Chief Customer Officer : Getting Past Lip Service to Passionate Action

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Pub. Date: 2006-06-01
Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Drawing on her first-hand experience at top companies as diverse as Lands' End and Microsoft, Jeanne Bliss explains why even great corporations can drift to delivering mediocrity to customers, and she offers a proven solution to break the cycle.Different divisions and departments in corporations can fail to communicate and act as a teamthey create silos instead of a superior customer experience. Jeanne Bliss shows in stark detail how profits suffer when businesses focus on their organizational charts and not their customer relationships.This book provides leaders the tools and information they need to overcome organizational inertia and deliver a meaningful customer experience. The author includes diagnostics to determine if a company's core strengths, metrics, and systems improve or harm customer relationships. With all these tools, leaders can address the organizational challenges they face with an exhaustive review of the Chief Customer Officer role and an evaluation to determine the right solution for their culture and company.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Why Customer Efforts Crash and Burn
Machine of Mediocrity: Corporate Machine on Autopilot
The Power Core
Dueling Silos: Competing Metrics, Mechanics, and Motivation
Wrestling With Customer Leadership
Leadership Gut and Guts: Real Passion or Hand Wave?
Guerrilla Metrics
Herding C-A-T-S: Customer Accountability Targets
Reality Check Audit
Is a Chief Customer Officer The Solution?
Do You Need a Chief Customer Officer?
The CEO and CCO Partnership: The Tom Sawyer Formula
Structures for Driving Change
Just in From The Front
True Life Stories of Chief Customer Officers
Epilogue
Afterword
References
Acknowledgments
The Author
Index
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