by Edwin Best | 20 April 2024 | CRM, Customer Experience, Transformation customer centric business
Free interactive webinar “Successful marriage between CRM & CX. May 8th 14:00 CET. This webinar covers the following two topics. Topic 1, the strategy and culture part; Every successful customer centric business is organised in 1) EX and 2) CX. Topics 2, the...
by Edwin Best | 3 April 2024 | CRM, Customer experience, Klantgericht Ondernemen, Transformation customer centric business
I am a strong believer of CRM as an – inseparable – means to the end, the business & CX challenge; Increase Customer and Employee happiness. Solve customer facing processes related pain points. E.g., breaking down silo thinking through connecting the...
by Edwin Best | 14 March 2024 | Customer experience, Customer Relations Management (CRM), Uncategorized
The Customers expectations about their brand experiences along the customer journey are subject to different changes in 2024; Under which, changes in the Voice of the Customer (VoC), making the next moves in personalization and emotional AI. To understand the customer...
by Edwin Best | 17 November 2023 | CRM, CRM Pakketselectie, Customer experience, Transformation customer centric business
Make the use of technology – CRM and CX tooling – strategic with The Golden Circle of CRM and CX tooling model. The key words for this model are continuous improvement, management by objectives and agile. Strategic? Technology is an inseparable means for...
by Edwin Best | 16 May 2023 | CRM, Customer Experience
In the year 2023, the following themes will remain the norm: agility, artificial intelligence, data-driven working and new leadership & empowerment of – hybrid working – teams. Themes that are driven by current geopolitical, economic and digital...
by Edwin Best | 21 April 2023 | CRM, Customer Experience
Silo solving must be an important part of the CX strategy! What customer wants: “get “their jobs done”, they don’t care how an organization is organized. They want a seamless – brand – experience across all touchpoints, without any hassle. But..Organizations are...
by Edwin Best | 1 June 2022 | CRM, Customer Experience, Klantgericht Ondernemen
Many organizations are organized in “silos”. Departments such as marketing, production, sales and service each with their own – “vertical” – management and KPIs. Today, under the influence of contemporary developments, this model causes problems in the operation at...
by Edwin Best | 2 May 2022 | Customer experience, Klantgericht Ondernemen, Transformation customer centric business
A Customer experience (Cx) strategy drives successful and distinctive businesses. The introduction and implementation of a Cx strategy are complex. What are the pillars of a successful Cx approach? And what are the main focus areas for each pillar? What are the...
by Edwin Best | 11 April 2022 | Customer experience, Customer Relations Management (CRM), Transformation customer centric business
April 1st 2022, the moment of celebrating my 12.5 years as an entrepreneur in the CRM & Cx business. Moments of reflection, looking back and looking forward of my personal-professional CRM & Cx consultant journey. The idea arose for a global Cx moment of...
by Edwin Best | 6 April 2022 | CRM, Customer experience, Klantgericht Ondernemen, Transformation customer centric business, Uncategorized
April 1st 2022, the moment of celebrating my 12.5 years as an entrepreneur in the CRM & Cx business. Moments of reflection, looking back and looking forward of my personal-professional CRM & Cx consultant journey. The idea arose for a global Cx moment of...
by Edwin Best | 25 January 2022 | CRM, Customer experience, Klantgericht Ondernemen, Transformation customer centric business
In the year 2022 the following themes will become the norm: agility, artificial intelligence, new leadership & empowerment of – remote working – employees and data-driven decision making. Driven by the redefined expectations of customers from services, rapidly...
by Edwin Best | 4 June 2021 | CRM, CRM Pakketselectie, Customer experience, Uitgelicht CRM oplossing
The CRM landscape is changing rapidly. Transforming best of breed solutions (specialized in a specific function) into best of suite solutions (all CRM functionalities in one suite). Take HubSpot. HubSpot has transformed in recent years from a best of breed inbound...
by Edwin Best | 3 June 2020 | CRM, Customer experience, Transformation customer centric business, Uncategorized
Article March 2020 in magazine Cx world. This article is co-authored by Edwin Best and Joost Kerkhofs, an entrepreneur and author specialising in Organisational Behavior Management (OBM), and the co-founder of OBM Dynamics, which offers globally recognised...
by Edwin Best | 15 May 2020 | CRM, Customer experience
What are the CRM trends on the minds of customer relationship management users as they look to 2020? SAP’s Marjolein de Wit – Customer Experience solution expert and guest blogger on this site – is looking at 5 trends that SAP is currently seeing in the market. #1:...
by Edwin Best | 2 May 2020 | Customer experience, Transformation customer centric business
The Gulf Customer Experience Awards enables businesses across the Gulf to compete for the ultimate accolade in the world of Customer experience. I have the honour being a member and chair of the jury. Every year I am touched off the inspiring story’s from the...