Links for those hungry for Outside-In and advanced business process transformation

http://www.successfulcustomeroutcomes.net - 283 articles on Advanced BPM

http://bpcommunity.blogspot.co.uk/ - 200+ articles on business process transformation

https://www.youtube.com/user/snoozers69 - Over 50 videos on the theme

http://www.slideshare.net/stowers/ - More than 70 presentations (downloadable)

http://www.bpgroup.org/ - 80+ courses leading to the Certified Process Professional qualification (CPP) all over the globe through 2013/14

http://www.oibpm.com/ - for all things and links Outside In

http://www.certifiedprocessprofessional.com/ - Professional qualifications since 1992

http://www.processmiracle.com/ - FREE course featuring the Secret Sauce

http://www.bpgroup.org/their-opinion.html  - Testimonials about us

http://bit.ly/joinbpgroup - 11,000 members networking with ideas

CEMMethod update (new version pending)

In January we updated the CEMMethod (it is now on its fifth version since 2006). Before year end we will introducing several new concepts and tools. If you would like that information please subscribe to the blog and I will include you in the previews.

CEMMethod_Jan2013 from Steve Towers

Six customer imperatives for everyone

Many decades ago, as a trainee industrial engineer I was introduced to the works of Rudyard Kipling[1].

In the context of the Customer Age his sage wisdom lives on.

A renowned English writer (born in Mumbai) he influenced my life from that get go and here I pay homage to his life changing verse Six Honest Serving Men

1. Why What Who Where When How

Why do you want to measure your customer experience?  We want to understand the current state of our experience and see how it impacts the bottom line, revenue growth and shareholder value.

Why is that important?  We know that a great customer experiences leads to significantly enhanced customer lifetime value. Customers buy more, stay longer and become a part of your Awareness for future customers.

Why do you need a measurement for this? We need to get scientific about the customer experience. We need to understand where we should focus to profitably improve experiences, and to measure the ongoing evolution of Customer Experience Management.

Why is this important? Existing measures of Customer Experience are subjective and prone to bias, whether that is sample size, emotional influence or even the time of day. It is not realistic to base our future growth on a set of flaccid anecdotal measures.

2. Why What Who Where When How

What is the first step? We need get factual. What are the real measures? The hard noised objective and accessible metrics that move beyond the soft and fluffy emotional feedback.

What system do we need in place? Something that is repeatable and predictable. Certainly not the latest anecdotes from the customer service

What is the priority? To coin a phrase – where the rubber hits the road. In a very direct sense it is where the customer interactions are taking place and where the reality of the service and product offering happens. We need to measure the real interaction, less so the feelings created.

3. Why What Who Where When How

Who is the most important person in your organization? Who is the ultimate cause of all the work? The answer is the same – yes, the customer of course.

Who should lead the change to understand and develop the Customer Experience? Well that isn’t a bunch of guys doing strategy in their glass ivory towers remote to the business. Guess what. It is everyone of us, as ultimately we all walk in the customer shoes.

Who engages the organization for success? Vision is essential. Moving beyond the industrialized function specialist silos’ to the sunny uplands of customer awareness requires fortitude and leadership. It is certainly not for the feint of heart.

4. Why What Who Where When How

It is not top down, strategy driven. It isn’t even bottom up frontline informed. Where have those ideas come from? Yes the industrialized world of the 1700’s.  Wind forward to now. We are a bunch of able and skilled individuals aligned to successful customer outcomes (or we should be)

5. Why What Who Where When How
When? What are you waiting for? You do not really want to go down the road of Kodak, Nokia and Blackberry? Surely. The customers have changed. Have you? Or is the management team doing the same old same old? Light the fire. Make a noise. If you don’t you know all to well what will be next.

6. Why What Who Where When How

It is not top down, strategy driven. This is the easiest of all. It starts with you. The messages you relate. The language you use. The people you influence. Every conversation and internal exchange is an opportunity to win hearts and minds. Is it tough? Yes of course it is, however was anything ever worth doing easy? The choice is yours.

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[1] http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_serving.htm

SCO's a quick update

Successful Customer Outcomes 2013 from Steve Towers

Globe trotting - certification and customer experience

Catch me if you can at:

Edmonton, Canada – w/c 7 October

Cape Town – w/c 14 October

Hong Kong – w/c 21 October

San Francisco – w/c 4 November

Singapore – w/c 11 November

A terrific mix of in-house accreditation and audit, consultancy and good plain old training. Government, Financial Services, Aerospace, Retail and Pharma.

Review the 2013 and 2014 Open sessions at: http://www.bpgroup.org/certification-by-city.html

Or drop me a line at the office (37,000 feet).

Happy Hunting

Steve

Steve Towers, Founder & CEO
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Customer Interactions aka Moments of Truth (Part One) - develop, control, measure and manage

Customer Interactions (CI's) are taking place all the time. Are your CI's under control? Can you quantify them? and are they aligned to the Successful Customer Outcome? Some folks might think this is a mountain to climb and don't even bother to pay attention to those critical moments.

   Customer Interactions - (Click photo for full size)

High Performance Organizations on the other hand know that engineering the CI's, designing them Outside-In and keeping them owned and controlled determines every aspect of the Customer Experience.

So let's take a journey together and start with the basics. If we look at healthcare and hospitals especially we all know the smallest things make the biggest difference. Hygiene for instance.


So what are the smallest things in your business that make that massive difference?

The Process Excellence Network annual US gathering

One for your diaries - Orlando, January 2014. The Annual get together for everyone process, performance and customer orientation.

Bringing together leading practitioners, solution providers and the latest exclusive case studies.

If there is one major event in your process, lean, sigma, bpm, customer, outside in diaries for 2014 get along to this one.