…?
A few weeks ago, a participant in my PhD research took the wind out of my sails with a term which was new to me: the ‘Net Promoter Score’ by Frederick Reichheld (also known as the author of my ‘bible’: ‘The Loyalty Effect‘ – Dear management, if you still have any doubt regarding the financial […]