| Our earlier articles around Successful Customer Outcomes and Next Practice talked about the importance of understanding what customers want, aligning the organization to these objectives, and delivering consistently. Here we want to concentrate on another element, one that is at least as important because it is one of the key enablers for making the changes [more] |
Three Steps to Heaven
Successful Customer Outcomes – Three Steps to Heaven? Take the Lift Just the other day I was standing in the lobby of a hotel waiting for the elavator to arrive. I had plenty of thinking time while I waited, and I was reminded of a great recent example of customer-focused innovation. I don’t know whether your [more]
New Answers to Old Questions
| In the first article in this mini-series I talked about how the most successful organizations of the moment are using new thinking to take the lead in their industries. In this second article I want to look at how other organizations can start to make the changes they need to keep up. One of the key [more] |
Successful Customer Outcomes – New Thinking for a New Age
| Two items of business news have caught my eye recently: Tesco’s latest results, cementing their place as the number one online retailer in the world and number one food retailer in the UK; and the start of the latest Stelios venture, easyCruise. Now there may not seem to be much to connect these two stories [more] |
Delivering Customer Service to reduce costs, improve revenue and enhance Service
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else”. Sam Walton, founder Walmart. And never has there been a time when this is more true. Competition, globalization, conformance, complexity are all things forcing us to look at how work [more]
Customer Age thinking – the changing face of Public Service
In many countries, the phrase public service is considered something of an anachronism. At all levels of government and government led services, customers perceive that overall they get a raw deal when compared to the levels of service they now regularly expect from privately held organizations. In this article we will explore how Customer Age [more]
A very old question, a very new Answer
At a recent senior executive seminar we were discussing the theme of Successful Customer Outcomes (SCO) and one question which cut to the quick deserves more after thought. Picture a dark, dingy Victorian meeting room in central London, the sleet slapping against the windows and it is late on a winter’s afternoon. The bright spot? [more]
New Book >> Business Process Management
Participation required…
We are on target for the next book and are now seeking contributions from interested folks who feel capable of answering a range of easy questions related to Moments of Truth, Successful Customer Outcomes and Expectations. If you wish to participate, and of course receive acknowledgement for your contribution, then let me know at groundbreak@ bpgroup.org . I will then explain more 😉
Regards
Steve
Previous Books:
2006 – Customer Expectation Management: Success Without Exception
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2005 – Thrive!: How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer
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2005 – In Search of BPM Excellence
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1994 – An Executives Guide to BPR
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The Evolution of Business Process Excellence
A theme of recent global conferences has been the mix of different approaches to improving business performance. This quest for business performance improvement as measured by reducing costs, improving revenues and enhanced service (also known as ‘the triple crown’) is a worldwide phenomena brought on by increasing competition, greater customer promiscuity, chaotic business cycles and more generally ‘globalization’. The pressure continues to increase and companies are seeking to extract every last opportunity out of their various initiatives and approaches.
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