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Customer Experience in Fashion Retailing: Merging Theory and Practice (Mastering Fashion Management)
by Bethan AlexanderThis text provides a holistic, integrated and in-depth perspective on the growing field of customer experience (CX), in a fashion context.Merging three core perspectives – academic, creative agency and retailer – the book takes a chronological approach to tracing the evolution of customer experience from the physical store, to omnichannel through channel convergence to consider the future of fashion retailing and customer experience. Beginning with the theoretical perspective, customer experience evolution in a fashion retail context is traced, considering the definition of customer experience, physical retail, the digitalisation of customer experience, omni-channel retail, in-store technologies and envisioning future retail CX. The retail creative agency perspective looks at how to locate and design customer experience journeys, designing harmonised CX across retail brand environments online and offline, responsible retailing and taking a human-centric approach to create visceral, wellbeing-based experiences. Finally, the retailer perspective explores real-life case studies of great customer experience from international brands, including Zara, Nike, Ecoalf, To Summer and Anya Hindmarch. Pedagogical features to aid understanding are built in throughout, including chapter objectives and reflective questions.Comprehensive and unique in its approach, Customer Experience in Fashion Retailing is recommended reading for students studying Fashion Retail Management, Customer Experience, Retail Design and Visual Merchandising, Fashion Psychology and Fashion Marketing.
Customer Experience in the Context of Omnichannel Retailing: Analysis of Marketing Instruments, Channel Integration and Customer Experience Dimensions during the Customer Journey (Handel und Internationales Marketing Retailing and International Marketing)
by Nils FränzelThe research focus of Nils Fränzel is on customer behaviour in omnichannel retailing. He focuses on the multidimensionality of customer experience and the reciprocal interactions between different dimensions of customer experience. He also looks at the importance of channel specific marketing instruments and channel integration along the customer journey. Nils Fränzel's analysis contributes to the latest research in the field of customer experience in omnichannel retailing and shows the importance of the different stages of the customer journey.
Customer Experience Management
by Bernd H. SchmittIn Customer Experience Management, renowned consultant and marketing thinker Bernd Schmitt follows up on his groundbreaking book Experiential Marketing by introducing a new and visionary approach to marketing called customer experience management (CEM). In this book, Schmitt demonstrates how to put his CEM framework to work in any organization to spur growth, increase revenues, and transform the image of your company and its brands. From retail buying to telephone orders, from marketing communications to online shopping, every customer touch-point offers companies an opportunity to maximize the customer experience and establish a bond that will never be broken.Customer Experience Management introduces the five-step CEM process, a comprehensive tool for connecting with customers at every touch-point. This revolutionary marketing guide provides cases of successful CEM implementations in a wide variety of consumer and B2B industries, including pharmaceuticals, electronics, beauty and cosmetics, telecommunications, beverages, financial services, and even the nonprofit sector.A must-read for senior executives, marketing managers, and anyone who wants to drive growth, increase income, and spur organizational change, Customer Experience Management demonstrates the power of collecting truly relevant customer information, developing and implementing winning strategies, and measuring their results.
Customer Experience Management in Business-to-Business-Märkten: Eine branchenübergreifende Untersuchung zu Konzeption, Messung und Wirkungen (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Marktorientierte Unternehmensführung (IMU), Universität Mannheim)
by Moritz TischerMoritz Tischer zeigt die Bedeutung organisationaler Kompetenzen für das erfolgreiche Management der Kundenerfahrung (Customer Experience) in B2B-Märkten und leitet Handlungsempfehlungen für die Unternehmenspraxis ab. Hierfür schafft er in einer ersten empirischen Studie ein grundlegendes konzeptionelles Verständnis der Customer-Experience-Management-Kompetenz im B2B-Kontext. In einer zweiten empirischen Studie entwickelt er eine branchenübergreifende Skala, mit der Wissenschaftler und Manager die Customer-Journey-Management-Kompetenz von B2B-Unternehmen messen können und analysiert deren Einfluss auf den Unternehmenserfolg. Das Institut für Marktorientierte Unternehmensführung (IMU) wurde 1999 an der UniversitätMannheim neu konstituiert. Es versteht sich als Plattform für anwendungsorientierteForschung sowie als Forum des Dialogs zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis. Ziel dieserSchriftenreihe ist es, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu publizieren, die für diemarktorientierte Unternehmensführung von Bedeutung sind.
Customer Experience Management in der Praxis: Grundlagen – Zusammenhänge – Umsetzung (essentials)
by Alexander TiffertAngesichts einer weiter fortschreitenden Homogenisierung von Produkt- und Servicemerkmalen wird es für Unternehmen immer wichtiger, sich über ein ganzheitliches Kundenerlebnis zu differenzieren. Daher ist das Thema „Customer Experience Management“ für nahezu jedes Unternehmen hoch relevant. Dieses essential gibt eine praxisnahe Einführung in dieses Konzept. Dazu werden sowohl zentrale Begriffe des Customer Experience Managements erklärt, als auch konkrete Aufgaben sowie Methoden für die praktische Umsetzung beschrieben. Anhand von drei Fallvignetten werden die Ausführungen abschließend anschaulich illustriert.Der Autor:Dr. Alexander Tiffert ist Experte für strategische Vertriebsentwicklung. Mit seinem Beratungsunternehmen begleitet er komplexe Prozesse zur Führungs- und Organisationsentwicklung bei Unternehmen in hochdynamischen Marktumfeldern. Zudem ist er Lehrbeauftragter für Vertriebsmanagement und Vortragsredner.
Customer Experience Management in the Caribbean: Concepts, Case Studies and Challenges
by Paul Anderson Elaine Commissiong Noel M. Cowell G. Anthony Ferguson Koen Hietbrink Jacqueline Huggins Michelle McLeod Candice Petgrave Juliana Samuel Trevor A. Smith Tiersa Smith-Hall Evora Mais Thompson Sumit Verma Nadane Y. WrightDiving into the evolution of Customer Experience this text offers an insightful exploration of the paradigm shift from customer service to Customer Experience (CX) within the Caribbean context. Unveiling the dynamics of CX's influence on satisfaction, loyalty, and business profitability, this book delves into strategic planning, employee development, data-driven decisions, and emerging technological trends, and it fills a crucial gap in the literature with: - An array of Caribbean case studies; - Enhanced theoretical concepts and a deep appreciation of customer experience management in the Caribbean; - References of best practices to address critical issues affecting the delivery of a quality customer experience. Scholars and practitioners within customer service, services marketing, customer experience management and customer relationship marketing in the retail hospitality and tourism, financial, health care and education sectors will find this a valuable resource on CX's transformative power in this region and beyond.
Customer Experience Management Rebooted: Are you an Experience brand or an Efficiency brand?
by Steven WaldenWalden shows why most customer experience management fails to improve the customer's real experience and how to concentrate on the subjective emotional perceptions that drive the customer's actual "experience" rather than the quantitative service efficiency metrics gathered by most CX tools. Customer experience management is not about managing every objective "experience" your customers have with you. It's about understanding, measuring and creating "experiences" that customers "value". So while service and efficiency are wonderful things, they represent "business as usual"; the ticket to the game, the platform from which "experiences" are created not the experience itself! The message of this book is that businesses are at risk! Their uber focus on efficiency is leading them to miss the chance to connect more closely with their customer base and deliver on the creative potential of their brand. They ignore the fact that technology is an enabler of the "experience" it is not "the experience". Customers are not data - they are people: living, breathing, contradictory, infuriating bundles of cognitive and emotionally-driven responses to stimuli. "Experience" deals with how customers think, feel and behave - the things that motivate them to act which go beyond frequently forgettable efficiency. This means differentiating by providing new and better experiences based on a deeper understanding of what motivates customers to buy. To do that we must leave the objective, quantitative, world of quality management and enter the subjective, qualitative, world of customer's psychology. Walden reboots our understanding of customer experience, showing us what it means, how to measure it, what we need to do to manage it and how we can gain financially from it. Understand, measure, create and do - but first of all, understand.
The Customer Experience Model (Routledge Focus on Business and Management)
by Adyl AliekperovFor any company, defining the most efficient marketing concept to create a competitive customer experience (CX) is vital for sustained development. The focus of this research is the creation of a comprehensible practical approach to the development of client experience: the Сustomer Experience Model (CXM). The practical application of the CX model will allow companies to create value for their customers and key stakeholders, thus generating the necessary profit and building conditions for further development. Balancing academic research and real-world applications, The Customer Experience Model provides a framework that readers can understand and utilize to implement improvements in a company. In this work the readers also will learn about application in customer experience formation of such concepts as "systems thinking", "learning organization", "Lewinian Experiential learning cycle". The role of a leader in the formation of an effective customer experience will be shown as well. Also the readers will get an obvious idea of how to plan customer experience and measure its effectiveness. The Customer Experience Model shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest both to students of business schools and universities at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners in the fields of leadership, organizational studies, marketing, and strategic management and consulting.
Customer First: A Mindset That Spells Success in Today’s World
by Jacqueline P. Mundkur Varun AggarwalHow often have you complained about poor customer experience at a hotel, an airport, with your telecom operator or even with your neighborhood grocery store? Our guess is more often than you would like. From the biggest global technology companies to the most customer-friendly brands, there are aspects to customer experience that go amiss despite large budgets or industry best practices. Through 13 relatable stories from Indian businesses, Customer First highlights lapses in customer experience efforts and how these issues were tackled or could have been successfully tackled.
The Customer-Funded Business: Start, Finance, or Grow Your Company with Your Customers' Cash
by John MullinsWho needs investors? More than two generations ago, the venture capital community – VCs, business angels, incubators and others – convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. They did so for good reasons: the sometimes astonishing returns they've delivered to their investors and the astonishingly large companies that their ecosystem has created. But the vast majority of fast-growing companies never take any venture capital. So where does the money come from to start and grow their companies? From a much more agreeable and hospitable source, their customers. That's exactly what Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Banana Republic's Mel and Patricia Ziegler did to get their companies up and running and turn them into iconic brands. In The Customer Funded Business, best-selling author John Mullins uncovers five novel approaches that scrappy and innovative 21st century entrepreneurs working in companies large and small have ingeniously adapted from their predecessors like Dell, Gates, and the Zieglers: Matchmaker models (Airbnb) Pay-in-advance models (Threadless) Subscription models (TutorVista) Scarcity models (Vente Privee) Service-to-product models (GoViral) Through the captivating stories of these and other inspiring companies from around the world, Mullins brings to life the five models and identifies the questions that angel or other investors will – and should! – ask of entrepreneurs or corporate innovators seeking to apply them. Drawing on in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and investors who have actually put these models to use, Mullins goes on to address the key implementation issues that characterize each of the models: when to apply them, how best to apply them, and the pitfalls to watch out for. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur lacking the start-up capital you need, an early-stage entrepreneur trying to get your cash-starved venture into take-off mode, an intrapreneur seeking funding within an established company, or an angel investor or mentor who supports high-potential ventures, this book offers the most sure-footed path to starting, financing, or growing your venture. John Mullins is the author of The New Business Road Test and, with Randy Komisar, the widely acclaimed Getting to Plan B.
Customer Genius
by Peter FiskHello, I am your customer. Do you see the world like I do? It's simple really. Start with me and everything else follows. Together we can do extraordinary things. Are you ready? 10 building blocks, 30 practical tools, 50 inspirational stories. From Amazon to Banyan Tree, Quintessentially to Zipcars, explore 50 of the world's leading customer businesses. The rise of Air Asia, and the collaboration of Boeing; the segmented focus of Club Med, and the customer vision of Disney; the imagination of Camper, and the desire for the Nintendo Wii; the realism of Dove, and the tribal loyalty of Harley Davidson. The 'genius' of a customer-centric business is that it works from the outside in. It attracts, serves and retains the best customers as its route to profitability and growth. Isn't it about time you started doing business from the outside in?
Customer in the Boardroom?
by Rama BijapurkarIs the Customer In Your Boardroom? The business strategies of most companies in India are marked by the supply-sided, tunnel vision of the market and obsessively competitor-centred approaches. Customer in the Boardroom? highlights the need for companies to embed customer centricity into the heart of their business strategy development process, if they are to continue to grow profitably and secure their future. Rama Bijapurkar presents a compelling treatise on how to develop business strategy around the world of customers rather than the world of competitors. She draws a sharp distinction between the 'market = industry size' and the 'market = customers with needs' bases for developing business strategy. The book proposes Customer-Based Business Strategy (CBBS), a lucid and simple framework for the successful assimilation of customer-centricity in business strategy. The framework provides a blueprint for defining and choosing market segments, developing rivalry propositions, creating value delivery systems, reading markets and gaining customer insight, reading macro trends, strengthening strategy foundation analyses, removing organizational roadblocks and more. The book draws on the author's vast experience in consulting and teaching and places equal emphasis on both the theory and the practice of bringing the customer into the boardroom. The text is replete with anecdotes, examples and cases from India Inc. and is equally applicable to both B2B and B2C businesses. Written in the author's inimitable and accessible style, the text is an effortless and effectual read. Within these pages exists the roadmap for developing winning businesses strategy that enables businesses to beat competitors by providing value to the customer, in a way that competitors will find hard to imitate.
Customer Innovation
by Marion DebruyneA new set of organisations have discovered a new formula. They combine customer centricity with innovative power. These organisations have created a completely outside-in approach to the market. They are not driven by what they're good at. They start with the market and design their strategy around it. They replace practices of the past with a new set of capabilities, which enable them to be ahead of the curve in discovering new market opportunities. This enable them to develop new products and services faster than ever before and they hit the bull's eye in the market. Whereas the traditional value chain model regards the market as the end-outcome of the efforts of the organisation, the reversed value chain model starts there. The customer is the starting point and the value chain is the result of understanding customer needs and requirements. Packed with real world examples from a range of leading global companies including Disney, Coca-Cola, LEGO, Eurex, Netflix, KLM, Carglass, Komatsu, Callebaut and more, Marion Debruyne's provides every business with the framework it needs to combine customer focus with innovation to achieve success.
Customer Innovation: Delivering a Customer-Led Strategy for Sustainable Growth
by Marion Debruyne Koen TackxMany organizations approach customer-centic marketing and innovating their business strategy in isolation to one another, missing groundbreaking opportunities for advancement. Customer Innovation, second edition, turns this on its head by starting with the customer, innovating around their needs, then building a customer led business strategy around it. It presents a well-constructed three-by-three formula of connect, convert, collaborate, laying the foundations for innovation and change, to improve the current customer journey and expand into new customer horizons. This enables new product and service development to flow with outstanding efficiency and substantial growth. Customer Innovation, second edition, includes exciting updates around co-creation and the benefits of involving customers, stakeholders and employees from the beginning. It provides guidance on using technology to reinvent traditional business models, with consumer needs at the heart. With a spectacular range of case studies, including Disney, LEGO and Johnson & Johnson, all delivered with active takeaways, this is the ultimate handbook for any leader, business or marketing strategist, ready to pave the way in a new era of customer led strategy.
Customer Insight Strategies: How to Understand Your Audience and Create Remarkable Marketing
by Dr Christine BaileyIn a noisy, fast-paced marketing world, customer insight holds the key to creating memorable, purpose-driven marketing. Customer Insight Strategies outlines the critical role of customer insight and provides techniques and strategies that will help marketers identify trends, nurture leads and understand consumers - ultimately, empowering them to grow profits. The strategies are explained in a straightforward, jargon-free manner, and can be applied to a huge range of marketing challenges, regardless of time, budget or organizational size.Customer Insight Strategies shows precisely how customer insights can be used to build a mission with purpose. It discusses many of the core methods through which customer insight can be gleaned, providing easy-to-follow guidelines for applying them to everyday marketing practice. Covering topics such as customer segments, marketing to personas and lead generation, it contains global case studies from organizations including Cisco, NTT, Refinitiv and The Co-op as well as interviews with leading business professionals sharing their thoughts on using customer insights to grow profits. Written by a highly respected thought-leader and industry influencer, this book will help any professional create truly powerful marketing.
Customer Insights: Kundenbedürfnisse und Konsumentenverhalten verstehen
by Jonas RashediDieses Buch stellt Erhebungstechniken, Analysetechniken und Modelle vor, die dabei helfen, Kundenbedürfnisse besser zu verstehen und zu bedienen. Nur wenn wir verstehen, was einen Kunden bewegt und welche Faktoren welchen Einfluss auf sein Verhalten haben, können wir die einzelnen Touchpoints der Kundenreise zielorientiert gestalten, im besten Fall individualisiert und angepasst für den einzelnen Kunden. Durch die Digitalisierung stehen an den einzelnen Offline- und Online-Touchpoints immer mehr digitale Daten zur Verfügung. Immer performantere IT-Lösungen, das maschinelle Lernen sowie neuronale Netze erlauben es uns, diese umfangreichen Datenmengen zu diesem Zweck auszuwerten. Jonas Rashedi zeigt kompakt und praxisnah, wie das gelingt.
Customer Insights mit Archetypen: Wie Sie mit archetypischen Metaphern Zielgruppen besser definieren und verstehen können (essentials)
by Jens Uwe Pätzmann Yvonne AdamczykJedes Unternehmen möchte seine Kunden bestmöglich verstehen und jagt nach Customer Insights, um motivationale Barrieren und Verstärker der Zielgruppe im Hinblick auf Geschäftsmodelle, Produktinnovationen, Service Design, Personas, Creative Briefs, Claims und Storytelling besser verstehen zu können. Die Autoren zeigen, wie man archetypische Metaphern, z.B. den Fels in der Brandung, nutzt, um Customer Insights zu identifizieren, die das kollektive Unbewusste ansprechen, Emotionen erzeugen und dadurch Handlungen auslösen. Ergebnis ist ein Kompass, der den Weg zu treffgenauen inneren Bildern aufzeigt.
Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines
by Frederik D. Wiersema Fred Wiersema Michael TreacyTo today's customers, value can mean any number of things, from convenience of purchase to after-sale service and dependability. But that doesn't mean companies have to excel at everything. A study of over 40 companies found that market leaders like Dell Computer, Home Depot, and NIKE succeed by narrowing their business focus, not by broadening it. They concentrate on one of three value disciplines--operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership--and align their entire operating model to serve that discipline. Companies should choose a value discipline that fits with their existing capabilities and culture and then push themselves relentlessly to sustain it. And they should willingly change their operations to support that value discipline.
Customer-Introduced Variability in Service Operations
by Frances X. FreiPresents a typology of customer-introduced variability and offers guidance on how to manage each type. Central to the ideas developed is how to mitigate the effects of the apparent trade-off between reducing variability and diminishing the service experience or accommodating variability and compromising operational efficiency.
The Customer Is Always Wrong: An Unhinged Guide to Everything That Sucks About Work (from an Angry Retail Guy)
by Scott SeissCustomers want you to magically produce something from the back room. Bosses schedule you on your day off. Corporate policies are mandated that make zero practical sense. Sound familiar?If you've ever worked in customer service (or any job, really), you know that everyone else—the customer, the boss, the company—is always right, and never the employee. Well, lucky for you, the "Angry Retail Guy" is more furious—and funnier—than ever in this hilariously unhinged guide to all the things we wish we could say out loud at work . . . without getting fired. In The Customer Is Always Wrong, you'll laugh (and maybe cry) at this rant-filled, illustrated attack on all the frustrating things that suck about work.Expanding on the ire-filled, laugh-out-loud viral videos that have made him a (whispered) workplace name, Scott Seiss joyfully eviscerates not only overbearing customers but every annoying aspect of work like purposeless job interview questions, debatable brand values, and the walking human trainwrecks that are our bosses. Scott guides you all the way from first applying to the job, to inevitably gritting your teeth and smiling on your last day when that one manager you despise says, &“Come back and visit us!&”The Customer Is Always Wrong is for anyone who:Is tired of their "raise" being as close as scientifically possible to 0 percentWants to tell their boss that not even the self-checkout machines want to work hereIs prepared to tell the next customer who asks to see the manager that the manager has no idea what's going on eitherCalls in sick whenever their PTO request is deniedBelieves entering a store five minutes before it closes should be illegalExplains, on a weekly basis, why someone can't use a coupon that expired 17 years agoIs physically repulsed by the phrase, "At this company, we're a family. . . ." This tongue-in-cheek commiseration for workers will make you laugh out loud at the things that drive you crazy in the workplace. With Scott's signature rants, funny anecdotes, and absurd musings, this book celebrates and empowers underpaid and overworked employees with an uproarious, illustrated ode to what we really think about our jobs and the customers that come with them (except the ones who read this book, of course).
Customer Is King: How to Exceed Their Expectations
by Robert CravenUpdated eBook editionWhat happens to your customers when you do business with them? Customer is King helps you to approach the problem from the point of view of the clients and work towards the level of customer satisfaction that makes them come back to you again and again.Practical and packed full of easy-to-understand advice, you'll find:* checklists and worksheets* case studies of real businesses* frequently asked questions
The Customer Is Not Always Right: Hilarious and Horrific Tales of Customers Gone Wrong
by A.J. AdamsService workers share their funniest and most cringeworthy stories of difficult, demanding, and just plain mind-boggling encounters with the public . . . “Ma’am, the rules clearly state that you cannot have any liquids over 3.4 ounces in your carry-on. If you’d like to, you could—”“But that’s not a liquid!”“Excuse me, ma’am?”“It’s not a liquid! It’s water!”Retailers, restaurants, and tech support providers believe service is king, but in The Customer Is Not Always Right, A.J. Adams proves that customers will do anything they can to put that motto to the test.Enjoy tales from the creator of the popular website Not Always Right, including half that are previously unpublished, showcasing customer-relations horror stories everyone can relate to. No matter what side of the counter you’re on, there are hilarious accounts about everything that can go wrong between the customer and retail or service provider. Whether it's a confrontation in the drive-through over not enough fries or arguing over a one-cent price difference on milk, this book proves the principle of “the customer is always right” can be dead wrong.
Customer Knowledge Management: Improving Customer Relationship through Knowledge Application (Management for Professionals)
by Silvio WildeManaging and transferring knowledge - at the right time, in the right place and with the right quality for customers - enables companies to survive in times of fierce competition. The focus of this work is therefore on Knowledge Management and Customer Relationship Management. The theoretical part comprises several approaches to knowledge, its transfer and the barriers to be overcome when sharing knowledge. This is followed by a description of CRM and CKM (Customer Knowledge Management), outlining how crucial their successful use is. The practical part explores on the one hand the dependence on knowledge and on the other hand its availability for a good customer relationship. It includes a case study that investigates both the administrative and the operational area of a concrete company. The survey results are then discussed in detail, key success factors identified and mistakes pointed out. After this critical analysis, final recommendations are given that every company can benefit from.
Customer Knowledge Management: Leveraging Soft Skills to Improve Customer Focus (Management for Professionals)
by Silvio Wilde Soumit SainCustomer focus is the most important challenge of the future. Providing good customer service depends on how well companies know their customers and clearly identify their needs. Availability of customer knowledge, which is knowledge from, for and about the customer, thus becomes crucial in offering customized products or services. This can be gained most efficiently from direct interaction with customers, but requires the use of interpersonal and organizational soft skills. This book presents the interrelationship between customer knowledge management, customer focus and soft skills and also provides concrete advice on how the management of customer knowledge can be optimized.
Customer Knowledge Management in der Konzeptphase der Neuproduktentwicklung (Kundenmanagement & Electronic Commerce)
by Florian BöckermannDie kontinuierliche Entwicklung und Vermarktung von Neuprodukten ist eine zentrale Voraussetzung für den nachhaltigen Geschäftserfolg von Unternehmen. Dabei ist die Generierung sowie sorgfältige Verarbeitung und Nutzung des Kundenwissens essenziell. Auf Basis theoretischer und empirischer Erkenntnisse sowie einer qualitativen Studie entwickelt Florian Böckermann ein Customer Knowledge Management (CKM)-Konzept, in welchem das im Rahmen der Neuproduktentwicklung besonders relevante spezifische Wissen der Kunden berücksichtigt wird. Auf Grundlage einer industrieübergreifenden empirischen Untersuchung gibt der Autor Hinweise zur Gestaltung des CKM in der Konzeptphase der Neuproduktentwicklung sowie eines Unternehmensumfeldes zur effektiven Umsetzung von CKM. Er zeigt darüber hinaus, dass CKM einen positiven Einfluss auf den Innovations- und Unternehmenserfolg besitzt.