Strategic Discipline Blog

In Fred Reichheld’s first book The Ultimate Question introducing Net Promoter Score, the standard for gauging Customer Satisfaction, he spoke about a specific issue that many companies have deriving what he called “bad profits” from their customers.  An example he gave at the time was staying at a hotel and having to use the phone from your room to make call. At the time of the book’s publishing many hotels were charging exorbitant fees to call, especially long distance calls.

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Topics: The Ultimate Question, customer survey, Customer Feedback, customer service, Quantitative Customer Feedback, customer loyalty, NPS

What’s you reason to gather customer feedback?   
You are collecting customer feedback aren’t you?

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Topics: The Ultimate Question, customer survey, Customer Feedback, customer service, customer survey questions, customer loyalty

Customer Satisfaction surveys should be part of your company’s regimented discipline to stay in touch with evolving customer relations.  With respect to customers, Gazelles/Rockefeller Habits coaches like Positioning Systems suggest your business have your top line leadership team calling one or more of your customers a week to conduct a personal survey of four questions to stay in close contact with your customers and then report this information as part of your weekly meeting rhythms.

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Topics: The Ultimate Question, customer survey, Customer Feedback, Net Promoter Score, customer satisfaction metrics, Customer Advocacy

Monday after 5 consecutive weeks tied to my little pole friend (IV equipment coaster) I was free for all of about 24 hours from it. I was ecstatic!  Freedom!  I could walk down the halls, to my bathroom, get up from eating without fear of being tethered to this anvil and have complete independence of movement.   I can’t tell you how upset I was when I discovered at around 1 AM yesterday morning that I would be shackled to it again.

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Topics: The Ultimate Question, Customer Feedback, Net Promoter Score, Qualitative Customer Feedback, Quantitative Customer Feedback

There are a number of components within the inner working of Meetings, Metrics and Priorities to make Strategic Discipline work for your business.  When we begin working with clients at Positioning Systems, any implementation of Strategic Discipline includes customer and employee reporting in the weekly and monthly meeting segments. This is critical due to the importance of pattern recognition and the need for balance in your business metrics and priorities.

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Topics: The Ultimate Question, customer survey, Customer Feedback, Net Promoter Score, weekly meetings, customer satisfaction metrics, measurement