Inspiration

We love sharing our expertise. Here you will find inspiring articles, books and quotes.

Articles

Experts on the topic of customer strategy in the broadest sense of the word. We share our insights and give a forum to carefully selected guest authors.

10 Boardroom metrics to monitor your customer strategy

You aim for bottom-line impact with your customer-centric strategy? Get to know the 10 boardroom metrics to have on your radar. Find …

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Too many rules: what the Corona crisis teaches us about Customer Experience

wat we over Customer Experience leren uit de Corona-crisis

The police are asking for clear rules. But the population is slowly becoming tired of rules. The COVID-19 epidemic teaches us something about human behaviour.

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Do you have to do what your customers ask?

Do you want satisfied customers? Just ask them what they want is what many satisfaction guru say. But doing so, doesn’t come cheap.

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The perverse effects of KPIs

You want to evaluate your employees on customer satisfaction. Is that a good idea? And if it is, how do you do it? How do you determine a good KPI?

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Responding to complaints? Avoid financial compensation

Financiele-compensatie-werkt-niet

An estimation error, client communication gone wrong, or a promise you didn’t fulfil? Despite your efforts to deliver exceptional services, …

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Videos

A workshop with a customer, a useful tip about customer experience or a testimonial. We would like to give you an insight into who we are and what we do.

Reading tips

Clients regularly ask us about tips for inspiring reads. Here we discuss books that we truly liked. We give the main idea and tell you why you should read them.

A Diamond in the rough: Over a 100 specific tips to build a strong customer culture – Steven Van Belleghem

Quite a few companies do want to, but they can’t. They include customer focus as one of the cornerstones of their strategy, but they do not succeed in creating a customer experience that makes a difference.

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Visual Thinking – Empowering people & organizations through visual collaboration

Based on the knowledge that 75% of our sensory neurons are visual neurons, visual thinking and visualization skills have become increasingly important in any business environment.

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six simple rules

Six simple rules: How to manage complexity without getting complicated – Yves Morieux & Peter Tollman

Do you want to change the culture of your organisation? Or are you working on a more efficient organisational structure?

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Quoted

Looking for a good quote for your presentation? We make a selection for you and check the sources. You’ll read who said what and why here.

The Net Promoter System is built on customer feedback―but if the feedback comes from the wrong customers, then what is the point?

Fred Reichheld
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It is a shame how much time and effort is wasted trying to “make the numbers” rather than trying to create the best possible process.”

J.K. Liker & D. Meier
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Martin Luther King did not say “I have a mission statement”.”

Robert Senior
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