by Annette Franz | Nov 30, 2022 | business, customer experience, employee experience, leadership, tools, Uncategorized
I originally wrote today’s post for CMSWire. It appeared on their site on September 12, 2022. As customer experience professionals, the work you do to identify improvement opportunities and other initiatives to design and deliver a better experience requires you to...
by Annette Franz | Jun 29, 2022 | business, employee engagement, employee experience, outcomes, Uncategorized
I originally wrote today’s post for StellaConnect. It appeared on their site on September 20, 2021. This version has been modified to apply to employees, in general; the original post focused on customer service agents. As you know, when the pandemic hit in 2020,...
by Annette Franz | Nov 25, 2020 | business, business outcomes, change, change management, project management, risk, risk assessment, risk management, Uncategorized
Over the years, I’ve written a lot of posts about change and change management. In a post I wrote earlier this year about change and some of the learnings and takeaways from the pandemic and the business crisis that created, I noted that that we had/have a lot...
by Annette Franz | Aug 26, 2020 | business, business outcomes, corporate social responsibility, customer experience, employee experience, purpose, shareholder, stakeholder, Uncategorized
Stakeholderism. Shareholderism. Two words we don’t talk about much in the CX world – at least not in the “-ism” format. I’ll come back to these concepts in a moment, as they are closely linked to what I’m writing about today. Last...
by Annette Franz | Jun 17, 2020 | business, corporate social responsibility, culture, customer experience, customer-centric culture, Uncategorized
I’m pleased to share another guest post by Lexie Lu of Design Roast. More than 90% of sustainably marketed products have outpaced sales growth in their respective categories between 2013 and 2018. On average, these products grow 5.6 times faster than conventionally...
by Annette Franz | Feb 26, 2020 | business, games, learning, Uncategorized
Today I’m pleased to share another guest post by Paul Laughlin of Customer Insight Leader. This post originally appeared on his blog last year. I recently had the pleasure of visiting a business game being run over the course of two days for some management...
