Building Great Customer Experiences [Hardcover]

This book is about building and delivering great customer experiences. Many companies neglect this, but the physical execution and emotional impact of customer experiences, companies and brands may ultimately determine customer satisfaction and loyalty and commercial success. With the use of compelling examples and cases the authors show that this is key for all companies and organisations.The Customer Experience is the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Differentiating on the Physical is no Longer Sustainable The Customer Experience is about Emotions So Unknowingly we are Actually Causing a Poor Experience The Customer Experience is the Personification of the Brand So we can Increase Loyalty by Emotionally Engaging with our Customers We can Break Down the Elements of the Customer Experience and then Effectively Manage Them So you have to Measure the Emotional Impact So we are Actually Targeting and Paying our People to Deliver a Poor Experience So Leadership and Culture Effects the Customer Experience My Customers Receive There is No-one in My Organisation who has Overall Responsibility for the Customer Experience We Don't Have a Customer Experience Strategy What Next?

'There are not many people who understand the new paradigm of the Customer Experience. The emerging gurus on the subject are Colin Shaw & John Ivens with their holistic approach. We will all have to embrace the paradigm they are unlocking and focus on our Customer Experience if we are to be successful in the future. At Microsoft we understand the importance of this and are committing ourselves to this new world.' - Steve Harvey, Director of People, Profits & Loyalty, Microsoft

'This book hits the strikezone of how marketers, and organizations overall, need to be thinking to win today. It's a clear roadmap for building a high performance organization crystallized around the customer. Importantly, Shaw and Ivens recognize that emotions are at the core of all rl3v