by wiadmin | Jun 2, 2015 | Customer Loyalty
“When USA Today, Temkin Group, and Business Week all picked Amazon.com as the #1 best service company—an on-line fulfillment company—it’s proof good old fashioned service is dead.” The comment sounded like a “kids are going to the dogs” statement someone’s grandfather...
by wiadmin | Apr 21, 2015 | Customer Loyalty
“If I had asked people what they wanted,” Henry Ford is rumored to have said, “They would have said faster horses.” Now, before you fire the market research department, it is important to remember Henry Ford’s arrogance about customers also lead him to chide,...
by wiadmin | Jun 17, 2014 | Leadership
There’s a bluebird house on an oak tree six feet from our bedroom window. The same pair of bluebirds comes each spring to build, populate, and empty a nest in it. This past spring, their parenting process caused me to reflect on how instructive bluebird flying lessons...
by wiadmin | Apr 8, 2014 | Customer Loyalty
During the 1960’s, except for the Sears Roebuck catalog, store shopping was about the only means for acquiring merchandise. Well, there was the ice cream truck and Farmer Brown who sold their products through the neighborhood. But, they only came through on...
by wiadmin | Feb 18, 2014 | Customer Loyalty, Leadership
Take a look at a short list of renowned service innovators: Despite a Yale professor’s admonition that there was little practical about his theory, Fred Smith put his “C–” paper into operation and founded Federal Express (now FedEx). Michael Dell transformed a...
