Quality People and Customer Experience

John Goodman has managed more than 1,000 separate customer service studies, including the White House sponsored evaluation of complaint handling practices in government and business and studies of word of mouth and the bottom-line impact of consumer education sponsored by Coca-Cola USA. John’s new book, Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service takes Read More …

What do Customers Buy, Part 2

John Goodman’s new book, Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service takes John’s Customer Service expertise and puts it into a digital context.  John has managed more than 1,000 separate customer service studies, including the White House sponsored evaluation of complaint handling practices in government and business and studies of word Read More …

The Tribe of Me, The Tribe of My Group

Before Personal Kanban was published, I had Jim Benson on the podcast talking about team work. During the podcast I asked, “I noticed, on your website, where you talk about if you optimize your team and not your people, you’re not really optimized. I really like that statement. We all realize we have to make the Read More …

Lean Service Design Program Offer

Lean Service Design changes the way you think about business. No longer can companies focus their efforts on process improvements. Instead, they must engage the customer in use of their product/service rather than analyzing tasks for improvement. We no longer build and hope that there is a demand. We must create demand through the services Read More …

What do Customers Buy: Experience or Product?

Part 1 of 2 with John Goodman Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service is John Goodman new book and my guest this week on the podcast. John has managed more than 1,000 separate customer service studies, including the White House sponsored evaluation of complaint handling practices in government and business and studies Read More …

Don’t Add Functionality, Take Away Functionality

The American Management Association published John Goodman’s book, Strategic Customer Service, in May, 2009 and I think I have used it every week or at least every month since then. John is my guest tomorrow and next week on the podcast to discuss his new book, Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Read More …