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100 things you can learn about 21st Century Metrics (including our 2008 Fast+Simple survey results)
"Are you drowning in customer feedback and metrics?" including the 2008 Fast+Simple Survey and in conjunction with the Professional Planning Forum. Draft publication for the PPF conference
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7 things you can learn about 21st Century business from great companies
June 2006
This is a high level view of how you can systematically remove the dumb things your company does to customers.
Harnessing WOCAS - the Do's and Dont's
September 2006
Expanding on the learning from Bill Price in Amazon, this paper explores the success factors for making WOCAS work in your business.
100 things you can learn from first direct
November 2005
Published November 2005. Our white paper researching how first direct designed and operates its values based culture to deliver award winning levels of customer service
100 things you can learn from eBay
May 2006
Published May 2006, this white paper reviews one of the great 21st century businesses and how eBay leads and grows through its fanatical listening to customers.
first direct and the corporate DNA that makes it a winner
November 2005
This article about first direct and its award winning culture was first published in Customer Management magazine in November 2005.
100 things you can learn from GOOGLE
February 2007
The key to success at GOOGLE. Never settle for the best if you can do something to improve the customer experience.
100 things you can learn from Amazon
October 2007
The vision of Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, has been the foundation for building a robust business that puts the customer experience firmly at the heart of Amazon's operations.
Performance management - what is it?
March 2006
As we all know, steady state service is no longer sufficient as customers’ expectations move rapidly. This paper describes how you can use performance management to constantly and consitently develop delivery capability.
The commercial benefits of listening to customers
January 2008
Methods for capturing and acting on the voice of the customer often fall short of what’s needed to drive effective business change. Get it right, however, and the benefits to the customer and the business can be enormous.
The Best Service is No Service Minibook
February 2008
If you're passionate about customer service, want to challenge the customer demand cycle but need to get the customer message across in your organisation, you need the Budd Minibook.
100 things you can learn from GOOGLE
July 2008
A shortened version of our popular article "100 things you can learn from Google"
Differentiation
March 2008
Another in our popular minibook series. Differentiate yourself by understanding what is frustrating your customers every day and knowing how to drive the action to change that experience.
Treating Customers Fairly
March 2008
By the end of December 2008 all firms are expected to be able to demonstrate that they are consistently treating their customers fairly. Our minibook describes how.
Why The Best Service is No Service
April 2008
In this article Peter Massey of Budd and his LimeBridge Alliance partners in the US and Australia, Bill Price and David Jaffe, look at why “The Best Service is No Service”.
100 things you can learn about 21st Century Metrics (including our 2008 Fast+Simple survey results)
April 2008
"Are you drowning in customer feedback and metrics?"
including the 2008 Fast+Simple Survey and in conjunction with the Professional Planning Forum. Draft publication for the PPF conference