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Outsizing Strategies to Grow Your Business Potential

Skip Prichard

In other cases, a company might build an in-demand product or service but struggle to execute to customer expectations. Poor customer service is a killer of customer loyalty. If the overall experience doesn’t please and excite the customer, a company is hard-pressed to outsize its strategy.

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Pin Down Your Customer Intelligence Objectives

Harvard Business Review

A few weeks ago I was asked to prepare a workshop for a telecom company that wants to invest more in customer intelligence. The problem with customer intelligence is that while everyone wants more of it — and better versions of it — there are many different avenues to take in pursuing it.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea. Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability.