In the inaugural episode of a new series focusing on industries, guest host Pat Gibbons welcomes James Bampos from NetApp to discuss customer experience in the tech space.
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Johnson Controls is a huge company, with over 100 brands in over 150 countries, and managing a global customer experience program is no small undertaking. Guest host Pat Gibbons interviews Johnson Control's Matt Inman on how the manufacturing industry maintains a CX program.
Customer experience for a global software giant is no small task. Steve's guest Tabitha Dunn, global vice president of customer insights, experience and transformation at software company SAP, describes how she started her career in CX and how she manages customer experience efforts for a global enterprise.
Steve welcomes Kitty Radcliff, vice president at Walker Information, to discuss some of the more notable differences between various industries including health, financial services, and technology.
In a continuing series featuring the luminaries of customer experience, Steve welcomes Bob Azman to the podcast and discusses how he started his CX career, his time leading the CXPA, and his experience in CX on a global scale.
In a conversation on customer experience in the healthcare industry, Steve welcomes Robert Tangeman, director of customer experience at Exactech, a healthcare manufacturing company. They discuss the complexity of navigating CX in the healthcare space and how Robert was able to develop a program from scratch.
An organization's culture is critical to making customer experience work. Steve welcomes Ann Schrader and Denise Hinkeldey from Farm Credit Services to discuss their CX program and how the culture helps motivate employees to keep the customer experience a priority within their company.
Producer Chris Higgins takes listeners on another trip in the "way-back" machine to listen to some of our favorite "take-home value" moments in our Luminary series.
An episode recapping the 2019 CXPA Insights Exchange with guests Pat Gibbons and Chris Woolard, hosted by producer Chris Higgins.
In the first episode of a new series focusing on best practices for CX professionals, Steve welcomes Jessica Gregory, associate vice president for advisory services and analytics expert to discuss how analyzing customer data can bring you powerful insights to help drive your customer experience program.
Continuing the series focusing on best practices, Steve welcomes Nick Frunzi, chief customer officer at Esri, a world leader in GIS mapping and spatial analytics software, to discuss the importance of empowering cross-functional teams with your company’s customer experience efforts.
Finding time and methods to communicate CX efforts across a company with 900+ employees can be challenging. Steve welcomes guest Mark Slatin to discuss how Sandy Spring Bank synchronizes all their CX efforts through an innovative educational program that includes cross-functional activities.
Continuing the Best Practices series, Steve welcomes the chief customer experience officer for the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Alison Circle, for a discussion on CX within the not-for-profit space and how the organization has adapted to disruptions in the normal model for libraries.
For a discussion on how to move a not-for-profit organization from making decisions based on gut instinct to utilizing customer feedback, Steve welcomes Andrea Krohnberg, senior director of customer experience at the YMCA Twin Cities in Minneapolis. They discuss how she led the effort to make customer insights and data a key decision-making driver in the organization and how it improved their CX efforts.
Guest host Pat Gibbons welcomes Walker expert Dereck Mobley for a discussion on how customer experiences professionals can plan corporate events around customer feedback to bring better awareness of your company’s CX efforts to the organization.
Customer experience professionals work with a ton of data, but often find that they don’t have time to read some of the most insightful sources of information: customer comments. Steve welcomes Joyce Gott, a marketing research manager at Anthem, Inc. for a discussion on the importance and value of bringing customer comments to life within your company.
It might sound like more work but sometimes building a CX program from the ground up has its advantages. Steve welcomes guest Roberta O'Keith of Murphy-Hoffman Company, a full-service truck dealership, to discuss how she started customer experience programs in companies that had no such efforts in place.
Producer Chris Higgins blows the dust off the "way back machine" to revisit the take-home value from our CX experts in our "Industry" series of episodes.
Don’t Forget the Customer in Your Customer Journey Map
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Creating a meaningful journey map can be a lengthy and expensive process and it's tempting to cut corners. Steve's guest Jim Tincher, founder and mapper-in-chief of Heart of the Customer and co-author of "How Hard is it to Be Your Customer", explains why hastily created journey maps can give you a false picture of your customers.
Senior living is much more than simply providing a service to a customer. Families depend on the care and attention living facilities provide to their loved ones. Steve welcomes Jonathan Ruchman and David Pruett of Brookdale Senior Living to discuss how they manage a CX program that includes over 800 living facilities across 45 states.