The Golden Rule and the Customer

Recently, I read a post from Don Peppers, talking about what it would take to make a genuinely trustable airline.  In his post he refers to the Golden Rule, "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you." That sparked a thought in my mind about how we treat our customers today.

Do we really follow this rule? A bigger question is, do we need to?

Customer Experience Innovation: Does Innovation Require a Framework?

Recently, I shared an interesting article, on one of the social network sites, that I had read about Customer Experience Innovation. Among the comments that I got, one was regarding organizations going about customer experience innovation by requiring employees to simply "do it". Without a framework or a business plan or strategy behind it.

Do Business Processes Strangle Creativity?

When discussing business strategies, whether these be for CRM, CEM, or just plain BPM, organizations try to understand and plan for every eventuality using processes. Flowcharts and call scripts are the answer to all conversations with the customers.

Lets look at the some basic customer conversations. Starting with product design and development, we rely on surveys and focus groups working on a scripted and finite set of questions. Marketing, sets up automated campaigns to generate leads. Sales scripts have always been infamous for stereotyping customers. Customer services and support processes are optimized using scripted IVRs.