by Annette Franz | Sep 8, 2021 | action, change, change management, customer experience, CX vision, employee experience, leadership, Uncategorized, vision
You know you need to make changes in the business, but there are competing forces, those that help to drive the change and those that impede the change. How do you identify and then solve for each of those and, ultimately, bring everyone together? I’ve written...
by Annette Franz | Sep 1, 2021 | customer experience, customer experience design, design thinking, personas, product design, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Seth Godin’s concept of finding your Who, which is all about identifying who your products are for. The Who isn’t defined by demographics but by psychographics: their (customer) beliefs, their dreams, their desires. It’s a...
by Annette Franz | Aug 25, 2021 | change, change fatigue, change management, customer experience, employee experience, leadership, Uncategorized
The following is a modified excerpt from my book, Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business), available now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. Transforming your business to one that puts...
by Annette Franz | Aug 18, 2021 | alignment, change, change management, leadership, Uncategorized
I’ve written about change and change management several times over the years, especially last year. After all, customer experience management really is (all about) change management. Change is hard. Well, it can be. But it’s especially hard when not...
by Annette Franz | Aug 11, 2021 | alignment, culture, customer experience, leadership, Uncategorized
A couple months ago, I wrote about the difference between consensus and alignment and why that’s important to know. Back then I wrote: In business and especially in our customer experience work, we seek alignment – from both executives and employees. Executives...
by Annette Franz | Aug 4, 2021 | culture, customer experience, customer-centric culture, Uncategorized
“How do you keep the customer top of mind when everybody is working remotely right now?” This was the question that Ben Motteram and I tackled on one of our recent calls. The following is a transcript of the call. BM: Let’s start with how you keep the customer top of...
