Strategy & Customer Service, Part 2 of 2

John Goodman, Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC), has published scores of articles including “Using Service to Grow the Top Line” in the AMA Journal, 8 articles in Quality Progress as well as BrandWeek, the American Banker and Marketing News. Business Week credits John’s research for creation of the GE Answer Center, Read More …

Customer Service include Psychic Pizza?

Next week’s podcast is the 2nd part of Where Strategy and Customer Service Meet, Part 1 of 2 with John Goodman, Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). If you missed the first part, I encourage to listen it was excellent. The 2nd part of podcast we move on to discuss parts of Read More …

Where Strategy and Customer Service Meet, Part 1 of 2

What we find is there are a lot of buzz words Big Data, Net Promoter Score, Chief Customer Officer or Voice of Customer. A lot of those are used as simplistic code words when in fact the entire process is much, much more complicated than that. For instance, in most organizations Voice of Customer is Read More …

Should the Lean Champion be the Chief Customer Officer?

I asked John Goodman, next week’s Business 901 Podcast guest, author of the fantastic book  Strategic Customer Service, fellow presenter at ASQ Service Quality Conference in Las Vegas and last but not least Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (http://www.customercaremc.com/), the question: “Your presentation ASQ is titled, “Beyond the Buzz Words”. Can you Read More …

5S applies to the Customer Journey Map

5s is a systematic corrective action technique to clean up, get organized and make this the way you do business. In service organizations, the problems identified in 5S not only rob your organizations’ productivity but also your customers. Service environments are especially prone to this waste. Often it is blamed on the lack of standardization. Read More …