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Ep. 159: E.ON's Andrew Clayton |The Self-Replicating Customer Feedback Loop

Jun 13, 2019 - Andrew Clayton, global head of customer experience at E.ON, talks to Rob about how you inspire an organization to respond to customer feedback, not once or twice, but continuously, with unflagging energy. Since the early 2000s, he has scaled sustainable NPS programs at three major companies, Allianz, Bupa, and now E.ON.

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Ep. 158: ABN AMRO's Alex Terpstra | Without the Customer, There's No Food on the Table

Jun 6, 2019 Alex Terpstra, head of innovations at ABN AMRO Bank, was born and raised for customer service. His father, a retailer in the Netherlands, never failed to remind young Alex who put food on the family's table. "Every day on our dinner table we were talking about customers." On this episode of the Net Promoter System podcast, Alex explains how he helped ABN AMRO to launch radically new services for its customers, even at the risk of a short-term profit hit. The payoff, he says, has been highly lucrative customer relationships that pay dividends far beyond the initial costs.

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Ep. 157: Maurice FitzGerald | Dubious Management Fad? No, but There's Room for Improvement

May 23, 2019 - A recent Wall Street Journal article ran under a catchy headline, "The Dubious Management Fad Sweeping Corporate America." The dubious management fad, according to the article, is the Net Promoter Score. Of course, the headline bothered me and my podcast guest, Maurice FitzGerald, the former vice president of customer experience at HP. But once we read past the attention-grabbing headline, we agreed with much of what the authors had to say.

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Ep. 157: Maurice FitzGerald | Dubious Management Fad? No, but There's Room for Improvement

May 23, 2019 A recent Wall Street Journal article ran under a catchy headline, "The Dubious Management Fad Sweeping Corporate America." The dubious management fad, according to the article, is the Net Promoter Score. Of course, the headline bothered me and my podcast guest, Maurice FitzGerald, the former vice president of customer experience at HP. But once we read past the attention-grabbing headline, we agreed with much of what the authors had to say. They provided a sober summary of many ways a company can misinterpret or misuse the Net Promoter Score.

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Ep. 156: Kathy McGettrick | How IBM Scales Customer Feedback

May 16, 2019 - IBM used to collect customer feedback through longitudinal surveys—until Kathy McGettrick, the vice president of market development and insights at IBM, realized the surveys put all responsibility for creating quality experiences on IBM's sellers and ignored other aspects of the customer experience. So Kathy launched a digital platform that sent client feedback deeper into IBM.

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Ep. 156: Kathy McGettrick | How IBM Scales Customer Feedback

May 16, 2019 IBM used to collect customer feedback through longitudinal surveys—until Kathy McGettrick, the vice president of market development and insights at IBM, realized the surveys put all responsibility for creating quality experiences on IBM's sellers and ignored other aspects of the customer experience. So Kathy launched a digital platform that sent client feedback deeper into IBM. Today, some 40,000 IBMers use a client experience management platform that tracks hundreds of thousands of data points.

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Ep. 155: Razia Richter | When an Operator Becomes Chief Customer Officer

May 2, 2019 - Razia Richter's path to the executive suite at Petco took her on a wild, winding tour of the company's operations and back-office functions, from accounting to inventory analytics to supply chain, to name a few. By the time Razia was put in charge of Petco's customer experience and the adoption of the Net Promoter System, she had personally busted through just about every organizational silo imaginable.

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Ep. 155: Razia Richter | When an Operator Becomes Chief Customer Officer

May 2, 2019 Razia Richter's path to the executive suite at Petco took her on a wild, winding tour of the company's operations and back-office functions, from accounting to inventory analytics to supply chain, to name a few. By the time Razia was put in charge of Petco's customer experience and the adoption of the Net Promoter System, she had personally busted through just about every organizational silo imaginable.

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Ep. 154: Joshua Rossman | How to Bring Customer Feedback to Life at Scale

Apr 11, 2019 - Loyal listeners may recall my last conversation, with Joshua Rossman, formerly the senior director of global customer loyalty and NPS at eBay. Since that interview, Josh has left eBay and consulted with a variety of companies on using the Net Promoter System to help guide customer experience improvements. Now he's at McAfee, one of the world's largest security technology companies.

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Ep. 154: Joshua Rossman | How to Bring Customer Feedback to Life at Scale

Apr 11, 2019 Loyal listeners may recall my last conversation, with Joshua Rossman, formerly the senior director of global customer loyalty and NPS at eBay. Since that interview, Josh has left eBay and consulted with a variety of companies on using the Net Promoter System to help guide customer experience improvements. Now he's at McAfee, one of the world's largest security technology companies. Josh has mastered the art of creating a customer feedback system that supports senior executive goal setting and decision making, while also providing the platform for frontline learning and growth.

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Ep. 153: HireVue's Kevin Parker | The Rise and Decline of the Modern Day Résumé

Mar 28, 2019 Kevin Parker is the chairman and CEO of HireVue, a platform for automating job interviews. Hirevue combines video interviews of job applicants with an AI-powered algorithms that can filter for qualifications faster than any HR team. Of course, an algorithm doesn't evaluate candidates the same way a human could. Like any breakthrough in machine learning, it's a grab bag of promising signals, emerging from the noise, and, well, noise.

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Ep. 152: Scotiabank's Ignacio Deschamps | Surviving Year Two

Mar 14, 2019 - Host Rob Markey and Ignacio 'Nacho' Deschamps, group head of international banking and digital transformation at Scotiabank, discuss the role of the Net Promoter System in culture change. They also explore what Nacho has learned during Net Promoter System journeys at three different banks around the world, including how to survive the wait for results to catch up to investment during year two.

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Ep. 152: Scotiabank's Ignacio Deschamps | Surviving Year Two

Mar 14, 2019 Host Rob Markey and Ignacio 'Nacho' Deschamps, group head of international banking and digital transformation at Scotiabank, discuss the role of the Net Promoter System in culture change. They also explore what Nacho has learned during Net Promoter System journeys at three different banks around the world, including how to survive the wait for results to catch up to investment during year two.

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Ep. 151: Scotiabank's Ignacio Deschamps | The Customer Letter That Shaped a Leader

Mar 7, 2019 - Host Rob Markey talks to Ignacio 'Nacho' Deschamps, Group Head of International Banking and Digital Transformation at Scotiabank, who explains why he has long put customers and technology at the heart of his career in banking and describes how many of Scotiabank's digital efforts are developed locally and then shared internationally throughout the bank.

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Ep. 151: Scotiabank's Ignacio Deschamps | The Customer Letter That Shaped a Leader

Mar 7, 2019 Host Rob Markey talks to Ignacio 'Nacho' Deschamps, Group Head of International Banking and Digital Transformation at Scotiabank, who explains why he has long put customers and technology at the heart of his career in banking and describes how many of Scotiabank's digital efforts are developed locally and then shared internationally throughout the bank.

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Ep. 150: Gen. Stanley McChrystal |True Leadership Means Fewer Decisions, Less Ego (Part 2)

Feb 28, 2019 - This week, on the Net Promoter System Podcast, I'm sharing Part 2 of my interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of U.S forces in Afghanistan and head of the Joint Special Operations Command during the Iraq war. We pick up the conversation where we left off: how a leader, who has successfully built trust among a team of rivals, can then push the organization to change its strategy on a dime.

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Ep. 150: Gen. Stanley McChrystal |True Leadership Means Fewer Decisions, Less Ego (Part 2)

Feb 28, 2019 This week, on the Net Promoter System Podcast, I'm sharing Part 2 of my interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of U.S forces in Afghanistan and head of the Joint Special Operations Command during the Iraq war. We pick up the conversation where we left off: how a leader, who has successfully built trust among a team of rivals, can then push the organization to change its strategy on a dime.

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Ep. 149: Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Battle-Tested Advice (Part 1)

Feb 20, 2019 - General Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of U.S forces in Afghanistan and head of the Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq, joins me for part one of a two-part interview. In our discussion, he describes how he forged trust among the military's most elite fighting units.

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