Presented by Brian Curry, Chief Operating Officer at NICE-Satmetrix, at Customer Success Summit 2018.
Many B2C and large enterprise B2B companies are experiencing the need to expand their established CX practices with the new methodologies of Customer Success. Learn how companies are managing that fusion and the impact it can make.
7. Who needs it?
If Lifetime Value is Key If CX Drives Brand Loyalty
8. Case Study 1: Cloud File Sharing
• Mid-Stage Startup
• Subscription Revenue (SaaS)
• B2C2B
• Freemium Acquisition
• Millions of Users
• Thousands of Customers
• Competitive Market
• Focused on Growth
9. 2 Areas of Focus
• LTV Growth (Particularly New MRR)
• Commitment to NPS
10. 2 Areas of Focus
NPS was a low resolution photograph taken twice per year
LTV was evaluated every quarter and MRR analyzed every week
• LTV Growth (Particularly New MRR)
• Commitment to NPS
11. Case Study 2: Voice of Customer
• Mid-Late Stage Startup
• Subscription Revenue (SaaS)
• B2B Enterprise & Mid-Market
• Hundreds of Customers
• NPS Thought Leaders
• Re-Platforming for Cloud
• Competitive Market
• Focused on Growth
• Acquired by NICE in July 2017
• Larger Program, Bigger Challenges
12. 4 Areas of Focus
• LTV Growth (Particularly Net Retention)
• Commitment to NPS/CEM Program
• User Engagement
• Customer Program Maturity
13. 4 Areas of Focus
• LTV Growth (Particularly Net Retention)
• Commitment to NPS/CEM Program
• User Engagement
• Program Maturity
NPS/CEM is a UHD movie that is always on
LTV was evaluated every quarter and ARR analyzed every week
User Engagement & Program Maturity are low resolution photographs taken twice per year
16. What is core?
• System of Record for Customer Feedback
• Tracking System for User Engagement
• A Primary System for Customer Success Mgmt.
• An Analytics Platform with BI, AI, and ML
• A System of Engagement for CX Insight
• System of Record for the Customer Profile
17. CEM & CSM combined, offer the Core Customer Stack.
CEM CSM
32. Accelerating Impact with the Customer Stack
• Comprehensive Omni-channel Feedback
• User Adoption & Engagement Reporting
• A dedicated System for Customer Success Mgrs.
• Operational Customer Support Performance
• Analytics on all of the above –in combination
• Role-based Dashboards, Workflows & Alerts
• A Repository for the Complete Customer Profile
All with integration throughout the stack.
Nature of my role historically ranges from Professor to Practice Manager to COO.
I currently manage the Product Management, UX, Customer Success, Business Consulting Professional Services and Customer Support teams
We are operating as an LOB within the NICE InContact portfolio.
We have operations that rely on Global Teams as well as resources in our own LOB.
We deploy Global Success teams, We host Global Operations.
We use the label of Customer Success Manager in a wide variety of inconsistent ways across the NICE team.
Its somewhat universal for companies in today’s market to declare an intention to become customer centric.
IMPERATIVE:
In an increasing global marketplace with
lower barriers to trade and market entry;
rapid pace of innovation,
General shift from transactional to relationship businesses
higher availability of technology platforms and cloud hosting…
ENABLEMENT
Highly connected
Digitization of Business Process and Communications
Customer Experiences and Relationships are becoming the key differentiator for acquisition and a requirement for customer retention.
OPERATIONS ARE HARD
It takes more than a statement of purpose or engagement with the market research team within an organization to make this transformation.
I have seen many companies embrace the first elements of becoming customer centric –only to fail at operationalizing their program or transforming their companies.
In businesses with historical frameworks that focus on primarily on customer acquisition and profitability outcomes its difficult to focus on the interactions with the customer as causal to the results.
This is particularly without operational processes, resources and systems that are up to the task.
To operate we need effective and efficient systems and alignment of resources
Today multiple systems and organizations are required to deliver customer centric operations.
However, 2 related software categories have evolved specifically to assist in this endeavor: Customer Experience Management and Customer Success Management. One can argue that these are two entry points to the shared problem of operating wit
In attempt to put the customer at the center of your OPERATIONS…. Companies –particularly B2B companies are often doing both CEM and CSM and using both systems to manage their programs and teams.
What is a Stack?
Not disconnected point solutions
An often layered group of technologies that work in an integrated and interdependent manner to provide a flexible foundation for you to build a solution.
Other frames of reference: Development Stack, Web Stack, Marketing Stack, etc
Full Stack Developers
We’ll talk more about what needs to be included shortly
Who Needs a Customer Experience Stack?
Any company for whom Customer Lifetime Value is a key business metric needs a customer experience stack. Obvious candidates include subscription sellers, telecommunications companies, technology providers and financial services businesses.
These businesses have traditionally focused on long-term relationships and ongoing revenues. In reality, any business that wants repeat buying, account expansion, or referrals should have a customer experience stack in place.
Whether you’re B2B or B2C, brick and mortar or ecommerce, high sales price or low, the customer experience stack lets you measure the interactions that customers are having with your brand.
These interactions are forming their attitudes, driving their behavior and determining your business outcomes.
Case Study 1: Cloud File Sharing Company
Before I came to Satmetrix I spent three years at the file sharing company Yousendit (now called Hightail). Yousendit at that time was a fast growing company with two tracks of business that relied on growing end user acquisition through a freemium business model. We attracted millions of users with our free product, and then sought to convert some portion of them to our premium subscription or company-wide solutions. While overall customer experience was really everybody’s job, as the head of products, I had primary responsibility for the customer experience with our products. This included steering product strategies and delivering user value through great features and experiences. Given that our primary marketing engine was our free product experience –it touched a lot of aspects of the business.
How did we arrive at an area of focus?
The tyranny of the 4 hour Weekly Exectutive Staff Meeting
Challenges with getting visibility to data
The conflict between user acquisition and customer acquisition
Hyper growth categories
Early days for SaaS economics like LTV, Net Retention, Gross Retention etc.
How did we arrive at an area of focus?
The tyranny of the 4 hour Weekly Exectutive Staff Meeting
Challenges with getting visibility to data
The conflict between user acquisition and customer acquisition
Hyper growth categories
Early days for SaaS economics like LTV, Net Retention, Gross Retention etc.
Case Study 2: Voice of Customer Software
Entered as the CPO looking first at Product Strategy
Product and Engineering Organization
Re-platformed and expanded to Mid Market
Eventually took role of COO and added all of the Success and Services teams
What was different here?
ARR & LTV growth –with re-platforming underway, we had a real focus on Net Retention
NPS remained a priority but given the nature of the company we could do true CEM with always on data collection
What was different here?
ARR & LTV growth –with re-platforming underway, we had a real focus on Net Retention
NPS remained a priority but given the nature of the company we could do true CEM with always on data collection
A very big bet for the company is a move to Cloud and Self-Service
So we needed more focus on measureing and managing Adoption and Engagement & Program Maturity
We aligned the company around these ideas
Even as we were focusing on building our business AND building a platform for customers to do VOC and NPS….
I could see we needed a more thorough foundation to facilitate our needs.
We broadened our investments and focus to a more through CEM approach
What does the stack for CX include?
What is core: the Big 6
System of Record for Customer Feedback
Tracking System for User Engagement
System of Record for the Customer Profile
A Connector Platform for other Customer Data
An Analytics Platform with BI, AI, and ML
A System of Engagement for CX Insight
A Primary System for Customer Success Mgmt.
For B2B companies like ours today, CEM and CSM combined, offer the core
We are still in a phase of evolution
The CX stack will co-exist with a great number of other systems in enterprise including
Marketing Automation
Customer Relationship Management
Finance & Accounting
Customer Service Center
Case Management & WorkflowWeb Analytics
We need both breadth and depth to execute and operate effectively: To get there, we use a T-Shaped model
The basic paradigm. Keep it simple.
Using this principle we build a Journey or Lifecycle as an organizing mechanism or framework for the program
Service blueprints and other versions of customer journey mapping are incredibly useful and important, but here –our purpose is to identify key points to measure in the typical high level lifecycle of the customer
Start by looking at key stages of interaction that customers engage in during their journey as your customer.
We want a framework that lets us deliver great experiences to create a kind of virtuous circle where value is accumulating and renewal and expansion are logical outcomes.
Start by looking at key stages of interaction that customers engage in during their journey as your customer.
We want a framework that lets us deliver great experiences to create a kind of virtuous circle where value is accumulating and renewal and expansion are logical outcomes.
Start by looking at key stages of interaction that customers engage in during their journey as your customer.
We want a framework that lets us deliver great experiences to create a kind of virtuous circle where value is accumulating and renewal and expansion are logical outcomes.
Each touchpoint has a primary stakeholder group
Each group needs particular KPIs and Insights
Our T-Shape model Explained here…
CEM Gets you from Data to the Dashboard for Customer Feedback
Our T-Shape model Explained here…
CSM gets you deeper use cases for the dedicated Customer Success Team that works as the Primary POC for the customer
Our T-Shape model Explained here…
We’ll need to be flexible and work with a variety of related pieces of the broader ecosystem
Nature of the Relationship: Partnership Pre-configured product integrations.
We want to talk to you if…..
If you are running both a CEM and CSM program
If you need a CX Stack solution
What is core: the Big 6
System of Record for Customer Feedback
Tracking System for User Engagement
System of Record for the Customer Profile
A Connector Platform for other Customer Data
An Analytics Platform with BI, AI, and ML
A System of Engagement for CX Insight
A Primary System for Customer Success Mgmt.
Nature of the Relationship: Referral Sales and Pre-configured product integrations.
We want to talk to you if…..
If you are running both a CEM and CSM program
If you need a CX Stack solution